Isaiah 50:4

• 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.

Awakening1. Awakened to our inadequacy.a. The perfect example.• The Lord God has given Me the

tongue of the learned…• John 5:19/30 Then Jesus answered

and said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the son also does in like manner……I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge..’

Awakening

1. Awakened to our inadequacy.b. Our natural dullness.• The Lord has given Me the tongue of

the learned, that I should know how to speak..

• John 5:39 ‘You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.’

Awakening1. Awakened to our inadequacy.c. The tremendous need.• Speak a word in season to him who is

weary.• Matthew 9:35-36 And Jesus went about

all the cities and villages, teaching…. preaching the gospel….. and healing every sickness and every disease…But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.

Awakening

2. Awakened to the need of dependence.

a. Beyond human ability.

• He awakens Me morning by morning..

• John 15:4 ‘Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.’

Awakening

2. Awakened to the need of dependence.

b. No other way.

• He awakens Me morning by morning..

• John 15:5-6 ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.’

Awakening2. Awakened to the need of dependence.c. From the inside out.• He awakens My ear to hear as the

learned.• Mark 7:15-16 ‘There is nothing that

enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.’

Awakening

• What is our greatest longing in 2015?

• Can we do it ourselves?

• Breathing is simple yet beyond our control!