My Pulpit Message - notes Wait Upon the LORD My Pulpit Message Notes are extracted from sermon preached at the Nairobi Baptist Church (NBC) Ngong Road o Sunday 30th January 2022. Preacher: Reverend Munengi Mulandi, NBC Senior Pastor. Topic: Wait upon the Lord. Scripture: Isaiah 40:25-31 There are Bible commentators who think Isaiah was written by two different people because the messages In primary school when a question was asked in self are two far apart for it to have been authored by one confidence you are always putting your hand up. In fact person. So they say. sometimes you would be so excited you would not only put the hand up but maybe also snap your fingers to Isaiah chapter one to 39 it is a message of judgment, re- raise more attention. If your are left handed you use the pentance. It is a hard hitting message that some people left hand. If you are ambidextrous in your faith your say it is Isaiah one. But turning to Isaiah 40, it begins trying to raise attention in self righteousness with one “Comfort, comfort my hand or another, but repeople, says your God. 2 ceiving in total surrender Speak tenderly to Jerusato God with both hands Isaiah 40:29-30 lem, and proclaim to her raised and saying, LORD, that her hard service has I do not understand the He gives strength to the weary and increases the power been completed, that her pandashukas of life/ the of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and sin has been paid for, that difficult times, i know young men stumble and fall; she has received from the that You hold my hand. Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” And in those times when He speaks to you like He And people say surely that must be a second Isaiah does the second half of Isaiah, speaking tenderly to His writing because these messages are inconsistent to one people, that is ambidextrous faith that takes up these author. Unfortunately there are people who believe and from Jehovah. even go further and say, surely God cannot be such a God of thunder and fire and brimstone and others be- Isaiah 40:29-30 lieve that He can only be a God of grace and mercy and we are all going to go to heaven because God is so He gives strength to the weary and increases the power merciful. of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; One Bible commentator used this word first and I adopted it that our faith has to be ‘ambidextrous’. That we Those who in weakness, in raising not of a hand that have to embrace the messages of God and the times says I know that I know that I know but raising both that He takes us through that are very hard. When we hands in surrender wait on the LORD and those ones go through the valley of the shadow of death, He prom- He promises to renew their strength, to make them ises to be with us, and we go through it. soar up on wings like eagles, to run and not grow weary, to walk and not faint. The God of Isaiah chapter one to 39 is still God and God indeed. But we must also embrace the other side of God. We must be ambidextrous and we see from the LORD and walk with the LORD, not with one hand up.
3 TT 138 | FEB 1st - 6th| 2022
