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 15 podcast.

Welcome to the first 15 podcast. I'm I'm I'm I'm

I'm Our scripture for today comes from 2. Peter 3, verse 9.

Scripture says,

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise, as some counts slowness, but is patient toward you,

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

1 Corinthians 13.4 tells us us love is patient.

Patience is 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 we so often admire.

But scripture teaches us a different view of patience.

2. Peter chapter 3, verses 8 and 9 says,

but do not overlook this one fact, beloved,

that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years

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