The Cycle of Patience and Obedience

God promised Abram and Sarai full blessings!  Patience is accomplished in a cycle that God seems to use over and over.  Patience a fruit of the Spirit, is not necesarily a desired fruit, but a required fruit.  The cycle is to install patience into our spirit so that we can joyfully endure the tests and trials brought about by persecution and satanic attacks.  God gives his children promises to promote faith and expectancy.  We must blindly obey until the manisfestation of the promise.  God also blesses intermittedly while we are waiting for the fulfillment of the promise.