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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We are so glad to

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Speaker 2: have you listening with us here today. Today's topic is patience.

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Speaker 2: We will return after a brief message from our sponsor,

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Speaker 2: Cultivating Patients, written by Vivian Bricker Red Pebershell, Alberti Bible reading.

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Speaker 2: Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is

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Speaker 2: quick tempered displays folly Proverbs fourteen twenty nine. Patience is

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Speaker 2: something most of us have struggled with at various times

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Speaker 2: in our lives. As a tea I remember struggling immensely

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Speaker 2: with patience as I was obsessed with routines. If something

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Speaker 2: didn't go as planned, I would get stressed. I now

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Speaker 2: know this was due to an underlying anxiety disorder and

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Speaker 2: obsessive compulsive disorder OCD, but back then I had no idea.

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Speaker 2: My lack of patience and desire for order made life

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Speaker 2: challenging for my entire family. My mom was worried about

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Speaker 2: my behavior and spoke with me about my concerning behaviors.

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Speaker 2: She told me that I needed to learn to be

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Speaker 2: flexible because life is not set in stone. We cannot

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Speaker 2: expect everything to happen exactly as it did yesterday. My

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Speaker 2: mom wanted to ensure I understood that patience was required

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Speaker 2: to be flexible, and it was something I was going

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Speaker 2: to have to work on. While I continued to struggle

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Speaker 2: with patience and flexibility as a team, I have now

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Speaker 2: been able to cultivate these skills as an adult. Although

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Speaker 2: my mom never saw all her wise words and heart

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Speaker 2: hard work come to fruition in my life, I am

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Speaker 2: eternally grateful for her help. I am now able to

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Speaker 2: be patient, flexible, and rule with the punches. While some

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Speaker 2: things can still bother me, such as being stuck in

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Speaker 2: traffic or waiting in a lengthy line, most things don't anymore.

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Speaker 3: I can fill my time with other things while I wait,

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Speaker 3: and I can talk with the Lord in prayer when

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Speaker 3: I'm struggling in truth. We can easily snuff out in patience.

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Speaker 3: By talking with the Lord, he will give us guidance

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Speaker 3: and strengthen our minds when we are at our wits end. Moreover,

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Speaker 3: it also helps to fill our time with other things.

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Speaker 3: For example, if we are waiting for a doctor's appointment,

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Speaker 3: we can bring a book or an assignment that we

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Speaker 3: need to work on. Think about a book you want

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Speaker 3: to read a hobby you want to pick up, or

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Speaker 3: a friend you've meant to call. Most things take time,

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Speaker 3: but if we fill our time with fun and deductive activities,

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Speaker 3: patience will not feel as draining anymore. Intersecting faith in life,

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Speaker 3: the Bible tells us whoever is patient has great understanding,

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Speaker 3: but one who is quick tempered displays folly Proverbs fourteen

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Speaker 3: twenty nine. This shows the importance of being patient. Cultivating

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Speaker 3: patience will take time. However, God will help us. As

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Speaker 3: we lean more into him, apply his teaching in our lives,

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Speaker 3: and rely on him for strength, we will develop patience

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Speaker 3: each day. Sometimes we might struggle, but this is normal.

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Speaker 3: None of us will master patience overnight, and we will

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Speaker 3: fall short at times. As long as we are trying

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Speaker 3: our best, we are doing right. Patience is a fruit

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Speaker 3: of the spirit, which tells us it will take time

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Speaker 3: to be perfect Galatians five twenty two through twenty three.

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Speaker 3: If we are quick tempered, we are display laying folly.

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Speaker 3: Think about when you saw selbun lose their temper where

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Speaker 3: they've read in the face, what was the tone of voice?

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Speaker 3: Did they look christ like? Addressing these questions will help

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Speaker 3: prevent us from making future mistakes in our own lives.

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Speaker 3: Let us not become weary in doing good, for at

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Speaker 3: the proper time, we will reap a harvest if we

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Speaker 3: do not give up Galatians six'. Nine as, believers we

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Speaker 3: need to continue to walk in the way of patience

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Speaker 3: and refrain from. Anger psalm thirty seven. Eight those who

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Speaker 3: seek patients will cultivate, life and those who seek anger

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Speaker 3: will find. Folly cheerfully pray over the, Matter talk with

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Speaker 3: him and allow him to direct your. Path why do

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Speaker 3: you think so many of us struggle with? Patients by

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Speaker 3: understanding patience versus, folly how will impact your future actions and?

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Speaker 3: Behaviors further Reading psalm thirty seven seven through, Eleven romans twelve,

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Speaker 3: Twelve proverbs fifteen.

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