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I like to start with something funny and I heard about this positive farmer and negative farmer. When it would rain, the positive farmer would say, Lord, thank you for watering our crops.

The negative farmer would say, yeah, but if it keeps this up, it's going to rot the roots. When the sun came out, the positive farmer, Lord, thank you for giving our plants valuable nutrients.

The negative farmer, yeah, but if it keeps it up, it's going to scorch the crops. One day they went bird hunting together in a boat. The positive farmer just got a new bird dog. He was so proud of him.

He shot a bird, fell in the water, said to the negative farmer, watch this. The dog jumped out of the boat, ran on top of the water, picked up the bird, ran back on top of the water, put it in the boat.

He said, what do you think? The negative farmer said, I should have known it. That dog can't even swim. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Today I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive, I will never be the same. In Jesus name, God bless you.

I want to talk to you today about its worth the wait. We all have things that we're waiting for, a dream to come to pass, problem to turn around, to meet the right person.

When it's taking longer than we thought, it's easy to get discouraged, to become impatient, and think when is it ever going to happen?

But sometimes it's not happening because we're not prepared for what God has prepared. You're ready for what you have in mind, but if you could see what God has in mind, you would realize you couldn't handle it right now.

You need more time to grow, to develop, to gain experience. In the scripture says let patience have its perfect work. Patience is developed in the wait room.

When I was playing sports in high school, the coach would have us spend an hour a day lifting weights. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to play basketball. That seemed like a waste of time.

But in that wait room, we were getting stronger, building endurance, so we could succeed on the court. Before you see what God promised, before you get on the court, God will send you to the wait room, W-A-I-T.

You may not like it, you don't see anything happening. Other people are in the game, making progress, you're stuck waiting. But that time in the wait room is critical. You may not see anything changing, but something is happening, patience is working.

Your spiritual muscles are getting stronger, your growing, developing, patience is building you, getting you prepared so you can sustain what God has coming.

Don't discount the waiting periods. Don't get discouraged because it's not happening as fast as you would like. The longer it takes, that means the more God has in store.

When it's your time, when He knows you're ready, what you give birth to is going to be much bigger than you've imagined.

Hebrew says, you have need of patience so you can receive the promises. We know we need to have faith, we know we need to believe those things seem obvious.

But this says, we need patience if we're going to see promises come to pass. Maybe you've been praying, believing, being your best, but you don't see anything changing.

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