Faith is a like a pain reliever.  Patience is the Surgeon.  When you release a seed of faith,  patience will go to work in your life and remove anything in you that would hinder you receiving what you are having faith for.  (That is an excerpt from the morning message at church today, James 1:2-3)

I think that when we really look at that, we realize that everything in our lives works by the principle of seed time and harvest.  Faith and patience work hand in hand.  That is what will help you to realize that when you want something, when you pray for it, you still have to wait for it to come to pass.  Nothing happens overnight.  When you plant a seed you have to cultivate the ground, you have to water it, feed it, and wait for it grow.  When it first sprouts, you cannot pluck it up then, but you have to wait for it to mature.  You have to wait.  That is how it is with us in life.  We have to wait for what we want.  And when it is worth waiting for, IT is the best thing in the world.