Developing Patience

Developing Patience

Father, I come before You in the name of Jesus. I desire to

meditate, consider, and inquire in Your presence. Waiting

patiently for a marriage partner has become a challenge — a trial,

sometimes leading to temptation. I am asking for Your help in

developing patience, quietly entrusting my future to Your will. It

is to You that I submit my desire to be married.

By Your grace I surrender my life — all my desires, all that I

am, and all that I am not — to the control of the Holy Spirit Who

produces this kind of fruit in me: love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control; and

here there is no conflict. I belong to Jesus Christ, and I seek to live

by the Holy Spirit’s power and to follow the Holy Spirit’s leading

in every part of my life. [In exercising] self-control I [develop]

steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising]

steadfastness I [develop] godliness (piety).

By faith, I consider it wholly joyful whenever I am enveloped

in, or encounter, trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.

It is then that I am reminded to rest assured and understand that

the trial and proving of my faith brings out endurance and

steadfastness and patience. I purpose to let endurance and

steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work,

so that I may be perfectly and fully developed [with no defects],

lacking in nothing.

Father, fill me with the knowledge of Your will through all

spiritual wisdom and understanding, that I may live a life worthy

of You and may please You in every way: bearing fruit in every

good work, growing in the knowledge of You, being strengthened

with all power according to Your glorious might, so that I may

have great endurance and patience, and joyfully give thanks to You

Who qualified me to share in the inheritance of the saints in the

Kingdom of light.

Father, I strip off and throw aside every encumbrance

(unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and

cleverly) clings to and entangles me, and I run with patient

endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course

of the race that is set before me. I look away [from all that will

distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of my faith

[giving the first incentive for my belief ] and is also its Finisher

[bringing it to maturity and perfection].

With patience I am able to persevere through the difficult

times — times of anxiety and worry — and overcome the fear that

I may never be married. I am an overcomer by the blood of the

Lamb and by the word of my testimony.

In Jesus’ name, amen.

Scripture References

Psalm 3:4 AMP James 1:2-4 AMP

Psalm 37:4,5 Colossians 1:9-12 NIV

Galatians 5:22-25 TLB Hebrews 12:1,2 AMP

2 Peter 1:6 AMP Revelation 12:11