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Volume 33   Number 13 Mar 29, 2009

        Isaiah 50:4–5: "The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned."
        Let's look closely at five important things stated in these scriptures.
        (1) It is the Lord who gives you wisdom as stated in James 1:5: If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
        (2) God wants you to have the right word at the right time; in other words, a "word in season."
        (3) Isaiah 50:4 says you are to give a word in season to those who are weary, which means to be tired, faint, or greatly harassed. Galatians 6:9: Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. We all deal with a time of being weary, so we need a word in season. However, God has called us to be the one giving a word in season to the weary.
        (4) He awakens you morning by morning. It is the Lord who got you up this morning and started you on your way.
        (5) He awakens your ear to hear as the learned. It is interesting that it is the ear that is awakened. Why is that? The answer is found in Romans 10:17-18: So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: "Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world." Faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the Word of God. The Lord desires to awaken your ear so you can hear the Word and have faith.
        Romans 4:17-22: ....(as it is written, "I have made you (Abraham) a father of many nations") in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did (this is a great definition of faith); who, contrary to hope, in hope believed so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be."
        And not being weak in faith, Abraham did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sara's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced (persuaded) that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore "it was accounted to him for righteousness."
        WHAT HAS GOD PROMISED YOU? Are you wavering or changing your mind? Or are you convinced and persuaded that what He has promised He will do?
        A word in season is A FAITH WORD at the right time. It is God's Word made flesh in and through you at the right time to those who are weary, or tired, or faint, and those being greatly harassed.
        This next part is from the message "Releasing The Anointing."
        (1) THE POWER OF TOUCH. Luke 6:19: And the whole multitude sought to touch Him (Jesus), for power (or virtue) went out from Him and healed them all.
        (2) THE POWER OF CLOTH. Mark 5:30: And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched My clothes?" When the woman touched the garment of Jesus, virtue or life went from Him to her, and she was healed. The word virtue or power is "dunamis." Acts 19:12: ...so even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his (Paul's) body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
        (3) THE POWER OF SHADOW. Acts 5:15: ...so they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.
        Isaiah 40:29-31: He gives power to the weak (weary, faint), and to those who have no might He increases strength (power, energy). Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall. But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength (divine exchange); they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
        Waiting on the Lord has to do with the position of your heart. It is not talking about stopping all activity but rather learning how to wait and let God perform His word in and through you. Remember, it is the Lord who gives you the tongue of the learned. It is the Lord who gives you a word in season to those who are weary.
        The Lord is also making it clear that those who are weak, those who have no might and are fainting and weary, are those who are not willing to wait on the Lord and who are not receiving a word for themselves in season. They are relying on their own strength and wisdom and even their youth and natural abilities.
        The Apostle Paul said in Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." For those who will learn to wait on the Lord—who will allow Him to wake them up and awaken their ear—they will be those in whom the Holy Spirit can move to give a word in season. God can trust you with more when you have learned how to handle what you have.
        1 Corinthians 2:9-10: But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
        Romans 8:19: For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing (manifestation) of the sons of God. The world is waiting for the revealing of those who are waiting on the Lord.