Sermons

THE POWER OF PATIENCE

THE POWER OF PATIENCE

Date: April 22nd, 2018

Speaker: Senior Pastor Therman E. Evans

Scripture: Luke 18:1-8

Supporting Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13, Luke 17:21

Sermon Highlights:

  • Patience is a fruit of the spirit and a virtue.
  • Patience is putting up with something, not putting off something.
  • Patience keeps us together.
  • Patience is persistence. Persistence is effort. Effort is work. Work is prayer. Patience is prayer!
  • Prayer is an action word!
  • If I’m not working on it/for it, I’m not praying on it/for it!
  • If I’m praying & not working, I’m not praying. I’m having idle conversation.

THE POINT OF PATIENCE

THE POINT OF PATIENCE

Date: April 15th, 2018

Speaker: Senior Pastor Therman E. Evans

Scripture: Numbers 20:8

Supporting Scripture: Numbers 20:1-12, Exodus 4:1, Galatians 6:9, Psalm 46:10, Proverbs 18:21

Sermon Highlights:

  • Be patient with me!
  • Patience is easy to receive & hard to give
  • Patience is POWERFUL!
  • The main point of patience: increases my trust & faith in God and to fully appreciate where I am. Patience is prolonged faith
  • Patience is persistence. Patience does not give up, give out, or give in!
  • Patience is PAINFUL! I will stop catching hell when I stop playing ball with the devil
  • Patience is PRODUCTIVE! Patience produces results! Impatience short-circuits my fruitfulness

Proverbs 3:6 

…in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.