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QAVAH

The document discusses Isaiah 40:31, emphasizing God's message to the Israelites about their journey home from Babylon to Jerusalem, a challenging 700-mile trek. It highlights the importance of waiting on the Lord for strength, using the Hebrew word 'qavah' to illustrate the concept of binding together with Christ through daily repentance, obedience, and prayer. The text concludes by outlining the results of this binding, referencing the order of actions: to fly, run, and walk without weariness.

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QAVAH

The document discusses Isaiah 40:31, emphasizing God's message to the Israelites about their journey home from Babylon to Jerusalem, a challenging 700-mile trek. It highlights the importance of waiting on the Lord for strength, using the Hebrew word 'qavah' to illustrate the concept of binding together with Christ through daily repentance, obedience, and prayer. The text concludes by outlining the results of this binding, referencing the order of actions: to fly, run, and walk without weariness.

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WAITING ON JESUS

Isaiah 40:31

To put this verse into a historical perspective, God is speaking through Isaiah to the Israelites, letting them know that the
captivity is over, and it is time to go home.1 It is a 700 mile (1,126 km) walk from Babylon to Jerusalem. That’s the
equivalent of walking from New York City to Atlanta, Georgia, or New York City to Chicago. Could you walk those 700
miles with no protection from the weather? Do you have the strength to do that? Imagine that you’re an Israelite in
Babylon, and you’ve just been told to get ready for the 700-mile walk to Jerusalem. The average walking speed is 3 to 4
miles per hour, or 1 mile every 15 to 20 minutes. (The older generation might walk at a slower pace.) At 4 miles an hour,
it would take 175 hours or seven days of non-stop walking to reach your destination. If you walked for 12 hours a day,
you could do it in 2 weeks. More than likely, the journey took at least three weeks. Would you be up to a 700-mile hike
carrying all your possessions on your back or pulling them in a cart behind you? Got a good pair of shoes?

-Steven P. Wickstrom

To renew strength, mount up with wings of the eagle, run and walk and not be weary all depended on Israel’s ability to
wait.

The Hebrew word used in the text is ‘’qavah’’.

Literally, it means to bind together:

What and what are to be bound together? And how does strength come?

In our Akan palance, we say ‘’pray3 woyi baako a ebu, woka b) mu aa…’’ In the western world, it is belived that there is
strength in numbers.

Are we to receive strength by just associating with fellow humans? No, Jeremiah 17:5

John 15:5

How do we bind with Christ?

1. Daily repentance Luke 9:23


2. Obey his word John 14:23
3. Prayer

Result of binding with Christ (Refer back to Isaiah 40:31, address the order of moment i.e fly, run, walk)

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