You Won’t Faint

Isaiah 40:28-31 “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary.

His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, And to [those who have] no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,

But those who wait on 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.”

In this portion we see the strength of God. And many times we have said He is our strength and song. God never faints or grow weary, and if indeed He is dwelling in oneness of Spirit with us, as 1 Corithians 6:17 states, then that strength becomes our strength!

Notice how that portion of scripture ends. Those who wait on the Lord … shall walk and NOT FAINT. It’s no wonder Jesus in Luke 18:1 tells us “… men ought always to pray, and not to faint;”

I perceive that by the time He is mentioning this, He has already understood that the God (& His Spirit) who faints not will enable us pray since they do not faint. And after all, Paul confesses later, that it is God who “…  works us both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure (Phil 2:13)”

Him in us means He’ll pray in and through us, and so we won’t faint (or grow weary). This applies to other spiritual exercises and disciplines, such as fasting, giving, tithing, reading the Word, forgiving, loving, and being patient. In all these (and more) you shall not faint! For the God who enables you shall not faint!

The sufficiency isn’t yours. It is His! The fuel needed isn’t yours. It is His!