Fall 1978
Wait on the Lord – Wait, I Say, on the Lord

Jim Brown
Graduate, Pinecrest Bible Training Center

“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.” Psalm 27:14

As we look through the Scripture, we find portrayed the true hearts’ desire of the Father for a people who will be willing to be renewed with the strength of the Lord. For in His strength He shall come forth within us as we wait on Him and grow and learn to know His desire.

All that He asks and says, however, is utterly impossible to be fulfilled by natural abilities and can only be realized by the exchanging of our weakness for His strength. But in order for us to partake of His strength we must wait upon Him. Those who will spend time in His presence with a waiting attitude will find an exchanging of their life for His, thus, coming up to a greater awakening for the separation from earthly things into heavenly things. For the Christian life is not a changed life, but rather an exchanged life.

It is only as we wait upon the Lord that we can mount upwards with winds of the Spirit; rising to the great heights and depths of the heavenlies—seeing as it were with a birds-eye view circumstances and situations. Then we are able to move on in faith as we look at matters through the eyes of the Spirit, because we are seated together with Christ in the heavenlies.

O, I pray that God might show us the precious secret of waiting upon Him, having our weakness exchanged of His strength. Then shall we walk and run without weakness or fainting, having the life of the Lord lived through us. Life is not something we ourselves can produce, for we are dependent upon God. So let us, as A.W. Tozer says, “Unplug from our little finite human battery into the infinite power of God.” “Wait, I say, on the Lord.”