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This word by Bruce Cook is a word we can all glean from...and need to be much better at.
I for one gained a great deal of insight from his article here about letting patience have its perfect work in my own life.
Often, when we receive a prophetic word, we want it to happen NOW. But it may take years to manifest as God is working things out, preparing the way, and often transforming us from the inside out to make us ready.
Just read this by Bruce Cook:
I have been waiting for many years for some prophecies to be fulfilled, while certain other prophecies have already come to pass. In fact, the first prophecy I received in 1995 took 13 years to manifest—the same length of time for Joseph's dream or vision to come to pass in Egypt when he was brought before Pharaoh and promoted...
How about you? Are you waiting for some promises of God or prophecies from His ministers spoken over you to come to pass in your life?
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"Let Patience Have Its Perfect Work"
Dr. Bruce Cook, Seattle, WA
"But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." (James 1:4, NKJV)
The World Values Impatience
Most of us realize that patience is a virtue, but few of us desire that for ourselves, or are willing to pray for that for ourselves. In fact, the systems and institutions of this world often commend, reward and applaud impatience as an entrepreneurial virtue and trait for those who innovate and create new items for consumer purchase.
It seems that in the modern-era of fast food franchises, personal computers, and the desire for better and faster everything, the need for or existence of patience may easily be confused or equated with lack of efficiency. But, in the spiritual realm, nothing could be further from the truth.
Patience Is a Fruit of the Spirit
| "Be different. Acquire and steward patience, and grow and prosper accordingly. " |
Everything God does is in the fullness of time. God brought a flood on the earth for 40 days and nights to judge the wickedness, corruptness and depravity of mankind. God destroyed all life on earth, except for Noah and his family and the creatures and animals aboard his ark (Gen. 6:1-7,12). Scripture says that, "...God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built" (1 Pet. 3:20, NIV).
Moses was commissioned and sent by God to free the Israelites from Egyptian bondage, oppression and rule after 400 years (Gen. 15:13-16, Ex. 12:35-36). Jesus was born in the fullness of time (Gal. 4:4-5; Rom. 5:6). You and I were born in the fullness of time for our respective purpose and destiny (Ps. 139:13-16). Jesus will return to earth in the fullness of time (Eph. 1:9-10, Acts 3:19-21).
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