Summary:  God has a plan to prosper us, He has a great plan for us.  His plan takes time, they don’t happen overnight.  We need patience, or endurance, if we are going to receive what the Lord desires for us.  If we allow it to work, patience will cause us to be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.  If you don’t want lack, be patient, stay in faith.

Galatians 3:13-14

13  Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"—

14  in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Heb 10:35-39

35 Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

35  Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

36  For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

37  FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY.

38  BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE SHALL LIVE BY FAITH; AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.

39  But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

If we are not patient, we will not receive what we’re believing for.  If we don’t stay in faith, we will not receive we’re believing for.  If we stay patient and in faith, we will receive.

Heb 12:1

¶ Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us

James 1:2-8

2 ¶  Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

3  knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

4  And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

5  But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

6  But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

7  For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

8  being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Resistance produces strength.

We win, but we have to keep going until we see the victory.

Genesis 12:1-4

1 ¶  Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you;

2  And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;

3  And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

4 ¶  So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Genesis 15:1-5

1 ¶  After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great."

2 ¶  Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"

3  And Abram said, "Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house is my heir."

4  Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir."

5  And He took him outside and said, "Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."

Genesis 17:1-5

1 ¶  Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless.

2  "I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly."

3  Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

4 ¶  "As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a multitude of nations.

5  "No longer shall your name be called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 17:15-19

15 ¶  Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

16  "I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

17  Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"

18  And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before You!"

19  But God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Genesis 17:21-22

21  "But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year."

22  When He finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Heb 6:13-15

13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

14  saying, "I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU."

15  And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.