*** PATIENCE; A VERY RARE BUT GREAT VIRTUE (WHOEVER HAD PATIENCE HAD EVERYTHING) ***

Every heavenly minded Christian that wants to go far in any venture be it business, career, ministry, marriage and otherwise needs to imbibe PATIENCE, one of the virtuous fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Patience refers to the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying without complaining. You cannot have victory over your enemies if you do not learn to wait patiently for the Lord. Neither will you have many of the things God has ordained for you without patience. Patience, faith and persistence are all that one needs to achieve a successful Christian life.

In the art of sowing and reaping, it requires only a patience person to sow his/her seeds, water them, weed them, and wait patiently for the time of harvest in order to reap a bountiful reward. The Scripture made it clear that, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease”. Impatience people on the other hand just want to sow, harvest and reap the reward now now now (immediately).

Impatience has caused many great Ministers of God not to finish their calling; hence they compromise or end their ministry on the way. A real minister must allow trials, challenges and tribulation to produce patience in him (ROMANS 5:3-5). Many have snared themselves through lots of pains and sorrows because of impatience towards acquisition of wealth, power and fame.

The recent Ponzi scheme saga which affected many of their participants including pastors, learned people, even acclaimed prophets/prophetess, seers, diviners, sorcerers etc, can be tailored to lack of patience. Assuming they invested their money in agriculture(fish farming, livestock farming), and exercise patience for 4-8 months so as to harvest and reap their rewards, that would have saved many of them from the headache, pains and trauma of losing their hard earned money just like that.
The Scripture admonishes us thus, “… LET US RUN WITH PATIENCE, LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH… (HEBREWS 12:1-3).

Most youths nowadays does not want to humble themselves by bending down to read/study, acquisition of skills in a particular business/trade or learn a good handiwork. Instead you will see them getting involved in dubious means (internet fraud, robbery, assassination, 419, occultism, prostitution,etc), ritual killings or sacrifices for wealth. Many don’t want to soil their hands with hardwork before reaping the reward. America that almost everybody wants to travel to was built on manual labour with hardwork and commitment during her creation.

Please, whatsoever thy hands findeth to do, do it with thy might…so that through it, your Heavenly Father will bless and reward you honourable. Remember the adage that says, “A PATIENCE DOG EATS THE FATTEST BONE”…SHALOM!!!

# AND EVERY MAN THAT STRIVETH FOR THE MASTERY IS TEMPERATE IN ALL THINGS #