August 8, 2025 • 20 mins
Want to know the secret to achieving success? Many people think it's hard work, talent, or even luck, but what if I told you that PATIENCE is the real key to unlocking your goals? In this video, we're going to explore the importance of patience in reaching success and why it's often overlooked. From delayed gratification to perseverance, we'll dive into the benefits of slowing down and taking your time. So, if you're tired of feeling like you're not making progress fast enough, or if you're struggling to stay motivated, then this video is for you. Let's talk about how patience can be the game-changer you need to achieve your dreams.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey friends, I'm Jonathan Smith and this is jump In
with Jonathan, the podcast that makes you think, smile and
take action. Are you ready to jump in this show
with me?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you so very much for joining us today on
another episode of Jump In with Jonathan. I am your host,
Jonathan Smith, and I want to say thank you so
very much for all the likes, the shares, the subscribers,
and everybody that makes this podcast possible each and every week.
I enjoy doing the podcast. I was in conversation with
(00:36):
somebody this past week and they asked me, they said,
do you enjoy doing podcasting?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I said, I absolutely do.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I said, I love to talk and I love to
have conversation, and I like to have conversation with meaning
a lot of us. We have conversations from time to
time that are useless, that are senseless, that are that
are I don't know the right words to say, that
that do not make a lot of sense, or aren't fun.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And when we do podcasts.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We have the opportunity to make our shows very interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We do.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We have the opportunity to do a lot of different
things each and every week when we do a podcast,
And so thank you so very much for thank for
taking the time to listen to the podcast. I know
if you listen to the podcast, then you must think
what we talk about is interesting. So something I wanted
to talk about today is the patience or excuse me,
(01:33):
the lost art of waiting. Patience is powerful in an
instant world. We are in a world that everybody wants
everything right here, right now. I remember growing up as
a kid, if you ordered something through it and now
this tells my age, through a catalog or called in
(01:56):
and order by phone, you would have to wait a week,
maybe two weeks weeks before it would arrive at your door.
And then Amazon came along and it was you waited
three to four days and it was at your door,
and now it's two days and it's at your door.
And depending on where you live at in the work,
in the country, sometimes it's at your house the same
(02:17):
day that you order it. And today, during that during
this time of being instant, everything being instant, we go
on our phone, we find news instantly, we send a
text message, people respond instantly, people want stuff done instantly.
And in this world of that, we've lost the art
(02:37):
of patience. When was the last time you had to
wait for something and actually enjoyed it when it's the
last time that you had to sit and look at
your calendar and say, hey, it is going to be
three days, four days, five days, six days before where
(03:00):
this takes place. And man, I can't wait for this
to take place, because when it takes place, I'm going
to be excited about it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You're so excited.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Let's say you order a package and you're waiting on
it to come via ups or FedEx, and you are
sitting there and you're refreshing the brow You're refreshing your
screen every ten minutes to see where it's at. You're
skipping YouTube ads every three seconds because because you're impatient.
As soon as the light turns green at a rep
(03:31):
at a stoplight, someone talking the horn because they're impatient.
We live in a world today where waiting feels like
an inconvenience, but learning to wait is a part of
life that builds character, patience, and even creativity. But I
(03:53):
think about waiting and something I'm waiting for now is
in about twenty five days or so, I will be
headed across the country from South Carolina to California, and
I am looking forward to going to California. I'm counting
down the days, I'm counting down the minutes, I'm counting
down the seconds, and I've gotten a little impatient, I
(04:16):
guess by waiting because I'm like, man, this will this
time ever?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hurry up and get here.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But what I need to do is just step back,
enjoy the days that I have because none of us
are guaranteed tomorrow, and just be patient.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
When I think about patients, I want us.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
To think about then versus now, the contrast between between
past and present. Used to we waited for mail to
be delivered, We waited for film to be developed. We
listen to radio shows, which is an art that is
(04:59):
slowly going away. We used to grow our own crops,
and at times we even waited on certain seasonal fruit
to come in. I know every year around November, I
start looking for those little halo tangerines.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I love it when those come in, and.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
We count down the time and we get so impatient
because we want it now.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
As I mentioned earlier, we have two days shipping, we
have instant messaging, we have streaming libraries, and we also
have food delivery in thirty minutes or less. We use Instacart,
We use door dash, We use all of these areas
that we want it now, and I think time was
(05:46):
much simpler back when we had to wait and be patient.
I joke around and I tell people, if God wanted
me to have patience, he would have made me.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
A doctor.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Or a nurse. But all jokes aside is there are
times in our life that we need to learn to
be patient. I have a five year old son, and
he wants everything now. He calls me, Daddy, did you
ship me a package?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yes? Will it be here today? No?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Will it be here tomorrow? I don't know, will it
be here the next day? I don't know when will
it be here? And he gets so impatient, wanting something
so bad. And that's because of the generation that we're
living in. Waiting used to be built into life.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Today.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Convenience has removed waiting, but it is also removed anticipation.
We want instant gratification, it is also removed. It has
also removed gratitude. I don't think a lot of us
are very grateful for what is going on in our
(07:01):
life because we want it here and now, we want
it instantly. I'm disappointed today how we today have lost
our patients we've lost our patients. And we see it
(07:22):
in retail. People mean to retail workers, We see it.
People mean to business owners.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
We see it.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
People mean to wait staff at restaurants in different places
because they say, my patience is where and then and
today we need more patience. What do we lose when
we don't wait?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
When we don't wait, we lose appreciation. When something takes time,
we value it more. One thing in this generation of intent,
everybody thinks that they're owed something. Can I say this today?
You're not owed nothing. I don't owe you nothing. Somebody
(08:10):
doesn't owe you anything. Learn to be grateful and appreciate
what has been given to you. Think about this, what
do you appreciate more a home cooked meal or fast
food delivery? You appreciate a home cooked meal Number one
(08:30):
because you patiently wait on it to be done. We're
fast food well, depending on what fast food dress right
you go to now you don't have to wait very long.
You don't appreciate it because you didn't work for it,
you didn't prepare it, you didn't do all of these
things to make sure that it takes place. But instead
(08:50):
you pressed a couple buttons or said a couple words
and your food was brought out to you. We've lost appreciation,
we've lost creativity and reflection. Waiting gives you space for
your mind to wonder. When you have to wait on something,
You're like, I wonder what it's going to be like
(09:12):
when it gets here. I wonder what's going to take place.
I wonder what's gonna be said. I wonder what's going
to be done instead of instantly. You know, many creative
ideas come dere in downtime, long walks, showers, traffic jams.
(09:33):
We talk about podcasts.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Did you know that.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Probably thirty five to forty percent of my podcast are
done while traveling down the road. I sit in my car,
I set my phone on do not disturb, and I
record and I talk about what matters.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
The most to me.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I talk about things that I think that you guys
will be interested in. There are times that when I'm
on here, I'm in traffic gems. I see people blowing
the horn. I see people flipping each other off. I
see people cutting each other off in traffic. I'm sitting here,
I'm enjoying the time, and I'm taking my time. Why
(10:20):
Because I've.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Learned to be patient patience.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Today, when you learn about patience and you learn how
to be patient, you will have a lot more gratitude
in your life. Patience builds character. How many milestones do
you have set forth in your life today?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I have milestones.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I want to get to over two thousand downloads on
my podcast. I want to get to over one thousand
followers on YouTube. I want to get over ten thousand
followers on Instagram. I want to get to ten thousand
followers on Facebook. I have milestones. I have personal milestones
that I don't talk about. I've got spiritual milestones that
(11:12):
I don't talk about. I've got family milestones that I
want to see done. I've got things that I want
to take place in my.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Life in twenty twenty five and.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Twenty twenty six, and I'm praying, by the Good Lord
help they'll get here. But what I have to do
is I have to be patient for that. When I
think about being patient, I think about things aren't built overnight,
but it takes time. And the best things in life
(11:45):
are things that we have to be patient for. I
understand if on a spiritual concept, patience is a virtue,
but today we're not talking about a spiritual concept talking
about a practical concept. We need more people in this
world to learn to be patient. If you would learn
(12:09):
to be kind, you would learn to be patient with
other people. Think about your career, think about your relationship,
think about your financial stability. None of that comes overnight.
It comes by having patience. Since success isn't real, it's microwave,
(12:33):
not slow cooked. When I think about patience today, patience
is important to teach our kids. They want everything now,
they want everything here. But I want to say today
(13:01):
that the benefits of waiting you should embrace. Number one,
Anticipation equals joy. Studies show anticipation can be more exciting
than the event itself. We get so built up with
(13:22):
anticipation about what's going to happen, how it's going to happen,
all of this, and it'll turn into joy. We'll get
so excited. Man, I can't wait for this to happen.
I can't wait for that to happen. I can't wait
for this to be done. I can't wait for that
to be done. And you and I get so excited
over that at the time of the event, the event
(13:43):
itself goes by in a blurb because we're so excited.
Often think comes about times waiting for the day that
we go on vacation and oftentimes waiting for the vacation
at times. And there's been certain times in my life
that it's been better than the vacation.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It's health.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And also waiting also brings peace to your mind. Learning
how to wait teaches slowing down, which can reduce stress.
A lot of us are stressed out today because we
don't have patience. A lot of us are stressed out
today because we want it here, and we want it now,
(14:24):
and we don't care how, we don't care what it's
going to take to get it to us now. I
want it now, and you will stress yourself out. You
will worry yourself to death because you refuse to be patient. Thirdly,
(14:45):
what else does patient do? Patient strengthens relationships. Waiting for people,
listening without rush rushing, and investing time in conversations strengthen relationships.
I hate it when I'm talking to somebody and they
try to finish my sentence. I hate it when I'm
(15:08):
talking to somebody and it seems like they're rushing me
through my story or through my conversation because they've got
other things to do. When Now all they have to
do is just be patient. How can I be patient? Oh,
I'm glad you asked that question. That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Pick one thing to wait for today. No phone, no distraction.
Some of you are looking for five o'clock to hea
or six o'clock to head on your clock so you
can go home. You're gonna have to be patient. Try
try the slow challenge. Cook a meal from scratch. Oh God,
(15:55):
this is a bad one. Or wait for something from
sunrise to sunset.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
A lot of us don't even get up at sunrise anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I told somebody the other week that if God wanted
me to say the sunrise, he just set it for
ten o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I'm kidding about that.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
But try to be patient about something I think about.
Oftentimes in construction, people get impatient. They want it now.
They want you to come in and remodel their bathroom overnight.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You have to be patient. Turn wading into reflection, use
lines of traffic for prayer, gratitude, or even daydreaming. The
next time you're in a long line at the grocery store,
(16:50):
don't be like, oh God, how much longer can this
line be Why did that lady have to get five
loaves of bread, six gallons of milk, three packs dogs?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Don't you know?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I just have one item in my hand. That's what
a lot of us do.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I've only got one item. Can I get in front
of you? No?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
No, no, Step back, step behind that person and just
be patient. Step back, and while you're waiting on that person,
you know, if you did take a time of prayer,
if you pray, you could say, God, I pray for
(17:33):
that person in front of me here at this line.
I pray that you would bless them, bless their family,
bless their home, and God, if there's any struggles that
they're going through at this moment, I pray that you
will ease those struggles for them.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And you know what you've done.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You've used that time in that line at the store
for prayer, not for yourself, but for someone else because
you were patient. There have been times that I have
been in the store and been behind someone who had
(18:10):
a whole card of stuff and they seen that I
had one item, and that person said, let me pay
for your item. You've patiently waited. I said no, no, no,
no no, and they said no, I want to be
a blessing to you. At that point that waiting in
line not only was a blessing to me, but it
was an act of gratitude on their part for me
(18:31):
being patient. So today I dare you to do one
thing without rushing and see how it feels. And remember,
waiting builds appreciation, creativity, and patience. In an instant world,
(18:56):
slowing down is a super power. I want to encourage
you to engage with on this podcast with me, whether
you're watching it on YouTube or you see it come
across Facebook, or however you find it.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Leave a comment.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I want you to leave me a story of one thing,
or maybe a short just a short brief description of
one thing that you have been patiently waiting for and
it came to pass, or even send me an email.
You said I can email you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You sure can.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You can email me at Pastor Smith three eight seven
at gmail dot com. Hey, thank you so very much
for listening to the podcast today. I hope that you
have a great day. Remember the patient. Good things come
to those who wait. Thank you for listening to today's
(19:54):
episode on Jumping with Jonathan, and keep in mind that
life is better when you of the have a blessed guy,
Hey friends, I'm Jonathan Smith and this is jump In
with Jonathan, the podcast that makes you think, smile and
take action. Are you ready to jump in this show
with me?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you so very much for joining us today on
another episode of Jump In with Jonathan. I am your host,
Jonathan Smith, and I want to say thank you so
very much for all the likes, the shares, the subscribers,
and everybody that makes this podcast possible each and every week.
I enjoy doing the podcast. I was in conversation with
(00:36):
somebody this past week and they asked me, they said,
do you enjoy doing podcasting?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I said, I absolutely do.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I said, I love to talk and I love to
have conversation, and I like to have conversation with meaning
a lot of us. We have conversations from time to
time that are useless, that are senseless, that are that
are I don't know the right words to say, that
that do not make a lot of sense, or aren't fun.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And when we do podcasts.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We have the opportunity to make our shows very interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We do.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We have the opportunity to do a lot of different
things each and every week when we do a podcast,
And so thank you so very much for thank for
taking the time to listen to the podcast. I know
if you listen to the podcast, then you must think
what we talk about is interesting. So something I wanted
to talk about today is the patience or excuse me,
(01:33):
the lost art of waiting. Patience is powerful in an
instant world. We are in a world that everybody wants
everything right here, right now. I remember growing up as
a kid, if you ordered something through it and now
this tells my age, through a catalog or called in
(01:56):
and order by phone, you would have to wait a week,
maybe two weeks weeks before it would arrive at your door.
And then Amazon came along and it was you waited
three to four days and it was at your door,
and now it's two days and it's at your door.
And depending on where you live at in the work,
in the country, sometimes it's at your house the same
(02:17):
day that you order it. And today, during that during
this time of being instant, everything being instant, we go
on our phone, we find news instantly, we send a
text message, people respond instantly, people want stuff done instantly.
And in this world of that, we've lost the art
(02:37):
of patience. When was the last time you had to
wait for something and actually enjoyed it when it's the
last time that you had to sit and look at
your calendar and say, hey, it is going to be
three days, four days, five days, six days before where
(03:00):
this takes place. And man, I can't wait for this
to take place, because when it takes place, I'm going
to be excited about it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You're so excited.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Let's say you order a package and you're waiting on
it to come via ups or FedEx, and you are
sitting there and you're refreshing the brow You're refreshing your
screen every ten minutes to see where it's at. You're
skipping YouTube ads every three seconds because because you're impatient.
As soon as the light turns green at a rep
(03:31):
at a stoplight, someone talking the horn because they're impatient.
We live in a world today where waiting feels like
an inconvenience, but learning to wait is a part of
life that builds character, patience, and even creativity. But I
(03:53):
think about waiting and something I'm waiting for now is
in about twenty five days or so, I will be
headed across the country from South Carolina to California, and
I am looking forward to going to California. I'm counting
down the days, I'm counting down the minutes, I'm counting
down the seconds, and I've gotten a little impatient, I
(04:16):
guess by waiting because I'm like, man, this will this
time ever?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hurry up and get here.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But what I need to do is just step back,
enjoy the days that I have because none of us
are guaranteed tomorrow, and just be patient.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
When I think about patients, I want us.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
To think about then versus now, the contrast between between
past and present. Used to we waited for mail to
be delivered, We waited for film to be developed. We
listen to radio shows, which is an art that is
(04:59):
slowly going away. We used to grow our own crops,
and at times we even waited on certain seasonal fruit
to come in. I know every year around November, I
start looking for those little halo tangerines.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I love it when those come in, and.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
We count down the time and we get so impatient
because we want it now.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
As I mentioned earlier, we have two days shipping, we
have instant messaging, we have streaming libraries, and we also
have food delivery in thirty minutes or less. We use Instacart,
We use door dash, We use all of these areas
that we want it now, and I think time was
(05:46):
much simpler back when we had to wait and be patient.
I joke around and I tell people, if God wanted
me to have patience, he would have made me.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
A doctor.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Or a nurse. But all jokes aside is there are
times in our life that we need to learn to
be patient. I have a five year old son, and
he wants everything now. He calls me, Daddy, did you
ship me a package?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yes? Will it be here today? No?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Will it be here tomorrow? I don't know, will it
be here the next day? I don't know when will
it be here? And he gets so impatient, wanting something
so bad. And that's because of the generation that we're
living in. Waiting used to be built into life.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Today.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Convenience has removed waiting, but it is also removed anticipation.
We want instant gratification, it is also removed. It has
also removed gratitude. I don't think a lot of us
are very grateful for what is going on in our
(07:01):
life because we want it here and now, we want
it instantly. I'm disappointed today how we today have lost
our patients we've lost our patients. And we see it
(07:22):
in retail. People mean to retail workers, We see it.
People mean to business owners.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
We see it.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
People mean to wait staff at restaurants in different places
because they say, my patience is where and then and
today we need more patience. What do we lose when
we don't wait?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
When we don't wait, we lose appreciation. When something takes time,
we value it more. One thing in this generation of intent,
everybody thinks that they're owed something. Can I say this today?
You're not owed nothing. I don't owe you nothing. Somebody
(08:10):
doesn't owe you anything. Learn to be grateful and appreciate
what has been given to you. Think about this, what
do you appreciate more a home cooked meal or fast
food delivery? You appreciate a home cooked meal Number one
(08:30):
because you patiently wait on it to be done. We're
fast food well, depending on what fast food dress right
you go to now you don't have to wait very long.
You don't appreciate it because you didn't work for it,
you didn't prepare it, you didn't do all of these
things to make sure that it takes place. But instead
(08:50):
you pressed a couple buttons or said a couple words
and your food was brought out to you. We've lost appreciation,
we've lost creativity and reflection. Waiting gives you space for
your mind to wonder. When you have to wait on something,
You're like, I wonder what it's going to be like
(09:12):
when it gets here. I wonder what's going to take place.
I wonder what's gonna be said. I wonder what's going
to be done instead of instantly. You know, many creative
ideas come dere in downtime, long walks, showers, traffic jams.
(09:33):
We talk about podcasts.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Did you know that.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Probably thirty five to forty percent of my podcast are
done while traveling down the road. I sit in my car,
I set my phone on do not disturb, and I
record and I talk about what matters.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
The most to me.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I talk about things that I think that you guys
will be interested in. There are times that when I'm
on here, I'm in traffic gems. I see people blowing
the horn. I see people flipping each other off. I
see people cutting each other off in traffic. I'm sitting here,
I'm enjoying the time, and I'm taking my time. Why
(10:20):
Because I've.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Learned to be patient patience.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Today, when you learn about patience and you learn how
to be patient, you will have a lot more gratitude
in your life. Patience builds character. How many milestones do
you have set forth in your life today?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I have milestones.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I want to get to over two thousand downloads on
my podcast. I want to get to over one thousand
followers on YouTube. I want to get over ten thousand
followers on Instagram. I want to get to ten thousand
followers on Facebook. I have milestones. I have personal milestones
that I don't talk about. I've got spiritual milestones that
(11:12):
I don't talk about. I've got family milestones that I
want to see done. I've got things that I want
to take place in my.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Life in twenty twenty five and.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Twenty twenty six, and I'm praying, by the Good Lord
help they'll get here. But what I have to do
is I have to be patient for that. When I
think about being patient, I think about things aren't built overnight,
but it takes time. And the best things in life
(11:45):
are things that we have to be patient for. I
understand if on a spiritual concept, patience is a virtue,
but today we're not talking about a spiritual concept talking
about a practical concept. We need more people in this
world to learn to be patient. If you would learn
(12:09):
to be kind, you would learn to be patient with
other people. Think about your career, think about your relationship,
think about your financial stability. None of that comes overnight.
It comes by having patience. Since success isn't real, it's microwave,
(12:33):
not slow cooked. When I think about patience today, patience
is important to teach our kids. They want everything now,
they want everything here. But I want to say today
(13:01):
that the benefits of waiting you should embrace. Number one,
Anticipation equals joy. Studies show anticipation can be more exciting
than the event itself. We get so built up with
(13:22):
anticipation about what's going to happen, how it's going to happen,
all of this, and it'll turn into joy. We'll get
so excited. Man, I can't wait for this to happen.
I can't wait for that to happen. I can't wait
for this to be done. I can't wait for that
to be done. And you and I get so excited
over that at the time of the event, the event
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itself goes by in a blurb because we're so excited.
Often think comes about times waiting for the day that
we go on vacation and oftentimes waiting for the vacation
at times. And there's been certain times in my life
that it's been better than the vacation.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It's health.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And also waiting also brings peace to your mind. Learning
how to wait teaches slowing down, which can reduce stress.
A lot of us are stressed out today because we
don't have patience. A lot of us are stressed out
today because we want it here, and we want it now,
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and we don't care how, we don't care what it's
going to take to get it to us now. I
want it now, and you will stress yourself out. You
will worry yourself to death because you refuse to be patient. Thirdly,
(14:45):
what else does patient do? Patient strengthens relationships. Waiting for people,
listening without rush rushing, and investing time in conversations strengthen relationships.
I hate it when I'm talking to somebody and they
try to finish my sentence. I hate it when I'm
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talking to somebody and it seems like they're rushing me
through my story or through my conversation because they've got
other things to do. When Now all they have to
do is just be patient. How can I be patient? Oh,
I'm glad you asked that question. That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Pick one thing to wait for today. No phone, no distraction.
Some of you are looking for five o'clock to hea
or six o'clock to head on your clock so you
can go home. You're gonna have to be patient. Try
try the slow challenge. Cook a meal from scratch. Oh God,
(15:55):
this is a bad one. Or wait for something from
sunrise to sunset.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
A lot of us don't even get up at sunrise anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I told somebody the other week that if God wanted
me to say the sunrise, he just set it for
ten o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I'm kidding about that.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
But try to be patient about something I think about.
Oftentimes in construction, people get impatient. They want it now.
They want you to come in and remodel their bathroom overnight.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You have to be patient. Turn wading into reflection, use
lines of traffic for prayer, gratitude, or even daydreaming. The
next time you're in a long line at the grocery store,
(16:50):
don't be like, oh God, how much longer can this
line be Why did that lady have to get five
loaves of bread, six gallons of milk, three packs dogs?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Don't you know?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I just have one item in my hand. That's what
a lot of us do.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I've only got one item. Can I get in front
of you? No?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
No, no, Step back, step behind that person and just
be patient. Step back, and while you're waiting on that person,
you know, if you did take a time of prayer,
if you pray, you could say, God, I pray for
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that person in front of me here at this line.
I pray that you would bless them, bless their family,
bless their home, and God, if there's any struggles that
they're going through at this moment, I pray that you
will ease those struggles for them.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And you know what you've done.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You've used that time in that line at the store
for prayer, not for yourself, but for someone else because
you were patient. There have been times that I have
been in the store and been behind someone who had
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a whole card of stuff and they seen that I
had one item, and that person said, let me pay
for your item. You've patiently waited. I said no, no, no,
no no, and they said no, I want to be
a blessing to you. At that point that waiting in
line not only was a blessing to me, but it
was an act of gratitude on their part for me
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being patient. So today I dare you to do one
thing without rushing and see how it feels. And remember,
waiting builds appreciation, creativity, and patience. In an instant world,
(18:56):
slowing down is a super power. I want to encourage
you to engage with on this podcast with me, whether
you're watching it on YouTube or you see it come
across Facebook, or however you find it.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Leave a comment.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I want you to leave me a story of one thing,
or maybe a short just a short brief description of
one thing that you have been patiently waiting for and
it came to pass, or even send me an email.
You said I can email you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You sure can.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You can email me at Pastor Smith three eight seven
at gmail dot com. Hey, thank you so very much
for listening to the podcast today. I hope that you
have a great day. Remember the patient. Good things come
to those who wait. Thank you for listening to today's
(19:54):
episode on Jumping with Jonathan, and keep in mind that
life is better when you of the have a blessed guy,
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