FAITH & PATIENCE - Dag Heward-Mills

READ: Hebrews 6:9-19
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:12

Today , some people want to wear the same clothes, the same shoes, and drive the same cars as great men of God. The Bible did not say that they inherited the promises through their cars, their houses and their clothes! They inherited the promises through their faith and their patience!

So then, how can you follow the patience of someone? You can study the patience of someone by finding out when he began to believe certain things and when he actually experienced them. When you start calculating and finding out the number of years that people have believed and worked in a particular direction, you will be amazed at how patient some of them have been. Most men of God have laboured for many years with little results only to see the Lord doing great things at the end of their lives and ministry . Indeed, the faith and the patience of the people is the secret to their ministry .

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 11:8-10, 13