Patience Definition -
- Ability or willingness to suppress restlessness when encountering delay
- Quiet steady perseverance

Examples of Patience
1. Farmer (James 5;1-7)
2. Prophets (James 5;8-10)
3. Job (James 5;11)
4. Abel, Enoch, Noah (Hebrews 11;4-7)
5. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Hebrews 11;8-16) Called to a separated life
6. Joseph (Hebrews 11;22) Patience in dramatic changes
7. Moses (Hebrews 11;25-27)

God is faithful no matter what we face.

Rewards of patience -

- A fruitful life (Luke 8;15, II Peter 1;5-8, James 1;3,4)
- God's protection (Revelation 3;10)
- Inherit God's promise (Hebrews 6;9-12)

God is a God of patience and consolation.
He can identify with what we're going through.