00:00When you want to quit because you're impatient.
00:07When I was in my 20s and 30s, I found myself in similar difficult situations no matter the job I was doing.
00:15I would often complain to my wife about it, until I realized the reason I kept ending up in the same situations
00:22was that whenever something got uncomfortable, I was looking for the exit plan to relieve the tension and escape the pain of growth.
00:30In God's grace, He kept me in the refiner's fire until the impurities that needed to be removed were gone.
00:38In Galatians, patience is identified as one of the fruits of the Spirit.
00:43It has taken me a long time to realize that my problem hasn't been a lack of patience.
00:48It has been a lack of surrender to the Holy Spirit.
00:51The more the Holy Spirit has control of my life, the more fruit of the Spirit is evident and manifest.
00:59You may be in a place of impatience that is tempting you to look for the exit plan.
01:04You are looking to quit.
01:06Your problem isn't not enough patience, it is not enough Jesus.
01:11So, impatience is a gift from God because it is an invitation to surrender something you are holding on to
01:17that is pushing out the Holy Spirit in your life.
01:20Keep going.
01:22Don't quit.
01:23Questions to consider.
01:25What situations do you keep finding yourself in that are challenging or stretching for you?
01:31What do you think is edging the Holy Spirit out that you need to surrender?
01:36Actions to take.
01:38Recognize and acknowledge your impatience and the place it is coming from.
01:42Thank God for the opportunity to trust the Holy Spirit more in your life.
01:48Prayer to make.
01:50Holy Spirit, I want to be more yielded to you so that you are filling me up to overflowing.
01:56Show me the places and the ways I am resisting you, so your fruit is blocked from being in my life.
02:02As best I know how, I surrender to you right now.
02:06Fill me to overflowing with your fruit.
02:09Amen.
02:12Let's give you a little word.
02:19Amen.
02:19We love you.
02:28Amen.
02:30Amen.
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02:31Amen.
02:32Amen.
02:32Amen.
02:33Amen.
02:34Amen.
02:34Amen.
02:35Amen.
02:36Amen.
02:36Amen.
