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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't check out. I'll tell you. Call on Jesus. What
day that wait on the lawn? I'll get news straight.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Doctor Tony Evans says, when life gets harder, waiting on
God often becomes the one thing we resist. Yet it
may be exactly what he's teaching us to do.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh, God is able to meets you right way, y'all,
even why you wait?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. When your heart
or your spirit feel like they're breaking, what you want
is relief, not patience. But today, doctor Evans explains that
there's a point behind the process you're in, even if
(00:42):
it's painful. Let's turn to Isaiah forty as doctor Evans
gets us into our lesson for today, is.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Writing to his people who are tired of waiting? Why
do you say? Verse twenty seven ask the question, Old Jacob,
oh is real? My way is hidden from the Lord justice?
Do me escapes the notice of my God? Or to
put it in our everyday nomenclature? It's not fair? He
(01:13):
raises the problem of waiting. The readers were discouraged and
weary of waiting.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
The question was when is God gonna keep his word?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Now, this is not a bunch of atheists who are
wondering does God exist? They're raising a much more practical question.
Since God exists, why am I waiting? And you know
how it is when you wait and wait and wait,
panic sets in. You always know when people are tired
(01:49):
of waiting, they move from singing the gospel to sing
in the blues. Some folk, when they get tired of waiting,
flip from experience to expence. They want to be propped up,
and so they want to forget the fact that they're
having to wait for whatever it is that they're waiting for,
and so they run to this experience or that experience.
(02:12):
It could be alcohol or drugs, it could be any
number of things. But it's designed to help them to
forget that they're waiting. You see, they have made the
proverbial mistake that if God is silent, he must also
be still. They concluded, if I can't see God doing something,
(02:37):
then inevitably he must be doing nothing because I don't
see God. God told Noah it was gonna rain, and
he had to wait one hundred and twenty years before
he saw one drop Hannah wanted a baby, and she
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had to wait until God supernaturally moved. Many years later,
Ruth wanted a husband, and she had to wait.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Rebecca waited for justice.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Jesus told the disciples they were gonna have to wait
for penny cost verse twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
The everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends
of the earth, does not become weary or tired. His
understanding is inscrutable. How do you wait when you have
no choice but to wait? He says, in the context
of waiting, you must know the character of God. And
(03:54):
when you have to wait in silence and in cold weather,
and when your circumstances are and cloudy and rainy. He
appeals to what you know about God as the basis
of your waiting. He says, God is an everlasting God.
(04:15):
He doesn't look at your clock to determine his plan.
Time is different for him than it is for us.
The second thing he wants you to know about God
is that he.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Is the creator. God. Not only does he.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Operate outside of your clock, but he operates outside of
your clock with the ability to do anything he wants
when he chooses to do it. Without any raw materials
to use to get it done. So don't get all
bent out of shape because he's operating silently.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You don't know what in the world is doing.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You don't know why he's taking so long, because you're
wasting your time. His understanding is inscrutable. That's what makes
him God. Well, then how am I supposed to make
it when I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Where he is.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't know what he's doing. The justice do me
isn't coming to me. He's got all his power, He's
got this new clock. I don't understand. I in no
world am I gonna make it? Well, here's how you're
gonna make it. While you wait. He gets strength to
the weary. Let me say that again. He gives strength
(05:29):
to the weary. I can't tell you when you breakthrough
gonna come because he hadn't told me. I can't tell you,
but he told me something I can't tell you. While
you're waiting, he will give you new strength and notice
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it says he gives it. You don't have to earn it,
you don't have to work for it. He grants it
to those who are where read So the only qualification
you have to have to get the new strength while
you wait is to be weary. You say, well, how
(06:12):
come I don't have the strength yet? Because you're not
weary yet. You say, don't tell me I'm not weary.
You don't know me or my mama. Don't tell me
that I am not weary.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You're not weary. How do you know I'm not weary?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Because you're still trying to make it happen in your
own strength, so you're not weary. To be weary is
to come to the end of your resources. It is
to say to God, if you don't, I can't, that's weary.
But if you're still manipulating, trying to make it happen
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in the flesh, trying to create it through your own strength,
you are not faint enough yet. Great verses Second Peter
two nine and says God knows how to deliver the
godly out of their trials, so he does not have
an ability problem.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
He knows how to bring a change quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
But he wants you in a totally dependent position weary.
Now you can become weary voluntarily or mandatorily. I mean,
he can put you in a situation until you get weary,
or you can decide I'm weary upfront, Come on, weary,
call me my middle name, weary, weary.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, you don't like that, call me faint.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'll be whatever you want me to be, and while
you wait, While you are waiting, he.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Will replenish you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
New stream young men verse thirty seves grow weary entire.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So it's not about how old you are.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh, if I were twenty years younger, I could handle list.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
God said, no, No.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I know some tied young folk, young folk walking around
like all folks, young folks who want to give up,
young folks who throw their lives away. Youth does not
solve this problem. Young men grow weary and tire. In fact,
vigorous young men stumble badly.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Athletes vigorous young men.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It's a reference to athletes, athletes who are wild conditioned.
So it's not about your shape, how much work out
you do, it's not about.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Any of that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now, I know what you're saying. Okay, help me, help me,
because I'm about to quit. I'm about to throw in
the towel. I hear this god stuff every week. I
hear every Wednesday, I heard every Sunday. My circumstance hasn't changed,
and I am tired.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Help me. I'm tired of my marriage, I'm tired of
my work, I'm tired of my life. I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And if you don't give me something that is something
from God that will give me a new feeling, and
I can't make it. I'm just so, so very very tired. Well,
Verse thirty one is for you. I know it looks
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like the justice do you is garden. I know you're tired,
and I know you can't figure out the inscrutable. But
Verse thirty one is one you can bike on.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
It's yours even though you're tired. They that wait upon
the Lord.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings
like egos. They will run and not faint, they will
walk and not get weary.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
In a moment, doctor Evans will return with a look
at what spiritual refreshment feels like when it comes along.
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Speaker 3 (10:44):
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Speaker 1 (12:51):
The word wait in Hebrew is an interesting word. It
was used in.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
The process of making rope. Rope is a collection of
strands that have been knitted together. The more strands, the
thicker the rope. So you can have small rope or
big rope. It just depends on how many strands of
string you put together. It starts off with one single strand.
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It's weary. In other words, the rope will break if
you feel like you're about to break. If you're hanging
on by watch this a thread that means you have
not become yet. A rope for a rope, even though
it's one rope is not one strand. It is a
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compilation of strands knitted together to make.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
One thick rope.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The word weight was the process of stranding one strand
of string after another, again and again and again and again,
until you wind up with a rope and you understand
one string will break, one rope does not. Why does
one believer quit and another not quit when they're in
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the same situation. Why does one believer throw in the
towel and another one keeps on keeping on when they're in.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The same situation.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Why does one single live in misery and another single
lives in victory when both are looking to God for
a maid because one is hanging on to a string
and the other one is hanging on to a rope.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Waiting on the Lord involves one other thing. It involves worship.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Because to wait on the Lord was also to wait
before the Lord, and involves worship. It was being in
his presence. His presence is what gives you the ability
to handle the time deli.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
While you're waiting, which is the frustration of time.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
He wants you to wait in his presence, And what
he is suggesting is, as David said, in his presence
is joy. Evermore, what God does is supply the emptiness
of your weight. With the veracity of his joy, so
that the weight is tolerable.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
God wants us to wait on.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Him, to entertain his presence, and he gives three things
he will do. One they will mount up with wings
his eagles. He's giving you the three ways he will
give new strength. And by the way, let me define
new strength. The word new strength means to exchange our
weakness for his strength. The second way is that you
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run and you don't get tired. I call this God's interaction.
His interaction is where he becomes your jogging buddy. It's
a big difference running alone and running with somebody, especially
if the somebody is a better runner than you. They
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will talk you in and not quitting when you would
have stopped a long time ago, because their interaction with
you causes you to forget about the fact that you're running.
That's why some of you jog with earphones on. So
when you hear your favorite songsm don.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You know you're not thinking about running anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You got this interaction.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Going on in your ear.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
So now you all of a sudden, you are haffing
in puffing one minute, and now you're singing along with
the song the next minute.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Because somebody is running with you.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That's why you need to body your Christ, because you
need somebody jogging with you. You need somebody to remind
you that's gonna be okay. You're gonna make it. Keep on,
keeping on, don't quit. That's when God runs with you.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Sometime you're walking, I can't run no more. Loads too heavy.
They that walk.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Will not become weary. I was carrying some things to
a meeting that I had to go to when I
was at the airport, and I had a bag in
his hand and a heavy box of pamphlets in this
hand because I didn't want to deal with baggage and
have to go down the baggage claiming all of that.
So I carried it. But I had to catch my flight.
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Nobody swooped down to help me. Nobody anything to help
me with my load. So I started running with this
heavy box in my bag, and I couldn't run no more.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Sit Now I'm walking because it's just too heavy.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I can't run no more. That's when I saw it
moving sidewalk. I went over to the moving sidewalk and
I stood there and let it carry me. That's God's
inner action.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It's where you're too tired to run. You can't.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You don't have your get up and go. It's gotten
up and gone. You don't have any energy. And he
comes underneath you and bears you along so that you
can at least walk. Either way though same result, new strength,
not weary. You won't think you're gonna make it. You
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gonna make it. They that wait on the Lord, she'll
get a new capacity to keep going until the change comes.
And sometimes God's gonna whoop down and deliver you out
of it. Other times God's gonna just jog with you
and talk to you while you're running the race. Other
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time God is gonna come underneath you and bear you
along because the load's too heavy and you can barely walk.
Either one of the three ways will result in the
same thing, new capacity.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I know you're tired.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
When is my situation gonna change?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I know you're weary? When am I gonna stop hurting
like this?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I know you're frustrated the needs are not fully being met.
But I got a verse. They that wait on the
Lord choving you this straight. Little boy one day went
to the grocery store with his mother. His mother was
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in a harry. She had places to go things to do,
people to see. She said, boy, that's going here, get
our stuff and go. As they were pushing the carts,
he saw some chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
In the aisle.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
He said, Mama, please for some chocolate chip cookies. She said,
I told you.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Boy, I mean Hellry, no chocolate chip cookies today.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
We gotta go. She went down another hour, but he
couldn't forget those chocolate chip cookies. He said, Mama, Mama,
please let me go get some chocolate chip cookies. She said, boy,
I told you I'm in a harry. We can I
get chocolate chip cookies today. You don't need chocolate chip cookies.
I am sorry, no chocolate chip cookies. She went on
continued the shopping. He jumped off the cart, went and
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found that our with the chocolate chip cookies. Went up there,
picked up two packs of chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Ran back in his mind said.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Mama, look I got the chocolate chip cookies. She said, boy,
I told you you're not getting old chocolate chip cookies.
Take those chocolate chip cookies back. With tears coming down
his eyes, he went back and took back the chocolate
chip cookies, got back.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
In the car. Then the mama came to the checkout line.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
The mama is in the checkout line waiting to check
out because mama's in a hurry. She's got places to go,
things to do, and people to see. While his mama
is waiting in the checkout line, the little boy gets
up and he says, shall we pray? He stands in
the car. He says, Lord Jesus.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
My mama won't let.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Me have no chocolate chip cookies. I want to let
you know that I trust in you. You are my God,
and you are my savior, and I believe that you
can turn this thing around and make my mama give
me some chocolate chip cookies. All the folks and all
the checkout lines begin the clap for the little boy.
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How's the little boy praying for his chocolate chip cookies.
The mama was so embarrassed she went into the eye
pick out the chocolate chip cookies, brought them back to
the car, and the little boy had his chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Some of you are in the checkout line. You want to.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Check out of your marriage, you want to check out
of your circumstances, You want to check out of your situation.
But if you become like the little boy and stand
up and say, Jesus, you know my situation. Jesus, you
know my problem, and I'm calling on you.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Jesus.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
You won't check out till you get your blessing. You
won't check out till you get your cookies. Don't check
out until you call on Jesus. For they that wait
on the Lord shall get new straight. They were mounted
up with wings as egles. They will running and not
get tired. They will walk and not get weary. Somebody
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are to praise him for new stray. Somebody ore to
praise him for new energy. Our God is able to
meet you right where you are, even while you wait.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Doctor Tony Evans talking about the peace and power that
grow out of patience in the Lord. Now, if today's
lesson has reminded you that nothing else can fully satisfy
your heart but God, you'll want to go deeper with
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to take you very far. Tomorrow, Doctor Evans explains that
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the same is true of a Christian without the power
of the Holy Spirit in their life. I hope you'll
join us
Don't check out. I'll tell you. Call on Jesus. What
day that wait on the lawn? I'll get news straight.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Doctor Tony Evans says, when life gets harder, waiting on
God often becomes the one thing we resist. Yet it
may be exactly what he's teaching us to do.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh, God is able to meets you right way, y'all,
even why you wait?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. When your heart
or your spirit feel like they're breaking, what you want
is relief, not patience. But today, doctor Evans explains that
there's a point behind the process you're in, even if
(00:42):
it's painful. Let's turn to Isaiah forty as doctor Evans
gets us into our lesson for today, is.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Writing to his people who are tired of waiting? Why
do you say? Verse twenty seven ask the question, Old Jacob,
oh is real? My way is hidden from the Lord justice?
Do me escapes the notice of my God? Or to
put it in our everyday nomenclature? It's not fair? He
(01:13):
raises the problem of waiting. The readers were discouraged and
weary of waiting.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
The question was when is God gonna keep his word?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Now, this is not a bunch of atheists who are
wondering does God exist? They're raising a much more practical question.
Since God exists, why am I waiting? And you know
how it is when you wait and wait and wait,
panic sets in. You always know when people are tired
(01:49):
of waiting, they move from singing the gospel to sing
in the blues. Some folk, when they get tired of waiting,
flip from experience to expence. They want to be propped up,
and so they want to forget the fact that they're
having to wait for whatever it is that they're waiting for,
and so they run to this experience or that experience.
(02:12):
It could be alcohol or drugs, it could be any
number of things. But it's designed to help them to
forget that they're waiting. You see, they have made the
proverbial mistake that if God is silent, he must also
be still. They concluded, if I can't see God doing something,
(02:37):
then inevitably he must be doing nothing because I don't
see God. God told Noah it was gonna rain, and
he had to wait one hundred and twenty years before
he saw one drop Hannah wanted a baby, and she
(02:59):
had to wait until God supernaturally moved. Many years later,
Ruth wanted a husband, and she had to wait.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Rebecca waited for justice.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Jesus told the disciples they were gonna have to wait
for penny cost verse twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
The everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends
of the earth, does not become weary or tired. His
understanding is inscrutable. How do you wait when you have
no choice but to wait? He says, in the context
of waiting, you must know the character of God. And
(03:54):
when you have to wait in silence and in cold weather,
and when your circumstances are and cloudy and rainy. He
appeals to what you know about God as the basis
of your waiting. He says, God is an everlasting God.
(04:15):
He doesn't look at your clock to determine his plan.
Time is different for him than it is for us.
The second thing he wants you to know about God
is that he.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Is the creator. God. Not only does he.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Operate outside of your clock, but he operates outside of
your clock with the ability to do anything he wants
when he chooses to do it. Without any raw materials
to use to get it done. So don't get all
bent out of shape because he's operating silently.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You don't know what in the world is doing.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You don't know why he's taking so long, because you're
wasting your time. His understanding is inscrutable. That's what makes
him God. Well, then how am I supposed to make
it when I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Where he is.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't know what he's doing. The justice do me
isn't coming to me. He's got all his power, He's
got this new clock. I don't understand. I in no
world am I gonna make it? Well, here's how you're
gonna make it. While you wait. He gets strength to
the weary. Let me say that again. He gives strength
(05:29):
to the weary. I can't tell you when you breakthrough
gonna come because he hadn't told me. I can't tell you,
but he told me something I can't tell you. While
you're waiting, he will give you new strength and notice
(05:51):
it says he gives it. You don't have to earn it,
you don't have to work for it. He grants it
to those who are where read So the only qualification
you have to have to get the new strength while
you wait is to be weary. You say, well, how
(06:12):
come I don't have the strength yet? Because you're not
weary yet. You say, don't tell me I'm not weary.
You don't know me or my mama. Don't tell me
that I am not weary.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You're not weary. How do you know I'm not weary?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Because you're still trying to make it happen in your
own strength, so you're not weary. To be weary is
to come to the end of your resources. It is
to say to God, if you don't, I can't, that's weary.
But if you're still manipulating, trying to make it happen
(06:54):
in the flesh, trying to create it through your own strength,
you are not faint enough yet. Great verses Second Peter
two nine and says God knows how to deliver the
godly out of their trials, so he does not have
an ability problem.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
He knows how to bring a change quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
But he wants you in a totally dependent position weary.
Now you can become weary voluntarily or mandatorily. I mean,
he can put you in a situation until you get weary,
or you can decide I'm weary upfront, Come on, weary,
call me my middle name, weary, weary.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, you don't like that, call me faint.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'll be whatever you want me to be, and while
you wait, While you are waiting, he.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Will replenish you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
New stream young men verse thirty seves grow weary entire.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So it's not about how old you are.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh, if I were twenty years younger, I could handle list.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
God said, no, No.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I know some tied young folk, young folk walking around
like all folks, young folks who want to give up,
young folks who throw their lives away. Youth does not
solve this problem. Young men grow weary and tire. In fact,
vigorous young men stumble badly.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Athletes vigorous young men.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It's a reference to athletes, athletes who are wild conditioned.
So it's not about your shape, how much work out
you do, it's not about.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Any of that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now, I know what you're saying. Okay, help me, help me,
because I'm about to quit. I'm about to throw in
the towel. I hear this god stuff every week. I
hear every Wednesday, I heard every Sunday. My circumstance hasn't changed,
and I am tired.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Help me. I'm tired of my marriage, I'm tired of
my work, I'm tired of my life. I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And if you don't give me something that is something
from God that will give me a new feeling, and
I can't make it. I'm just so, so very very tired. Well,
Verse thirty one is for you. I know it looks
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like the justice do you is garden. I know you're tired,
and I know you can't figure out the inscrutable. But
Verse thirty one is one you can bike on.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
It's yours even though you're tired. They that wait upon
the Lord.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings
like egos. They will run and not faint, they will
walk and not get weary.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
In a moment, doctor Evans will return with a look
at what spiritual refreshment feels like when it comes along.
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The word wait in Hebrew is an interesting word. It
was used in.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
The process of making rope. Rope is a collection of
strands that have been knitted together. The more strands, the
thicker the rope. So you can have small rope or
big rope. It just depends on how many strands of
string you put together. It starts off with one single strand.
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It's weary. In other words, the rope will break if
you feel like you're about to break. If you're hanging
on by watch this a thread that means you have
not become yet. A rope for a rope, even though
it's one rope is not one strand. It is a
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compilation of strands knitted together to make.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
One thick rope.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The word weight was the process of stranding one strand
of string after another, again and again and again and again,
until you wind up with a rope and you understand
one string will break, one rope does not. Why does
one believer quit and another not quit when they're in
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the same situation. Why does one believer throw in the
towel and another one keeps on keeping on when they're in.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The same situation.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Why does one single live in misery and another single
lives in victory when both are looking to God for
a maid because one is hanging on to a string
and the other one is hanging on to a rope.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Waiting on the Lord involves one other thing. It involves worship.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Because to wait on the Lord was also to wait
before the Lord, and involves worship. It was being in
his presence. His presence is what gives you the ability
to handle the time deli.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
While you're waiting, which is the frustration of time.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
He wants you to wait in his presence, And what
he is suggesting is, as David said, in his presence
is joy. Evermore, what God does is supply the emptiness
of your weight. With the veracity of his joy, so
that the weight is tolerable.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
God wants us to wait on.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Him, to entertain his presence, and he gives three things
he will do. One they will mount up with wings
his eagles. He's giving you the three ways he will
give new strength. And by the way, let me define
new strength. The word new strength means to exchange our
weakness for his strength. The second way is that you
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run and you don't get tired. I call this God's interaction.
His interaction is where he becomes your jogging buddy. It's
a big difference running alone and running with somebody, especially
if the somebody is a better runner than you. They
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will talk you in and not quitting when you would
have stopped a long time ago, because their interaction with
you causes you to forget about the fact that you're running.
That's why some of you jog with earphones on. So
when you hear your favorite songsm don.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You know you're not thinking about running anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You got this interaction.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Going on in your ear.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
So now you all of a sudden, you are haffing
in puffing one minute, and now you're singing along with
the song the next minute.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Because somebody is running with you.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That's why you need to body your Christ, because you
need somebody jogging with you. You need somebody to remind
you that's gonna be okay. You're gonna make it. Keep on,
keeping on, don't quit. That's when God runs with you.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Sometime you're walking, I can't run no more. Loads too heavy.
They that walk.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Will not become weary. I was carrying some things to
a meeting that I had to go to when I
was at the airport, and I had a bag in
his hand and a heavy box of pamphlets in this
hand because I didn't want to deal with baggage and
have to go down the baggage claiming all of that.
So I carried it. But I had to catch my flight.
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Nobody swooped down to help me. Nobody anything to help
me with my load. So I started running with this
heavy box in my bag, and I couldn't run no more.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Sit Now I'm walking because it's just too heavy.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I can't run no more. That's when I saw it
moving sidewalk. I went over to the moving sidewalk and
I stood there and let it carry me. That's God's
inner action.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It's where you're too tired to run. You can't.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You don't have your get up and go. It's gotten
up and gone. You don't have any energy. And he
comes underneath you and bears you along so that you
can at least walk. Either way though same result, new strength,
not weary. You won't think you're gonna make it. You
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gonna make it. They that wait on the Lord, she'll
get a new capacity to keep going until the change comes.
And sometimes God's gonna whoop down and deliver you out
of it. Other times God's gonna just jog with you
and talk to you while you're running the race. Other
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time God is gonna come underneath you and bear you
along because the load's too heavy and you can barely walk.
Either one of the three ways will result in the
same thing, new capacity.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I know you're tired.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
When is my situation gonna change?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I know you're weary? When am I gonna stop hurting
like this?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I know you're frustrated the needs are not fully being met.
But I got a verse. They that wait on the
Lord choving you this straight. Little boy one day went
to the grocery store with his mother. His mother was
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in a harry. She had places to go things to do,
people to see. She said, boy, that's going here, get
our stuff and go. As they were pushing the carts,
he saw some chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
In the aisle.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
He said, Mama, please for some chocolate chip cookies. She said,
I told you.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Boy, I mean Hellry, no chocolate chip cookies today.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
We gotta go. She went down another hour, but he
couldn't forget those chocolate chip cookies. He said, Mama, Mama,
please let me go get some chocolate chip cookies. She said, boy,
I told you I'm in a harry. We can I
get chocolate chip cookies today. You don't need chocolate chip cookies.
I am sorry, no chocolate chip cookies. She went on
continued the shopping. He jumped off the cart, went and
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found that our with the chocolate chip cookies. Went up there,
picked up two packs of chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Ran back in his mind said.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Mama, look I got the chocolate chip cookies. She said, boy,
I told you you're not getting old chocolate chip cookies.
Take those chocolate chip cookies back. With tears coming down
his eyes, he went back and took back the chocolate
chip cookies, got back.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
In the car. Then the mama came to the checkout line.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
The mama is in the checkout line waiting to check
out because mama's in a hurry. She's got places to go,
things to do, and people to see. While his mama
is waiting in the checkout line, the little boy gets
up and he says, shall we pray? He stands in
the car. He says, Lord Jesus.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
My mama won't let.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Me have no chocolate chip cookies. I want to let
you know that I trust in you. You are my God,
and you are my savior, and I believe that you
can turn this thing around and make my mama give
me some chocolate chip cookies. All the folks and all
the checkout lines begin the clap for the little boy.
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How's the little boy praying for his chocolate chip cookies.
The mama was so embarrassed she went into the eye
pick out the chocolate chip cookies, brought them back to
the car, and the little boy had his chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Some of you are in the checkout line. You want to.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Check out of your marriage, you want to check out
of your circumstances, You want to check out of your situation.
But if you become like the little boy and stand
up and say, Jesus, you know my situation. Jesus, you
know my problem, and I'm calling on you.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Jesus.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
You won't check out till you get your blessing. You
won't check out till you get your cookies. Don't check
out until you call on Jesus. For they that wait
on the Lord shall get new straight. They were mounted
up with wings as egles. They will running and not
get tired. They will walk and not get weary. Somebody
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are to praise him for new stray. Somebody ore to
praise him for new energy. Our God is able to
meet you right where you are, even while you wait.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Doctor Tony Evans talking about the peace and power that
grow out of patience in the Lord. Now, if today's
lesson has reminded you that nothing else can fully satisfy
your heart but God, you'll want to go deeper with
doctor Evans's book, God Himself. It's a journey into the
wonder of who God is and how his presence restores
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what's missing in our lives. Learn how to move from
knowing about God to truly experiencing Him day by day.
You can get your copy when you make a contribution
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Starved Journey to the Source, and it'll help you discover
not only why we long for God, but how we
can go about satisfying that deep rooted need. Make the
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Resource Team members anytime of the day or night at
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Tonyevans dot org or by phone at one eight hundred
eight hundred three two two two. You know, a car
without an engine can look good, but it's not going
to take you very far. Tomorrow, Doctor Evans explains that
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the same is true of a Christian without the power
of the Holy Spirit in their life. I hope you'll
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