But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
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… What's the antidote? Isaiah chapter 40, verses 28 to 31. It says this, the New Living Translation. Don't you know that the Lord is the everlasting God and he created everything on this earth? Now that took a lot of energy to create everything on this earth and on the planets and in the international space station and everywhere, everything. Anyway, it says, and he never grows tired or weary. God never gets tired. You say, what about what it says after the six days of creation, he rested? that to model it for human beings. He wanted to create the Sabbath. God does not get tired. He doesn't get worn out. So it says, he never grows tired or weary, which means the more time you spend with him, the more it's going to energize you. He never grows tired or weary. Instead, he gives strength to those who are weary. That's you. And worn out. That's you. And he gives power to the weak. That's you. Even young people become exhausted and want to give up. Millennials, Gen Z, they're tired too. Even young people become exhausted and want to give up, but those who trust and wait on the Lord will find new strength. Flying high like eagles, and they'll run and not grow weary and they'll keep going and not faint. So here's the point. When you are stressed by constant, continual, major changes, like you're going through right now, don't seek a quick fix. It's not in what you drink or the drug you take or what you smoke. …
… says it best when he says, God is not too great to care. He's too great not to care. That's the God we serve. He's not too great to care. He's too great not to care. Again, God says that in Isaiah 40 verses 29 to 31, he gives strength to the weary. And to them who lacks might, he increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet those who wait upon the Lord will gain new strength. They will mount up with the wings like eagles. They will run and not get tired. They will walk and not become weary. If you don't remember anything else, I've said in this sermon, remember this, the same power of God that is on dramatic display during these five times in history is working in your life right now. But there are four principles that we need to understand if we're going to harness and experience that same miracle working power in our life today. I want you to write these four principles down. Principle number one for experiencing God's power. God's power is primarily for his children. God's power is primarily for his children. That doesn't mean non-Christians don't experience the power of God. …
… Spit, God, even the youth shall faint and be weary. Young folks shall fall, but they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. Run and not get weary. Walk and not faint. Spit, God, yea, though I walk through the valley and the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil. Spit, God. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Spit, God. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in the time of trouble. Spit, God. Order my steps in your word, dear Lord. Order my steps in your word. I've got to quit. Here's the last thing. I'm done. Finally, the text says this, and it shouts me. text says that Peter, watch this, had a platform. He then pivoted and now the text says he's promoted into purpose. Jesus says something and I'm going to slow this down because this is the part that a lot of us have been brought up under a teaching that is white evangelical. …
And there is a place above it all. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Worship says if I can't get through it, I'll get over it. If I can never, this is, some things happen and you'll never be the same again. But it's okay. There is a praise that can get you over it. but let me close with this. The last thing that I want to talk about that I'm so appreciative of, and I'll call y'all in just a minute. Let me preach just a minute. you've got the powerful, bold, victorious lion roar. Sometimes you've got the determined plowing through, not quitting. I will not give up. God, I'm struggling, but I won't give up. Then you've got, it's happened, but I can get over it praise the flying eagle but there's one face that I am so thankful was there and he said then I saw the face of a man the face of a man I saw someone who worshiped like a human a human is frail a human is full of mistakes a human has sin and failure in their life but they came into my throne I invited them I want the humans to come in and you may not have a lion praise yet you may not have you may not have an ox determination you may not have the victory over …
… Even the youth shall faint and get weary. Young folk are going to fall, but they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles run and not get weary. Walk and not faint. Keep that same energy. Jesus puts it like this. In this world, you're going to have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world. I need you to keep that same energy. Jesus got ready to leave and said, you know what? I'm about to leave right now. but the things I've done, that's what you're going to do. And greater works than these are you going to do. I need you to keep that same energy. And y'all, I've come by to say, I guess that reminds me of Andre Crouch back in the day. He had a song that said, keep that same energy. Take me back, dear Lord, to the place where I first received you. Take me back, dear Lord, to the place where I first met you. …
… Young men shall fall exhausted, but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. And that's just a few points, scriptures, passages, encouragement in God's word where he teaches us how to wait. The question in our lives, the question today is not if you will be waiting on the Lord. It's how will you wait on the Lord. And that's why this message, this lesson we're learning from Isaiah 30 is so important. I believe he has a lot to teach us today in these verses. My talk title today is this, be careful how you wait. Be careful how you wait. Isaiah starts with not the most encouraging thing to God's people. He says in Isaiah 30 verse one, ah, or woe, you stubborn children, declares the Lord. Not ideal to be called a stubborn child by God. I've been called a stubborn child. I don't think God's ever called me that. …
… listen to me, Jesus this morning is praying for you. Maybe you feel weak. Hey, I got good news. He never grows weary. In fact, God's word tells us those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. They will mount up on wings with eagles. They'll fly spiritually. Maybe you feel like you've messed up too many times and there's just no hope for you. Jesus says, no, the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. When you're tired and ready to give up, he's just getting started. The gospel is that God did not choose you, friend, because you were righteous. He didn't choose you because you were strong. He chose us when we were guilty and dead in our sins and we weren't looking for him at all. He stepped into our lives and gave us his righteousness and his life. And here's the deal. If God didn't look to our righteousness or our strength in us to save us, he's not looking to those things to keep us either. …
… fly out of the bedroom and off into your dreams. But Isaiah tells us, and I like this version better, those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. That's a lot like flying to me. Wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. You may never fly a hang glider. Although in the first service, we found somebody who did. So if you did, come and see me. But I'm going to go in the next few minutes, we're going to go over five ways you and your kids can soar. We're going to use hand gliding to shine a light on different aspects of being a dad. The first one is watch out for overreaction. Well, that's a strange start, Paul. Yes. In my early 20s, I was working for minimum wage in Salinas, California, putting hang gliders together. And that wasn't really the joy. The joy was at the weekend, we got to fly all these brand new high performance hang gliders. You take one out of the bag and we'd fly it. And I was at Fort Funston, just south of the Golden Gate, San Francisco. …
… Burn, but this book is just the story of God's word impacting my life. When I was born, my parents, Denny and Dionza Duran, they gave me a life verse. Isaiah chapter 40 verse 31. It says this, they that wait upon the Lord, they shall renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and they will not faint. You know, Isaiah 40, 31, it's not just a birth verse for me. It's been a life verse for me. I've gotten my hands a Bible that I was given on Easter when I was nine years old and scribbled inside and some really massive cursive is that verse, Isaiah 40, 31. And we say that the word of the Lord stands true age to age. And sometimes we can think when we say age to age, that's some huge period in time and history or that it's generations or centuries. But friends, I wanna tell you that in my life, age to age means from nine years old to 41 years old today. …
… do something specific in your life a day to just lift up your hand and just begin to thank god that they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They that wait upon the Lord will mount up on wings as eagles. They that wait upon the Lord will run and not get weary. Come on, you got 10 seconds left. I pray over every lifted hand that God will give you discipline over the next four days. that you'll trust yourself to be free, to write what you have been through, to find language for what you have endured, to be able to no longer be hostage to what held you down, but to believe that this writing process is going to be your healing journey and that when you come through these next four days, you will not be writing about trauma. But you'll start writing about your triumphs. I can't hear no worshipers in here. And when you start turning the pages back, you're going to start realizing, I got more triumphs than I got trauma. …
… will utterly fall. But those who wait on the Lord shall renew your strength. They shall mount up, this is your promise today, with wings like eagles. Resurrection gives you wings. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. So Father, I pray now for every believer who today is struggling with apathy. God, you've opened our eyes to see the ways that we are not engaged fully in what matters most. And I pray you'd give us strength and power to fight against that apathy, to shake it off, and to keep running so that we are not lacking in zeal, but full of spiritual fervor as we serve the Lord. You can put your hands down. I now want to invite anybody who's come into the doors of our church or you've joined us on YouTube or Facebook or church online. and you've not trusted in Christ for salvation, as we continue to pray with our heads bowed and our eyes closed, just thinking about where we're at with God, I asked you this question today. …
… but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. He sees, he hears, he knows. and still today God is not disengaged from our lives to where we suffer without him seeing us to where we suffer without him hearing our cries to where we suffer without him knowing what we are going through we call out to a God that is aware and attentive to us and he knows our suffering much more than we give him credit. The suffering servant of Isaiah 53, the Messiah, Jesus, the Christ, being prophesied of here, tells us of him that he is despised and rejected by man, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Oh, he understands suffering, all right. our Lord even wept at the tomb of Lazarus you ever thought about that? we learn in that text of John 11 that Jesus knew what he was going to do and yet upon arriving at Lazarus' tomb he weeps I believe that that is in the Bible for us to learn that our God knows suffering he knows grief he knows what it's like the book of Hebrews chapter 4 tells us that we do not call out to a high priest that cannot sympathize with us he gets it so when we call upon him in times of distress we are calling to the almighty who is attentive to his beloved psalm 46 verse 1 says god is our refuge and strength a very present help in times …
Wait. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They that wait upon the Lord shall run and not be weary and walk and not faint. Wait on the Lord and be of good courage and he will strengthen your heart. And see Abraham, he's now prepared everything and done exactly with great devotion everything God told him to do. He surrendered and given up everything. And here he goes, deeply devoted. And instead of God showing up, guess what the Bible said happened? buzzards and vultures showed up. They invaded the space. And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abraham drove them away. Something in Abraham said, while I'm waiting, I am not about to let you steal the promise of God. I have sacrifices of praise laid out. I have prayers of sacrifice laid out. I have been obeying God the best I know laid out here. And here comes not God, but right before the breakthrough comes, the vultures who are whispering it's dead. You know, they're only attracted to dead things. They show up, the vultures and the buzzards start flying in from all over the place. The buzzard of bad news says, you did all of this for nothing. The buzzard of bad report, the buzzard of a bad x-ray, and it just says, just give up. …
… I'll get one more verse before I go, is Isaiah 40, verse 31. But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. God is saying after you stop striving, after you stop performing, after you stop worrying, after you, then watch me work. Put your time in rest. Put your time in faith. and if you do that, put your time in his word. God says, after you, then watch me work. All right? Everyone stand to your feet real quick, please. We're going to pray over this message.
… would do? We're going to expect great things from a great God. Look at Isaiah chapter 40. It says this, but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and they will not faint. Those that wait upon the Lord. What the Bible is not saying is that we're going to spend one year on the couch just waiting on God. God, you give me the job. God, you find me the husband. God, you do all this stuff. I'm just going to sit back and watch. No, when the Bible says to wait on the Lord, it's like a waiter or a waitress that's serving the one giving orders. I'm coming to God this year and I'm saying, God, what do you want me to do? Where do you want me to serve? How do you want me to be involved? Those that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They will rise on the wings of an eagle. …
… but that does not mean down is your destiny. Your destiny is they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. And I'm preaching, get back on your feet again this morning. Somebody clap your hands and say amen. Don't fight your pastor when he's trying to get you back on your feet. Well, pastor, I have a right to be depressed. No, you don't. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up. That's what I'm preaching today. We're going to get up. Samson illustrates the high cost of a haircut. He laid his head down in the lap of a deceiver. And his hair wasn't trimmed. It was shaved. And he broke his covenant because his covenant said, God, I make a pledge and a vow to you that if I don't cut the seven locks off and I'll keep consecrations that I've made to you. And as long as he had the long hair, he had the power to defeat his enemy. …
… and young men shall fall exhausted, but they who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. Isaiah 40 verse 31. Sooner or later the narrowing comes. Faith becomes very personal, and we know we are going to our Creator. Psalm 90 verse 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom. The wisdom that God gives us is to know and trust his son, Jesus. Life narrows down and crisis comes and suddenly only one thing matters and there in the narrow place stands Jesus. The poet focuses us on Jesus this way. Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates. behold the king of glory waits. The king of kings is drawing near, the savior of the world is here. Life and salvation he doth bring. Wherefore rejoice and gladly sing, we praise thee father now, creator wise art thou. There is something interesting about the birth of Jesus in the New Testament. The writers don't talk very much about Jesus' birth in Bethlehem. The four gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, have a total of 89 chapters. Of those 89 chapters, only about three chapters are about Jesus' birth. Why is that? Because they want to put your focus on the ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. Thus, Mark writes nothing about Jesus' birth, but begins his gospel with John the Baptist announcing the adult Jesus. …
… And you're just waiting. Have you ever had to wait on the Lord. But my Bible says they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They will rise on the wings of an eagle. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint if you wait on God. And so Abraham is waiting and his wife Sarah is waiting and they got a word from God that they're going to be a blessing and they got a word from God that out of their, their womb, all the descendants of the earth will be blessed and they're waiting and they're waiting. I feel like there's a few people in here you've been waiting and you've been waiting on God. And I want to say this once again, we've been saying it through the series. God is never too early and God is never too late. He is a what? On time God. And here he is with Abraham and Sarah at just the right time. …
… Yeah, I'm still Jacob, but I'm not traveling alone. Because they that wait on the Lord will renew their strength. They will mount up on wings like eagles. I'm going to Egypt on eagles' wings. I'm going on wings. They shall run and not grow weary. They shall walk and not think. I'm going in the strength of the glory of God. My wagons have wings. My wagons have wings. I have angels all around my family, my wagon. Don't be surprised when I rise above it. The Lord has lightened my load. My wagons have wings. My tears have intention. My worship has purpose. I know you're carrying a lot, but you're carried too. Your wagons have wings. He's going with you. I don't know where you're going. You don't either. By the one thing, he's going with you. Get my camera. I speak to your burdened soul today. He's going with you. A while back, I was doing ministry with somebody that was tag team. I looked over at them before we went up. …
… But God's called us to more than just leading up under trees. It says in Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31, they that wait on the shall renew their, they shall mount up with wings as, they shall run and not grow, they shall walk and not, you get extra credit. This section right here, you nailed everyone. But here's what I wanna let you know. if that's not happening, then you're not waiting on God. If while you're waiting, your strength is not renewing. If while you're waiting, you're not mounting up with wings as eagles. If while you're waiting, you're getting weary and you're running. If while you're waiting, your walking is turned to sitting, then you're not waiting on God. You're waiting on something other than God. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They will mount up with wings as eagles. they will run and not grow weary and all the rest of that stuff. When we wait on God, that's what happens when you wait. …
… and young men stumble and fall, but those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint. This is God's word. We're doing a series on who God is, and the thesis has been that God reveals himself in the Bible under many images, under many figures. He's father and friend and lover and king. And if we take any one of those images and lift it up to the exclusion of the others, or even lifted up in favor of the others, you come up with a one-dimensional God. You come up with a cartoon God, a God like those one-dimensional characters in those action movies that get blown away. There's no personal engagement with a God like that. Now, I guess you could actually say, in a sense, if you don't know him as all of these, you don't know him at all, Unless you know him as all of the ones that he reveals himself to be, you don't really know him at all. …