Hey everybody and welcome back to I Just Want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time joining us, then let me just welcome you and say that I am so glad that you're here.

My name is Christian Keeter and I live in the southeast of the United States of America with my amazing, beautiful, godly

wife Lacey and our two wonderful daughters, Felicity and Serenity.

So let me begin today by sharing with you guys a story from my life recently that will

propel us into the topic for today.

So recently I found myself in a circumstance that was taking longer to progress than I

would have liked. I wasn't seeing the forward movement, the progress in this situation, in this

circumstance, the pacing that I would have preferred. And I'm sure that you cannot relate to that

at all in that you've never, ever been in a circumstance

that didn't move in a pace that you would like. No, and of course, we all find ourselves in this.

Every single one of us could say at some point, okay, I was in a situation or am in a situation

where things are not developing and progressing as quickly as I would like. So I found myself in one such circumstance recently.

And at around the 30-day mark, I believe that the Lord showed me something, and what he

showed me, like I said, will propel us into the lesson for today.

So what he showed me, I believe, was this.

It was the circumstance, the situation itself was the vehicle, but the lesson is patience.

The circumstance is the thing that this lesson is traveling in, but the lesson itself is endurance, steadfastness, perseverance, patience.

Can you relate?

And when it comes to this topic, this is a topic that sometimes we can perhaps, you know,

a lesson that we might miss because we could be so focused on the circumstance

through which this lesson is coming, changing, that we don't actually develop the steadfastness

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