{"id":4142,"date":"2014-12-04T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2014-12-03T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T23:27:06","slug":"patience-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/patience-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"PATIENCE\u2014(RIGHT NOW)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James 5:7-8<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cBe patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord\u2019s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord\u2019s coming is near.\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> <em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have you noticed how impatient people are these days? Drivers become speed demons trying to get in front of other drivers. They accelerate at traffic lights to get through the amber light that has strangely turned red\u00a0. . .\u00a0&#8220;<em>I\u2019m sorry, Officer, it was green when I started into the intersection&#8221;\u00a0. . .\u00a0<\/em>you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>We are living in an instant-everything age. \u00a0 We have instant cash machines, instant check-out counters in grocery stores, instant income tax refunds, even instant foods and coffee. So many things in our modern world are designed to give instant results and yet we still do not have time for God.<\/p>\n<p>The answer lies in the <em>Word of God<\/em>.\u00a0 Many Bible heroes such as Job, Joseph, David, just to mention a few, did not have instant answers. In many cases it was years before God\u2019s plan was revealed.<\/p>\n<p>We need to learn the discipline of patience.\u00a0 With our hectic, fast-paced schedule we are so busy making things happen that we leave no room for that all important &#8220;quiet time&#8221; of waiting to see what God wants to teach us or how He wants to use us. Patience is relaxing in the Lord and letting Him direct our paths! It is time to get rid of instant spirituality and operate on God\u2019s timing. Try it!<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James 5:7-8 \u201cBe patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord\u2019s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord\u2019s coming is near.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}