Hey Besties! Let’s talk about how to have patience in relationships.
Typically, when asked about a relationship people generally think of their romantic relationship first. But what about your relationship with God, yourself, family friends and coworkers?
In every relationship, we need patience and today we’re going to talk about how to have patience in relationships.
This post is all about how to have patience in relationships.
Are you ready? Let’s geaux!
Why Is Patience Important In Life
Patience is a God-idea. Anything that was created was created with pure intentions by the Most High God.
To understand patience in it’s entirety, you have to learn God’s concepts. Every idea starts as a thought and every thought gives birth to a concept.
All of God’s original concepts are known as precepts. In the simplest terms a precept is a “before thought”.
Let’s just say you’re going to your first solo concert. Before you attend the concert, you already have thought about why you want to go and who you’re going to see.
The thoughts about why you’re going and the who you’re going to see are kind of like your precepts.
So What’s God’s Original Idea Behind Patience?
Patience is the currency used to display the nature and attitude of God.
If you think about it, none of us are naturally patient so we have to spend time relearning how to be patient and the benefits of it.
The reason why patience is important in life is because you come from a culture of patience. You see when God birth you in the spirit, he said that you’d be created in his image after his likeness and you’d have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the livestock, all of the earth, and every creeping thing on the earth (Genesis 1:26).
He spoke this over you because he designed you to be just like him. He is patience therefore you have the ability to express patience because patience is inside of you!
In this earthly realm, it is your duty to manifest the full nature of yourself and that also takes patience because you have to relearn who you are and where you’re from.
Genesis 1:26 tells you who you are and gives you a hint of where you’re from. Only kings have something called dominion.
God is the King of kings and his Kingdom is the country of Heaven. Instead of allowing you to be a prince/princess, he placed you in a colony called Earth and gave you the privilege of being a king.
This is why Jesus is called the King of kings. He isn’t talking about those in a monarchy. He is talking about you!
What Does Patience Look Like
Patience is a benefit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). You are a spirit. The real you is inside of your body.
You are a spirit with a soul inside of a body. Your soul is your mind, will, and emotions while your body is simply the vehicle to navigate this earthly realm.
You can only see your true self through your actions or what the bible calls your fruit (Matthew 7:16).
Patience is no different. You won’t be able to see patience in a physical form, but you can see it through actions.
Practicing delayed gratification is just one example of what patience looks like but we definitely need to talk about some more!
5 Really Great Examples Of Patience
1. Changing A Bad Habit
Have you ever thought about what can help you become happier in life? I’m sure if you’re breathing you have.
If we can be honest with ourselves our bad habits are one of the things that dilute our happiness. Maybe you’re looking for change right now. My question to you is what are you doing right now to cultivate the environment of change?
Change starts inwardly. Before any habits change, your mind has to change first. Even if you take a small step toward change, it counts!
All change requires you to be patient with yourself because bad habits don’t fix themselves over night.
2. Building Your Dream Body
If you’re anything like me, then you know how easy it is to gain weight and how challenging it can be to lose it. Or maybe you’re on the opposite side of the spectrum and you’re trying to gain weight.
Either way, building your dream body will take a lot of patience!
3. Cultivating A Garden
Learning how to grow your own food is a beautiful process. Many people have started to take up gardening as a hobby and I encourage you to try it for yourself!
You don’t need a lot of space to garden either. You can actually start with re-growing kitchen scraps like lettuce, carrot tops, beet tops, and many more things.
It’s honestly so rewarding and it shows you how to build patience in real time!
4. Learning A New Language
It’s not impossible for you to learn a new language at your age. Don’t let that lie penetrate your mind because you can do whatever you put your mind to!
Learning a new language takes time and effort and you guessed it: A lot of patience! Your reward however is a life time of communicating with others of that native tongue.
5. Waiting On A Package To Arrive
Have you ever ordered something and couldn’t wait for it to arrive? Am I the only one who has stalked my tracking number? (No? I knew we were Besties!)
If waiting for a package doesn’t take patience, I don’t know what else does!
5 Ways To Have Patience In Relationships
Now that you know what patience is, that you have patience inside of you, and some examples of patience; we can talk about how to have patience in relationships.
1. Always Practice Patience With God
All of your relationships are an extension of your relationship with God and yourself. Practicing patience with God looks like waiting on him to answer a prayer, obeying him when he tells you to wait, and not taking things in your own hands because you and God are partners.
I want you to think of a relay race for a second. There are four runners on a track and each of them are running what’s called a “leg”.
While the first runner is running his/her leg, the other runners are anticipating the moment when the baton is handed to them.
The runners are eager to run their leg, but they are patient because they know their time is coming.
2. Be Patient With Yourself
Being with God isn’t just about obeying him. He isn’t looking to control you, but he is trying to help you become like him.
When you’re in a healthy relationship with your Source, you become more of yourself. The way God is with you should flow into the way you treat yourself.
If you’re on a journey of learning to love yourself, I want to encourage you to keep going! You got this Bestie!
3. Get Acquainted With The God In Others
Sometimes we can be so focused on the things we don’t like in ourselves and project that onto people. This is why there is order in relationships.
You have to develop a healthy relationship with God and yourself to even see the God in others. Every person walking the face of this earth and those who will be born are God’s images.
Learn to see and call forth the God in them despite their current behavior.
4. Understand That People Grow At Different Rates
Gardening is interesting especially when you get into starting things from seed. What I’ve been able to see is that seeds don’t grow at the same rate even if their planted at the same time and are in the same environment.
You may be at a different phase in your life than the person you have relationship with. This doesn’t make them any less or you any more.
It simply means that we grow at different rates and that we need to love them where they are. Love is patient. Be patient while your loved one is growing.
5. Don’t Take Thing Personally
If someone is drunk then that most likely means that they don’t know what they’re doing. When someone is sick, they’re usually not functioning at their best.
If someone is blind, they cannot see. So why do we waste energy taking what another person says personally when we can see the condition they’re in?
Do you catch my drift Bestie? You may be wanting your relationship with that loved one to become better, but what if God is telling you to give that person to him?
Becoming patient may call for you to love them from a distance or establish some boundaries.
Again patience is a God idea. Every relationship you have will take time and effort. And all your relationships stem from your relationship with God and yourself.
This post was all about how to have patience in relationships.
Remember you’re destined to win because he got up!
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