Today on Summit Life, Pastor JD Greer talks about patience.

Guys, sometimes we pray for relief and what God is doing is refining,

because His highest value in us is our trust and our satisfaction with Him

and a possession of a character like His.

And He often uses pain and struggle to produce that in us.

Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer.

I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch, and we're so glad that you're with us today.

Have you ever taken a shortcut in life?

Maybe you were, you know, just a few points away from passing a class,

so you cheated on the final.

Or you wanted a new car so badly that you took out a loan that you couldn't afford.

We've all made these little compromises and believing that they'd bring us a

better life now to help us get ahead.

But today, Pastor JD explains that God's timing is always the best timing,

and there's no way to rush His plans.

We are in a new teaching series called Search for a King.

And if you missed the beginning yesterday, you can catch up at jadigreer.com.

Pastor JD titled this message, patience.

Today, we're going to see David deal with an issue that almost all of us have dealt with

at some point.

In fact, many of you are dealing with it right now.

That is when you're in a situation where things are not going like you thought they would go,

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