Feeling faint and weary?

He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. Isaiah 40:29 AMP

Are you feeling faint and weary today? As I am writing this I am listening to a worship song,  Your blood pours joy into my life, Jesus you gave it all for me ....  That truth helps to reset my focus.

Jesus, the One who knew what He was about to suffer on the The Cross, continued to commune with His Heavenly Father, praying not only for His disciples of the day,

I have given and delivered to them Your word (message) and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world [do not belong to the world], just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that You will take them out of the world, but that You will keep and protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), [just] as I am not of the world.  John 17:14-16 AMP

But also for us, those who were to come ..

Neither for these alone do I pray [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for all those who will ever come to believe in (trust in, cling to, rely on) Me through their word and teaching, that they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent me.  John 17:20-21 AMP

Jesus, lifting you and me up in prayer. Praying for unity with Him and each other, so that we will be a good witness of Jesus' love for people.

I'm praying not only for them

But also for those who will believe in me

Because of them and their witness about me.

The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind - 

Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you,

So they might be one heart and mind with us.

Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me.

John 17:20-21  The Message 

And now another worship song is playing, Take me, mould me, use me, fill me, I give my life to the Potter's hands. Hold me, Guide me, Lead me, walk beside me, I give my life to the Potter's hand. 

This makes me think about those moulding times, when we are learning more of who Jesus is, and yet are often so faint and weary. It is in these times He increases our strength, so we can rise from that faint and weariness, into greater unity with Him.

   

He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. Isaiah 40:29 AMP

 
That unity He prayed for some two thousand years ago,  would lead us to a place of greater understanding that we are loved.

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed You character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26 AMP

For me it is a challenge to read these scriptures without crying, picturing Jesus praying this, knowing what rejection was to come,  yet still full of love and grace for us.

Questions for today, in those times of feeling faint and weary, can you picture Jesus praying for you, all those years ago, asking that you and I will feel His love in our hearts? And do you believe that He is ready to pour His strength into us, for it to abound so we can continue to be all He has called us to be, in unity with Him, and a vessel of His love for people.

For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. John 3:16 AMP