{"id":5010,"date":"2021-08-20T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heavens-beauty.info\/wp-hb\/?page_id=5010"},"modified":"2021-08-20T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T23:26:00","slug":"patience-is-an-active-force","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heavens-beauty.info\/wp-hb\/?page_id=5010","title":{"rendered":"Patience Is An Active Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/heavens-beauty.info\/images\/patience_active.png\" alt=\"Patience Is An Active Force\" width=\"341\" height=\"343\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b><span class=\"c9\" style=\"text-shadow: rgba(23, 23, 23, 0.808) 1.4px 1.4px 0px; color: #3c8514;\">Patience Is An Active Force<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">When dreams and visions are challenged by the perplexities of life, patience enables us to persevere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Patience is the capacity of calm endurance, and it defines a patient person as someone who is capable of bearing delay, and is not hasty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #000080;\"><b>Other definitions for patience are:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Long suffering, lack of anxiety, and voluntarily controlling yourself and your feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>Perseverance<\/b><\/span> is defined as adherence to a course of action, belief or purpose, without giving way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>Persistence<\/b><\/span> is a steady, continuous plodding forward toward a goal with no faltering or turning aside or stopping to take a break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>Patience<\/b><\/span> is calm endurance that comes from understanding. The understanding that God is in control, and that He causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>Patience<\/b><\/span> is a characteristic of self-discipline. It means being steadfast, unmovable, stabilized in your emotions and always the same regardless of circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">None of these definitions really communicate the idea of inactivity, all of them on the other hand, involve concept of self-control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Christians point of view, we would say, is that patience is self control born out of the trust of the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">One key of the distinctions of a stable person is control of emotions. People who are impatient are up and down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">They waiver in their faith and allow circumstances to control them and wrong influences to steer them off course. They are not persistent, because impatience causes them to operate in \u2018fits and starts\u2019, to lose their momentum in the race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>Hebrews 10:36<\/b> says: We have need for patience after doing the will of God, that we might receive the promise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>Hebrews 11 says<\/b>: On the value and rewards of patience, how did those victorious Christians go about inheriting the promises?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Through faith and patience, the Bible says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>Hebrews 12<\/b> tells us: That we are being watched and challenged to exercise our own faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Example, we should run with patience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Again, we see patience as something active, a force that motivates us to press forward, to run toward our own goal with persistence and steadfastness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">We are surrounded by examples of men and women of faith, who did not give up or quit believing, in spite of opposition that sometimes goes to the point of actual persecution. When everything looked like it was over, they did not cease believing. They weren\u2019t moved by circumstances, because their lives were firmly based on the foundation of God\u2019s word and His promises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">They understood the spiritual dimension of patience and that kept them on course, running the race. The more we learn and practice what the word of God says, about faith and patience, the less we will be moved by the ups and downs of the tides of life, and the less we will be influenced by circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">We will run the race with patience and perseverance and so inherit God\u2019s promises to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b><span style=\"text-shadow: rgba(23, 23, 23, 0.808594) 1.4px 1.4px 0px; color: #3c904c;\">\u201cAction is related to patience and persistence\u201d.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_5010\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"5010\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon large\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/heavens-beauty.info\/wp-hb\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patience Is An Active Force When dreams and visions are challenged by the perplexities of life, patience enables us to persevere. 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