GOD IS SURELY DEPENDABLE: PASTOR J.F ODESOLA – RCCG ONLINE CENTRAL DIGGING DEEP SERVICE TEACHING, 30TH MARCH, 2021
RCCG ONLINE CENTRAL DIGGING DEEP SERVICE TEACHING.
MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA (CONTINENTAL OVERSEER IN CHARGE OF ADMIN/ PERSONNEL AND MIDDLE EAST, RCCG)
TOPIC: GOD IS SURELY DEPENDABLE
DATE: 30TH MARCH, 2021 (REPEAT OF 23RD FEBRUARY 2021)
TEXT: ISAIAH 40:27-31
We Bless the Name of the Lord for the Rendition of the Choir. We believe God for their lives; that from Glory to Glory they will go.
And this Season of our Waiting upon the Lord: “GOD BLESS YOU”, in Jesus’ Name – Amen!
Shall we just Pray?
SONG
Dependable, Dependable Lord;
Dependable Lord Dependable,
Dependable Lord!
Reliable, Reliable Lord,
Reliable Lord;
Reliable, Reliable Lord!
OPENING PRAYER
Father Almighty. The Most Dependable. The Most Reliable. The Unchangeable Changer. We bow our heads and hearts!
Thank You because You are there for us; Thank You that Seasons go and Sessos come but You remain Constant.
Because You are Constant, we can rely on You; because You are Constant, Your act is Constant – We say THANK YOU.
Thank You for the things that You are doing for us; Thank You for what You are doing in this season!
Despite and in spite of all the challenges around us, You are Faithful, You are Reliable, You are Dependable.
Accept our Thanks, in the Name of Jesus!
We worship Your Name oh God for another Privilege to come and Study.
Oh God of heaven, open our hearts together, that You will teach us the Word of God.
Holy Spirit, we have sought Your face for what You will enable us to teach today. Please, nobody who will be Part of this Digging Deep will be the same again.
Lord, You will increase the tempo of our Trust and You will stir our hearts to depend upon You much more.
Thank You, our Maker!
We Thank You for our Father-in-the-Lord, who has given us the Platform. Lord, continue to encourage and increase him.
Himself and our Mummy (His Dear Wife); God’s Glory will not cease from their lives.
And for everyone who has written for Prayers Request, Lord Answer them!
All the Questions we cannot tackle, You the Holy Spirit, the Great Teacher will give answers to those questions.
We Thank You, our Father!
Today, I surrender my head, my mouth, my heart – I don’t know anything, but I Pray that Your Wisdom will come into Action. And that no one who will be Part of this Study today will remain the same.
Thank You Eternal Father! We give You Glory, we give You Honour, we give You Praise.
In Jesus’ Most Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!
GOD BLESS YOU – Amen!
We want to appreciate God for today. And I want to appreciate my father in the Lord for the Privilege.
God will continually keep you Sir. And God will be with you Sir! It is well with your family, in Jesus’ Name – Amen!
Today, we will be looking at: GOD IS SURELY DEPENDABLE.
And when you say He is Dependable, He is also Reliable. When you say He is Reliable, you can count on Him.
When every Pillar gives way, you can count on Him, because He is available.
… That is what it means!
Isaiah 40:27-31:
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my Judgement is Passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the Earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of His Understanding.
29 He giveth Power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth Strength.
30 Even the Youths shall faint and be weary, and the Young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their Strength; they shall mount up with wings as Eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
God Bless the reading and hearing of His Words in our hearts, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!
These verses are Loaded – Loaded in the sense that, in the dark moment in Babylon, when they were faced with disappointments! the Faithful ramnants in that Particular Land needed Hope and Comfort. And these Hope and Comfort had to end given by the Prophets Ordained by God.
When you look at Isaiah 40, it is often referred to as: “The Second Phase of the Ministry of Prophet Isaiah”.
In fact, they said these are the Second Part of the Book of Isaiah.
The Book is in Part, and Chapter 40 is the Second Part of the Book of Isaiah. And it is intended to give assurance to the Faithful.
And more so, the Seventieth (70th) Year is when the Captivity of Babylon was approaching.
So in Isaiah 40:27-31, the Prophet Isaiah teaches us Great Truth about God; Great Truth that brings Healing, Assurance and Hope to the People who are distressed, and those who are in sorrows.
And I believed that this Passage is also very Practical for those of us in this Part of the world: that you can Rely on God; that God is Dependable.
Under any circumstance of suffering, loss or grief, and insecurity, you can rely on Him.
There are THREE (3) BASIC THINGS ABOUT GOD that we want to deal with today from Isaiah 40:27-31.
- GOD IS AWARE.
You know God is called, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent – God is aware!
To the People that are tempted, to be Patient because God is aware!
In Isaiah 40:27, He says: “Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is Passed over from my God? “
Why do you think that way? Why do you make such reckless charges against the Almighty?
He said to Abraham in Genesis 17:1 – ‘I Am the ALMIGHTY.’
God repeated the same Message to Moses in Exodus 3:14 – ‘I AM.’
Isaiah 40:28 says: “Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the Earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of His Understanding.”
God is aware of what befalls His People; He is aware of what we are going through in this Part of the World.
There may be mistrust, insecurity and the likes. And we may be tempted to think that God has forsaken us – No, He is aware!
Psalms 1:6 says; “For the LORD knoweth the way of the Righteous: but the way of the Ungodly shall Perish.”
… Aren’t you glad, that He knows your way?
Those who Jesus said in Isaiah 40; went through the darkest moment of their lives in Captivity, Oppressed, Depressed, Beaten, Persecuted, Pushed aside.
Even in the midst of all those, God said He is aware and knows all they are going through.
Hence, we must let this settle in our subconsciousness; “Our ways are not hidden from the Lord”.
God is aware of all you are going through!
Maybe you have been Singing: “Nobody knows the Pain I am going through.”
But the ALL-KNOWING God, the Omniscient, is AWARE!
And I know as you are reading this Message now on the Label of DMC, because God wants to do something SPECIFIC – And He will do it for you – Amen!
… He’s AWARE.
- GOD IS ABLE.
Isaiah 40:28 says: “Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the Earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Because we are weak and weary, we tend to believe God is also weak and weary – Forgetting that He is the ALMIGHTY.
No! God is not a man at all.
When we are tired, we feel like quitting and we believed that God is also tired, and will also quit!
That is a wrong way to think and believe because GOD IS ABLE. He has the Capacity to DO ALL HE WANTS TO DO.
The Bible says Jehovah El Shaddai neither faints, nor is He weary. The Vastness of His wealth and depth of Power is overwhelming.
There is the other side of God, that you don’t know, I don’t know! It is simply Unfathomable.
But when you think about your weakness, your frailty, your Strength. And you now equate it to God’s; it is a wrong assumption.
Because God neither faints nor grow weary; especially, regarding all His Promises.
There is always the other side of God which no man knows
Pharaoh tried it – He Pursued the children of Israel into the Red Sea, only for him to discovered that it was too late to turn back!
God never fades, and there is no searching to His Understanding.
Isaiah 40:29-30 says:
“He giveth Power to the faint; and to them that have no Might He increaseth Strength. Even the Youths shall faint and be weary, and the Young men shall utterly fall:”
He is telling us here that even the Young People get tired and faint. Some may utterly fall. But the Creator neither faints no grow weary.
SEVEN (7) THINGS ABOUT GOD’S ABILITY.
I. He is ABLE.
Why? – Because He is the TRUE and the LIVING GOD.
Hebrews 10:31 says: God is a Living God.
Somebody Who is Living, Who knows how the World began. He alone knows the Foundation of Heaven and Earth.
II. He is ABLE to do – For He is neither inactive, He is neither Idle nor dead.
In Jeremiah 32:17, when Prophet Jeremiah encountered God, he concluded that – There is NOTHING that is too hard for God to do.”
III. He is ABLE to do what we ASK because He HEARS and ANSWER PRAYERS.
Jeremiah 33:3 says: “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and Mighty things, which thou knowest not.”
Matthew 7:7 says: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”
Isaiah 65:24 says: “And it shall come to Pass, that before they Call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”
He is ABLE to do what we ASK!
Are you going through issues in life? – ASK Him!
IV. He is ABLE to do what we ASK or IMAGINE.
For He can read your thoughts, and He can discern the intents of our hearts and imaginations – Hebrews 4:12B
And before you even ask, He can do those things anyway.
Ephesians 3:20 says;
“Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the Power that worketh in us,”
V. He is ABLE because He knows it ALL and He can PERFORM.
John 14:14 says: “If ye shall ask ANY THING in My Name, I will do it.”
May I ask you Sir/Ma, reading this Message now on the Label of DMC: Is there ANYTHING you want God to do for you?
Jesus, the Word from the Beginning says: ‘Ask ANY THING in My Name!’
VI. He is ABLE to do MORE because His Expectations are HIGHER than ours.
Isaiah 55:8-9 says: “For My Thoughts are not your Thoughts, neither are your Ways my Ways, saith the LORD. For as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so are my Ways Higher than your Ways, and my Thoughts than your Thoughts.”
VII. He is ABLE to do IMMEASURABLY; because His Power is UNLIMITED.
… There is no LIMIT as to what God can do!
We say God is Surely Dependable because: He is AWARE, He is ABLE. And the Third (3rd) things is that:
- GOD IS AVAILABLE.
He is AVAILABLE to renew the Strength of those who WAIT ON HIM – Isaiah 40:31
One might inquire: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WAIT ON HIM?
Let us understand this, it’s not a passive thing where we do nothing and expect Miracles. That is not waiting on our Living God.
No! That is ‘using’ God. Taking advantage of Him.
To WAIT on God means: “SINCERE and STEADY DEPENDENCE on Him, with an OBEDIENT Trust.”
It is not about your Needs alone!
It means leaning completely on God for Strength.
And this cannot be done without FAITH and OBEDIENCE.
All we need to do is to believe in God with a commitment of Active Obedience.
The more threatening and bold the Challenges of Persecutions, Insecurity, Oppression, Economic choas, Retrenchment, downsizing in the workplace; the more firmly you need to despirately believe in Him to be able to change things.
When going through all these issues, you WAIT on Him with Single focus of TRUST and DEPENDENCE on Him.
What does it means to Wait on God according to Isaiah 40:31?
WHEN YOU WAIT ON HIM, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN?
Isaiah 40:31 says: “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their Strength; they shall mount up with wings as Eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
FIVE (5) THINGS TO NOTE WHEN YOU WAIT:
You need to wait on Him because He is the SUPREME RULER over EVERYTHING.
WHAT DOES HE RULE ON?
- He Rules the HEAVEN.
Isaiah 66:1 says: “Thus saith the LORD, The Heaven is my throne, and the Earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the Place of my rest?”
- He rules the EARTH.
Psalms 24:1 says: “The Earth is the LORD’s, and the Fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”
All those who are boasting: ‘I will deal with you;’ Those who boasted like them yesterday, where are they?
In the Past, there were People in the world that were Prominent world Phenomenon – Where are they today?
They have all become History! But God remains CONSTANT.
I like to let you know: The issue you are going through now, will soon come to Pass! Nothing is Permanent. Everything will surely come to Pass.
… Because God Rules the Earth!
I have heard People ignorantly saying: ‘Satan rules the Earth.’
Genesis 1:1 says: “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth.”
God is still In Charge: He’s neither Idle, and has not stopped working.
So Relax! – God Rules the Earth.
- He Rules THE KINGS of the Earth.
Proverbs 21:1 says: “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turneth it whithersoever He will.”
… God has Power to Change Men.
If anybody has Premeditated anything evil against you, God has the Power to change their mind. Hence, you should commit the heart of those who hate you, to God.
… Because God has the Capacity to Change Men.
- He Rules the ELEMENTS.
Proverbs 30:4 says: “Who hath ascended up into Heaven, or descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the Earth? What is His Name, and what is His Son’s Name, if thou canst tell?”
He Rules the Elements: No wonder, Jesus. Rebuked the Wind and the waves in Mark 4:37-39. The Wind and the Storm Obeyed Him because He Rules the Elements.
- He Rules our ENEMIES.
Psalms 34:7 says: “The Angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.”
Elijah understood that, even the face of insurmountable Syrian Army sent to arrest him; he called down fire to teach them some lessons – 2 Kings 1:9-14
The servant of Elisha only saw the Soldiers surrounding their house.
While the servant saw the Enemies, Elisha saw the Host of Heaven, in a flaming chariot of fire around them.
2 Kings 6:16-17 – “And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha Prayed, and said, LORD, I Pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the Young Man; and he saw: and, behold, the Mountain was full of Horses and Chariots of fire round about Elisha.”
He Rules your Enemies – So, they cannot harm you. No!
That is why it is written in Isaiah 54:17 that: “No weapon that is formed against thee shall Prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in Judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of Me, saith the LORD.”
He Rules over Satan, over Death, over Powers!
Hence, Ephesians 6:10-11 says:
“Finally, my Brethren, be Strong in the Lord, and in the Power of His Might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”
God is Available to those who WAIT on Him.
And this Availability was supremely Manifested in the Saviour, when He said in Matthew 11:28-30:
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your Souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Just like the the People of Judah – In the days of Hezekiah and Isaiah; being overwhelmed in the land of Captivity.
Maybe you are overwhelmed by the terrible situations around you. Just as they were getting tired and weary, thinking it was because God had forgotten them.
Peradventure that is how you are thinking right now.
But I like to encourage you today, Don’t be discouraged, there is Hope.
Isaiah 40:27-31 tells us: God is AWARE, He is ABLE and He is AVAILABLE.
… Let me conclude!
We are living in a Materialistic World, where People use their Strength and Fame to Judge what is going.
But you need to know that God is available, and you can RUN TO HIM.
And when you go to Him, He carries you on Eagle’s Wings.
ALTAR CALL
You can Surrender to Him today! Carry those Problems to His Feet and say: LORD, I don’t understand why these things are happening.
But I know You are AWARE, I know You are ABLE and I know You are AVAILABLE.
What He said to the Captivity of Babylon, He is saying the same to us in our World today.
And He is saying particularly to you today:
I Am ABSOLUTELY DEPENDABLE; I Am SURELY RELIABLE.
I don’t know where you are, but I came to announce to you by the Leading of God, that God wants to take over those issues.
If you live in the Country where I live (Nigeria), there is a tendency for you to be overwhelmed:
… So Rich and yet so Poor! We have a lot of Resources, but nothing seems to be working – Bad Roads, Poor Electricity Supplies, Shortage of water supply, Corrupt Government and Insecurity.
We may be tempted to believe that God has forgotten us.
Others tend to believe our Generation have sinned against God and He is Punishing us with all these.
However, I believe God is AWARE, God is ABLE and God is AVAILABLE.
I want you to bow your head.
He says: ‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’
If you are Born Again; cast your cares on Him – 1 Peter 5:7.
And if you are not Born Again, bring your Burden to Jesus Christ.
If you are not Born Again, Pray along with me thus:
“Lord, I release my life to You. I confess my sin and I repent. Come into my heart. Lord, save me today. Thank You for the Blood You shed. I receive Salvation by Faith.”
In Jesus’ Mighty Name – Amen!
PRAYER FOE SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER.
My Father and my God, we worship You for the Study of today. Thank You for this Digging Deep.
And for everyone who has Prayed the Salvation Prayer, I ask of You my Father: Save them today and carry their Burdens, in the Name of Jesus!
Let their names be written in the Book of Life; and let them walk with You!
For ALL the Saints who are linked up and are reading now on the Label of DMC;
Please, You have commanded that: “We should Cast all our Burdens.”
As they cast their burdens to You today, Please, receive them and let the Name of the Lord be Mightily Glorified
Heal those who are Sick, Deliver the oppress, Save them and deliver them from all kinds of Predicaments.
And Please, remember this Nation and let Your Will be done!
Thank You Eternal Father!
And when all is said and done, let us make it to Heaven.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!
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