May 5 – Patience in the Journey

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
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May 5th Patience in the journey.
Have you ever reacted too

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quickly and wished you could
take it back?

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A harsh text, a sharp answer, a
door slammed, a friendship

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strained.
Sometimes the hardest part of

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following God is not knowing
what to do.

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It is learning how to respond
when emotions are loud.

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Proverbs chapter 15 verses 18 to
19 says a hot tempered man stirs

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up strife, but he who is slow to
anger quiets contention.

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The way of a lazy man is like a
hedge of thorns, but the path of

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the upright is a level highway.
First Corinthians Chapter 7

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verse 20 says each person should
remain in the condition in which

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he was called.
In that chapter, Paul also

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speaks about faithfulness,
commitment, and honoring God in

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the relationships and situations
where we find ourselves.

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Patience is not weakness.
Patience is strength under

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control.
It is the ability to pause

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before you explode.
Pray before you decide, and

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choose peace when conflict is
trying to pull you in.

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A hot temper can turn a small
issue into a painful wound, but

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a calm spirit can quiet tension
and protect relationships.

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And then Proverbs gives us
another picture.

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Laziness creates a path like a
hedge of thorns, but uprightness

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creates a level highway.
In other words, some struggles

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become harder because we avoid
responsibility, delay obedience,

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or refuse discipline.
But when we walk faithfully with

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God, one right step at a time,
He makes the path clearer.

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Maybe you are waiting for
something to change.

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Maybe you feel stuck in your
family, your school, your job,

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or your season of life.
God is not asking you to escape

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faithfulness.
He is teaching you to honor Him

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right where you are.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, teach me to be
slow to anger and quick to

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listen.
Help me respond with patience

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when life feels frustrating.
Give me the courage to be

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faithful in the place You have
called me, even when I wish

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things were different.
Remove laziness, pride and

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impulsiveness from my heart and
lead me on the upright path that

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brings peace in Jesus name,
Amen.

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What if the battles hitting your
family are not random and your

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home can become a place where
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stay?
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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs Chapter 15 Verses 18 to

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19 World English Bible A
wrathful man stirs up

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contention, but one who is slow
to anger appeases strife.

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The way of the sluggard is like
a thorn patch, but the path of

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the upright is a highway.
First Corinthians Chapter 7

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World English Bible Now
concerning the things about

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which you wrote to me.
It is good for a man not to

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touch a woman, but because of
sexual immoralities, let each

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man have his own wife, and let
each woman have her own husband.

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Let the husband give his wife
the affection owed her, and

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likewise also the wife her
husband.

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The wife doesn’t have authority
over her own body, but the

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husband likewise also the
husband doesn’t have authority

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over his own body but the wife.
Don’t deprive one another unless

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it is by consent for a season
that you may give yourselves to

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fasting and prayer and may be
together again.

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That Satan doesn’t tempt you
because of your lack of

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self-control.
But this I say by way of

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concession, not of commandment.
Yet I wish that all men were

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like me.
However, each man has his own

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gift from God. 1 of this kind,
and another of that kind.

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But I say to the unmarried and
to widows, it is good for them

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if they remain even as I am.
But if they don’t have

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self-control, let them marry,
for it’s better to marry than to

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burn.
But to the married I command not

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I, but the Lord, that the wife
not leave her husband, but if

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she departs, let her remain
unmarried, or else be reconciled

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to her husband, and that the
husband not leave his wife.

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But to the rest, I, not the
Lord, say, if any brother has an

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unbelieving wife and she is
content to live with him, let

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him not leave her.
The woman who has an unbelieving

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husband and he is content to
live with her, let her not leave

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her husband.
For the unbelieving husband is

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sanctified in the wife, and the
unbelieving wife is sanctified

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in the husband.
Otherwise your children would be

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unclean.
But now they are holy.

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Yet if the unbeliever departs,
let there be separation.

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The brother or the sister is not
under bondage in such cases, but

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God has called us in peace.
For how do you know wife,

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whether you will save your
husband?

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Or how do you know, husband,
whether you will save your wife?

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Only as the Lord has distributed
to each man, as God has called

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each, so let him walk.
So I command in all the

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assemblies, Was anyone called
having been circumcised, Let him

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not become uncircumcised.
Has anyone been called in

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uncircumcision?
Let him not be circumcised.

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Circumcision is nothing, and
uncircumcision is nothing but

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the keeping of the commandments
of God.

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Let each man stay in that
calling in which he was called.

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Were you called being a
bondservant?

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Don’t let that bother you, but
if you get an opportunity to

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become free, use it.
For he who was called in the

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Lord, being a bondservant, is
the Lord’s freeman.

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Likewise, he who was called
being free is Christ’s

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bondservant.
You were bought with a price.

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Don’t become bond servants of
men, brothers.

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Let each man, in whatever
condition he was called, stay in

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that condition with God.
Now concerning virgins, I have

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no commandment from the Lord,
but I give my judgment as one

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who has obtained mercy from the
Lord to be trustworthy.

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Therefore I think that because
of the distress that is on us,

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that it’s good for a man to
remain as he is.

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Are you bound to a wife?
Don’t seek to be freed.

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Are you free from a wife?
Don’t seek a wife.

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But if you marry, you have not
sinned.

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If a virgin marries, she has not
sinned yet such will have

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oppression in the flesh.
And I want to spare you.

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But I say this, brothers, the
time is short, that from now on

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both those who have wives may be
as though they had none, and

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those who weep as though they
didn’t weep.

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And those who rejoice as though
they didn’t rejoice.

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And those who buy as though they
didn’t possess, and those who

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use the world as not using it to
the fullest.

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For the mode of this world
passes away.

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But I desire to have you to be
free from cares.

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He who is unmarried is concerned
for the things of the Lord, how

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he may please the Lord.
But he who is married is

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concerned about the things of
the world, how he may please his

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wife.
There is also a difference

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between a wife and a virgin.
The unmarried woman cares about

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the things of the Lord, that she
may be holy both in body and in

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spirit, but she who is married
cares about the things of the

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world how she may please her
husband.

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This I say for your own profit,
not that I may ensnare you, but

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for that which is appropriate,
and that you may attend to the

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Lord without distraction.
But if any man thinks that he is

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behaving inappropriately toward
his virgin, if she is past the

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flower of her age, and if need
so requires, let him do what he

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desires, He doesn’t sin, let
them marry.

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But he who stands steadfast in
his heart, having no urgency,

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but has power over his own will,
and has determined in his own

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heart to keep his own virgin,
does well.

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So then both he who gives his
own virgin in marriage does

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well, and he who doesn’t give
her in marriage does better.

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A wife is bound by law for as
long as her husband lives, But

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if the husband is dead, she is
free to be married to whomever

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she desires only in the Lord.
But she is happier if she stays

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as she is, in my judgement.
And I think that I also have

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God’s Spirit.
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