Root of Impatience #1: Not Understanding the Cost of Salvation

Are you afraid to pray for patience?

Since I started talking about our newest prayer journal, Everyday Prayers for Patience, I've realized that many people are afraid to pray for patience. I think this stems from years of hearing people warn against it. It gets a bad rap, doesn't it? All my life I've heard people say, "Don't pray for patience. God will answer by testing yours!" We've almost trained ourselves not to ask for patience from the Lord, despite the fact that most of us need it on a daily basis. We need others to GIVE us patience, and we need Divine help giving it to those we love (AND those who drive us crazy ;) but we won't ask for it.

It's my experience that half the battle in overcoming this fear is learning what true biblical patience actually is, so today, we're going to start getting to the root of our impatience by discovering why it's so important to REALLY understand the cost of salvation, and what impact that has on our ability to trust God's timing.

This is excerpted from day TWO of Everyday Prayers for Patience.

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LINKS: 

Everyday Prayers for Patience: Giving Yourself and Your Kids the Grace to Grow.

Grace to Grow: A 5-Day Study of Patience and Prayer

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