SPEAKER_00: As we pray together today, take five deep breaths and signal to your body and brain the pause in your day you are taking to connect with your Creator.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to an all-too familiar verse as we begin today.
SPEAKER_00: But focus on the word patience.
SPEAKER_00: Galatians 5, 22 and 23 says, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
SPEAKER_00: Patience is more than waiting.
SPEAKER_00: It's fruit that grows in us when we walk closely with the Spirit, a side effect of living in step with the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Reflects the character of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Take fifteen seconds and thank God that his spirit is alive in you, producing patience, peace, and strength.
SPEAKER_00: Ask the Holy Spirit to grow patience in your heart.
SPEAKER_00: Tell him about where you've been frustrated or hurried.
SPEAKER_00: Invite him to change your pace.
SPEAKER_00: For breakthrough, for financial relief, for a clean bill of health, for direction, for a green light, for an answer.
SPEAKER_00: Pray for someone who might be struggling with impatience or frustration today, and they're waiting.
SPEAKER_00: Take the next minute and ask the Holy Spirit to bring them peace and gentleness.
SPEAKER_00: Produce in us good fruit and refine us.
SPEAKER_00: Make us look more and more like Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.