I have always thought I was a patient person. It’s funny how our perceptions can be way off or more accurately partially true. This is for me and you, here are 22 Bible Verses for the Impatient Person.
The truth is I am able to be patient in certain situations. Dealing with children and people come especially easy to me. Waiting for things I want or situations to change is quite another thing. I have been making myself anxious because no matter how hard I try to change my current circumstances I can’t do it. I have to be patient for God’s perfect timing.
I have been struggling to fully appreciate that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. These characteristics cannot be achieved in and through our lives without asking the Holy Spirit to do the work. We can not magically wake up one day and find ourselves the most patient of people. Yes, we must desire the quality and yes, we must put prayerful, mindful, practices into place but ultimately it is the work of God in our hearts and minds that will accomplish the quality of patience in our lives.
I’ve put the following scriptures together to encourage the impatient person, myself included!
22 Bible Verses for the Impatient Person
With patience, a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’
So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’
As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;
The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
[ Patience in Suffering ] Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
Aw, this was a truly good post. Thanks!
Thanks, Nanci, it’s all God!