When you have a choice between panic and patience, it's hard to choose patience. But remember that God is bigger than your crisis. He wants to use you and your situation to glorify himself, as well as build the golden habit of patience in you. It's a tough lesson, so let me lighten it up with my real-life, comical story.

It all started when a strange number popped up on my phone on an early Sunday morning. For some reason, I answered it. Maybe I really wanted that free 5-night all-expenses-paid vacation in Las Vegas.

“Jon, I think I left my phone in the Uber car on my way to the airport,” my wife said on a borrowed phone. And so began our Sabbath Day lesson in patience.

Listen in for "the rest of the story."

KEY PASSAGE:

Gal 5:22-23 (ESV)

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

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Peace of heart involves choices. Will you let the world tell you what to do with every minute of your day, or will you respond to God? No matter how busy your schedule is, you must find time to feed your soul.

The urgent isn’t always the best.

Jesus found time, even in his busy schedule, for peace. He went away with God time after time. He needed the Father. He craved solitude. It refreshed him so he could face the crowds and the constant demands on his life.

Today, we'll explore this further in our interactive devotional.

KEY PASSAGE:

Mt 14:22-23 (NIV)

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.

RESOURCES:

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You've been wronged, attacked, ridiculed, ignored, rejected, or slighted. It hurts. How can you recapture God’s soul peace when you have a wounded heart? There’s no step-by-step solution. It’s deeper than some textbook answer. You’re in pain and that requires healing.

Can I point you to Jesus? Not as a pat spiritual answer, but as a way to experience the personal healing love of the Savior. Isn’t that what you really need?

Let's go to Jesus together today.

KEY PASSAGE:

Ps 34:8-10, 17-18 (NIV)

Taste and see that the Lord is good;

blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

Fear the Lord, you his holy people,

for those who fear him lack nothing.

The lions may grow weak and hungry,

but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;

he delivers them from all their troubles.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted

and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

RESOURCES:

Download the 21-DAY FRESH FAITH EXPERIENCE at www.retreatingwithgod.org.

Visit FRESH FAITH 24/7, a place where you can retreat with God and get to know him more deeply: www.freshfaith247.com.

Connect with Jon at jon@freshfaith247.com