“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things” – Matthew 6:25-26, 31-32
LIGHT FOR NOW: Patience controls your life. You must not always want to be in haste or in a hurry, so you won’t hurriedly miss it in God’s plan for your life.
Every young minister must learn patience. Time does not move faster than it is. Carrying a pregnancy to term requires 9 months. Trying to reduce the amount of time required could result in the loss of either or both mother and child. In other cases, the child may be left malformed for life. So look at something basic – human conception and delivery of children takes a defined time. It has been like that since the world began. No matter how much of a hurry you are in, you will never hasten the process. Luke 21:19 “In your patience possess ye your souls”. Reading the pretext and post-text of that text scripture helps you see that Jesus was talking about persecutions and tribulations. “In patience possess your souls…” That means patience controls your life. Any time you are not patient, you are losing control of your life.
The very opposite of the word patience is the word hasten speed, hurry, fast and you know we are in a world where things are hastened up – where you quickly want to have a church, write a book, be on television. The reality however is that things takes time. The bible teaches against haste. In fact, the bible has never been in support of anything being done quickly. Many people have in a hurry missed God’s plan for their life. So many were in a haste and in that haste walked out of God’s plan for their life. Walk in the pace of the spirit; don’t be faster than the spirit (spirit’s leading) and don’t equally be slower than the spirit (the spirit’s leading), just walk in the pace of the spirit. Glory!
INSTRUCTION: Don’t be in a haste; go through life patiently.
DECLARATION: I am patient; I am not in a hurry. I walk in the pace of the spirit as I navigate through life in absolute victory, in Jesus Name, Amen.
QUOTE: Men of the spirit go in the pace of the spirit and not the flesh.
DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: LUKE CHAPTER 21; EVENING: ISAIAH CHAPTER 28
LIGHT FROM THE WORD 