Be a patient waiter.

They is a popular saying, which is ; The patient dog eat the fatest bone.

Patience is defined by American Heritage Dictionary as the capacity of calm endurance or tolerant understanding. Patience is a wonderful virtue. Someone observed, “Patience can cook a stone.” Patience is one of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. God requires us to be patient with Him and with one another.

It is one thing to wait and yet another thing is to wait patiently. Waiting upon God in a trying period is a test of its own that requires patience.

In the case of moses in the bible, Israel sinned and consequent upon which Moses broke the first tablet of God’s Law after which God asked Moses to come up to the mountain top to collect a replacement. When Moses went up to the mountain he was enveloped by the cloud of God’s glory for six days and God did not appear or speak to him until the seventh day, God spoke to him from the midst of the cloud. It was one thing for Moses to be at the mountain top as God directed and yet another thing for him to wait patiently upon God for those days so as to receive the Law.

The writer of the book of Hebrews said that after we have done the will of God, we still need patience to receive whatever promise He has made to us.

Having married in the will of God we need to wait for the fruit of the womb. Having done everything in the will of God we need patience to receive the promise. David was a patient waiter. He said, “I waited patiently for the Lord, He turned to me and heard my cry” (Psa. 40:1-3).

It is important that we should learn to wait, and also wait patiently, life is turn by turn, just image a standing fan blowing, it will blow to a particular direction and then return back to another direction, it only those who can wait patiently that will enjoy the breeze.

*CONTROLLING THOUGHT:*

God’s promises sometimes cannot be received except one goes through the trial of waiting patiently.