Hello and welcome to the Brilliant Perspectives Podcast with Graham Cook. I'm your host, Michael Beckio.

This episode's message from Graham will challenge us to lay hold of a new perspective and attitude in our day-to-day lives.

It's concerning one of the fruits of the spirit, patience.

In the following clips taken from Graham's video, The Patience Advantage on BTV.

Graham delves into portraying patience correctly as the powerful partnership and tool that it's meant to be in our lives.

He outlines patience as a fruit that guards us from negatives, acts as an entry point to encounter with God,

and is a critical component in walking from where we are today into the outcomes that God has planned for our tomorrows. Enjoy.

Hi, I'm Graham Cook. Welcome to our mentoring series here on Brilliant TV, where we are continuing our unique journey through the fruit of the spirit.

We've already received so many responses from you about the new ways that you're thinking about the fruit of the spirit and how the activations are impacting your lives.

We love hearing those stories, so please do keep them coming in.

This week we're going to explore the one fruit that a few of you might have been tempted to skip.

Yep, it's patience.

There's a lot of ground to cover, so I'm going to do this class in two parts.

So I remember one of my mentors saying to me, Graham, whatever you do, never, never, ever ask the Lord for patience.

And many of you may feel the same way. I believe for a long time that patience was to be avoided in favor of something better, like joy or peace or something like that.

Until I was involved in a really long and difficult situation, and my biggest problem was that I could not convert my huge frustration into a lasting peace or joy.

If I every day was like some weird groundhog day of battling every negative reaction without any transformation occurring in me.

And that was when I set time aside to study patience as God saw it.

And what I discovered was so profound, it changed my experience of God in tough life situations.

And that's what I want to share with you today.

In Psalm 40 verse 1, David wrote this, he said, I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined to me and heard my cry.

You know, patience is always part of a paradox to opposing ideas contained in the same truth.

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