When is the last time you were thankful for somebody being patient with you?

Today in the morning mindset, we're going to be looking at 2 Peter chapter 3, verse number 15.

And it talks about God's patience and why God is patient.

We're going to get to that in just a moment.

Before we do, though, I'm going to welcome you to the morning mindset.

This is our opportunity to get our minds aligned with the truth of God's word for this day.

My name is Kerry.

I am a pastor and a Bible teacher.

I am so thankful you are here.

Now, before we get rolling,

I'm going to remind you there are other podcasts that we produce with Morning Mindset Media.

One of those is called God-fearing kids and the parents who raise them. It's a Christian parenting podcast. So if you are a parent, you know someone who is a parent who could use a good biblical

resource for understanding how to go about raising children who love and fear the Lord,

you'll want to check it out. You can go to godfearingkids.com. All right, friends, we are going to dig

into 2nd Peter chapter 3, verse number 15, so get out your Bibles, and we are going to do that just as soon as we pray together.

Lord God, we want your Holy Spirit to be our teacher.

We want you to illuminate us with the ability to understand what we're reading today, Lord.

Help us plumb the depths of it

and know how to apply it in our own lives. We ask in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, friends, now,

this whole section that we've been reading was spawned by a criticism or a mocking sort of a

comment that Peter imagined someone might ask about Jesus

returned, where they might say, where's the promise of his coming? All things just continue,

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