Greetings, thank you for the opportunity to come your way today and spend this time with you. This week, we've been talking about the nine marks of a minister of God and we've been looking at what Paul wrote in second Timothy chapter three and verses 10 and 11, as he mentions nine areas of his life and his ministry and he points them out to Timothy and says Timothy, you've followed and carefully observed me in all of these areas and obviously he is telling Timothy, Timothy, these are the marks of a man of God, of somebody anointed by God. We have been examining or just looking at each one, today we will look at what Paul mentioned it as, long suffering or for using it in more modern term, patience. He said, Timothy, you've seen my patience and obviously this patience had to do with his dealings with people because being patient and how you're handling situations, circumstances, that you deal with people with great patience. Paul himself wrote in second Timothy chapter two and verse 24, he said, ‘And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient.’ So, in dealing with people, he said, you got to be patient. People are not going to always respond as quickly as you would like them to, the way you would like them to, but you be patient with people. So, he says this is the mark of a minister of God. He says Timothy, you've seen my long suffering, my patience in various situations and circumstances as we worked with people. So how are we when we deal with people? The Bible tells us in first Corinthians chapter 13 that love is patience, so really patience is an expression or a demonstration of love for people. When we are patient with people, we’re demonstrating love towards them; that we really love them, care for them and are willing to work with them. So, patience, it's an expression of love and it's a mark of a minister of God. If you're patient, you’re not going to get irritable, you’re not going to lose it easily with people, you're going to be kind, to be gentle, tolerant as you deal with people. And that's what a minister of God must demonstrate. Let's pray, Father, we ask that you help us grow in this grace of being patient, as we work with people, that this will truly be a mark of our lives as ministers of God and how we work with people with all long suffering and patience. Thank you, Father, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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