The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

God will be faithful to deliver you, if you will be faithful to believe Him. It might not come in the manner or time you are expecting, but faith and patience birth the blessings:

But Washington's long and faithful service stands in marked distinction from Jefferson's mere election. Washington actually served with great fidelity. We do not want to read anything into this other than what the facts tell us, and the facts are that George Washington's service as a vestryman is commensurate with the highest commitment to the Christianity proposed by the Anglican Church.

and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

You know that I have served your father with all my strength.

I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.

If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.

Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.