A Prayer to Choose Patience Even When We Want to Complain

Your Daily Prayer

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

You may be walking through a really difficult time or situation. But it is through our struggles—and always—that we need more Jesus. More hope in his goodness. More hope in him. And when we choose hope, we will find more patience. And when we find more patience, we will find so many more reasons to praise, and so much more joy…in him. - Keri Eichberger

In this episode of Your Daily Prayer, Keri Eichberger opens up about battling chronic back pain and the temptation to slip into a pit of impatience and self-pity. She shares a powerful realization from Romans 8:25 and a timely reminder: we don’t need quick solutions—we need more of Jesus.

Listeners will be encouraged to shift their focus from complaints to Christ, discovering the joy and peace that come from choosing hope in Him, especially during seasons of waiting or suffering.

Topics covered:

Navigating suffering with spiritual patience
Why complaining robs us of joy
Learning to wait with hope and composure (Romans 8:25)
Choosing Jesus over quick fixes
Practical encouragement for hard seasons

Scripture Reference

Romans 8:25 (NIV)

“But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.”

👉 Read Romans 8:25 on BibleStudyTools.com

Prayer Summary

A heartfelt prayer asking God to replace our complaints with praise, deepen our hope in Him, and fill us with patience, peace, and joy—even amid life’s challenges.

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0:00.0	Life Audio.
0:03.0	Thank you for listening to your daily prayer, a podcast dedicated to helping you find the words you need to connect with your father in heaven.
0:21.8	No matter what is going on in your life today, you can trust that God wants to hear from you.
0:27.5	Right after this short word from our sponsor, we will pray through today's prayer to choose patience,
0:33.2	even when we want to complain together.
0:50.3	Thank you. even when we want to complain together. Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, believes that we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights to life,
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