Strength 4: Add to your Temperance, Patience. (7 Divine Strengths That Makes Us)

II Peter 1v6b – “…and to temperance patience,” PATIENCE: The ability to endure waiting without becoming annoyed or upset. - It is to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties. - Endurance, staying power (resistance), determination. If you have the ability to endure waiting without becoming annoyed or upset, then you are a person of patience. And if you can control your self while waiting without getting upset or annoyed then you have added patience to temperance self-co

ontrol. That is what the Bible is driving home in this passage. It is sometimes very difficult to exercise this duo. The only time when this nature is difficult to exercise is when you lack one or the other or even both. Faith without works is dead. Temperance without Patience is dead. In reality, truth and fact, normal reproduction can only take place between male & female. A true peaceful character can only be developed when temperance and patience meet. In the night of Jesus’ betrayal He had to control himself (self-control) by crying out “not my will” and then He endured waiting without becoming upset – patience, just so that you and I might receive the promise of eternal life. This quality of character made him earn the title, The Prince of Peace, which is greater then the Noble Peace Price. Hebrews 10v36 “For ye have need of patience, that, after he have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.” Do you know that what Job went through was the will of God, and not because of sin or as other would say, it was bad luck. Job knew what was happening that’s why he stayed intact. In James chapter 1v3-4 the apostle says be assured of this, that when the composure of your faith is under strain it will work or install patience in you, but for a great outcome, patience must have a full and complete installation so that you may be perfect (ideal, wonderful, flawless, just right) wanting nothing. You can read the original scripture yourself. Remember this that a delay is not a denial; you have to endure or proof staying power (show resistance) within the process. How many times have we heard or made ourselves this statement – “please be patient with me, God is not through with me yet”. Come on, Jesus paid the price already. He said it is finish! He destroyed every weak element in the flesh the day he died on the cross – Read Romans 6v4-6. That’s a lame excuse. You need to learn to implement and enforce temperance and patience in your life. Also read Romans 8v6-10. Let us not forget the reason while I bring these lessons to you is so that you can learn to develop your true self, which are the original characteristics that God has intended for us to have. If we read in II Peter 1v4 it says, “…that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,” That is the newness of life that Christ brought. That is the Life that you live in Jesus, in this world, so that God might be glorified through you. Now the only way that this characteristic can be prominent in your daily living is when you add it to godliness. You can give a turtle Prozac and steroids it will still move as slow as it naturally does. The nature has to be change. What I’ am saying is that in order to have patience in full swing you must add Godliness to Patience. It works like a charm.