I Want It Now.

How many of us have actually said that sentence or something like it before?
I'm sure you would've especially when you were in your younger days.

'I want my candy now! '

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'I want that toy now! '

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'I want to go out with my friends now!'

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'I want you to be my girlfriend now. It's now or never'

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'I want my pizza to be delivered to my place this instant!'

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'You better get out of the toilet because i wanna use it now! '


We are a generation of NOW.
We barely want to wait for anything we want. If we ask for something, we expect it to appear right in front of us the moment we want it to be there.
We hardly have the time to wait for anything, since we are so busy in our lives that even a few minutes spent in a traffic jam is enough to make us go bananas.

Would you call yourself a patient person?
What kind of patient are you?
The enduring kind?
The waiting kind?

If your friend turns up late for more than 15 minutes, would you blow up at her?
If you are constantly faced with the same difficult situation over and over again, is there a time where you just felt like giving up?

In Galatians 5:22, Patience is a fruit of the Spirit, along with many others like self-control, kindness , love, joy, peace etc.

Do you have it?

I'm sure we all do once we have the Holy Spirit in us.
But we differ in our level of patience.

As much as we love the promise Pizza Hut has to offer to make our pizzas and place it right on our tables in exactly 15 minutes ,
we should NEVER expect the same thing with God.

God is not a vending machine or a fairy godmother. He is so MUCH MORE.

When you can't have something you asked from God ,something you've been waiting for from Him, an answer from Him perhaps, and you don't get what you expect,
it doesn't mean He isn't there to listen.
It doesn't mean He doesn't care.
On the contrary, He does care so much that He was willing to die for you.
If He was willing to die for you,why wouldn't He be listening to your prayers?
And when He listens, He does respond.
The question is when.

If you're going through a hard time, waiting for deliverance from it, make use of the gift of patience which the Holy Spirit has given you.
Patience is being able to wait calmly,even through the hard or boring times. God allows hard times to happen to his children to help them to learn to be patient.

'Consider i t pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing of your faih develops perseverance (patience)'.

James 1:2-3

As Christians ,we can wait patiently on the Lord knowing our life is in God's control.

Psalms 27 :14

Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

A character in the bible, Job had the worst of it all. Probably what we've been through was only 10% of what he had to suffer.

Before the bad things happened, he had everything any man could ever want in those days.

~7000 sheep
~3000 camels
~500 oxen
~500 donkeys
~ 7 sons and 3 daughters

The most important of all, he had ...............

A. his wife

B. his house

C. his faith in God

D. his good looks

You've got it right if you answered C !!! * round of applause*

He places his relationship with God was more important than anything he owned.
Then the hard times came.

~All the mentioned animals were stolen
~Except the sheep, which were killed by the fire.
~Worser still, all his children were killed in the house when a strong wind blew the house down.

Think you've had a bad day ? What about Job?

Despite his unimaginable sorrow, ( probably sorrow couldn't even used in this context )

 Naked i came from my mother's womb, and naked will i depart.

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away,

May the name of the Lord be praised'

Job 1:21-22

He praised GOD!!!!!!!!
He did not blame God for his condition.
The bad things did not stop there. If you continue to read Job,
he had painful sores and
his wife,friends discouraged him about his faith in God.
Yet, he was patient because he believed God is in control.

Most of us would be questioning God by then but yet, he didn't.Moreover, he had it worse than us.

And did God just stand by and let him continue to suffer?

No, God rewarded him!

'The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first.'

Job 42:12

He had twice of everything he used to have!

Today, we might be asking for a salvation of a friend or family member,
or someone's recovery from an illness, family problems, financial crisis,
enduring is difficult and patience will hardly be there.

But always keep in mind that

God knows and holds the future in the palm of His hands.
Part of being patient is knowing God will do what is best for you.
Patience is trusting God to do what is best in His time.
Patience is having faith in His timing, omnipotence and love for us.
God is never too early or too late. He is always on time.


God bless ya'll and have a nice day!