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Patience is better than strength. Controlling your temper is better than capturing a city. (Proverbs 16:32) Most of us recognize patience is a virtue, but many times we forget just how patience is learned - through trial and tribulation! It takes a little bit of the "troubling of the waters" in our lives to teach us the infinite lessons of patience. When you pray for patience, you are actually praying to have the waters stirred up with even a few waves added! That revelation might just change the course of your prayers! We have those moments when the thing we are expressing is the furthest from what we might label as the virtue of patience. Learning how to respond in patience is what some call conforming your conduct to some moral or ethical principle. I call it the divine work of the Holy Spirit in us in any area where he did not previously exist or have access! Most of us pray for strength and patience in the same breath, don't we? Yet, patience is better than st