It's vital to the Christian life that we as sons and daughters of the most high God

allow our affections to be stirred by the loving, powerful nature of our Heavenly Father.

Too often we feel that God is distant or separated from us.

Too often we allow misconceptions or lies to place a rift between us and experiencing God.

So as we spend time this week, focusing on God's character, allow who he is to stir up your desire to know him even more.

Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. The Our verse of today comes from 2nd Peter 3 verse 9 where scripture says

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count's loneliness, but as patient toward

you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1st Corinthians 13-4 tells us that love is patient.

Patience as a part of love that doesn't feel fun at the beginning.

It feels like an act of self-control rather than passion,

as if the two aren't perfectly connected.

And it often comes across as a sign of weakness

rather than an attribute of the bold and powerful

that we so often admire. But scripture teaches us a different view of

patients. 2 Peter 3 8 through 9 says, but do not overlook this one fact beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand

years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but as patient

toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

God, in his passionate desire for restored relationship with all his children, has perfect

patience toward us. His passion leads him to

leads him to patience.

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