How to Go From Strength to Strength in the Lord

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There are some other places, but we'll start out there

Psalm eighty four, hallelujah, and then we'll go to Ephesian six.

Bless the Lord, Bless the Lord. Hallelujah. Father God, we

believe you for revelation this morning. Lord, I believe you

to think through my mind and speak through my lips.

Give me utterance in the Holy Ghost. I believe that

each person here has ears to hear, a mind, a process,

and a heart to receive what you have for them,

to hear not just what I'm saying, but to hear

what the Holy Ghost is saying to them about what

is being said. Lord God, we thank you for the anointing,

the yoke, destroying burden, removing power from on high. In

Jesus' name, we believe you to speak to each and

every one of us. Say this with me in Jesus' name,

I have ears to hear, a mind, a process, and

a heart to receive and to be a doer of

what the Lord shows me in Jesus' name, Amen, Hallelujah,

psaw eighty four. Let's start in verse four Saw eighty four. Four.

Blessed are they who dwell in your house. They will

be still or ever praising you. Blessed, happy, fortunate, to

be envied is the man the woman who's strength, say strength,

whose strength is in the in whose heart are the

ways of them or the highways of Zion? Or whose

hearts are set on pilgrimage. King James a little vague,

but the majority of translators versions translated one of two ways.

In whose heart are the highways the Zion? Or in

whose heart? Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. And that's

the vital part of receiving his strength and passing through Bakha.

The next verse, who passing through the valley of Bakha?

Now what does beka mean? Weeping sorrow tears. It represents

the tests, the trials, the tribulations of life, the disappointments

that we deal with, the rejection, the betrayal, all the

It's in this life because of sin and satan and

selfishness and the fall of man. That's all represented by

the Valley of Bakah weeping tears. But notice we don't

live or camp or die there. We pass through the

valley of Bakah, just like in Psalm twenty three. Yay,

though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death,

I will fear no evil. Thou art with me. That

rod and my staff they comfort me. We pass through

the valley of Bakah, and we make it a well. Hallelujah.

We make it a spring. We turn it around. We

take the challenges of life, the attacks of the enemy,

and we turn it into a place where once again,

the life giving waters of life from the Almighty God

flow into that situation and we experience the power of God,

the deliverance of God, the joy of the Lord, the

healing of God. He takes the valley of Bakah as

we make it a weall, as we rejoice in Him,

as we do these things we've talked about. And then

God's reiin comes and fills it with pools. It gets

goes from good to gooder, from better to better. Hallelujah.

The rain also fills it with pool and then notice

verse seven, they go from strength to strength. So it's

not as talking about strength, but something about going from

strength to strength. Now there's several aspects here. Want to

be going from human strength to divine strength. But it

also speaks of going continually from strength to strength, increasing

in strength. The Amplified Bible does just that, amplifies it

and says they go from strength to strength, they increase

in victorious power. Hallelujah. Our lives should be increasing every day,

every month, every year in victorious power. Now how do

we do that? I mean, it's one thing to talk

about it, one thing to read it, one thing to

preach it. But I always like to get down to

the how. How how do we do that? Well, we

looked last time at seven principles of going from strength

to strength. We'll review them quickly. Write these down somewhere

if you haven't already run down your Bible or on

you know, a notebook or nothing else. Write them down

on the palm of your hand or something like that

where you can refer back to them. But I encourage

to find a place in your Bible and write it down.

How do we go from strength to strength? Again, Christianity

is supposed to be lived from a position of strength.

God told Joshua when he was taking over at the

very beginning of his life. He told him or his

battle life. I guess I should say he told him

four times in just a short section. He said, be

strong and courageous, be very strong and courageous. Have not

I commanded you strong and courageous, be strong and courageous. Well,

same thing is true for you and I be me

to be strong and courageous. We are to be very

strong and courage We're going to talk about how to

do that today. How are we strong? How are we

strong in the Lord?

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The Bible tell we are to grow strong in the Lord.

Hebrews eleven thirty four talks about how certain saints people

of God were from weakness were made strong. The Bible

says in the Book of Joel, let the weak say,

I am strong near my eight ten says the joy

of the Lord is our strength. Bible says one of

God's names is l Gibor, the mighty God, the strong One,

the strong God, Hallelujah. We can take advantage of those attribute.

The Bible says, He's our strong power, our strong refuge.

So we are to be strong in the Lord. How

do we do that all right, How do we go

from strength to strength? We looked at seven points last time.

We'll just review refresh them right now in our mind.

Number one, be truly converted and born again. It starts

right there. It's a problem today. Many folks think they're

saved just because they belong to a church, or were

raised in a certain religion, or they're a good person,

or even they prayed the sinner's prayer. But they didn't

have any true transformation. There's no growth, there's no life.

They're just trusting in works, they're trusting in good deeds.

We need to make sure we are truly converted change.

The word converted means a change of mind, a change

of thinking, a changeable way of life, to go from

something from error and from sin, from wickedness to the

God of truth, the God of love, the God of righteousness,

to a change of life. So we want to be

sure we are truly converted. Acts three nineteen says, repent

therefore and be converted, Be converted. What will happen? Your

sins will be blotted out in times of refreshing, will

come from the presence of the Lord. Now I'm all

for being born again, but again. Like I said, a

lot of time people think they're born again, but there's

been no conversion. We said, we looked at the word

born again occurs three times in the New Testament, but

conversion occurs like thirty eight thirty seven times. Most of

them have to do with a change of life. Some

mean other things. So we want to be truly converted.

I've said many times, if you've come to Jesus and

called upon him, but there's been no change in your life,

something is wrong. Something is wrong, because really the order

of the day in Christianity is change. We're constantly changing,

constantly growing. Bible says we are to go not only

from strength to strength, but from faith to faith, from

glory to glory. We are to increase. Bible says the

path of the righteous is like the light of dawn

that grows brighter and brighter until the full day. So

first thing is be truly converted, born again. Secondly, receive

the Holy Spirit baptism next to getting born again. I

think everybody that's received the Holy Spirit baptism would testify

it's the next best thing to getting born again. It's

power from on high, Jesus said, Acts one to eight

you'll receive power Dunamas strength when the Holy Ghost comes

upon you. Some people say, well, I'm born again. I

got hauled. The holy ghosts will ever get not, so

study your Bible, the Book of Acts. They would get

born again, and then they would get baptized in the

Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. The

disciples themselves. Jesus breathed on them, but then said, receive

the Holy Spirit. But then later on he said, go

into the upper room and tarry until you be a

dude with power from on high. And you know, we

need to receive that Holy Spirit baptism. It's power from

on high. It's power. Somebody said, well, do I need

the Holy Spirit baptism to go to heaven. No, but

if you're going to live with power and victory in

this life, you need it. It's not for heaven, it's

for here. We need that indument of power from on high.

I was thinking about this, and two of the greatest

helps that God has given us to live the victorious

Christian life is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the

evidence of speaking tongues. And again people get all hung

up about tongues for some reason. I don't know why.

It's just a spiritual prayer language is supernatural prayer language.

They did it in the Bible. All the New Testament

writers spoken tongues. All of them in the Upper Room

spoken tongues. Marry the Mother of Jesus spoke in tongues.

It's like it's nothing. There's nothing weird or strange about it.

And that which lead me to my point. Two of

the most powerful tools or weapons that God has given

us to live the Christian life, the Holy Spirit. Baptism

and speaking the Word of God. Confession of the Word

of God are two of the things that so many

believers trivialize, struggle with, demean think, Oh wow, that's not

that big of a saying if I baptize on my

spirit speaking tongues, Oh well, that confession business is overblown.

That's speaking. I thought. Those are the two powerful things

that God has given us to be more than conquerors,

world overcomers, and yet most believers just trivialize those two things. Oh,

we need to get a revelation, we need to get

a hold of the power of the baptismal Holy Spirit

and speaking in other times we need and doing it

all the time. We need to get a revelation. The

power of speaking the word of God. Death and life

are in the power of the tongue. Watch your words.

Don't speak death, don't speak contrary to the word of God.

Speak Life, Speak the word of God. Speak the word

only my servants shall be healed. The man said, well,

your servant is your body. Speak the word only, and

your servant will be healed. Glory to God. Number three

hunger after truth. We're talking about how do we go

from strength to strength hunger after truth. Now the truth

is Jesus and the truth is the Word of God.

We need to hunger after We need to regularly consistently

read and study, meditate the Bible. But it goes even

beyond that too. What we watch and what we listen to,

kind of music we listen to, the things that we

watch or don't watch on television, the movies we watch

or don't watch. We should always be hungering after truth.

Is this going to enrich me? Is this going to

take me higher? Is this going to take away from

me spiritually or add to me spiritually? Or is it

just neutral? Now, very some things are neutral, but very

few things you know, and I'm not saying we can't

relax and enjoy life. But we also have to realize

we are in a battleground. This is not a playground.

Believers treat the world like a playground, but it is

a battle ground. As we're going to see later on

Ephesian six, we are in spiritual warfare. A lot of

people act like we're not. Penny and Sarah and I

were just talking the other day, what a difference it

was in the United States in World War One and

World War Two. How everybody was affected by the fact

we were at war. They lived different, They made sacrifices,

from the adults on down to the kids. I mean

they realize we are at war, and everybody sacrifice. Today,

nobody acts like there's any kind of war spiritually or naturally.

I said, if today and today's climate, if we were

to be involved in something as big as World War

One or World War two, I think most people just

act like nothing, like not it doesn't affect me. I'm

just going to go on with my selfish life. So

we need to recognize we are at war spiritually. Glory

to God. So hunger after truth, guard the things you

read and watch, discipline yourself in the things of God.

Discipline yourself to read the Bible, pray, to press on

with God. It'll be worth it. It is worth it.

You won't regret it. Nobody is going to, at the

end of their lives stand before God and say, I

wish I hadn't been so hungry for God. I wish

I had to spend more time caught up in the

carnal things of this world. No, it's going to be

the exact opposite, going to be the exact opposite. So

let's count the costs and go after what really matters.

Jesus said, one thing is needful, only one thing. Mary

has chosen it. It won't be taken away from her.

Paul said, this one thing I do. One thing that's

got to be our priority. Jesus said, seek ye first,

first in time, place order and importance, the Kingdom of God,

his righteousness, and then everything else will be taken care of.

Hunger after truth Number four, be a person of prayer.

Privately and corporately. Have your own individual prayer life, but

take advantage of prayer meetings and get with other believers

and pray. To me. I'm talking about how we go

from strength to strength. These are just basic principles are

not overly complicated or overly difficult. But believers down through

time have employed these seven things to go from strength

to strength and live a life life of victory. Be

truly converted, hunger after truth, receive a Holy Spirit baptism,

hunger after truth. Be a person of prayer. Number five,

Be consistently in church and in fellowship, whether you feel

like it or not. In fact, the time you do

not feel like it is probably the time you need

to go the most, because you're in for your biggest blessing.

Go to church consistently. Make it a priority. Today's mindset

as well. I'll go if it's convenient, I'll go, if

it works out, I'll go. If I don't have too

many other busy things I'm going to do. No, we

need to make it a priority. I grew up Roman Catholic,

and I say it's a shame. Roman Catholics then put

Holy Ghost Charismatics to shame. Today with our consistency and

are we never missed. I can't think of a single

time growing up that I ever missed church. We were

always in church, all seven of us kids, with my

dad in mom, and we were taught Margaret and I

were talking about this last Sunday. We were taught to

be respectful in the quote unquote house of God. We

didn't run around, we didn't tickle each other and throw

things around and play with one another. We sat there

like this. We did not move. We were in God's house,

we thought, you know, and it's just like that's been

lost today, a lot of their respect for God. In fact,

that led to one of the most embarrassing moments of

my entire life. If I told some of this before,

some of you know where I'm going Penny notes where

I'm going. First grade went to a Catholic school. The

Catholic church was right across the playground. Once a week,

I think it was. I don't think we went every day.

I think we went once a week. By Friday, they

would march the whole school over to the church and

we'd sit there for Mass. Well, I'm just like, whoa,

you know, the whole school and it was a big

school back in those days. Well, they would seek the

first graders in the first section, then the second graders,

then the third grades, until you got clear back to

the eighth graders. Well, I'm in the first section and

I'd never had this dilemma before. I'd gone, you know,

with my folks and everything. All of a sudden I

had to go to the bathroom big time number one.

But uh not on my first point. I'm just clarifying.

But uh, and I'm sitting there, I'm standing there. I'm going,

you know, it's like, what do I do? I said,

I can't leave, And I thought, they don't even have

a bathroom in God's house, do they? You know, It's

just like what do I do. It's like, I'm just

going to have to hold it now. I'm just struggling

and start Well, all of a sudden, I felt something

warm running down my leg and I went, oh no,

I'm a first grader six years old, and I just panicked.

At that point, I just walked back to the nun

who was at the high this all, I said, Sister,

I wreped my pants. I have some compassion here gee

and and uh, I said sister, I webbed my pants,

and she said, well, go home and change. We lived

like a block away. Well, this church is Catholic church

was uh it was long. I mean it was longer

that center aisle, longer than the width of this I mean,

it'd be like I'd say about from the front door

to the back door. So and we had marble floors there.

So here I go down the center. Ai'l past all

eight grades. Squish squish, squish, squish, squish, squish, squish squish.

You laugh now, I wasn't laughing. I hit that front door,

burst into tears, ran home. I said, mom, I wrapped

my pants, and you'd have to know my mom. She said, well,

I'll go change and go on back. You know, my

mom devastating, But I got over it, hallelujah. So I

don't know how I got on that. Be constant consistently

in church and in fellowship, whether you feel like it

or not, keep pressing on. Don't quit, stay in the word,

stay in prayer, keep coming to church. Don't allow the

enemy to bring condemnation and guilt to you. Keep going

from strength to strength. Number six. Live for God and

from God. Live for God. First of all, obedience, faithfulness, service, holiness,

these different things. Live for God. But then also realize

where to live for God. From God. We get our life.

We get our everything we need from God. We don't

necessarily fight for the victory. We fight from the victory.

So live for God and live from God. It's so

important that we do this in order to go from

strength to strength. Hallelujah. And then number seven, receive what

belongs to you and act on it. We'll talking about

how to go from strength to strength, increase in victorious power. See,

there's a lot of things that belong to people, both

in the natural as well as the spiritual, that belong

to them that they're not acting on. The classic example

is the right to vote. Every American citizen has the

right to vote in every election, even the national presidential elections.

Half of them don't take advantage of it. Well, does

that mean they don't have that right? No, they still

have it, but it's not doing them any good. In

a local election, it's even less sometimes like twenty percent

of people they can vote actually vote, sometimes less than that. Well,

as it is in the natural, so is it in

the spiritual. There's spiritual things that belong to us, But

just because we don't take advantage of them doesn't mean

they're not ours. The name of Jesus belongs to us.

We don't have to pray say God give me the name.

He's already given it to us. Strength belongs to us. Freedom, victory,

it all belongs to us, all the inheritance. It belongs

to us. Authority, wisdom, guidance, baptism, and the Holy Spirit, healing, provision, protection,

the fruit of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit.

Could just go on and on and on. We have

a right to them, but if we don't receive them,

act on them, walk in them. They're just like the

right to vote. It won't do us any good. But

that doesn't mean it's not ours or the God's holding

it back from us. Somebody doesn't vote, we'd have no

right to say, well, the government's holding it back from me.

They won't let me vote. No, you need to get

off your blessed assurance and go vote. You need to

go do something. You need to act on what belongs

to you. So life and power and strength are other

things that belong to us. Now, this is how we

go from strength to strength. Be truly converted, receive the

Holy Spirit, baptism, hunger after truth, be a person of prayer,

be consistently in church, live for God and from God.

Receive what belongs to you, and act on it. Now

there's another aspect of this. I fact go with me

over to Isaiah. You're not too far from there. Just

turn to the right and go a couple books to

Isaiah chapter twelve. There's another aspect of going from strength

to strength that a lot of people do not realize.

To be strong in its joy jay O why joy?

Nehmiah eight ten gives us a tremendous revelation. We sang

it earlier. The joy of Yahweh is our what strength, strength,

the strength, and joy. The joy of the Lord is

our strength. What many do not realize is that joy

is a vital part of strength. Now, if you do

these seven things that I just reviewed, it will help

produce joy in your life. Conversion, holy Spirit, baptism, truth, prayer, church,

living for from God, receiving what belongs to you. That

will help produce joy in your life. And the joy

the Lord is your strength. Notice I said doing those

seven things will help produce joy. Here's the thing. People

they seek pleasure, they seek fun, they seek happiness, they

seek entertainment, they seek all kinds of things in order

to be happy and even have joy, instead of seeking

the Lord and these things we talked about which produce joy.

I mean, look at most people. You know they're seeking

all kinds of things pleasure, fun, happiness, entertainment. They think

that's going to bring satisfaction and joy and even strength.

It's not going to do it. You know, some people say,

I just I am so tired, I just then to

go to church today, not realizing that, No, that's not

the way to get strength. I needed to rest. One

might rest your body, but it's not going to rest

your spirit. The source of physical strength is oftentimes spiritual strength,

and we need to draw on the strength of the Lord. Hallelujah.

Now look at Isaiah what he said here in verse

twelve or chapter twelve, verse one. In that day you

shall hear, Oh Lord, oh Yahweh. I will praise you,

yah Dah revere worship. Hold out the hands to you.

Thou wast anger with me. Thine anger is turned away,

and thou comfort is me. Behold, God is my salvation,

my Yes, You are my savior, my healer, my deliverer,

my sanctifier. I will trust and not be afraid. The

word trust is the Hebrew word we talked about in

Psalm eighty four battak to run to for refuge, to to. Really,

it's not just a mental thing. It's a it's a

it's a not a passive thing. It's an active thing. Lord,

I run to you as my refuge. I will trust

and not be afraid for the Lord, even the Lord

or yah even Yahweh is my strength. Yahweh is my

strengths your eyes and say, Yahweh is my strength. Fade again,

Yahweh is my strength and my song, Hadi. Let's do

that on close your eyes, say Yahweh is my song.

Yahweh is my song, Halley, not some top forty hit.

He also is become my salvation, my yes, you are. Therefore,

now notice verse three powerful verse. People aren't even know

where this is in the Bible.

Therefore, with joy, shall you draw water out of the

wells of salvation.

WHOA, Well, there's a lot here. I could preach a

whole message on this. But salvation is not just getting

your sins forgiving going to heaven, which is the greatest

aspect of but it's healing, deliverance, preservation, and soundness. Notice

wells a plural. Didn't say you'll draw water out of

the well of self. You'll draw water out of the

wells of salvation. Healing, deliverance, preservation, and soundness. Remember what

Jesus said and John seven, out of your innermost being

shall flow reverse plural of living water, glory to God. Holly.

Do you preach myself happy, whether you are or not,

with joy, you will draw water out of the well

of solvation. Joy, the joy of the Lord is our strength.

Now it may seem simple. I was thinking about this,

but you know the old acronym for joy. As simple

as it seems, it's a lot of power and truth

in it. Joy, j O, Y, Jesus, others yourself. That's how.

That's what produces joy in that order. Hate to break

it to anybody's dear heart, but you is last, Jesus,

others yourself. We want to spell it ydge myself, others

Jesus from dodge whatever. But it's Jesus others yourself. You know,

there's joy in the Lord, in serving the Lord. One

person said this, I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I woke and saw that life was service. I acted

and behold, service was joy. This is joy. And forgetting

about ourselves. We had so caught up in this little package.

You know, some people were so wrapped up in themselves.

One of they say they're going to find out. It's

a mighty small package involved serving others, reaching out the other.

You need healing, Find somebody else that needs healing and

pray for them. You need love, find somebody else that

needs You need friends. A man who shows himself friendly

will have many friends. Reach out and be a friend

to somebody else. You need prayer, pray for somebody else

instead of just getting all introverted, woe is me, I'm

gonna go reach out to somebody else. You want people

to come into your loved one's life lives and witness

to them and bring them to Jesus. Guess what, go

into other people's lives and witness to them, bring them

to Jesus. What you do for others, God will make

happen for you. Whatever man souls, that's how he also

reap hallelujah. You want people to witness to your loved ones,

witness to other people's loved ones. Glory to God. Don't

you think there's other people praying? Oh, God, send somebody

into their life, Send a labor into their life. That somebody,

maybe somebody you work with, maybe your next door neighbor,

and somebody's praying. Old God send a labor into their life,

just like you're praying, Oh, God, send a labor into

my brother's life or sister's life or whatever. Well be

that labor for somebody else. And what you make happen

for others, God will make happen for you. With joy.

You'll draw water out of the wells of salvation. And

in that day shall you say praise Yahweh. Call upon

his name, Glory to God. I capitalize name in my Bible.

I just took my pen and has made a capital N,

because that's what it's really talking about. Call upon his name,

declare his doings among the people. Make mention that his

name we've been talking about the names of God. Make

mention that his name is exalted. The Hebrew word sagob inaccessible,

high above evil, impregnable his name. That's why proverb says

same Hebrew word Sagod. Proverb says, the name of the

Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it

and are safe, high above evil, inaccessible and strong is

what it literally says, the name, the name. I was

reading something that Kathy Milbrote, brother Charlie Millbrot's wife wrote,

they are missionaries. You know, well, we support them. They've

been there many times in Thailand. And she said, every

year I study the names of God. And I thought,

she said, I thought it would be so wonderful if

people would just get a hold of the names of God.

What a revelation it would be. And I thought, well,

if they're here, they're getting it. Glory to God, Allelujah,

make mention is his names exalted. Verse five. Sing unto

the Lord, for he has done excellent things. Sing unto

the Lord. This is known in all the earth. Cry

Out and shout Glory to God. Cry Out and shout.

You know, I look that word cry out up and

one of the Hebrew meanings is be cheerful, Be cheerful,

be cheerful. You know what a little nugget here When

you cry out and shout, it brings to your It

brings joy to you. Some of you need to just shout.

You never shouted in your life for the Lord. You

may have shouted for a pig skin or a basketball

or something, but shout for the Lord. Some of you

just need to. And now you know, you don't necessarily

need to do it around people, but eventually you'll do

it around people. Somebody, Glory to God. Hallelujah. Amen. I

do it frequently when I'm driving down the road by myself,

just shout to the Lord. I do it frequently when

I'm in here by myself. I walk through the sanctuary,

sometimes early in the morning, and from there to there,

I just glory to God, Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. I

just got a little ivy there, a little power boost

right there. Shout unto the Lord with a voice of triumph.

What's the Bible say, shout for joy? Now here's how

we tend to interpret it. You know that says that

I looked at it shout for joy. It says about

seven eight times. But here's how we interpret it. Shout

because of joy. Well, if I'm joyful and happy, then

I'll shout. That's not what the Bible says it shout

for joy. Shout in order to obtain joy. Hello, if

you are fighting depression, discouragement, you know one of the

greatest weapons against that, shout glory, Hallelujah, praising Jesus, Oh glory.

I'm buying any depression. I'm healed, I'm delivered, I'm saved,

I'm set free. Depression. You must go in the name

of Jesus. Somebody says, well, God's not hardy hearing. He's

not nervous either. He doesn't mind. He's the one who said,

shout time and time again, cry out and shout, you

inhabitants of Zion. That's us for great? Why should we shout?

For great? Is the Holy One, the Holy One? Kudosh

and Isaiah? He said Isaiah six, he said, holy, Holy, Holy,

or the angel said, holy, holy, Holy is Lord, Kardosh Karros, Kudosh,

Holy Great is the Holy One of Israel in the

midst of you, in the center of you. That Hebrew

word means center. He's in the midst of you. How

can you not shout? How can you not shout? March

madness is going on right now. Watch these people going

crazy for basketball. Why don't begrudge him. I mean that

helps them, But I mean not if they're saying but

in church, I'm dignified. I would never shout, I would

never raise my hands, and I would never speak in

other tongues. I'm too dignified for that. But yet they'll

go wild over basketball and all these teams. Everybody gets

all excited. You know only one of them is going

to win. But every one of us can win in Christ.

Glory to God. We are more than conquerors. So joy.

Continue to apply these seven principles, you'll receive joy. You'll

go from strength to strength. All right, go to Isaiah

forty were there in Isaiah Isaiah forty thirty one? Just

for take of time, Isaiah forty one. But they that

wait upon the Lord shall renew their strengths. We're talking

about be strong in the Lord, going from strength to strength.

They that wait upon 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. Hallelujah.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew there or

replace or exchange their strength. The Hebrew word renew means

to replace or exchange, as well as renew. So as

we wait upon Your weh we exchange our human weakness,

which is our strength, for his strength. We exchange strength.

We renew our strength, We replace our strength as we

wait upon the Lord. So that this word wait is

a key word. It's not just sit around and okay, hey, hey,

what's up brother? What are you doing?

Oh?

I'm waiting? Okay, wait, waiting on I'm waiting on the Lord.

What wait? You're waiting on the Lord to do, waiting

for them to replace my strength. I'm just waiting. How

long you been waiting? Oh it's been a long time.

I'm just waiting. Waiting is not a passive word. It's

an active word. Look at what the Hebrew says for

the word wait. This is how the theological word Book

of the Old ten estimate. We'll have it on the screen.

The word wait means to wait or look for with

eager expectation. Do you come to church expecting? Do you

have your morning devotions expecting? Do you go from day

to day expecting God to move, to God to speak,

God to act, God to do things in and through you,

and for you to wait or look for with eager expectation.

The Bible says, God says, I'll give you what you expect, hallelujah.

It also means waiting with steadfast endurance. Is it says

it's theological word book, Waiting with steadfast endurance is a

great expression of faith. Notice steadfast endurance. It means enduring

patiently in confident hope. Now here's what I like. Notice

this that God will decisively actoo doggies. God will decisively

act for the salvation, deliverance, preservation, soundness, and healing of

his people. God will decisively act. That's what waiting is.

I'm expecting God to decisively act for my salvation. I'm

expecting it to God decisively act. And they that wait

upon the Lord will remove, renew, exchange their strengths, replace

their strength, and he'll mount up with wings as eagles,

or run in our bury walking not faith. Those who

wait in true faith are renewed in strength, so that hey,

so that hey, it's supposed to be they so that

they can continue to serve the Lord. Glory to God.

Or maybe they were just saying, they'll be renewed in

strength so that, hey, they can continue in strength serve

the Lord. But notice, we need strength to continue to

serve the Lord. See a lot of great people that

are great at starting, poor finishers that start to run

the race and never finish it. Where to be marathonors? Hallelujah.

It's a lot easier to run a dish and it

is a marathon. A lot of people in the Christian life,

they just want to be dishers, they want to be marathoners.

We're in this for the long haul. They shall renew

their strength. Now again the word wait upon. Go back

to Isaiah forty thirty one. If you will put that

up there, they that wait upon the Lord Lord shall

renew their strength the word wait upon. You can check

this out and strong concordance others and the Hebrew. One

of the meanings is to bind together by twisting. That's

where the exchange takes place. Now again some we're not here,

so I want to illustrate it again. Thusly, if this

is to represent our life, right here, this twine, this

is kind of how we are not real strong. I mean,

this could be broken very easy.

You know.

The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy, so he

can come to somebody's life and thank God, and just

if the scissors are sharper, just snip, you know, just

just take away from you, just steal, killing, destroy. You know,

we're not much of it. We're not a match for

the devil in and of our strength. But if we

bind together by twisting, see this rebar here would represent God.

And what do we do? We wait upon the Lord.

We confidently expect him to act decisively in our behalf

for our salvation, and we bind together by twisting. And

what happens we take on his strength. This is your life,

my life when we get wrapped up in God by

doing those seven things and the things we're talking about today. Now,

what does the devil God on his hands? He comes

to steal, kill and destroy. He's just going to get dulled.

I mean, we take on a super natural strength. Jesse.

Let's see you bend that? What Caleb? Well, I now

pronounce you Jesse in the name of Jesus. You work

on that a while. We'll see if you get anywhere. See,

that's how we are in Christ. We are strong in

Him to get anywhere. No, see, that's how we are.

There's if the devil doesn't have a shot. Now I

know Jesse couldn't do it, but Kada might be able to.

So we'll figure that out. We'll get Jesse to do it,

all right. So this is you in Christ. You bind

together by twisting, You renew your strength. You mount up

with wings like eagles. You run and not be weary,

and you will walk and not faint, going from strength

to strength. Now two quick points here that I would

also add, We're not gonna have time to get to

I think we got them on the screen, though that

I would add everything I've just said here for going

from strength to strength. Guard your heart. Guard your heart

Ephesian or Proverby four to twenty three. Guard your heart

with all diligence. Out of it flow the forces of life.

Guard your heart. Guard your heart, and secondly, guard your mouth.

Guard your mouth. Proverbs eighteen twenty twenty one. Death and

life are in the power of the tongue. Write these

down Proverbs eighteen four. The words of a man's mouth

are as deep waters and the wellspring well spring with joy,

or draw water out of the well the wellspring of

wisdom as a flowing bird. Proverbs eighteen seven. A fool's

mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare

of his soul. Proverbs ten eleven. The mouth of a

righteous man is a well of life. It is amazing

how many people want God's life flowing out of them,

and yet their words are contrary to it. Life is

intended to flow out of your heart like a river,

but people stop it, and many times they don't even

realize it. Your own words can be a wellspring of life,

the wellspring of the life of God. So the Bible says,

your words are meant to be a wellspring of life.

I go to Fijian six and we'll close Fiesian six. Hallelujah,

We're gonna look at be strong in the Lord briefly here,

real quick. It just ties into everything we've said and

about how to fight the good fight of faith. Notice

something that Paul says here in Ephesian six, verse ten.

Probably familiar about everybody in here, But sometimes the familiar

verses are the ones we don't really take hold of

because we think we know everything about them. Fijian six,

verse ten. Now, Paul and the whole book of Ephesians

has just laid out tremendous truth about who we are

in Christ, who Christ is in us. But he says

an amazing thing here in introducing the spiritual conflict and

the spiritual warfare that we are in. Notice in verse

twelve he says, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood,

but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the

darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Again,

we are in spiritual warfare. This is battleground Earth. This

is not playground Earth. It's battleground earth. For most people,

they treat it like a playground. But it's a battleground. Now,

the Lord, in his grace and his mercy, allows us

to enjoy life in this battleground. He gives us richly

all things to enjoy. Jeezid, take my yoke upon you.

My yoke is easy, My burden is life. We can

enjoy life here, but at the same time we are

in battle, and we can never lose sight of that fact.

We cannot take a vacation spiritually. When you take a

vacation spiritually, then the demons go into double time. Do

not take spiritual vacations, all right? So notice he talks

about the spiritual warfare. And then here's Paul, this great

captain of our salvation. I mean, I know Jesus the

captain of our salvation, but I mean Paul is. I mean,

he's a general in the Lord's army. This man has

experienced the spiritual battles of life and the spiritual warfare

like no one else, both personally and in those he's

ministered to. And he gives a great order. He issues

a great order to the church in this spiritual warfare

and on letting us know how to fight the good

fight of faith knows what. He says Leesian six'. Ten,

finally my, brethren be strong in The lord and in

the power Of his. Might be strong in The, lord

in the power of his, might put on the whole

armor Of, god that you may be able to stand

against the wiles of the. Devil and they, says we

wrestle not against flesh and, blood. Etc now think of.

It Here's, paul this general in The army Of, god

who's experienced it, all seen it all the. Church he tells,

us you and me in this warfare we are in

this battle that we are. In it's mind. Boggling but

he says two, things and just. Two he, said two

things are offered for you to stand in the evil.

Day number, one be strong in The. Lord number, two

put on the whole. Armor and that's. All that's, all he,

says those two. Things and we need one in order

to do. Two we need to strength of The lord

to effectively wear the. Armor and we need two in

conjunction with. One we can't wear the armor for not

strong in The. Lord you Have christians on both sides

of that that some people just focus. On, Oh i'm

just strong in The, lord And i'm just waiting on

The lord And i'm just worshiping, him which is wonderful and.

Great then you got other people that are, just, Yeah

i'm in the. Battle you, Know i'm fighting The. LORD

i got the armor on. That we need them. Both,

now the key is the word be strong in The.

Lord in The, greek it's a. Word it's a word

which means to be in. Strengthened it's not a it's

not self. Effort we tend to read this and it's

like self, effort LIKE i gotta buy my own willpower

and the grid of my. Teeth i'm going to be

strong in The. Lord that's not what The greek is.

Saying in, fact put it up in the verse tens

He esian six y. Ten put it up in The Amplified.

Bible we'll see just what it's. Saying it's not to self.

Effort it's through the grace Of, god the love Of,

god the mercy Of, god to receive his strength and his.

Power notice The amplify brings it out well in, conclusion

be strong in The. Lord and we tend to, think,

well that's self. Effort but then here's what The greek

word means be empowered through your union with. Him. Hmmm

sounds a little like bind together by. Twisting be empowered

through your union with. Him you're binding with. Him be

empowered through your union with. Him draw your strength from,

him that strength which his boundless might. Provides. Hallelujah draw

your strength from, him not through self, effort but through

your union with. Him now it's a. Word, Okay, well

well let's go. On so he, says be strong in

The lord and then the power of his. Might and

then he, says put on the whole armor Of. God

put it.

On.

This these two words to be, strong to, be and

to put on they speak of being closed with being clothed.

With this idea of putting on the strength Of god

is to Receive god's, strength his. Empowerment and putting on

the armor is, yes clothing ourself with the, armor but

it's much. More the best WAY i can illustrate it

here is is my. Coat. Here if this were to

represent the strength of The lord and the armor Of,

god it's one thing to put it. On. Okay So

i'm putting on the strength the armor Of. God so

that's one. Thing but this idea of putting On it

means also in the, original to be clothed with and

to sink down, into to sink down Into what is

that talking. About it's talking about the qualities Thereof assume

the qualities of the strength of The. Lord assume the

qualities of the armor Of. God in, fact most folk

don't realize, this but in The greek this is a

once for all. Thing it, says put it on and

keep it, on never take it. Off i've heard much

teaching on, it where every day you got to put

on the. Armor And i'm not against. THAT i think

it's good to renew. Ourselves but the idea in The

greek is to put it on and never take it.

Off put on the whole armor Of, god sink down into,

it assume its. Qualities Now HERE i can illustrate. IT

i believe this. Way IF i put on this, coat

that's one. Thing if and this represents the strength of The,

lord the armor Of. God but IF i put this

on and never take it, OFF i assume the qualities

of this. Coat in, fact you and other people be talking,

about does Pastor tim never take that coat? Off EVERYWHERE

i see, him he's got that coat, On, penny does

he ever take. On he sleeps in, it he, does you,

Know and it's like he gets he. Does he that's

all he ever. Wears is that. Coat that's? It, WELL

i mean something underneath, it, obviously but, uh that's the.

Idea if every time you saw me walking, winter, spring,

summer or, fall you saw me in, church outside of,

church saw me at home, OUTSIDE i had this coat,

ON i MUST i have assumed the qualities of this,

coat this, coat AND i become. ONE i become as

known by this coat AS i do anything. Else you

ever Met Pastor Tim, no he goes around all the

time in the black. Coat, OH i know you're talking.

ABOUT i become known by this. Coat and that's what it's.

Saying put, on sink down, into assume uom the qualities Of.

Yahweh be empowered By, yahweh and put on the whole

armor Of. God have the shield of, faith your helmet of,

salvation your feet shop with the preparation of The gospel of,

peace your lorn's gird about with, truth the sword of The,

spirit the shield of, faith the breastplate of. Righteous to

sink down into and just wear it all the time

of people say that person's always ready for. Battle they

are strong in The. Lord all, right we'll close with.

This why do we need to be? Strong why do

we need to be empowered in The? Lord i'll give

you five. Things Number, one because of the power of the.

Enemy we have a formidable. Foe he's a defeated, foe,

yes but he's. Formidable, nonetheless somebody, said, well how can

it be be formidable if he's. Defeated, well best ILLUSTRATION

i can give you is the mafia totally against the

law for them to operate in this. Country they're, defeated,

basically but they're. Formidable foe organized, crime even though it's totally.

Illegal the devil it's illegal to do what he's, doing

but until the law's, enforced he'll get away with, it all.

Right number, two we need to be empowered in The

lord because of the power of the. Enemy, secondly because

of the evil. Day The bible goes on to say

here in a sesion six about having standing in the evil.

Day we are in an evil, day oh as much

as any time we are in an evil. Day just

look at the, headlines this stuff going. On it's crazy out.

There we're in an evil. Day so we need the

whole Armor. God we need supernatural power to withstand the evil. Day,

thirdly for your, sake for my, sake we need to

be empowered in The lord to avoid personal. Failure AS i,

said the devil is a formidable, foe and in order

to avoid personal, failure we need to be empowered in The.

LORD i, mean some of the best Of god's people have. Fallen, Adam, Abraham, Moses,

david a man After god's own, heart a worshiper like

this world has never. Seen nonetheless Fell we face a formidable, Foe,

PETER i will never deny. You. Lord three, Times, peter

we face a formidable. Foe realize your own. Weakness go

through self, Examination, lord search me Of, god know my,

heart try, me know my. Thoughts see if there being

wicked weigh in. Me put on the. Army put on

the strength of The. Lord for your own. Sakes, fourthly

for his, sake For god's, sake realize we are a

part Of god's. Army we're a part Of god's. Family

we need to be strong for the rest of the,

army for the rest of the. Family you, know, really

we oftentimes don't realize, this but in the spiritual warfare

that we are. In it's not you against the. Devil

it's the family Of, god the army Of god against the.

Devil an individual soldier when he's in, battle it's not

him against that other. Nation it's him as a part

of the army that's against that other. Name we need

to realize we are hooked. Up we are to fight

with and for one. Another we tend to think that

all this spiritual warfare is just one on. One it's

not that we're part of the, army the army Of.

God he is The lord of the. Armies yahweh Sab,

Us he's our, captain. Hallelujah so for his, sake and then,

lastly for The gospel, sake we need to be strong

in The lord and in the power Of his. Might

it is a powerful witness to the world to. Unbelievers

when you are strong in the valley Of, bakah when

you are strong all through life and in Your christian,

walk it's a powerful witness to the world that. PERSON

i know what's going, ON i know what's come against,

them and they just exhibit a strength THAT i can't even,

imagine or you can say it's because Of. Jesus how

do you do, it it's because Of. Jesus, Hallelujah. HALLELUJAH

i just saw a clip JUST i Watched Ohio state

get beat last night and THE Nc DOUBLE a, Tournament

so that's the end of it there for me pretty.

Much but at the same, time right after, that another,

channel they had THE Nc DOUBLE A Wrestling, championships Which

i'm not into, wrestling but they've got a guy that

is just one of the most outstanding wrestlers who's ever competed,

Collegiately Kyle snyder For Ohio. State he's in the heavyweight

and this guy is has won so many, matches he's

barely ever been. Beat he's An olympic, Champion he's won international.

Feats AND i knew that he was going to be

wrestling and that game was, OVER i, thought, well that's on.

NOW i just flipped over real, quick and there he was.

Wrestling he just started his, match And i'd heard this

guy was A, christian BUT i didn't know much more about.

Him he won the, match THIRD Nc DOUBLE a championship

he's won in his four years of collegiate. Athleticism plus

he's wrestled in The olympics and won a Gold medal

and all, this And i'd heard about. Him so they

interviewed him at the end and they, said, well you,

know it's a close, decision three to. Two and he

said a few things about, it and then he, said

and as, always all glory goes To Jesus, christ My

savior And. Lord, YES i mean this guy is like

who you, know and there's always all glory goes To Jesus,

christ My savior And. Lord is that a witness or?

Not people think all these mamby pamby Wimpy. Christians world

deal with? Him would? You when we are strong in The,

lord it is a witness to the. World don't look

to the. Enemy don't look to your personal, weaknesses don't

look to the evil. Day look to The. Lord look

to his, Strength look to The Holy. Ghost take hold

of the strength of The. Lord take hold of the

power of The. Lord take hold of the dunamus of The,

lord the dynamite of The. Lord i'll close with this.

Statement to know him is to know his power and.

Strength to know, him to know. Yahweh to Know jesus

is to know his power and. Strength let's Pray, father

in the name Of Jesus. Christ we thank you for your. Strength,

Today Lord, god we thank you that we can be

empowered In. You In Jesus mighty, name hallelu say this

with me In Jesus, NAME i receive his. STRENGTH i

receive his. EMPOWERING i receive being clothed upon with the

strength of The, lord the empowerment of The, lord The.

GOD i will be strong in The lord and in

the power of his. MIGHT i will go from strength

to strength because Of. Jesus out of. WEAKNESS i am made.

STRONG i SAY i am, strong AND i say by

faith the joy of The lord is my. STRENGTH i

will shout Under god with a voice of, triumph, Hallelujah, Halloluah, Halloluah.

Halloluah gory To. God who doesn't that feel? Good thank You, Jesus.

Fathers we pray right now and receive the ties and.

Offerings we worship you with our, Giving Lord, god we magnify.

You we thank you for your. Provision we thank you

for taking care of, us meeting our, needs watching over,

Us Lord, god and we sow our seed into The

kingdom Of. God. Lord we pray for those who may

be giving to The Missions, project to the tailors In

india that are over there just doing a tremendous, work

and it's heavily Oppressive hindu atmosphere where they're cracking down On,

christianity and they are sowing the gospel and Video bible

schools all over the nation Of. India Lord, god we

pray blessings upon all those giving to The Missions, project

all those giving their ties and. Offerings we sow our

seed and we believe for. Harvest we believe for increase

In jesus's mighty. Name if you agree with, that say,

amen all. Right robin's gonna bless us with the song

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hollowly Your. Father we pray over these tithes and. Offerings

we believe for. Harvest we believe for increase for each

and every one that gave In jesus'. Name. Holiday we

got a few announcements before we do. THAT i just want.

It we're going to play a short clip, here just this.

Film we're Starting wednesday. Night it's going to run This

wednesday and Next. Wednesday The god Who. SPEAKS i just

want to see a little a minute or two of.

This it'll minister to. You show talks about the, integrity the,

infallibility The word Of god and how we can build

our life on it and how we can be strong In.

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