Sunday Bulletin – 18 May 2025

Sister Elizabeth Daniel | May 18, 2025

Dear worshipers of the Most High,

If you are worn out in your spirit, you are not being renewed day by day.
The demands and the cares of this earthly life have left some Christians tired and dry in their spirit. They are just waiting for another long weekend or the end of the year so as to take a break, a momentary recharge and a quick-fix. For others who do not have such outlets, they can only press on and continue in their empty tank. Their spiritual lives are that of a picture of the dried and withered leaves. “Hunger”, “Thirst”, “Zeal”, “Abundant life” and “His inheritance in the saints” are something very foreign and remote to them. They are alive but dead. Like the church in Sardis, having a reputation (that impresses people) but dead (to the All-Seeing God) (Revelations 3:1). This should not be said of any blood-washed, born again and Spirit-filled Christian.

The Scripture reveals that our inward man can be renewed daily. Day by day, we can keep our spiritual-life battery fully charged! We need not wait for Sunday Services to come. Neither do we need to endure until the next holiday or travel to some prayer mountain for some recharge. Where we are, we can make time to meet Him and be renewed. A heart that makes room to wait on Him day by day, is a heart that is being renewed daily. Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength (Isaiah 40:31). Some Christians religiously practise whatever the health gurus suggest. They will squeeze out time and even pay some money for the recommended activities. What the Word of God says on the other hand, they do not esteem. They will carelessly excuse themselves from applying the truth. So, after many vacations and re-charges, such Christians remain dry and withered spiritually.

Beloved saints, something supernatural happens when we wait on the Lord. We are being bound together with Him. We are being intertwined with the Lord. There, the renewal takes place, the divine exchange happens. There, He gives to the weak power, and to those who have no might, He increases their strength (Isaiah 40:29-30). What follows those who wait on the Lord is renewed strength. Out of this renewal, Christians are like a city that is set on a hill and cannot be hidden in every arena of life – full of light and life (Matthew 5:14).

Why be dry and withered spiritually when we can be renewed day by day? Why will we not want to enter into the times (notice the plural form) of refreshing that come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19)? We can be renewed daily and be refreshed again and again as we wait on the Lord.

My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him (Psalms 62:5).

Shalom,
Rev. Wilfred Lim