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493 | Waiting On the Lord · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl. We'll see you next time.
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  Waiting upon the Lord means not moving ahead of Him.
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  It means standing still and knowing He is God. It also means that we are to
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  serve Him as we wait upon Him.
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  To the average individual, wait means a passive stance while time is passing by.
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  Come join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  as Kim shows us that waiting is an active stance that reaps the blessings and the rewards of God.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  What a pleasure it is to come together with you to read his scriptures and allow
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  him to speak. If you would, please turn to Isaiah chapter 40.
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  I'd like to read this in your hearing.
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  Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God,
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  the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not?
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  Neither is weary, there is no searching of his understanding.
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  Our kind and most gracious dear Heavenly Father, Lord, what a pleasure it is to come before you.
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  Lord, we thank you for your scriptures. We thank you for your word.
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  Lord, we thank you for your presence.
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  Lord, from the very depths of our heart, we thank you for the gift of your son
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  that bought our salvation.
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  Lord, we thank you that you knew us before we were even made.
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  Lord, we're thankful that you knew the things that we would face,
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  that you knew the obstacles that would be in our way, and you provided a way.
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  Lord, we're thankful that when Abraham needed a lamb, you provided the lamb.
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  And Lord, when we needed a lamb for the sacrifice of our sins, you provided your son.
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  But, Lord, I'm so grateful that I know from the depth of my heart that in every
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  circumstance, when I needed something to take care of my problem, you provided the way.
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  Lord, that when I needed you, you manifested yourself in ways that let me clearly see that you were God.
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  Lord, I'm so thankful that you knew that this life would be very, very troublesome.
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  Them that you knew that because that the
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  devil had full reign over this earth
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  that we would absolutely have travail and
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  trouble and struggles and trials and
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  that our hearts would break but you knew this god and you provided for us a
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  holy writ you gave jesus christ who was made manifest he on this earth and he
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  was the word made flesh and you
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  allowed us to carry it in our hearts You allowed us to have it with us.
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  You allowed us to have free access to Jesus.
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  And in that holy writ, you wrote for us all the things that we would need to
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  help us move through this life.
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  Not a defeated foe, but we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus.
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  We are absolutely victorious because greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
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  Lord, you gave to us.
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  Your precious son, and you give to us unconditional love and absolute access to you.
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  Lord, we invite you to this lesson.
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  We invite you in our hearts. And Lord, we invite you to stir our lives up in
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  any way that you see fit, that we might be the creation that you would have us to be.
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  Lord, we are the potter's clay, and you are the potter.
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  Mold us and make us into what you would have us to be.
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  And Lord, thank you for the confidence that you tell us that you have never
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  been weary, and that we can't search your understanding,
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  letting us know that you are on the throne, and you are capable,
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  and you are God, and that we'll never have a question or a problem for which
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  you will ever be stumped, shocked,
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  mystified, or taken aback.
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  That before we even come to you, before that problem even comes in our life,
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  you've seen the end and provided the way to get there.
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  Lord, help me be in your will that I may never be in your way.
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  And all these things we ask in thy most precious and holy name we pray and all of god's people said.
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  Amen friends you just
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  experienced the greatest thrill you're gonna spend all day unless of course
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  this is not the first time you prayed but you just stood in the presence of
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  god not because i ushered him in not because i took you to the throne but because
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  god said call unto me, and I will answer thee.
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  And God said, Ask, and ye shall receive.
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  Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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  He said, And all these things will be added unto you if you seek me first.
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  Friends, he knows the things we have need of before we even ask.
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  And he doesn't get weary in well-doing.
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  Today's lesson is in Isaiah chapter 40, and it truly is in verse 31.
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  But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
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  They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk.
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  And not faint. I read those words and my heart soars.
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  You see, when troubles come the eagle's way, you know what the eagle does? He rises above it.
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  He doesn't stay where he's at, and he doesn't stoop, and he doesn't just say, I'm done.
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  No, the eagle rises above. You see, when the air isn't what it needs to be where he's at,
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  he rises above and he soars and he is the king of the air.
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  But look what he does when things get tough and the winds come and the storms
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  come in the little eagle's life.
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  He doesn't hide and run.
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  He doesn't choose another way. He rises above it. He moves up.
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  As children of God, what a lesson we could learn.
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  When the troubles of this life come our way, when the storms pound upon us,
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  when life beats the living daylights out of us, we need to rise above and move step closer to God.
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  We need to look into God from what's come with our help we need to learn from
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  the eagles because when the eagle soars guess what everything else is below him.
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  In other words, don't sweat the small stuff, the eagle's saying.
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  He reminds us that all things are small stuff.
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  But it comes from the fact that the eagle moves closer to God.
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  The eagle moves upward because he's eager to rise above.
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  One of the things I would like for us to take a moment to think about in our
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  own lives is perhaps one reason we're not victorious is because we're not interested in winning.
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  You say, Kim, what are you talking about? Some of us enjoy being miserable.
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  And that is so not God's plan for you.
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  Because God said that I have come to give you life, that that life would be more abundant.
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  Because they said, I've come to give you life, and that more abundantly.
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  He didn't just come that you'd have a hum-hum kind of ho-hum day.
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  He came that you could be the very best you could be, that you could enjoy the
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  blessings of God because the psalmist David says that daily he loadeth us with his benefits.
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  Oh, friends, the Lord loves you so much and he wants you to rise above it.
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  And he wants you to do that through him and to trust and to believe in Jesus Christ.
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  Friends, I love so much the opening verse that we read out of Isaiah 40 and
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  verse 28, just a couple of verses up.
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  He gives us the beautiful picture of his omnipotence, of his omniscience,
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  of the absolute fact that we can believe in him and we can trust him.
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  Don't I just love the fact,
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  that he says, neither is weary. The God of the universe isn't weary.
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  And I submit to you, he deals with some amazing problems from a lot of people,
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  with frustration and rejection, with disobedience and confusion.
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  The very people he created to love each other wore. The very people that he
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  gave his only son to die for.
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  Reject his only son.
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  The gifts that he gives us we abuse and lose but he isn't weary and oh how i love that,
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  because if you'll just turn to the
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  new testament the philippians chapter 4 if you'll just take a look at verse
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  13 he says i can do all things through christ which strengthens me that's paul
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  talking you skip down to verse 19 he says but my god shall supply all of your
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  needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.
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  The Lord isn't weary. So I can count on the fact that what he gives me will get me through.
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  I can count on the fact that I can do anything through him because the Lord, he isn't weary.
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  And he knows all things. And he sees all things.
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  And verse 40, I'm sorry, in chapter 40, in verse 31.
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  What Isaiah is saying to us is this. Listen, wait on the Lord.
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  In Ephesians chapter 6, we have a beautiful picture of what our everyday life is.
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  He tells us that we don't battle against the things of this world,
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  but the things of darkness, of the spiritual world, that old sinner man, Satan, the devil,
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  who I submit to you isn't running around with little horns and pitchforks and looking like an idiot.
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  He's sly and he's beautiful and he's exactly what will tempt you.
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  But God said, hey, I'm greater than any temptation you're going to face and
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  I've equipped you to overcome.
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  Friends, the devil would love for you to think he's a joke and little red tights
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  and pitchforks and all that stuff.
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  But the devil isn't a joke.
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  1 Peter 5.8 says that, Be careful, because your adversary the devil walketh
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  about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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  He's a worthy adversary, but he doesn't stand a chance against us because the battle's already won.
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  As David says, it's not ours, it belongs to the Lord.
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  And greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. but
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  in that chapter 6 of Ephesians when he
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  explains what we're going through he says when you have done all that you
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  can do just stand and as
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  we look at Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 31 and
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  we see but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength we realize
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  a couple of things this weight in this verse is huge and its meaning is at least
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  twofold you see we need to wait on the Lord's direction.
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  He said the footsteps of a righteous man are guided by the Lord. He said, come follow me.
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  He never said anything about, come lead me. He never said anything,
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  go ahead of me and yell for me. He said, come follow me.
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  He said, I know the plans that I have for you to give you a hope and a future.
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  He understands the way. And he said, I am the way.
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  Friends, we need to wait on God's direction. Understanding full well that we
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  will have his provision and his protection when we are following God.
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  God because where God is Satan has to flee because the Bible tells us that if
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  we resist the devil the devil will go he also says if you'll draw an eye unto
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  me I'll draw an eye unto you.
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  This weight means make sure you're in the center of God's will make sure it's
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  God you're following make sure you're not going ahead on your own whims make
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  sure you're not getting out on your own ideas,
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  but that you are a servant following God.
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  Now, that's the second meaning of the verb wait in this verse.
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  Those that wait upon the Lord.
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  Just moments ago, we walked through the scriptures and we landed in Philippians chapter four.
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  Verse 13 explained to us that he would supply our need.
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  Verse 19, I mean, he would give us strength. Verse 19 explains that he will supply our needs.
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  But we need to serve God so that he can give us those things.
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  He doesn't make us strong to sit and do nothing.
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  Friends, muscles that are not used, they atrophy they shrink they become useless
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  and it takes a lot shorter time than you may think.
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  And those once strong muscles, when not used, will become weak and limp.
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  So my friends, when he said, you
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  can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, look what he says.
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  He says, you can do because I'm going to strengthen you.
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  So it tells me that if he strengthens me, I need to be exercising that muscle.
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  I need to be exercising that faith.
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  I need to be exercising that love that I have for God. I need to be exercising my Christian walk.
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  I need to be exercising my faithfulness to God.
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  Now, I can't help but stop here for a second and say, if some of us would spend
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  more time walking in faith and not by sight,
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  instead of walking around crazy little circles in a track, crack,
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  we'd find that our lives would be far more fit.
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  Because you see, what we do for Christ is what matters.
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  Having a healthy spiritual walk with God is what is important.
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  To have nothing against exercise, because the temple of God is our bodies,
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  and he wants us to take care of it. But some of you have allowed the devil to
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  do whatever he does to dupe you.
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  And you'll find time to run before work.
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  You'll find time to stop by the gym. You'll find time to swim and do exercise.
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  And you'll never open up and take a walk through the scriptures to exercise
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  your faith and your godliness. us.
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  He said, be you holy, for I am holy.
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  And just as a side note, he said, bodily exercise profiteth little.
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  But friends, he said, study to show thyself approved unto God,
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  a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the truth.
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  You see, the Lord said that if we would wait upon him, we would serve him so
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  that he could strengthen us.
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  He said he'll supply all of our needs.
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  Well, let me tell you what. Try exhausting his supply. You can't do it.
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  And the less you do, the less you need of him, you think.
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  But the truth of the matter is, my friends, you need him to be your all in all
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  because he is your every breath. He is your heartbeat.
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  But you need to allow your heart and your mind to recognize that and place him
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  as king of the throne of your heart.
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  And then he will renew your strength. It is then when Christ becomes number
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  one in your life, when you are existing in his strength, when you are relying upon his provisions,
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  it is then that you will rise above the storms of this world.
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  It is then that you will rise above the troubles that you have.
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  It is then that you will soar.
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  Because guess what holds the eagle up? It's the wind.
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  He's not up there flopping his arms and beating himself to death and busting
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  his little self to get himself through.
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  No, he's gliding on the wind.
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  Who makes the wind?
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  I know the maker of the wind, and he's my savior.
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  And as all the stuff passes under me If I just let him be the wind beneath my
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  wings I could just soar And guess what?
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  It doesn't wear me out At the end of the day, I'm not exhausted Because I wasn't
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  beating thin air I was soaring,
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  You see, the problem with so many of us Is we just take it all in our own hands,
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  We try to work out the problems We try to work out how to do it We tell God
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  how it should be done We don't consult him for help We don't consult him for
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  the supply of our strength We don't even ask him for instructions Until we're.
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  Just flat beat to death and can't do anything else That's not what the eagle does,
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  The eagle sees a problem He rises,
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  The eagle sees a problem He glides over it.
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  By the wind beneath his wings. The book of Acts, amazing thing happens.
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  The Holy Spirit comes into the upper room like a rushing, mighty wind.
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  Friends, right now, this very moment, you can totally discard beating yourself
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  to death and getting nowhere.
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  Because you can allow yourself to walk by faith and not by sight.
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  You can wait upon the Lord as you get his instructions and as you serve hearing what he has to say.
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  You can rise above the trouble of the world as you let the wind of the Holy
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  Spirit direct you and fill you to overflowing.
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  And then guess what? You're gonna run and you're not gonna be weary and you're
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  not gonna faint because it's not you you're resting in.
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  It's the God of Isaiah 40, 28. And he says, Hast thou not known?
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  Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator,
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  the ends of the earth, he fainteth not?
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  Neither is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.
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  And my Bible says in Hebrews chapter 14, Come.
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  And he also says, Come unto me, all you that are labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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  Today's the day to rise above it all in the strength of Jesus Christ.
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