This blog is all patience and dependency, which is the anthem of my week.
“Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” – James 5:7-8
Dependency requires us to be patient, to wait on the Lord. As you wait and as you practice patience, Scripture tells us: “Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” I had to look this up, and it means to be rooted in Jesus and His eternal resolution of all things. It means staying in patient fellowship with the Lord.
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But isn’t it interesting? The hope of the Lord sometimes seems to increase impatience rather than patience. We want the promise now, the breakthrough now, and the harvest now. Yet, the Bible calls us to be like farmers.
Anyone who plants fruits or vegetables doesn’t quit when the crops don’t appear immediately. They keep working even when nothing is visible. They trust what’s happening beneath the surface.
So personally, what does that look like for you?
Are you planting something and expecting an immediate harvest? If so, I want to encourage you: patiently wait and keep stewarding.
And for me? The Holy Spirit showed me something hard but freeing:
“I was so inconsiderate in my earlier years with Life in God. I need to focus now. Hone in. Be consistent today because God consistently pursued me. So keep pursuing Him and your craft, even when you don’t see the crops. No visibility doesn’t mean roots aren’t growing. No harvest yet doesn’t mean the seed isn’t alive underneath.”
The truth is, you actually cannot endure without Jesus. It’s our dependency on Him that gives us the courage to endureand the faith to know the harvest is coming.
Patience is active.
It is continuing to work hard, showing up, and practicing patient endurance even when harvest day feels far away.
A Farmer’s Discipline: Growing Through Seasons
I saw a video on TikTok about discipline-building, and it made me ask:
“How can I grow like a farmer in my personal life, career, faith, business, and everything else?”
I want to share some thoughts with you that might help you reflect as well.
Winter — Planting & Preserving (The Hidden Work)
Honestly, I think I’ve been in a winter season all year. And it has been such rewarding work. A hidden depth. A quiet excavation God has been doing in my heart. This season has been foundational for me.
Winter is the season of deepening your prayers, fasting, and spending time in the presence of God. Winter represents unseen growth beneath the soil, the kind where your roots in Christ go deeper in the quiet.
Patience and Dependency teaches you to trust God’s hidden work during the unseen.
The discipline practice:
Commit to a daily time with God, no matter how small.
Build habits you can maintain when there’s no “fruit” yet.
Develop the muscle of constant connection with Him.
Spring — Planting & Experimenting (New Starts)
And yet, I’ve seen glimpses of spring, too. (I know seasons in life don’t follow the calendar, but you get the point.) I’ve started new things, and honestly, I think I’m entering spring now. It still feels like the winter cold front, but everything around me says new beginnings.
From building Life in God, to purchasing a home, to our children entering new programs, it’s been a season of new starts and experimenting for us.
Spring is the season of stepping out in obedience toward what God has been showing you. Maybe that’s writing a book, starting a business, leading a small group, or praying monthly with your family. Whatever it is, big or small, start.
What you cannot fully see yet requires your patience and dependency on the Lord.
The discipline practice:
Keep a journal on standby. Write what God reveals. Track what’s working, what’s not, and where God is shifting you. Reflection prevents discouragement and builds discipline.
Summer — Maintaining & Growing (Diligence)
I’ve been thinking about my summer season because I know it’s coming.
How do I maintain what God has done?
How do I keep winter as my anchor?
Summer is the season to guard against burnout, spiritual dryness, complacency, laziness, and autopilot. Staying steady in the Word, worship, and prayer is key. Don’t let weeds (distractions, sin, busyness) choke your growth.
The discipline practice:
Do weekly or monthly reviews and resets. Look back at your journal. What has God spoken? What are your goals? Your progress?
Farmers weed their fields constantly in summer. We must weed out distractions the same way.
Fall — Preparing for What’s Next (Harvest & Reset)
Fall is the season of transition, the in-between. It’s a time of waiting, remembrance, and expectation.
A time of reflecting, giving thanks, and preparing your heart for the next season… the expected and sometimes the unexpected.
Celebrate what God has done, but don’t cling to it. Be ready to release.
The discipline practice:
Find time to get away with God about what’s next.
Maybe it’s half a day or a few days.
Reflect on what He’s done and where He’s leading you now.
A Call to Patient Dependency
The book of James reminds us that “the testing of your faith produces endurance” and endurance produces maturity, wholeness, and depth. You don’t get that overnight. You get it through dependency. Through patience. Through showing up again and again, believing that God is faithful even when the soil is silent. And as you keep depending on Him, you will see that every season, winter, spring, summer, and fall has been forming Christ in you.
So, here’s the BLUF as we wrap: read the book of James, because James doesn’t talk about patience as a feeling, it’s a discipline, a posture, a daily choice. I want you to make a daily choice to depend on Jesus so that you may encounter Him for yourself. The call today is to be like a farmer: show up, tend to the ground God has blessed you with, steward the unseen, keep trusting the process, and keep believing that what God planted will come forth. You do that by sitting at His feet and meditating on His Word.
That’s what dependency really is.
*BLUF – Bottom Line Upfront
This blog was all about patience and dependency.
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