Do Not Get Ahead of God

• You’re watching KCMI TV. Well, let’s get into the word of the Lord today. And uh early this morning, I was I really didn’t have a leading and I went to the Lord in prayer. I said, “God, what do you want me to talk about today?” And uh God brought this verse to my mind and it’s a familiar verse.
• Uh they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. This is out of Isaiah uh chapter 40. But I want to go back to some preceding verses and we’re going to start in verse 28. Says, “Hast thou not known and hast thou not heard the everlasting God?” I like that. Everlasting. He’s not temporary. The Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth.
• It’s interesting the different uh nouns that God has put in this verse to describe himself. Everlasting God and the ends of the earth and the creator. Uh he fainth not neither is weary and there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint, to them that have no might. He increases their strength. Even the young or the youth shall faint and be weary, and young men shall utterly fall, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
• They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They’re going to run and not be weary. And they are going to walk and not faint. And uh I think one of the hardest things uh for me to learn and I’m sure for many of you in your walk with the Lord is learning not to get ahead of God. Because when you get ahead of God, now God is not leading, but you are.
• And God said this. He said, “My ways are not your ways.” And so the scripture says, “There’s a way that seemth right unto man, but the end thereof is death.” And uh especially for people that are uh they’re gifted, they’re able to build things, they’re able to be leaders, and if they’re not careful, uh we can learn to rely on our own strength to try to accomplish the kingdom of God.
• And that gets you in a dangerous place because you shift from really building the kingdom of the Lord and you shift into trying to achieve your own purpose. And so when Isaiah is writing here and he says this, he says, “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” And so it seems to me that the scripture is inferring that there are going to be times that our strength needs to be renewed.
• And um that can only mean that we’ve gone through a season to where we’ve used up our own strength. that and I think that’s what happens when we don’t rely on the Lord to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. Uh there’s a scripture that that talks about this. It says be not weary in welloing.
• And I I think the reason that we get weary. So first of all, God never intended for us to get wore out building his kingdom. And when people who are trying to build the kingdom of the Lord get weary, it it really says this that you’re doing it in your own strength. And when you do things in your own strength, it means you’re not leaning on the Lord.