Patience
Is it just me, or does that happen to everyone? 
I have this neighbor, they have three grandkids. These children are about between 10 and 14 years old. Nice kids. But when they come to visit usually they spent the weekend here.
You can set your clock all the neighborhood kids are at our porch( we share the porch). It goes all day long trample up, slam door, slam door, trample down. 
Screaming and hollering. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I cant stand it. I talked to the grandma but she isnt willing to calm them down. 
So I prayed for patience when I knew they would come this past weekend and stay the WHOLE week. Well instead of me been calm and collected, and have patience……I have fits. I am on fire in the inside of me. Its like someone set me on fire. Instead of been patient I am even worth than before I was praying.
Whats up with that?
Seems to me if you pray for patience, you receive more things that make you unpatient. Plus the kids got worse than they ever were. They played basketball in front of the house about 15 of them. Not with one basketball, NOOOOO with about 5 balls. All I heard was screaming, hollering, and the dribbling of 5 balls.
So my question is…
1). If you pray for patience, does your patience get really out of control or what? 
Then I heard about praying scripture, so I looked up every scripture there is about patience and patient. I found many. BUt here we come to question #2.
2). How do you pray scripture?
I have no idea how to put the scripture in a way that it would be a prayer.
Can I have some help here?
Hope to get some responses! 
Love and Blessings
Andrea
momlovesbeingathome said,
April 2, 2007 at 10:03 am
Andrea, I hate to say it but I would have been right there with you just getting angry and NOT being patient! haha! Before we bought the house we are in now, we lived in an apartment for a little while. It wasn’t so bad at first because we didn’t have anyone living above us but when people moved in upstairs it became a nightmare! They were sooo noisy all the time and it drove us nuts! I was never so glad to move out of a place – well, actually there have been a couple of times when I was just as glad to move.
Anyway, I had a hard time not getting angry in that situation. It’s hard when you are in your own home and you want to enjoy peace and quiet but you can’t because of others around you. I know that doesn’t help you at all but at least you know you aren’t alone. 
heaintthroughwithmeyet said,
April 2, 2007 at 10:14 am
MOM,
thanks for the comment. Yes it doesnt help me…LOLOLOL
But I know there are others who go through the same stuff. I have anxiety attackes os I like to be by myself and have it quiet. It is impossible with those kids!
Thereofre we were looking to buy a home, but you know with our credit they just dont want to help us.
I wish you would respond to my email!!!!!!!!
Love and Blessings
Andrea
momlovesbeingathome said,
April 2, 2007 at 10:20 am
What e-mail???? I got one the other day and e-mailed you but there’s not one there now???
DM said,
April 2, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Hi Andrea,
You asked how to “pray scripture”…I’m sure there is lots of different ways people do this, depending on the scripture you are looking at. The psalms are one portion of scripture that lends itself to that for me. Look @ Psalm 131 for example….”O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high. I do not occupy myself with things to great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a child @ it’s mothers breast; like a child @ his mothers breast is my soul.” I will literally say those verses back to God as I seek to quiet my mind and heart @ times I feel stressed….I am praying those words back to God….it is a prayer that God would in fact help me to quiet my heart and mind….maybe someone wants to “debate” me…or argue with me about something …could be another Christian who wants to debate some issue that honestly, there is more than one take on it…I will say to God..”at this point, I will be like David…godly man that he was…I also refuse to occuly myself with things too great and marvelous for me….I believe God wants us to be at “rest” and be still before him much more than we tend to be…I feel the pull to strive and argue and fret, and stew….anyway, that portion of scripture is one I find myself praying a couple of times a week…then, you might enjoy reading some of Paul’s epistles…Ephesians 3:16-19…it is his prayer…especially vs.18…that God would enable them (you and I too) to begin to comprehend the love of God toward us…start asking God to help you grasp on an emotional level how much he loves you….we say we know God loves us…yet, speaking for myself…too often it’s just an abstract thing..sure we as Christians know God loves us…but do we FEEL His love? do we really grasp how much he loves us?…I don’t think so…and even if we do grasp it, we can grasp it more…. So that’s just two examples from my life where I attempt to “pray” the scriptures…
heaintthroughwithmeyet said,
April 2, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Thank you so much!
See I didnt know at all how people pray scripture. No one ever told me and I never asked. I thought you have to turn sentences in scripture around or someting, I guess I made it more complicated than it is, huh?
Anyways, I really appreciate your comment
Love and Blessings
Andrea
Scotti said,
April 2, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Hi Andrea,
One of my favorite Psalms is Psalm 103. I have memorized it and call upon it often in prayer. Most times, just putting my focus back on the Lord and all His blessings is enough to get my mind off of a fleshly temptation such as anger or impatience. Of course, I struggle in many areas, but it does seem to help to memorize scripture and just pray them back to God. Have you ever seen the book ‘Prayers That Avail Much’ by Germaine Copeland? A friend gave it to me as a gift and it is full of scriptural prayers. The Lord wants us to pray from the heart and not from rote memorization. However, this book gives some very good examples of turning scripture into prayer.
May the grace of the Lord be with you,
Scotti
heaintthroughwithmeyet said,
April 2, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Scotti,
thank you so much for coming here. I never heard of that book but will inquire about it soon.
Thanks so much for your kind words.
Love and Blessings
Andrea
timbob said,
April 3, 2007 at 1:15 am
Greetings. I can definately relate to the situation. When folks; be they kids or adults, get on my nerves, I really strive to pray for them specifically. This has been a real blessing at work where a number of folks have a tendancy to “press my buttons” so to speak. There’s a guy in my department ( a nice guy; very hard worker) whose mannerisms will drive me nutty if I let them, and so I keep the guy in prayer. Whenever patience run out, I pray for the person who is at the heart of the stress. It works usually as the eternal picture comes into focus.
This is far from easy. It’s far easier to “go off” on someone who is ruffling our feathers; engaging in behavior that makes us want to explode. Such individuals force us into a situation where we have to love a person that we may wish would move to Siberia. This doesn’t mean we should just let folks walk over us. It just helps us keep things in perspective.
Praying scripture with sincerety is good. The comment by DM is great concerning this. Normally, I’ll find that verses come out during prayer; not in a predetermined format; just when they come to mind. After my season of rebellion a few years ago, I prayed I John 1:9 a lot; clinging to it by faith.
I don’t know if this is of any help. I pray that the situation with the kids will be resolved peaceably. I know that kids constantly running in and out will cause stress. Ours do. lol Thanks for staying in touch.
Have a great day in Christ.
timbob
Mark Wilson said,
April 3, 2007 at 4:05 am
Well, I had this experience with mosquitos. They were HOUNDING me. I felt to THANK GOD for them. I did. And they simply went away. Then I saw the pastor’s wife and they were bugging her. So I told her my trick. They left her too. hehehe.
Another trick is to bless those who curse you. Just bless them. Works wonderfully well.
BTW I’m checking out the videos you have on the site. WONDERFUL.
One question – where do you get the smilies and emoticons. Like the time out one?!
God bless you!
Mark.
heaintthroughwithmeyet said,
April 3, 2007 at 9:12 am
Timbob, thank you so much for answering my email, I guess!
I need to learn a lot you know. Therefore I treasure all your answers here, all your all’s answers!
Love and Blessings
Andrea
heaintthroughwithmeyet said,
April 3, 2007 at 9:14 am
Mark, thanks for stopping by and leaving comments.
Well I usually write my posts at yahoo360 ( I have a blog over there, but I hardly post over there) however they have a whole bunch of emoticons. When I write my post I use their emoticons and the copy and paste it all over here!
Hope this helps
Love and Blessings
Andrea
Sherie said,
April 3, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I have learned (the hard way) that we have to understand what we are praying for. If you prayed for patience in the situation God had choices: give patience, teach you patience, or change the situation so you didn’t need patience. He isn’t a vending machine or a servant where we can just ask him to do something for us. Although he loves us and wants to do things for us, he loves us so much that he wants us to learn and become mature in our relationship with him. He wants to teach us, grow us, and change us.
You said you felt even more impatient after you prayed. What were you learning? Did you keep praying or did you give in to your growing emotions? God wants relationship with us, not just a quick prayer. Like Tim said he wants us to love others, and as Mark said, to be thankful for them. When someone irritates me or just isn’t someone I really enjoy the company of I try to find the positive in them and their presence in my life.
Sometimes God has really stretched me in that. Maybe you were just to learn about patience this time. God could have asked you to find a ball and go out and play with the kids! Patience is hard for most of us, and relationships (even with strangers) can be messy, uncertain, and frustrating but God chose to make each of us and we all have special and unique things about us. Look for those and find reasons to love each person who crosses your path.
heaintthroughwithmeyet said,
April 3, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Sheri, I never said or thought He is a vending machine, I only asked for help in praying. I thank you for your comment!
Love and Blessings
Andrea