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Episode #294: The Irreplaceable Role of Patience   Understanding Patience  

1. Patience is forged through difficulty
   1. Job
   2. 11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully ." CSB Col 1:11–3:12.
   3. 10 Brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name as an example of suffering and patience. - CSB Jas 5:10–2
   4. 2 Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching. - CSB 2 Ti 4:2
   5. So often, wherever we see patience in the Bible, we see a struggle of some kind
2. We have struggles with difficult people
3. We have struggles with uncontrollable circumstances
4. We have struggles with ourselves

  Some helps for developing patience

1. Press the pause button

• time to think and reflect intentionally

Pray unceasingly

• giving our struggles to God

Practice empathy

• Seek to understand others

Prune your emotions

• what is healthy and what is unhealthy?

Press on

• stay the course, it may take longer than you expect