A Prayer to Our Long-Suffering God

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Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0	A prayer to our long-suffering God by Meg Booker, read by Leah Martin.
0:22.3	The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness.
0:27.1	Instead, He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
0:35.6	2 Peter 3 9.
0:38.8	The love the Father has for us is displayed in His patience with us.
0:44.6	He is a long-suffering God.
0:49.4	Long-suffering means enduring, injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
0:58.6	The voice translation says,
1:01.6	Scoffers use the delay of His second coming to question if He's going to return it all.
1:07.4	Peter responds by saying that God's perspective on time isn't like ours.
1:12.7	What seems long from a finite human perspective is incredibly short from an eternal one.
1:19.7	The voice paraphrase of 2 Peter 3 9 says,
1:23.4	Now the Lord is not slow about enacting His promise.
1:27.0	Slow is how some people want to characterize it.
1:29.8	No, He's not slow, but patient and merciful to you.
1:35.0	Not wanting anyone to be destroyed, but wanting everyone to turn away from following His own path,
1:42.1	and to turn toward God's.
1:45.2	The word slow, as Peter used it, means to delay.
1:50.3	Delays are not denials that NIV study Bible clarifies.
1:56.1	God's delays don't nullify His promises.
2:00.5	The Lord is patient with us.
2:03.1	He doesn't lose heart.
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