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one way God gives you new Strength is by
swooping into your situation grabbing
you and lifting you out of it it’s when
God supernaturally intervenes and blows
your mind by turning something around
and that’s when you get your praise on
cuz he came out of nowhere and with
eagles wings lifted you out of
it is anybody here right now where life
has caved in on you
recently lot of you what do you do how
do you how do you
move in this
scenario he tells you he helps you
out he says at the beginning of verse
31 yet those who wait for the Lord will
gain new
stength he
says when life caves in my way is hidden
from the
Lord the Justice the
fairness do me this is not
fair what happened it’s not fair this
happened now it’s not fair I’m going
through this it’s not
fair he says what I want you to
do is wait on the Lord
now the question is what does that
mean the Hebrew word for weight is
very
picturesque all of you ladies know it
because the word weight means to Plat
the
hair did it it was to Plat the
hair when women or men plat the
hair they
intertwine sections of hair so that they
are tied together in a tight way when
you straighten your
hair it’s loose and hanging down when
you plat your
hair it has been inter coagulated and
tightly tied together so that it is no
longer subject to the blowing
wind because it has been tightened
together by plat it was used of a rope
where the strands were intertwined to
make a stronger
rope so when he says wait on the
Lord he’s not talking about passively
sitting down doing nothing he’s talking
about platting your
life intertwining all of your life so
that everything is wrapped and
intertwined with
him so that there isn’t church and the
rest of my
week it’s God I got started on Sunday
morning but my stuff is so messed up my
situation is so deep I’m going to Plat
my
circumstances plat my decisions plot my
goals and intertwine them with you
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Saturday and back again on Sunday I’m
not going to just straighten my hair on
Sunday and let stuff blow it all week
long I’m going to plant this thing so
that it is no longer subject to the
circumstances I am going to wrap up tie
up and Tangle up my life because when
things get get bad enough the problem
won’t leave you alone so I don’t need
what happened on Sunday I need to be
tied up with the god I met on Sunday all
week long to wait on the
Lord is a hookup that you don’t
want to be disconnected
from in addition it means to not go
outside of God to fix
it because the
Temptation when you’re in a
crisis that is knocking you down is to
look for other options when you don’t
think God is doing
anything they said my way is hidden from
the
Lord maybe we don’t see God doing
anything because we haven’t platted our
lives around him we
just we just paid him a visit on Sunday
and therefore the
waiting is waiting without his presence
being experienced in our pain and I know
we don’t like the weight the red
lights we don’t want to wait at the
doctor’s
office but when you look at
scripture Sarah had to wait for a
baby Noah had the way for a
flood Joseph had the wait longer in
prison Martha and Mary had to wait for
Resurrection the disciples had to wait
for the Holy Spirit we’re waiting for
the return of Christ Hannah had to wait
for a Baby Ruth had to wait for her
husband you find people but when the
thing happened that God wanted to
happened those people were
connected only when that connection was
there when they had planted
themselves did they experience whatever
God was was going to do in their
situation how do you know that you’re
waiting on God this
way because the majority of your time
you spend in worshiping not
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complaining you spend your time
worshiping and not complaining why
because God inhabits the worship and
praise and Adoration of his
people Psalm 130: 5 and 6
says you wait on the Lord with his
word if you’re hurting today and life
has collapsed you read Isaiah 40 you
read Psalm 42 you read the Psalms are
great thing because it has so many
different scenarios but you you you go
over God remind me of who you are I need
your character I need your presence I’m
looking to you I’m wrapped up in you
because my circumstances have wrapped me
up Lamentations chapter 3 verse 25 and
26 talks about how good it
is to wait on
God for his divine
intervention however he chooses to do do
that and if you wait this way you’re not
passively sitting down doing nothing
you’re just not going outside of God to
fix it and you’re entangling yourself
you’re platting
yourself with him you’re not
straightening your hair so that the
circumstances blow it you are platting
it so that it is
tight because that’s how desperate You
Are by the way
it’s sometimes
difficult to decide to go to God when
you’re in
it you need to have the practice of
platting before you get in it so that
when you’re in it you’re ready for it
see some folk want to get close to God
cuz they’re in a crisis the idea is to
get to close to God before you hit the
crisis so you’re already prepared for
the crisis when it
hit what will God
do in your questions not questioning but
questions when you don’t cross that line
he says those who wait for the
Lord will gain new
Strength new strength that means
strength you don’t currently
have
because as you know when you’re in a
crisis strength drains from
you crises send us to
bed make us not want to get
up wakes you up in the middle of the
night it sucks your energy when it’s a
deep one or a series of one that won’t
leave you alone it just like an illness
it just drains you but he says if you
wait on
me I will give you new
Strength we all have charges for our
phone that’s cuz they lose
strength they run
down the power
leaves so what we do is we got to take
it and put it on the charger to get new
strength as the phone sucks in the
electrical power it becomes new
again the phone works but it can’t work
without the
power but because of Life all day it
loses
power but when you let it wait on the
charger it got to wait it’s got to it’s
got to sit there and wait when you let
it hang out hooked up with the power it
gets new
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strength and when God gives new
Strength you’ll see it in one of three
ways he tells you in verse
31 they will Mount up with
wings like eagles yeah the first way
that God gives new Strength is his
divine intervention
when an eagle kicks out an eaglet the
first time a baby eagle it’s trying to
learn to
fly usually the first time it can’t fly
because it hasn’t doesn’t know yet how
to fly so it’s just flailing trying to
make it yeah anybody flailing trying to
make
it but what the eagle will do when it
sees the eaglet falling and it’s not
going to make it the eagle swoops down
opens its wings and catches the eaglet
on the wing and lifts it back up to the
nest one way God gives you new Strength
is by swooping into your situation
grabbing you and lifting you out of it
it’s when God supernaturally intervenes
and blows your mind by turning something
around by switching something by
reversing something and that’s when you
get your praise on that’s when you say
isn’t God good all the time all the time
God is good cuz he came out of nowhere
and with Eagle’s Wings lifted you out of
it that’s one way that God gives new
Strength there’s a second way God gives
new strength they will
run and not get tired
God gives new Strength
when he doesn’t swoop down and take you
out of it he lets you run through it he
says you going to
run you’re going to run but I will give
you a second win so you can keep
going I’m going to let you run I’m not
going to swoop down and make it
disappear but I’m going to let you run
run through it all of you who get on a
treadmill knows what it is to
run and you know what it is and one of
the ways you can run longer when you’re
on a treadmill than you would normally
run is if you’re watching
TV I always turn on the news when I’m on
the treadmill why because by focusing on
the news I can go longer with the
breathing if I’m just there and I don’t
have another Focus I’m thinking about
running and so when I get tired of
running I give up but with the news on
with the focus on it allows me to run
longer than I would normally run and I
get a second when he says if you focus
on me even though you’re running I will
give you a second wind so you can go
further with this situation further with
this pain further with this problem than
you thought you could go cuz I’mma give
you a second
win then there’s a third way he gives
you new Strength it
says and they will
walk and not become
weary the first way is he swoops down
and just takes you out of
it the second way he doesn’t swoop down
he lets you go through the process of
running but he gives you the ability to
keep going that’s right that’s right the
Third third
way you can no longer
run he says they are walking they’re
walking on the Third Way yeah when
you’re on the
treadmill and you’re
running and you finish
running they’ll tell you don’t jump
off they’ll say you have to
walk you have to walk in order for
things to settle
down you have to
walk for the benefit of the heart
slowing down because if you just jump
off with the heart beating you haven’t
giving it a chance to make the
adjustment on the
pace you see
sometimes life gets so hard you can’t
run and you’ve been left to
walk the first way is God’s divine
intervention the second way is God’s
enablement to keep
going but the third way when you can’t
run anymore because you are now too
tired you’re left to
walk that’s Divine
encouragement that’s when God doesn’t
change the situation he changes you in
the
problem you doesn’t he doesn’t fix it he
doesn’t turn it around like you
prayed but he does something in you that
that no longer
matters that that no longer is the
situation he’ll bring a person in your
life to give you an encouraging
word he’ll bring a song song on the
radio to inspire you there’ll be a
sermon that you thought was prepared
with only you in mind that’s when all
he’s doing is just encouraging you
nothing has
Chang except
you because sometimes God puts us in a
position to accept something he doesn’t
intend to
change and so all you can do is walk
because your running ability is over but
in all three ways he’s given new
strength strength you don’t I would love
to say he only does the eagle thing but
that’s not
true that plenty of times he doesn’t
swoop down and just switch it overnight
I would love to say that boy he’s going
to give you something to focus on so he
going to get you through and you going
to have the wind to run but sometimes
life just gets
tired and you your you get up and go
it’s gotten up and gone but what he
wants to do is let you know I am there
with you and what you’re going
through they that wait upon the Lord
will get new
Strength