1 POSSESSING YOUR SOUL

2 JAMES My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

3 LUKE 21 19 In your patience possess ye your souls.

4 Steadfastness Endurance Constancy

5 ...not swerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith...Steadfastness Endurance Constancy ...not swerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith...

6 Patience Mercy Love Perseverance Compassion Healing

7 GOD’S PURPOSE ACTION ADVANTAGE MY PURPOSE

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9 E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2 Through all of our goodness, and all of our goodness, and all of our goodness, we're still carnal. But once in the presence of God, recognizing that we could never stand there, only through the merits of Jesus Christ, then we draw nigh unto God, through the merits of His Son.

10 E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2 "Lord, I come to You, with an innocent heart. In the Name of Thy Son Jesus, please receive me." Oh, brother, you're coming by a living way then. 370  Not, "Lord, You know I quit drinking. You know I treat my wife right. You know I do this. I do that." You have nothing to offer.

11 Proverbs 16 (AMP) 2  All the ways of a man are clean and innocent in his own eyes [and he may see nothing wrong with his actions], But the Lord weighs and examines the motives and intents [of the heart and knows the truth].

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13 John 12: 37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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15 312-3 PHILADELPHIAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPTPHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8 THE EULOGY AND THE PROMISE Revelation 3:10, "Because thou has kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." What does He mean by the "word of His patience?"

16 312-3 PHILADELPHIAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPTPHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8 Hebrews 6: "For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise."

17 312-3 PHILADELPHIAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPTPHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8 You see the Spirit is speaking about the Word of God which is given to us. To wait for the fulfillment of that Word required patience even as it did in the case of Abraham. He endured as seeing Him Who is invisible. He was patient and then the Word finally was fulfilled.

18 312-3 PHILADELPHIAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPTPHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8 This is the way God teaches His people patience. Why, if He fulfilled His Word in physical manifestations the very instant you prayed, you would never learn patience, but would become even more impatient with life.

19 312-3 PHILADELPHIAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPTPHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8 Hebrews 11:17, "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises (the Word of God) offered up his only begotten son." There it is: Abraham was tried AFTER he received the Word of Promise.

20 312-3 PHILADELPHIAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPTPHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8 Psalmist referring to Joseph, 105:19, "Until the time that his word came: the Word of the Lord tried him."

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22 But from the time we pray until the time we get the answer we must learn to receive patience into our souls for only in patience do we possess life.

23 But from the time we pray until the time we get the answer we must learn to receive patience into our souls for only in patience do we possess life. ...for they were so patient and quiet, and today we are all but overcome in over-impatience and haste.

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25 224-1 THYATIREAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPTTHYATIREAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.6 "I know your faith." Now he does not say here as He did to the church in Pergamos, "you hold MY faith". He is not talking about His faith now, but He is commending them for their faithfulness. And as He does He also mentions their 'patience.' Now faithfulness and patience go together.

26 Faithfulness Patience

27 James 1:3, "The trying of your faith worketh patience."Faithfulness Patience James 1:3, "The trying of your faith worketh patience."

28 James 1:3, "The trying of your faith worketh patience."Romans 5:3, "Tribulation worketh patience." Faithfulness Patience James 1:3, "The trying of your faith worketh patience."

29 224-1 THYATIREAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPTTHYATIREAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.6 How highly God regards this outworking of our patience is seen in James 1:4, "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire lacking nothing."

30 HEBREWS 10: Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God;

31 HEBREWS 10: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

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35 John 12: 44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.

36 John 14: 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

37 COLOSSIANS 2: 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

38 SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ Patience, patience, some of us get so... Some of us gets in such a hurry. I think a many a good man has done that. You get in too--too much of a hurry. You want to see; you want to do it yourself.

39 SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ Many men go out, impatient; but believing that the time is near, you try to do something within yourself. Wait upon the Lord. Patience is virtue. If you can have patience, it's virtue. It's virtue if you... "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." Not they that try to get ahead of the Lord, they that try to tell the Lord, "Lord, I know You want me to do this, and glory to God I..." Don't do that. Wait upon the Lord. The Bible said, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength."

40 SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ God took thousands of years to fulfill His promise of a coming Saviour. But remember, He knowed it all the time, when it was coming. There were many people rose up and tried to be messiahs. Many churches tried to produce messiahs. But God had the time set for His Messiah. He was in no hurry.

41 SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ Patience, patience, some of us get so... Some of us gets in such a hurry. I think a many a good man has done that. You get in too--too much of a hurry. You want to see; you want to do it yourself.

42 SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ He was all showed in types, but God knew exactly when He would come. He knowed exactly when He come, No matter how many they had before that, He had His Messiah. He showed them in types, what was coming.

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44 ...each Angel coming each day and revealing the loose ends that Luther left, and Wesley left, and Pentecost left, is all represented in there. And in the very type and shadow of the great Shalom, Jehovah, Jahveh.

45 SHALOM_ SIERRA. VISTA. AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0112 Shalom, peaceSHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ Shalom, peace. Don't be weary, Jesus is here. His great Light has come to us, and we're thankful for It, yes, His Word, the great mystery. Here He is today manifesting Himself, doing the same as He did then, just the same. Doing the very same thing.

46 SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ We are creatures of time. He's God of eternity. We try to press ourself; we try to make something different, "Oh, this has got to be done." Remember, He knows all about it. It's going to happen anyhow. See? Let Him do it. Just commit yourself to Him.

47 PSALMS 138: The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

48 64-0823M - Questions And Answers #1 253M - Questions And Answers # Will the Bride—will the Bride before Jesus comes, will she have all power of Holy Ghost to perform miracles, raise dead, and so on, as in the latter rain—or is this the latter rain for the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews? Will all ministers have this, are we—or are we just waiting for the coming?

49 M - Questions And Answers #1 I believe you're seeing the last thing that'll happen to the church before the rapture. That's exactly. I believe it. The rain is over.

50 M - Questions And Answers #1 198  We're just to wait on the coming of the Lord. Just wait; keep your lamps trimmed, all filled full of oil. Pray up every hour, not every day, every hour. Just keep ready; be ready; be sweet, and watching…

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