Patience Has a Perfect Work

Last Samba we said count it all joy — the trial has a job, the night has a limit — and we closed with three words: hold your position. But holding your position sounds simple until you’re in it. Until the days keep passing and nothing looks different. Until you’ve made the choice and you’re still waiting, and the question rises: what am I supposed to be doing while I wait? Let patience have her perfect work. Not rush it. Not resist it. Not cut it short. Let it work.

1. 01

   Take your cues from the farmer.

   James returns to patience in chapter 5, this time with an example. The farmer plants his seed and waits — not because he forgot about it or stopped caring about the harvest, but because he understands there is a process between the planting and the fruit, and it cannot be rushed. The early rain comes; the latter rain comes; in between, he isn’t idle. He’s watching, tending, trusting what he put in the ground even when he can’t see it. Be ye also patient — take your cues from the farmer, not from your feelings, not from how long it’s been, not from what it looks like on the surface.

   Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of uSoNINI NaNINI. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

   James 5:7 KJV, as we read it

2. 02

   Stablish your hearts.

   Verse 8 gives the instruction underneath the instruction. Stablish means to fix firmly, to set in place, to make immovable. Patience isn’t just what you do while you wait — it starts with what you settle on the inside. A heart that isn’t established will bail on the process every time. But a heart fixed on the character of uSoNINI NaNINI and on the promise can endure the wait.

   Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of uSoNINI NaNINI draweth nigh.

   James 5:8 KJV, as we read it

3. 03

   He knoweth the way that I take.

   Job is not in a good place when he speaks in chapter 23. His friends have become his accusers. He wants to find uSoNINI NaNINI and make his case — forward, He is not there; backward, he cannot perceive Him; left and right, he cannot behold Him. And yet: but he knoweth the way that I take. Job couldn’t find Him, but he never once believed the Most High had lost track of him. That’s what patience requires — not that you always feel His presence or understand the process, but that you remain convinced, even in the silence, that He has not taken His eyes off you. When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Not if. Not maybe. Gold doesn’t come out of comfortable conditions. It comes out of fire, and what comes out is worth more than what went in.

   But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

   Job 23:10 KJV

   Patience is an act of faith in and of itself.

These notes are a summary of the teaching in Brother Jaylon’s words, not the full message as given.