Pack Your Patience

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Good afternoon and welcome to Healing String Waters Daily Doses. It's a privilege and an honor to still be in the land of the living. God is good all the time. And all the time. God is good. I want to re-reading today from the first chapter of James, the second through the fourth verse. And it reads as such, My brethren, count all joy when you fall into divers temptation. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. And the topic that I want to leave with you today is pack your patience. Somebody says, I've come through the fire, and I've been through the flood. I've been broken into pieces. I've seen lightning flash from above. But through it all, I remember that he loves me and he cares. And he'll never put more on me than I can bear. So count it all joy when you start going through things, when you are faced with your trials and your tribulations, let patience have her perfect works. Don't skip the class. Don't buck the process. Don't try to circumvent the process. Because everything that you need is in the process. Get in the process and pack your patience because it takes discipline to learn. That's what a disciple is. It's a disciplined learner of another. You can't go into things new knowing everything. The Bible says in Joshua, we haven't been this way before. Some areas you haven't gone into, some things you don't know about. Even when Moses was delivering the children out of Egypt, he had to take them through the wilderness. But Moses didn't know the wilderness. But his father-in-law, Jeffro, did. He had to depend on Jeffro to take them through the wilderness. And it was about 200, no, 2.5, I think it was billion or million people. Well, it was a great number that they all had to listen in order to get through that wilderness. So you have to have patience, not only yourself, but have patience with others and for others. Because guess what? Everybody ain't been where you've been. You haven't been where the next person has been. It's like a ladder and a rung. Each step is higher than the next. Each step goes a little uh bit farther than where you started. And so you need those people to go ahead. If we all in the same boat, the Bible says if the blind meet the blind, we're all gonna fall into this.

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No two people are alike. We all have different uh fingerprints. So whoever and whatever your hand and your heart has been assigned to do, do it with all your might, all your ability, all your heart. Just do it and have patience that once you, as the Bible says, once you have accomplished, once you have been converted, then go strengthen your brother. But you have to have patience because people may be scared. Anybody is afraid of the unknown, but civility will help people, pulling people up, letting them know your vulnerability, being honest, and sharing your testimony. In the AA meetings, sometimes we share our strength and our weakness. We tell people from whence we come from. The Bible says we overcome not only by the blood of the land, but the word of testimony. Tell people where you come from, don't be ashamed because you give somebody else hope to plunge on a little further. I am of the belief, as the old saints used to sing. I believe I'll run on and see what the end is going to be. Go on ahead, Joseph. You go on to Egypt, even though he had to go through the pit, he had to go through being uh sold into slavery. It was a purpose, and Joseph had to have patience, patience along with faith. You need both because you don't know everything on the offset. If you hang there, if you hold on, you will learn by and by. The song writers say, by and by, when the morning comes, when all God saints uh gather, understand it better by and by. So what you go through is not only for yourself, it's to help bring somebody else up. Help them to strap up their bootleg, help them to tighten on it, tighten their belt strap. We need each other, but pack your patience because even with dealing with others, you have to have patience, just like God had patience with you, have patience with someone else. Let her have her perfect work that you'll be entirely, one another. Actually, the journey strengthens you, you can apply it to everyday law, everyday life. Talk with talk through it with somebody. You don't have to go at it alone. Whatever you're going through today, tomorrow, whatever is, talk to somebody. Because believe it or not, what you don't know, your answer could be in somebody else's hand if you would be willing to share it. Be in this thing alone, we'll go further together and we'll go faster together because we can alleviate the stagnation with each other. Thank God for God. Thank God for God. But God is a spirit, and we that worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth. God needs a body. Will you be it? Will you be his hands? Will you be his feet? Will you be the mouthpiece? Will you be his eyes? Will you be his ears? God needs you. We need each other. Together we can do it. Because together we stand, and to body we will fall. Pack your patience, children of God, because you're gonna need it. Again, is healing stream waters, daily dosage? God loves you because the Bible tells us so. He first loved us. That's why we can love him in return. And he gave his life as a ransom for us all. Go in peace. I love you, and there's nothing you can do about it.