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00:00Hello everyone, this is William Chambers. It is good to be here with you all.
00:04The sun is shining good. It's nice and clear outside.
00:09Let us look into the Word of God.
00:13Birds are chirping.
00:15But anyway, let's look into the Word of God.
00:17If I had a title for today's message, I would call it
00:21When You're Emotionally Exhausted But Still Trusting God.
00:30Oh, I'm tired, Lord. I'm so tired, but I'm trusting you still.
00:37That's a tough place to be.
00:39I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
00:46Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart.
00:52Wait, I say, on the Lord.
00:55David today is facing the reality of emotional exhaustion.
01:01And I'm so glad he is, so that we don't have to be fake and phony like we don't get
01:06tired.
01:07Because sometimes we're so pressured to act like, I got it all together, and I'm fine.
01:11I'm perfectly, I'm blessed of the Lord.
01:13Sometimes, oh Lord, help us. I can talk about this too low.
01:15But this text today tells us that great men of faith still battle discouragement, still battle heaviness.
01:24You can be a great man of faith or a great woman of faith and still be dealing with loneliness,
01:29battling it.
01:30You can be a great man or woman of faith and still be battling emotional fatigue.
01:35You still have battles, and sometimes you get tired.
01:40David here admits, he said, I had fainted.
01:45I was about to faint.
01:47I was about to give up emotionally.
01:49Emotionally collapse during this prolonged season of grief, sorrow, whatever he was facing.
01:55David admits that without renewed confidence in God, he would have collapsed under the weight of his troubles.
02:04Sometimes I feel just like that.
02:07About to collapse under the weight of my troubles.
02:10Many believers silently carry exhaustion in their hearts.
02:18They're weary from rejection, weary from family burdens, just problems and issues in your family.
02:26Weary from spiritual warfare, just dealing with spiritual situations will wear you out.
02:32If you're betrayed, worry about betrayal, that'll wear you down.
02:37Mentally fatigued.
02:40They're weary from long seasons of waiting.
02:43I've been waiting on this just so long.
02:45When is God going to come through?
02:46These things will make us weary at heart.
02:50The enemy, he often attacks weary believers with hopeless thoughts.
02:56While you're weary, the enemy will come up to you talking about, things are going to always be that way.
03:02It ain't going to never change.
03:04They're going to always treat you that way.
03:06Nobody ever cares about what you're doing.
03:10You might as well give up.
03:12You know you want to.
03:14The enemy comes along while you're tired to discourage you anymore.
03:18Your prayer to God is useless just to discourage me even more.
03:22And these are the battles that we as believers face.
03:24They're very real and it is what we go through.
03:27So, David, in this text, gives us the anchor that keeps a weary soul alive.
03:36There is an anchor that keeps us holding on.
03:39David said, unless I believe, he said, my faith held me.
03:46It was my faith.
03:48Oh, God, unless I believe to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living,
03:54I would have fainted if I didn't believe that God was still going to come through.
03:59I'm going to see his goodness.
04:01He ain't done for me.
04:02Even though I'm going through a season, I'm still expecting him to move.
04:06It's been a long time, but I'm still expecting.
04:08And David said, I would have fainted if I didn't believe that I would see with my eyes
04:12the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
04:14I still believe.
04:16So, he still has faith.
04:17David focused on God's character rather than his changing feelings.
04:22It wasn't my changing feelings.
04:23My changing feelings was always changing on me, fluctuating all the time.
04:27But what helped me was my faith in God, my faith in his character,
04:31my faith in his goodness, my faith in his mercy,
04:34that he would still be good unto me.
04:38That's what helped me through the storms.
04:41Our faith has a way of pushing against hopelessness.
04:47So I don't fall all the way off into despair and discouragement.
04:51My faith keeps on pushing against him.
04:55Our faith says things like, God is still able.
05:01No, you're going through this, that, and the other, and it's pressing down on you.
05:05But God is still able.
05:08Able to what?
05:08God is still able to restore.
05:12God, no matter what you're going through there, your faith will be saved.
05:16God is still able to strengthen you.
05:17I need to hear that because the devil talking.
05:20I need faith to speak back and push back against the pressure in this world.
05:25Your faith will say, God is still able to bring peace in your life.
05:31Whatever.
05:32Your faith will say, God is still able to bring unexpected mercy into your life.
05:40That's why I need my faith to be speaking.
05:43Oh, that's why the Bible says faith coming by hearing.
05:46I need to be hearing that word to strengthen my faith.
05:49So in times of sorrow, my faith has something to work with.
05:53Oh, he got that word, that's speaking that word back unto me so that we're able to stand.
05:58Thank you, Lord.
06:00David commands us.
06:02He says, wait on the Lord.
06:04Be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart.
06:06The command is wait on the Lord.
06:09Waiting can feel painful because it forces believers to live without immediate closure.
06:17I got this betrayal going on and I don't know how God's going to deal with it.
06:22I'm forced.
06:23It's not closed, but I got to live with that while keeping my faith in God.
06:27They talking about me and I might lose my job and I don't know how it's going to go.
06:32But I got to live without immediate closure while I'm believing on God.
06:37I got this health situation and I don't know how I'm going to make it through.
06:42But I have all these unanswered questions.
06:45I don't have closure in my life.
06:48What the mind wants is closure.
06:49So we know, we want to move by what we know.
06:52But sometimes you just got to wait on God and move by faith.
06:55God does not just command waiting in this passage.
06:57He's saying, if you wait on me, I'll supply strength for your waiting.
07:04Strength while I'm waiting.
07:05God won't leave me alone in the wait.
07:08I'm going to strengthen you to help you to be able to wait.
07:11Many times God sustains the heart before he resolves the trial.
07:15The trial will be going on in your life.
07:18God said, I'm not going to remove that trial right now.
07:20I'm going to sustain you in the trial.
07:23I'm going to hold you up.
07:24Well, God, if you're not going to remove the trial,
07:28I'm so glad that you will hold me up so I can stand in the trial.
07:31God said, I'll give you strength in the trial.
07:33He shall strengthen thine heart.
07:37The exhaustive believer often prays, Lord, remove this burden, please.
07:42But God sometimes first answers, I will strengthen you while you carry it.
07:49I'm not going to remove the burden.
07:51I'm going to strengthen you to enable you to carry it.
07:54I'm going to empower you to enable you to carry it.
07:58What does that mean practically?
07:59Basically, God supplies heart strength, and this includes renewed hope.
08:05God said, I'm going to give you some renewed hope.
08:06Have you ever been going through something and then you've got a wind of renewed hope?
08:12Maybe it was a word.
08:14Or something encouraging, something someone did that was encouraging, that gave you renewed hope.
08:20Or God will give you some renewed peace.
08:23You were stressed out.
08:25But there was something that came into your life, brought some peace in your life, a word from the Lord.
08:30Oftentimes, it's the word for me.
08:31But sometimes it's some encouragement by a believer or something God does that I didn't expect.
08:36Some unexpected mercy.
08:39God said, I'll give you, I'm not going to completely move it, but I'll give you an unexpected mercy.
08:43I'll give you a little money to make it through.
08:45I'm not going to completely take away the financial problem, but here's a little something, something to give you a
08:50little air to breathe.
08:52The unexpected mercy.
08:54Sometimes God will give you a renewed unexpected mercy.
08:57Sometimes God will give you a renewed perspective.
08:59Oh, God.
09:00God did that for me just the other day.
09:02He helped me to look at something different.
09:04Sometimes it's just the way you're looking at it wrong.
09:06I'm going to give you another way to look at that thing.
09:08Now it's a little easier to carry because you're looking at it different.
09:11These are renewed mercies of God.
09:14Sometimes God will give you some renewed confidence in him.
09:18You'll hear what God brought somebody else out of.
09:20You say, well, if God brought them out of that, he could probably bring me.
09:24Oh, Lord.
09:25Oh, God has a way of strengthening our hearts.
09:28Lord, bring renewal into my life.
09:31Well, what am I talking about?
09:32Now, when you're emotionally exhausted, you can still trust in God.
09:38You can still trust that God will be good to you.
09:42And that will act as an anchor in your life, holding you through the trial until God removes it.
09:51Oh, you got to thank your God because he gives you strength in the midst of the trial.
09:55Help us, oh God.
09:56Help us, oh God.