1. Reliance on God’s Strength Isaiah 41:10 Andrew Florestano

2. Reliance on God’s Strength Isaiah 41:10
Reliance on God’s Strength Isaiah 41:10 *Our understanding and trust in a particular attribute of God often determines the extent to which we experience it in our lives.

3. 1) God commands all power
The Lord comes with might, and his arm rules for him… Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?... All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness… It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness… Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing…

4. 1) God commands all power
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable… Isaiah 40

5. 1) God commands all power
“Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.” Jeremiah 32:17 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted…” Job 42:2

6. 1) God commands all power
“When you pray, you are going to God, the Father, and the Maker of the universe. The One who holds the world in His hands. What did you ask God for? Did you ask for peanuts, toys, trinkets, or did you ask for continents? It's tragic, the little itsy-bitsy things we ask of our Almighty God. Sure, nothing is too small--but also nothing is too big!” - Dawson Trotman

7. 2) God is the only reliable source of strength
The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come. Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, “Be strong!” The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved. Isaiah 41:5-7
*Temptation: Trust in people and material things

8. 2) God is the only reliable source of strength
…to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
*Temptation: Trust in self

9. 2) God is the only reliable source of strength
“…it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God’s working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.” - Paul Tripp

10. 3) God is able and willing to strengthen us!
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend; you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”; fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:8-10

11. 3) God is able and willing to strengthen us!
God strengthens us for…
Fighting temptation to sin
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:10-11)

12. 3) God is able and willing to strengthen us!
God strengthens us for…
Fighting temptation to sin
Living out God’s calling for our lives
“…the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it.” (2 Timothy 4:17)

13. 3) God is able and willing to strengthen us!
God strengthens us for…
Fighting temptation to sin
Living out God’s calling for our lives
Comprehending His love for us
“…that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:14-19)

14. 3) God is able and willing to strengthen us!
God strengthens us for…
Fighting temptation to sin
Living out God’s calling for our lives
Comprehending His love for us
Enduring suffering
“…for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:11-13)

15. Rely on God’s strength – CARAT
Confess your own weakness
Ask for strength
Remember God’s promises for you
Act in faith
Thank God when he gives strength