Fruit of the SpiritPatience

What is Patience?

• Patience is self restraint which does not hastily relatiliate against wrong

• “slow to anger” (Psalm 86:15)

• Patience is having a slow fuse

• Patience is the quality that enables someone to remain steadfast under strain & keep pressing on

• Patience is a calm endurance based on the knowledge that God is in control

Dr. Tony Evans

• “Discipleship is that developmental process that progressively brings Christians from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity

Be Patient with God

• “Be patient then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming.”  (verse 7)

Be Patient with each other