Forbearance

Pastor John, 

​I was talking to Jesus yesterday on the way to work.  I had just finished listening to Donna’s song, “Run to my Jesus”.  I was asking Him to “empty me and fill me at His command,” as the song says.  Then I came to a stoplight, and the car in front of me had a license tag that read, “4bearance”.  That really struck me because you just don’t see that everyday.  So, I looked up the definition:  “Self-control; patient restraint; hold back, abstain.”

I thought about that off and on, all day.

Last night, I got home and started reading.  I wanted to find out where that word was in the Bible, and I found it in Romans.  I read in chapter 2 and by the time I had finished, I had such a fear of God in my heart that I began to pray . . . I mean really pray.  The spirit of prayer fell on me, and I began crying and speaking in tongues.  I began asking for discernment and understanding.  I have prayed for these before, but not like it fell on me last night.

I feel like Jesus is trying to teach me something but I’m not getting it.  I feel it, but don’t understand it.  Can you help me?

Michelle