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Fruit of the Spirit-Patience · The Father's Business Podcast

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Elizabeth Gunter Powell.
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  Speaker 2: And I am Kimberly Roddy.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Father's Business Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: We are so glad that you've joined us.
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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, we are so excited because we are going to have our first in-person conference in several years, coming up in October.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be October 16 to 18.
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  Speaker 1: And we are going to be at the Sandy Cove Retreat Center in Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: It is a beautiful location.
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  Speaker 1: It's on the Chesapeake Bay.
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  Speaker 1: Both the nature around it and the accommodations are five star and we think you're really going to love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a great time to gather together with other people who have already been through the Ruach Journey study before.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a Ruach Journey level two conference.
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  Speaker 1: It's for anyone who either has attended one of our conferences in the past or you have gone through the Ruach Journey video study that is available for sale on our website.
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  Speaker 1: You've been listening to our podcast last fall and we did like a 13-week series on Ruach Journey, so anyone who has been through the basic material that is in the Ruach Journey study.
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  Speaker 1: This is for people who are looking for more.
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  Speaker 1: So there's still plenty of time.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to come and join us for this conference and you have not yet done the RUT Journey Study, you can go on our website, wwwthefathersbusinesscom and purchase the study.
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  Speaker 1: There are videos you watch each week.
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  Speaker 1: You could do it on your own, you could gather some friends together and do it as a group, and you'll have plenty of time to get prepared for the fall when we're going to be together October 16 and 18.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things I love most about this conference is it's not just about the teaching time from the front.
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  Speaker 1: It's about meeting and gathering with and talking to other people who've also been through this study and learning from one another.
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  Speaker 2: So, elizabeth, I am excited about this conference as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be great, I think the location is going to be beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: So can anyone attend this conference?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this is open to both men and women.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who has been through the Rock Journey study, has attended a conference in the past or has been listening to the Rock Journey podcast.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you've done the work to get your heart prepared and understand the basic principles of living with our spirit, soul and body in alignment with Father, son and Holy Spirit, you are welcome to join us for this conference.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 2: So one way to get prepared is that we are also going to be offering some events leading up to October.
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  Speaker 2: So we are going to be calling these events Road to Ruach because they're going to prepare us, just like Elizabeth said.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to help us have the right understanding and the right frame of mind, prepare our hearts as we come into the Ruach Journey 2 conference in October.
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  Speaker 2: One of the first ones that we're going to be doing is going to be in May.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be on May 18th and it's going to be in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be at the Memphis Botanic Gardens and we're so excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful area.
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  Speaker 2: If you live in the Memphis area, you want to travel to the Memphis area, you are welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Come join us that day.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for a beautiful day, because it's going to be a gorgeous location.
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  Speaker 2: We would love to have you join us.
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  Speaker 2: You can check out more details on our website, which is thefathersbusinesscom.
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  Speaker 2: There is a link on our website for events and you can find both the Memphis event and the October Ruach Journey 2 event at the Sandy Cove Conference Center in Maryland on that event page.
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  Speaker 2: So thefathersbusinesscom backslash events.
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  Speaker 2: Check that out, sign up, join us in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: Join us in Maryland.
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  Speaker 2: There are going to be two wonderful events and stay tuned for other things coming your way as we prepare for the road to Ruach.
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  Speaker 2: So we hope that you enjoy today's podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to this episode of the Father's Business Podcast.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: We're continuing our series on the food of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Last time we looked at the fruit of peace and, kimberly, I got to tell you the laboratory God has put me through since we recorded and released that podcast has been quite amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And I just kept coming back to this thought of how much I had to wrestle to stay in peace, and I just hope that might be an encouragement to other people who think that, oh well, yeah, you just ask God to give you peace and you have peace right.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that's not true because we've talked about the for Jesus to do box and soul stew and just the struggle of our spirit versus our soul.
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  Speaker 1: But I can remember even now, as I'm talking to you, one day last week I'm driving down the main road towards my house and I just remember saying out loud to God I am so tired of having to wrestle to be at peace with you, because there's several things that have popped up in life that have been new opportunities to trust and hope and continue to go.
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  Speaker 1: Ok, yeah, this is a bit of a storm we're walking through, but I'm going to trust that Jesus is in this boat too, and he's got us so, so thrilled that we're going to be talking about patience today, kimberly, because there's no telling what laboratory God has in store.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've already had some pre-labs already with different things going on in life, but patience is one of those words that I don't think anyone really enjoys.
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  Speaker 1: No one wakes up and goes, oh boy, I get to be patient today.
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  Speaker 1: And yet we all are faced, in both the big things of life and just the every mundane things of life, with opportunities to invite more of the spirit of patience and the fruit of the spirit of patience into our lives.
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  Speaker 2: So this is going to be a good one of these aspects of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: There's a piece to each of them where we wrestle and we dialogue and we talk about the vertical relationship with God that we have, and then we talk about the horizontal relationship that we have with others and, as we often discuss on the podcast, something that we emphasize a lot is remembering to stay in alignment with spirit, soul and body right and with Father, son and Holy Spirit, and so this makes sense when we think about the vertical and the horizontal, because we have to be in step with the Spirit, has to infuse us and impart to us.
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  Speaker 2: It is not natural to have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, children, self-control right.
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  Speaker 2: So the Spirit has to give us that and we have to walk in step with Him in order to experience that and in order to live out that.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's where we get that vertical and that horizontal.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it does.
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  Speaker 2: And so as we think about the vertical piece and then how that because that has to come before we can flow out into the horizontal pieces, and so when we think about patience, when it comes to our relationship vertically with God, I think a lot of us struggle with just really being patient to wait on Him.
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  Speaker 2: We see this idea all throughout scripture of waiting on the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Right, be patient, be steadfast, like in Romans 8.25,.
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  Speaker 2: But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently, psalm 27.14,.
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  Speaker 2: Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: So there's this idea that we have to wait patiently for the Lord, and I often think about being in a doctor's office, because that is one of the places where we always have to be patient.
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  Speaker 2: One.
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  Speaker 2: We are a patient in a doctor's office, so kind of the noun turns into what we have to actively do right, and what we have to have.
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  Speaker 2: And so I find it interesting that often we know we're prepared that when we go to a doctor's office we have to be patient, we have to practice that because we're out of control and we just have to wait.
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  Speaker 2: I think what we have to remember is that when it comes to being patient and waiting on the Lord, we're not just sitting there idle, we're not just hurry up and see me next and take care of this so I can move on right.
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  Speaker 2: There's an active nature to the waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think God wants us just to sit passive in the waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I think sometimes that's why there is the delay is because there's other things he wants us to be working on in our relationship with Him, relationship with others.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much more to the story than what my human mind can understand, much more to the story than what my human mind can understand.
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  Speaker 1: And if all I'm doing, as I'm waiting on God, is sitting there and grumbling and complaining that it's taking too long and wondering when the answer is going to come and again that attitude of life will begin or life will get better when and you're waiting for the circumstance to come to fruition, I think you miss a lot of what God is trying to do in that abiding relationship he wants to have with you in the waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard a friend one time talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: In the Hebrew original language you get this idea of being intertwined with God in the word waiting and so there's this idea that we are in connection and relationship in, like you said, an abiding relationship.
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  Speaker 2: So I kind of get that picture of like a rope right that's intertwined together, and so there's a nature of when we're waiting on the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: He is working in our lives and we are actively working out our faith.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a pretty cool picture when I stop and think about what's happening in the waiting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't often do that, but when I think about that in relationship to God, I'm like, oh, that is a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: And the other aspect of he is patient with us.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank God.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, where would we be if Psalm 103 was not true?
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  Speaker 2: The Lord is compassionate and gracious.
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  Speaker 2: Slow to anger, abounding in love.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Because I mean, yes, we are human and frail, but I also miss several opportunities to keep in step with Him because I'm chasing after my own desires.
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  Speaker 1: If I had a human relationship that at times treated me the way that I have treated God at points in my life.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Let's say something I've been hurt or I've been, or I'm angry about something or whatever, and so I'm just like, well, forget you, I'm just going to do it my way for a minute.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm just, I'm mad, like when I've had a heartache or even a death in the family or something.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: You're angry that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, god, you could have done this different than you did.
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  Speaker 1: And he is so kind and allows me.
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  Speaker 1: I almost picture myself like a toddler having a tipper tantrum in the middle of a store, and he's that kind, gentle, father.
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  Speaker 1: That's like are you done?
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  Speaker 1: Did you get it all out, are you?
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  Speaker 1: You know, come back to me, we'll get back in alignment, everything will be okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's so many ways that we fail him and he continues to show us love and kindness and patience and is long suffering, which is such a great word.
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  Speaker 1: I love that word because it is not easy to be patient.
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  Speaker 1: There is a sacrifice and a suffering in the patience, and so I am very quick to appreciate when God gives that to me.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was quicker to then also be a reflection of that to people in my own life.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I am, but a lot of the times one you could say it's because of our culture.
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  Speaker 1: Part of it's my personality I like things that are quick and fast and efficient, and that is the opposite of patience, and so I struggle a lot with being able to take a deep breath and keep, keep it, just keep calm and believe that I need to be a reflection of God's patience to those around me.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Elizabeth, what you were saying just there gets to the to the idea of really what is patience.
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  Speaker 2: Like it, it is that being able to remain calm, right, being able to not grow anxious or frustrated, which I know for me, especially with human relationships.
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  Speaker 2: The way I recognize the impatience is when I quickly go oh, you're frustrated, and it may be that I've already said something in the frustration, or it may just be that I feel it on the inside, but that feeling of frustration and like I'm kind of clenching my fist right now, kind of that, oh, that irritation is a signal that something is bothering you and you're not being patient with someone.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kimberly, I know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of, it's almost like the jaw starts to get a little clenched or you can just kind of feel the inner tension inside of you and I had that struggle in between, the inner tension inside of you, and I had that struggle in between.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I really just want to let all of this frustration out in this moment, but that's not the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's that, you know, when Paul's talking about I do what I don't want to do and what I wanted, what I'm supposed to do, I don't do kind of struggle going on inside of you where you're like I'm irritated because this is not going the way that I want it to go, or this person is not doing things as quickly as I want them to, or whatever the scenario is in our relationships.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you know that it's a you problem, or I know I was like it's not them, it's me, it's my reaction, it's me, it's it's my reaction.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's when I have to start digging a little deeper as to what, what is this belief I'm believing that's causing me to feel this way, when this person either doesn't remember something I told them, or ask them to help me with something and they're like well, hold on a minute, I need a few minutes and then I'll come help you, and it feels like it takes more than a few minutes for them to come help me.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: What is this that I'm really deeply feeling and we can kind of unpack that together maybe, but I don't know, have all the answers to that.
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  Speaker 1: But there's what the word that keeps coming to my mind is I have a rights, like I have a right for you to remember what I told you the first time.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: I have a right.
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  Speaker 1: My time is as important as your time and so therefore, you should do this faster, because it's inconveniencing me that you're not moving as fast as I want you to, and it's a very deep seated belief false belief that I have that somehow my rights are more important here, and that is very easy to talk about in theory when you're not in the moment.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: But in that moment where you've told the same person the same thing for the fourth or the fifth time and they're like you definitely have never told me that I'm like oh, but I have.
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  Speaker 1: It's so hard not to have that fleshly response come out of you because they're not doing it the way you want it done as quickly as you want it done when you want it done.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: It's all very self-centered when I become impatient.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: So, kimberly, do you find that?
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you feel that emotion start to kind of stir up in you, what do you think some of those false beliefs are underneath it that are almost justifying you to feel that way?
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Sure, I mean, the basic idea is like I want things to go my way, I want you to do things my way, I know the best way to do this and you just need to follow along so this can be easy and I don't have to stress.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: And I think it's where we get stuck in our like, even in our personalities and then our gifts and different things that we talk about, how we're wired.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: So much of the way that we show ourself to the world is a mask and it's a coping mechanism and it's we think we're comfortable showing up this way, but really we I want peace, not perfection, but I aim for perfection kind of thing, Right, and so we sabotage what we really want by these coping, comfortable, coping personality mechanisms.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: That travels and that's a way deeper conversation.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: But it's what's coming to mind right now, Cause I do think for me often it is like I'm going to go after perfection and I'm like what you long for is not perfection, what you long for is peace, but somewhere along the way you feel better if things are perfect.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: But that's a lie, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a lie, but at the same time it is true.
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  Speaker 1: Sure Cause, when, when things do feel, our definition of perfect, sure Life is not perfection, it's peace, peace with God and peace with others.
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  Speaker 1: But they do.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Oh hey, if I'm having the perfect day.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: If, like, everything's kind of clicking and my to-do list is getting crossed off and people are showing up when they were supposed to, and it feels very efficient, that feels very peaceful to me.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thinking about the podcast we did when we kicked off the first of the year back in January and I mentioned the serenity prayer, and so there's an idea there that again, it's like broken cisterns in some ways, we fool ourselves into thinking that we'll have peace right when those things are perfect, like you said, right said and so.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: But it's the idea that in the serenity prayer part of that, the half, the second half that we're not as familiar with says accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, taking, as Jesus did, the sinful world as it is, not as I would have it, trusting that you will make all things right.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: And so again, it's like, if I could choose to be patient, let's just get practical, okay.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So, like it was Easter weekend, we were all with some family and friends, probably at some point doing something, and so, for me, I'm going to dinner the night before Easter with some family and friends and at one point my mom says why are you so irritated all the time?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, and I wanted to say I'm not irritated.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: But then I would have even sounded irritated if I had answered in the moment Right.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But the reality was is, everyone wanted something that was a little different.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: And I feel like I'm trying to come, I feel like I'm trying to accommodate everyone, but I also feel like I'm wanting something that's different.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: And so you're just kind of in that moment.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm trying to accommodate everyone, but I also feel like I'm wanting something that's different.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And so you're just kind of in that moment.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm going along to get along, but I've got a little attitude about it, and so that's me.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Again, it's I'm.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I'm actually being irritated because I'm being impatient because there were some decisions that needed to be made and people weren't responding when I needed them to respond and I was driving and I was navigating some things.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: It's not I'm being impatient, but I'm being impatient because I'm also frustrated that you're not making a decision that I want you to make, you know.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: And so at the end of the day, it's a check for me.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't love it when my mom or a friend or your spouse or whoever says to you why are you so irritated?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: You know, no one loves that question, but it was a check for me to go okay, get your stuff together, like what's going on in you Like.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: You wanted to spend time with people this evening.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: You wanted to be here.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Why can you like?
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  Speaker 2: Can you choose to enjoy this time instead of expecting things to go a certain way?
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Can you just be present?
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  Speaker 2: And so it is a reminder that the sinful world is going to move not as I would have it move, and I'm a part of that.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: And so if I could choose to slow down and recognize and let the spirit flow through me a little bit better and in a more intentional way, then I could say the perfection that I'm seeking is key, and perfection is just one word, the right that I'm seeking, the desire that I'm pursuing in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Underneath it is peace and stability, but the way I'm doing it is going after something that is keeping me tense.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: It is keeping me bound up and frustrated and guarded, right Like I'm.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not trusting, I'm not truly being in relationship.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I'm, I'm guarded, and that's not the free to be me that Jesus created me to be, and so again it's.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I think we're we're like.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: This can be a really deep conversation, but the point of all this that we're talking about right now is just that idea of like how can I step back in those moments and say Jesus has so much patience with me, it's so much grace, so much patience, so faithful and steadfast with me and, like you said, long suffering, right?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: And so can I not choose to set my own desires aside and recognize that if I could just be patient with others, then it'll probably be easier for them to be patient with me as I'm patient with them?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: And just truly seek alignment relational alignment too, yeah.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: You know, kimberly.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: So we've been talking about all this.
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  Speaker 1: You know my rights, my desires, my, and I was like there's a lot of me, my, mine, I and all of this.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: And as we're sitting here talking about this, I was like, okay, I think if you keep digging down deeper and deeper and deeper, the convicting word you get to is pride.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And how much pride do I have to say I have a right for things to go the way I want them to go, when I want them to go that way?
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Which reminded me of one of the many verses that talks about patience is Ephesians 4, 2, which says be completely humble.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, that's a high bar.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Be completely humble and gentle, be patient, bearing with one another in love.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where I think we just constantly have to be going back to this idea of abiding and getting our spirits in full alignment with Father, son and Holy Spirit.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Because I can't give out what I don't have.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And I can tell you my pattern is if I've gotten busy or I'm not spending as much time relationally just enjoying God as I should be, that's when it's a whole lot easier to be impatient with everyone else around me as I should be.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: That's when it's a whole lot easier to be impatient with everyone else around me because I haven't filled me up with who he is, so that I can then turn around Because we can't.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've said this on every fruit.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I fail all of the fruits miserably if I try to do them in my own efforts, in my own strength, and so I do think one of the best things we can do is ask for the Holy Spirit to fill us with who he is, which he is patient.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you see, in Colossians the idea of the put off and the put on passages is what sometimes referred to.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're supposed to put off these things that hinder us, like we're supposed to put off the things that get in the way of us walking in step with the Spirit, but then we're commanded to put on and clothe ourselves with humility, with patience, with kindness, with forbearance, and so again it is, we cannot put those things on, apart from being filled with the Spirit and put in, stepping in alignment with Him, walking in Him.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And I think about the children of Israel.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You know when they had to walk around in the desert and you know God's feeding them every day and they get dissatisfied with that and they grumble and complain.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: A lot of that was a big old heaping serving of impatience.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Like God, they weren't getting to this promised land in the way or as quickly as they wanted to.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: It really just reminds me, I think a very practical way to how you develop patience in your life is you start with thankfulness, because if I'm grumbling, if I'm complaining, if I'm looking to seek out what's wrong and what could be done better which is my natural bent I always look at a situation and say how could this be done better?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: That's just how my brain works.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I get very cranky and very impatient.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: How my brain works.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I get very cranky and very impatient.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: But if I will focus my mind on all the things I have to be thankful for, then the inconveniences the 20 minutes I had to spend waiting for customer service to fix my problem seems a lot less irritating to me if I keep it in the perspective of look at all the things that I have to be thankful for.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think patience has always been difficult.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: It's always been hard.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I think it feels harder in the day-to-day in other ways today with technology and fast food and microwave, you know, since the 90s or the 2000s the 1900s, as people still call them.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Like were you born in the 1900s, but in the late 90s and the 2000s, we 1900s, as people still call them like, were you born in the 1900s but in the late 90s and the 2000s?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: We had a podcast where we talked I talked some about what changed in society in 2007.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: But I find it interesting, as I'm thinking about this, like we, you know people get really frustrated when fast food is not fast food.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Right, how long you got to wait?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Like if I put an order on DoorDash for pizza to be delivered, or what our groceries be delivered, and they say it's going to be an hour and a half, I'm like what?
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Or you go to a restaurant and you see a wait outside and you go in and you ask and you're like 20 minutes, no big deal, an hour and a half, what you know.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: But I find it interesting that, no matter how many times some of us drive through, drive by the Chick-fil-A drive-thru, we see the line.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: My mom's always like that's such a long line.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I'm like no, it's not so big deal, and we hop in it Like Chick-fil-A always has.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: It is rare that a Chick-fil-A does not have a long line at the drive-thru.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just rare, like, except for like your odd times of the day, and even then that's usually busy and so I think so many of us there's.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: There is an essence to where chick-fil-a has a good business model and they're pretty efficient and they have figured some things out, and so I think again that shows when I buy into something, when I trust something, I am willing to to hop in and wait a little bit absolutely, but I do think that we tend to, with the fast pace of our society, with technology in particular, like AI, can generate a thought for us quicker than we can have it right now.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I think that just creates a more difficult environment for us to have to be patient in.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I agree.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: So, as we live in that, I think this is where it would be really good for us to just pray a blessing over people today, because I know I need it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, me too.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: So we want to bless you, to listen to God's word for you in Galatians 5.22.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: The fruit of the Spirit is patience, and in 1 Timothy 1.16, I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Spirit.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Be blessed to know that your Father's patience toward you is his mercy flowing to you.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: He shines in the weakness of your impatience to show himself to be a God of second chances for you and others.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: He welcomes you back to the Father's house after the most outrageous violations of his covenant.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: He remembers your frame and he knows you are dust.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Be blessed to know that you are a work in progress and he is not finished with you yet.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: He doesn't give up on you and he intends for you to mirror the likeness of Jesus.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Spirit.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: See examples of the patience of Jesus in the Gospels with people in every circumstance of life.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: With the woman caught in the act of adultery and with her accusers, he said let him, who is without sin, cast the first stone.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Woman, neither do I condemn you.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: What wisdom of restraint, born out of patience With his disciples when they provoked him to cry out oh you of little faith.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Or have I been so long with you and you don't know me?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: With his three closest companions, whom he took into the garden in the hour of his greatest agony, only to find them sleeping?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: He gently and patiently said can you not keep watch with me for one hour?
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Spirit, you come to one who was a human being, like you in every way, so that he might become your merciful and faithful high priest before God, representing your sin.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Since he himself has gone through suffering and temptation, he understands your weaknesses.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: He can patiently help you when you are being tempted.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Be blessed to come boldly to the throne of your gracious God.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: There you will receive his mercy and find grace to help you when you need it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Spirit.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Be blessed with the unlimited patience that Jesus displayed because he lives in you to show you his patience to you and, through you, receive him working his patience in you to bring about his purposes and plans.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Be blessed with long-suffering, not just tolerance, and with grace and compassion with yourself and others.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Be blessed with knowing that God is working long-suffering in you, especially when others are trying you.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Be blessed with his patient endurance and encouragement in battles long fought.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Be blessed with a holy infusion of your father's long-suffering when yours has run out.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Patience is a marathon, not a sprint.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Be blessed to keep the marathon of patience, even when your legs feel like lead and your lungs are screaming for relief.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Be blessed with the fruit of patience that the Holy Spirit produces in you, your grateful response to his patience.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for listening to the Father's Business Podcast.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the Father's Business Podcast.