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Every time you give in, you keep feeding that impatient spirit, and it just gives you one more

trip around the mountain. Do the right thing now and get it over with. I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Well, thank you so much for joining me today on enjoying everyday life.

I hope you love the Word of God as much as I do.

God's Word is powerful, and it will renew your mind and change your life.

We've been working on a series on the Fruit of the Spirit, and we only have two fruit

left, and today I'm going to talk about patience.

I hesitate to even tell you that, because I know Peter, like, I don't want to hear.

You get patience, you get problems.

Well, interestingly enough, the Greek word that patience comes from, the definition of it is,

it's a fruit of the spirit that can only grow under trial.

And if you think about it, that makes sense.

I mean, if you have nothing to be patient about, then you'll never learn to be patient.

But there's a wonderful promise in James that I'm going to read to you in just a minute

that if you become fully

patient you'll lack nothing want nothing.

Boy, we'll talk about that a little bit more.

But first, Mark 11, 12, and 13.

On the day following when they had come away from Bethany, he was hungry.

I just think about it, Jesus was hungry.

And seeing in the distance the fig tree covered with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it.

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