Soaring With Your Strengths
Isaiah 40:28-31
Pastor Carl Toti
October 8-9, 2022
WORLDVIEW SEGMENT
“INFORMED TO PLAY EMPOWERED TO ACT.”
1 Chronicles 12:32
“of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do…”
MARIJUANA MADNESS
Sixteen percent of Americans say they currently smoke marijuana with 48% of respondents sharing that they have tried it at some point in their life. —Gallup poll
Marijuana use was higher among adults between the ages of 18 and 34 with 30% responding that they smoke pot and 22% consume marijuana edibles. Adults 35 to 54 years old (16%) and Americans 55 and older (7%).—Gallup poll
The average cannabis joint is 4-5 times stronger than it was 50 years ago, with 20-25 percent THC potency. Concentrates and edibles are engineered to be more addicting by profit-seeking pot firms and are 100 percent potent, legalization implies that there is no risk with marijuana use, and we know that there is.”
—Kevin Sabet, anti-legalization advocate.
Soaring With Your Strengths
October 8-9, 2022
Isaiah 40:28-31
Isaiah 40:28-31 (NIV)
[28] Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. [29] He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. [30] Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; [31] but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
MAIN IDEA: Sometimes the best way to overpower a weakness is by playing to your strengths. And God gives strength to the weary.
Acts 27:44 (KJV)
And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
1. We Must Wait
“…But they that wait upon the Lord…”
What it is to wait upon the Lord.
(1) Service
(2) Expectations
(3) Patience.
2. Renewal
“…shall renew their strength…”
3. Mount up“
…they shall mount up with wings as eagles…”
Deuteronomy 33:25 (KJV)
25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
