Faith and Patience: The Power Twins - Part 5 - 2024-07-31

The power of patience is a working power. When faith has a tendency to waver, it is patience that comes to faith's aid to make it stand. The power of patience is necessary to undergird faith.

Almost everywhere you find faith mentioned in the Bible, you also find patience. Faith and patience are the power twins. Together they will produce every time. Patience without faith has no power to call into reality the thing desired. Faith is the substance of things we hope for. Patience without faith has no substance.

On the other hand, faith without patience many times will fail to stand firm on the evidence of the Word that gives deed to things not seen. Jesus told Peter that he had prayed for him that his faith fail not. Without the power of patience at work, we will allow sensory knowledge - the things we see - to overwhelm our faith.

Patience undergirds faith and gives it endurance to persevere until the answer comes. Faith is a powerful force. It always works. It is not that our faith is weak and needs strength, but without the power of patience we ourselves stop the force of faith from working with negative confession and action. It is our faith, and we can put it into action. It is our faith, and we can stop it from working.

In this series of lessons from our Wednesday Evening ZOOM Bible Study, we find out how these two work and how to develop them.