Effortless Living

Are you waiting on the Lord or just waiting?

Isaiah 40:27
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 

Isaiah 40:28-29
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 

Isaiah 40:30-31
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

31 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.

The OBVIOUS 

Capable of FATIGUED (youth faint)

Capable of FADING (faint and are weary) 

Capable of FALLING (utterly fall) 

What Weakens Us?

Peter’s Disbelief (pride of life) 

Peter’s Distance (Distance/follows far off)

Peter Disconnect (warms hands with enemies) 

Peter’s Denial    (he utterly falls)

Peter’s Disobedience (I go fishing) 

Peter’s Duplicity (Paul Confronts Him)

The OPTION 

What Strengthens Us?

FAITH

Isaiah 40:31a
they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;

FOOD

Psalm 103:5
who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

FAITHFULNESS OF CHRIST

Luke 22:31-32a
31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not:

FILLING OF THE SPIRIT 

Ephesian 5:17-19
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

The OUTCOME 

Isaiah 40:31
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.

Isaiah 40:31
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.

Isaiah 40:31
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.

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