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Hold On, Help Is On The Way
Contributed by Walter Braxton on Jun 26, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: We are living in a time when people are overwhelmed, burdened, and tired of holding on. Some are smiling on the outside but breaking on the inside. God has assured us that He will never leave us, nor forsake us. So, Hold On!
27 Why do you say, O Jacob, And speak, O Israel: “My way is hidden from the LORD, And my just claim is passed over by my God”?
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,
31 But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
For the time we have together this morning…
I’d like to record for a subject:
Hold On…Help Is On The Way…
PRAY…
We are living in a time when people are overwhelmed, burdened, and tired of holding on. Some are smiling on the outside but breaking on the inside. They feel stretched to their limits—physically, emotionally, financially, and spiritually. The storm has lasted longer than they thought it would. The night has felt darker than they imagined. And the silence of God in their situation has made them wonder, “Lord, where are You?” But I came to tell somebody today: Hold on — help is on the way!
Have you ever been in a place…
Where you felt like giving up?...
When the weight was too much…
The night too long…The silence from heaven…Too loud?...
Maybe you’ve been there…Or maybe you’re there right now…
Tired in your body…Weary in your soul…
Waiting for something…Anything…To change…
The money’s short…The pain is real......
The prayers feel unanswered…
And life keeps asking more of you…
Than you feel you have to give...
But I came to tell somebody today…
Don’t give up...Don’t give in…And Don’t throw in the towel...
Because the God…Who made you…The God…Who saved you…
And the God who sees you…
Has a message for your heart this morning…
“HOLD ON…HELP IS ON THE WAY!”
The enemy wants you to believe…That you’ve been forgotten…
But the truth is…You are being formed in the fire…
And…Not forsaken in the fight…
God doesn’t grow eagles in easy places…
He develops them in the wind…In the storm…And in the sky…
Today’s Word from Isaiah 40 reminds us…
That the God we serve never sleeps…
Never slumbers…And never runs out of strength…
And if you’re willing to wait on Him…
If you’re willing to trust even when it doesn’t make sense…
He promises to renew your strength…
To lift you up like wings on an eagle…
And to help you run without growing weary….
We gotta just HOLD ON…
KNOWING OUR HELP IS ON THE WAY…
For the first time…A young boy went swimming…
In the deep end of a pool…
This was…His first time…
He though…He was ready…But soon found himself…Sinking...
He began to splash wildly…Flapping his arms…Crying for help...
A trained lifeguard…Sat just…A few feet away…Watching…
Parents on the poolside screamed… “Jump in!... Save him!”…
But the lifeguard didn’t move…He waited…
The boy continued to fight…And thrashing around…
Kicking until he had…No more strength…
And just when he began to sink silently…Beneath the water…
The lifeguard dove in…And pulled him out…With ease…
Afterward…One angry onlooker asked the lifeguard…
“Why did you wait so long?...
You could’ve saved him…Sooner!”…
The lifeguard replied…
“If I had gone in while he was still fighting…
He would’ve pulled us both under…
I had to wait until he stopped struggling…
For it was only after he stopped struggling…That I could save him…
You see Church…
Sometimes we wonder…Why it is that God waits…
Why doesn’t He fix it now?...Heal it now?...Help us now?...
Like a shattered mirror…Once it’s broken…
It might reflect…But never clearly…
Some of us look in the mirror…And we see…Brokenness…
But when God steps in…He gives us a new reflection…
Not based on our past…But on His grace…
Once cracked…An egg can’t be put back…In its shell…
Some situations in our lives…
Will never go back…To the way they were…And that’s OK…
That’s Ok because God isn’t just putting you back together…
He’s making something greater…Out of the broken you…
Time…Once it’s gone…Can’t get it back…
We can’t rewind…Or redo…But we can redeem what’s ahead…
Maybe you…Like me…Lost time…Running from God…
But hold on…Because the One who holds time in His hands…
Can…And will restore purpose…To your future…
Words once spoken…
Words can’t be unsaid…They linger…They wound…And they hurt…
Perhaps you’ve been broken by words…
Or perhaps your words…Broke someone else…
But the WORD of God still heals…
It still heals and speaks life into your situation…
Some things break…And stay that way…
Like eggs…Or time…Or words…We say…
But when our strength comes to an end…
