Force of Patience
THE FORCE OF PATIENCE
Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser, Harvester Church Cape Town.
13/11/2011; Notes summarized from MBC Manual “Fruits of the Spirit”. Email: mbc@harvesterchurch.org.za
Jesus’ spoke about bearing fruit: Luke 3:9’ 6:44 and in John 15.
Here are some applications of Patience that combine with your Faith that will cause you to bear Fruits of the Spirit.
Flee the love of money and Pursue Righteousness
I Timothy 6:10-12
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.”
The love of money has a piercing effect and causes sorrow, but the Word of God, also piercing can heal up the wounds and uproot the love of money. See Hebrews 4:12.
How to protect yourself from unnecessary pains and sorrows:
Flee from these things and follow after
RIGHTEOUSNESS, GODLINESS,
FAITH, LOVE, PATIENCE, MEEKNESS; GENTLENESS
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND GODLINESS are received by grace through faith in the precious promises of God if we combine Ephesians 2:4 -10 and 2 Peter 1:3,4
Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Eph 2:6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Eph 2:7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Eph 2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
2Pe 1:3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
2Pe 1:4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Become Filled with the Holy Spirit to bear Fruit
The following are all fruits of being filled with the Spirit of God.
FAITH, LOVE, PATIENCE, MEEKNESS; GENTLENESS
You do not just flee, you have to follow after righteousness.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life.
Allow the Trials of our Faith to Work Patience
James 1:1-3 Trying of faith works patience. Let patience have her perfect work that you may be perfect and entire – wanting nothing! 'Her' – character of patience.
Perfect G5046 Strong’s Concordance “teleios” (tel'-i-os)
From G5056; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with G3588) completeness: – of full age, man, perfect.
Patience is the power twin of faith.
Heb 6:12 “that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.”
You have need to run the race of faith with patience. (Heb 12:1)
Heb10:35,36 Cast not away therefore your fearless confidence which has great recompense of reward. for you have need of patience.
It is vitally important after a man has released his faith in prayer to do a job for him not to go back on that. Just because you did not get instantaneous results means that your faith needs some more developing in that area. Leave that faith out there and allow Jesus to stretch it and pull it till he can just sack your problem with it. When you have used your faith to overcome a problem you will never have a problem with it any more. Satan will not attack you with something that he knows you have overcome with your faith in the Word of God. Your experience brings hope. You get pretty tough when you talk about battles you have already won. The force of hope gets involved in areas where you have already won faith battles. You do not have to use conscious faith any more. 'I already know what I am going to do in that area'. (I have already passed that test).
The devil will always try you out in an area that you know nothing about. He will do that to choke off your testimony, your church, your revival. But just go to the Word of God and say: 'I have never been out there before, but the Holy Spirit has. I have still got the advantage!'
There is nothing that is not naked and open in the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Just go aside with the Word for a few days. Your wife will trust you if you are the priest in your home. She will be glad to see you go away with the Word a few days, because you come home with the answers.
'I am here to hear from you, Jesus what is it going to take this time? I count all the joy that I have fallen into this trial and tribulation knowing that my patience has been put to work and it is released now in the name of Jesus. I have made this decision to prove one more time that my God's Word is true. He will put me over. I will triumph inChrist. He that is within me is greater than he that is in the world.'
When you have released your faith in prayer, then comes the force of patience.
Dictionary definition: Patience – being the same way all the time. Being constant. The power of consistency. (It is not : knuckle down, maybe it will go away).
The force of patience comes out of the human heart and works on the human mind. Release the force of faith against that mountain now, by a decision. I say this: 'I will not tolerate any doubt or unbelief in my consciousness. I am making a quality decision that victory is mine. I make it now. I have it in Jesus' name. I am going over'. By this decision I have released the force of patience.
While the for force of patience is working on my mind, the force of faith is working on my problem. If you turn off the force of patience your mind will open the door to Satan's suggestion. 'You do not think you are going to get it this time?'
II Cor 10:4,5 – The Battle-ground is your head – your mind.
'Casting down every imagination and every high thing that exalts itself against God'.
The battle is the Lord's. Patience is the doorkeeper that keeps the door open for the force of faith to drive out that problem.
'Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ'. That will produce.
Gal5:22,23 – Fruit of the Spirit is … FAITH, WISDOM, LOVE, RIGHTEOUSNESS. Against these forces there is no law. NO sin or death or sickness can stand up against these forces. They operate from the human heart.
Without a force you cannot make a law work. The reason why you call it a law is because it works every time you put it to work.
Definition of truth : It always works right, eg 2 x 2 = 4.
You do not have to revise it. God's word is truth. It works right!
Faith and Patience builds Endurance
II Thes 1:4 Patience & Faith help us endure
2Th 1:4 so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,
By Patience we possess our Soul
Luke 21:18,19 By your patience posses your souls
Possess(control) your soul in patience.
Soul = mind/emotions/will
Titus 2:2 Be sober, sound in patience
Heb 12:1,2,3 Run with patience.
James 3:17 The earthly wisdom is psyche – or soullish – or of the senses (sensual) – we do not base our faith on feelings – (but on Word).
This wisdom is always followed by Satan – devilish.
Through your 5 (five) senses you have contact with this world of Satan.
You have to run this race with patience so that you can control your soul and not grow weary and faint your mind. If you get weary of believing God, you get weary of using your faith and you finally get to the point where you say: 'Well who cares any how, I will just go ahead and be defeated. I am tired of this'. Your mind gets weary. Everything looks like it is not working, (but you cannot afford to be moved by what you see. We are dealing with things that are unseen). The physical, natural world can change in a moment. And we are dealing with the forces that change it. We do not wait until it changes. Faith is the force that actually controls this physical world. While you have your faith out there, you need a spiritual force dealing with your mind, your mental man, that can work at the same time.
Direct the forces. Eg. Do not lay hands on somebody until you are ready to release your faith. Find out that you can release your faith in one direction at one time.
Understand the force of patience – while you expand your faith out there, patience must do the job to keep your mind in control, while your faith is working.
Luke 8:13. They that fall on the rocky soil – receive word with – but have no root in themselves. In time of pressure they fall away. They did not know what to do against that pressure against your body, money, circumstances, mind. Satan will not put pressure against your spirit man, he cannot get to it. Let the inner man control the situation and then it will work out.
V15 That in the good ground are they, which in an honest and good, heart, having heard the Word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with PATIENCE.
The force of patience is what finally causes the vine to bear fruit. That faith power is being applied but the force of patience is what brings it to fruit. That is what will eventually bring it into a physical manifestation of the here and right now where your body will feel good! But I had to believe it before the healing ever came.
Patiently Receive Manifold Wisdom from the Church during Trials of your faith
James 1:2 'Temptations' – translated testing and trials. It is a test of trustworthiness. Can we trust God? Can God trust us!
The Bible speaks of divers or manifold testing’s, for that we need the manifold wisdom of God revealed in the Church – Ephesians 3:10
Eph 3:10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
There is a great diversity of experiences and testimonies in a church to draw strength from during a trial which is an extended test of your faith. That's where a local church becomes valuable, when you need it most!
Let patience have her perfect work – (saying the same thing Jesus did) – until it produces in the here and the now so you could see the change.
Faith reaches out into the unreal world of hope where you cannot see it or feel it. Where there is nothing and begins to draw and force it into the reality of the here and now. But the force of patience is what keep the force of faith out there in the field, working.
If you get weary in your mind, you have not ROOT in yourself, no confidence in yourself, you do not know how to operate. When afflictions and persecutions arise for the Word's sake, (Mark 4), the man is offended and folds up. When he does, he brings his faith home from the field and his faith is no longer being applied against the problem.
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE GOD IN YOU!
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE WORD IN YOU!
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN CHRIST WITHIN THE HOPE OF GLORY!
You are a recreated being!
Apply the Force of Patience after releasing the force of faith in your in your life and you will bear much fruit!