The Fruit of the Spirit: Patience is a Virtue…
by David Chadwick
Patience is a virtue… but it's also a fruit of the Spirit.
The fruit of the Spirit are an all for one and one for all package deal. Once you abide in Christ and Christ in you, you will bear much fruit (John 15:5).
When we are abiding with Jesus, connected to the Spirit, we will operate in patience. The word patience in the Greek is makrothymia. It means long suffering or fortitude. It implies a willingness to be willing to wait in spite of what our eyes can see. In the Amplified Bible, patience is described not as "the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting."
Patience…
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