Five Minutes with God

Patient Enduring

The power to remain under pressure without breaking.

1. 01

   Be still

   1 min

   Put the phone down for sixty seconds. Breathe slowly and say once: “Here I am, Lord.” Nothing to perform.

2. 02

   Receive the word

   2 min

   Read Colossians 1:11 twice — “Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.” The second time, read it slowly enough to mean it.

3. 03

   Carry it out

   1 min

   Where is God asking you to wait today? Stay under it with joy.

4. 04

   Close in prayer

   1 min

   Father, keep me under this a little longer. Give me Your patience instead of my hurry. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Go further on patient

From the Wisdom Library inside Virtue+ — these readings take today’s virtue past five minutes.

• The Virtue of Patience

  8 min

  Takes today's waiting further — anxiety, delay, and the long obedience of a settled heart.

• Stillness as Strategy

  7 min

  Why the hurried woman loses the very battle she thought she was winning.

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