Rooted

(FOS) PATIENCE

Pastor Hope Flask

June 28, 2026

Main Scriptures: Habakkuk 3:17-19

Additional Scriptures: Hebrews 11:1, 13, 39-40, 12:1-3, Habakkuk 1:2, 5, 13, 3:16, 18b-19, 2 Corinthians 4:18

POINTS:

• Patience = to be steadfast and consistent, continuing to serve the Lord despite all the difficulties that you are experiencing.

• Endurance = persisting through challenges without giving up or losing faith.

• Indurare = “to make hard” or “harden”.

• Endurance should make you durable.

• Waiting = the place of unseenness.

• In the waiting, the enemy will sow weeds that will grow very fast: fear and anxiety, jealousy, anger, bitterness, apathy.

• Chronic failure cripples our capacity for hope.

• Crippled hope leads to faith fatigue.

• Apathy is not that you just don’t care; apathy is that you don’t want to care.

• The lie we believe is that if we just stop caring, then the waiting won’t be so hard.

• Where are we finding our “yet”?

• “YET, I will rejoice in the Lord; I will be joyful in God my Savior.”

• Developing patience is contingent on where we place our “yet’s”.

• We fix our faith by fixing our focus.

• We must trace where our eyes have wandered.

• Has looking back caused you to break your focus?

• Are you breaking your focus by looking to the side?

• Are you breaking your focus by getting stuck in your feelings?

• When we trace our broken focus back to its source, we find that there is something we are afraid of in the waiting, something that shames us.

• Broken beliefs break our focus.

• We throw off sin by considering Jesus. We must consider what He endured and how He endured it.

• When you consider Jesus, He becomes the joy set before you.