Waiting Upon the Lord – Part 3
Dr. Pradeep Stephen

Praise the Lord and thank you for joining us for part 3 and the conclusion of the message Waiting Upon the Lord. May the Lord strengthen you and encourage you in the final part of the series, as you learn to trust Him for all of your needs and soar high like an eagle in the heavens for His glory. Let’s listen.
God gives us vision from a vantage point of the heavenlies. We literally get strengthened in our spirit so that we get transcended above the problems. Only then can we can see. God can’t get us to see until we make a decision to wait upon Him. But He says, “If you do wait upon me, I will show you that you can mount up with wings as eagle.”
Thirdly, He says, “You will run, and not be weary; you will walk, and not faint. “The things that you need to run for, exerting great effort” the Lord says, “When you reach your limitation humanly; I will take you beyond the limitation, beyond the material existence. I am going to go and take you beyond what you are capable of.” That’s supernatural. Then it says, “They will walk and not faint.” Why did he include that? The running is a big challenge. It takes great effort. It’s a sudden burst of energy. It’s a big thing, but then there is the endurance. They will walk and not faint. They keep walking, they keep walking; step by step. Run the race; walk the walk. Running the race is a bigger picture of that thrust that, “I am going to go, and do the great things for God.” “But can I pray daily, consistently? Can I fight the good fight of faith every time I get attack from the enemy? Can I hold the intercessory prayer for someone without failing?” That’s walking and not fainting; continuing, enduring. So in one verse, in one picture of the eagle, the Lord says, “They that wait upon Me, like the eagle; they will renew their strength, they will mount up with wings as eagles; they will run, and not be weary; they will walk, and they won’t faint.”
The question is tonight as we close; “Do you wait on the Lord? Are you waiting on the Lord for something today, tonight? Or are you not waiting on the Lord? Are you taking your Christian experience casually, sort of taking it as it comes?” “I read a little, I pray a little, but I don’t gather myself together and say, I will choose a set time to wait upon the Lord Jehovah, who has promised that as I do trusting in Him for transformation; I will be transformed. For some blessing I will transcend. He is going to develop me and make me to sit with Him and to know what that means; rising above my problems tonight. And the Lord is going to cause me finally to triumph. I will obtain the prize. I will obtain the blessing. I will not be defeated because the Lord is with me. I waited upon the Lord.” It says, in many instances in the Bible, those that wait upon the Lord they won’t be put to shame. (Psalm 25:3a) When they look to the Lord, their faces would be radiant (Psalm 34:5). God says, “All of My blessings, all of My victory is yours, if you wait upon Me.  I will invigorate you and I will establish you. I will fortify you and I will give you the victory.” All of this for us!
Do you wait upon the Lord? If you don’t have the habit of waiting upon the Lord, if you still trust yourself; your intellect, your physical stamina, your ability, your achievements; then wait upon the Lord and not upon yourselves. Waiting on the Master, it says in the Psalms, are those who look unto Him for the reward. (Psalm 123:2a) We not only look unto the Lord out of obedience to please Him. But also for the reward as a servant to the master, as a servant waits upon the Lord. Blessed is the servant that waits on his Master, on the Lord. When we are waiting upon Him, we are looking to see what He is doing. While we are dying to our self; we are saying, “Lord, You know, I don’t know. You can, even if I can’t. With You, all things are possible.” My impossibility becomes God’s possibility. Or as someone said man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. With God all things are possible.
So if you wait on the Lord, God will do this. But, do you wait on the Lord? And do you do it consistently? Someone says, “I don’t have anything to wait on the Lord for.” The greatest thing is to go to the Lord to ask Him, “Lord transform me.” As I said, no matter what we wait on the Lord for, we will be transformed when we are waiting correctly; waiting in faith, believing. But you can go to Him. If you don’t know anything to wait upon Him for, if there is no deliverance from demonic possession or deliverance from some sickness that you can think of, if there’s no waiting on the Lord for better job or waiting on the Lord for a believing spouse, waiting on the Lord for other things; in your walk with Him, in ministry, certain things that look impossible, or look challenging that you can’t face. If you are not looking to the Lord for those things at the very basic level, you can say, “Lord, I need to begin to wait upon You, so that You can change me. Make me more like Jesus.” And you pray to the Lord every day like that and then the Lord will help you rise above the dreary, monotonous, boring, pseudo Christian life.
There are people who call themselves Christians, who have charged this Christian way of being boring, monotonous and so on. The reason is that’s a false Christian experience. They are not paying attention to the scriptures at all. They are not doing anything about what that God said to do. But when we listen to the Lord and we wait upon Him; we will begin to be revitalized, we will have the energy, we will have the worship, experience, and everything will come into play; the Lord will do that for us. So let’s start, if we haven’t waited upon Him. Set aside time to seek the Lord, to worship Him, and to trust Him; and to know that as you wait in His presence; like King David, He will allow you to see Him more clearly, gaze upon His beauty. And in the process, like looking in the mirror, we will be transformed. God will do that. As we close our eyes, let’s say to the Lord, “Lord, I want to be like that creature you described, that majestic creature. That even that majestic creature, goes through a dying process but only to be revitalized. Lord, I need to be dead to me so that Christ can live through me. Christ can be seen more and more.” So let’s look to the Lord in prayer. I trust that the Lord has helped you to get a greater insight into what waiting upon Him means. We all need to wait upon the Lord. Praise the Lord!
“Heavenly Father, we thank You. Thank You Lord for this marvelous scripture that You have given, Lord, that they that wait upon the Lord, they shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, they shall walk, and not faint. Heavenly Father, Lord, I pray help us Lord to take this word to heart. Help us, Lord, to truly ask, ‘If I am waiting upon the Lord or I am waiting upon the clock?’ Jesus, help us not to wait upon this material, physical existence. Help us not to look at the calendar and trust the calendar. Help us not to trust destiny or faith, Lord, apart from You. Lord, help us to have that surrender that the Lord will perfect that which concerns me. He will take care of me. I am looking to Him, hallelujah, to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. One day, Lord, You will cause us to come forth like the eagle that goes through the dying process in secret as its waiting, so we, we die to our self in secret as we wait upon the Lord. And in full view of the universe, You cause us to come forth triumphant like the Lord Jesus, for we shall see Him as He is. Thank You Lord! Father, I pray Lord, that You will help each one of us, to take the things that we have carried as a burden, that we have looked to man for help. We have looked to our own strength; how such strength we have, how much gas we have in our car; rather than looking upon You.
Lord, help us to take everything in stride according to your spiritual instructions that we may have a prosperous life, go through this journey. Whatever darkness there is, whatever valley there is; we will be transcending above it and through it; to the heights with Jesus in the light, with Jesus, hallelujah! That no problem will stand against us and succeed. Lord, that we will be transformed during the process of waiting on the Lord, believing the Lord for deliverance, for victory, for transformation. Lord, that then we will triumph because God said it so! Hallelujah! Because You said we will triumph; because Jesus is triumphant, all His followers will be triumphant. Glory be to God! Thank You Father. Everything Lord, that people listening and the people that will listen for myself included, that we have committed unto You, as we wait upon You., bring it to pass Oh Father, for Your Glory, in Jesus Name. Amen!
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And He shall renew your strength!
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