The Fountain of Youth

Here is my radio script for The Fountain of Youth:

Men have searched for it. Explorers sailed looking for it. Men have given their fortunes to find it. Yet, we have had it's secret right before us all this time. What is it? It's the fountain of youth. Where do we find it? We find it in the presence of God. I started this quest to find this secret when I discovered that Elijah at 80 years old was so energized by the Lord that he ran ahead of Ahab at the speed of chariots ( 1 Kings 18: 45-46). We also find in Joshua 14:10-11 that when Joshua fought his last battle at 85 yrs old he was as strong as the day he fought his first battle and his last battle was even one where he was fighting giants! What was their secret? Adam and Eve while in the garden of Eden spent time daily in the presence of God communing with Him and they were clothed in God's glory. God gave me the analogy of our modern day cell phones. If you just talk on it and talk on it and talk on it without plugging it in to recharge it, it will lose power and will no longer work. If all you do is talk at God and don't spend time in His presence you will be weak and powerless. It is in God's presence that we get renewal and strength.

Isaiah 40:28-31 gives us the secret to being renewed.

28. Have you not known? Have you not heard, the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint nor is weary? There is no searching of His understanding.

29. He gives power to the faint and to those who have no might He increases strength
30. Even the youths will faint and be weary and the young men will utterly stumble
31. but they that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings as eagles they will run and not be weary. They will walk and not grow faint.
    God does not grow weary and does not faint. Man fails under the pressures of life, but God does not.

He gives power to the faint. That empowerment is to the whole frame of the body and He increases their strength.

vs. 31 gives us the key. It is to those that WAIT upon the Lord. That word wait means to trust God, to keep on trusting and hoping, even in the midst of trials and tribulation and then spending time in the presence of God. It is not just sitting in church listening to a sermon with someone else doing the waiting for you. It doesn't work that way.

Where it says He renews our strength it means putting on fresh strength and a different strength than man's natural strength when you wait or spend time communing and in the presence of God. This is not your own

strength but a supernatural infusion of God's strength within our human frame.

The natural man is not like God, but the believer has unwavering, unfailing strength as the divine strength of God enters into him through communion with God. He finds inner resources that do NOT fail before life's demands. He doesn't faint, grow weary or become tired. His faith is fixed on God and draws upon God's resources through the Holy Spirit. God's strength and power are a constant resource available to us as we draw nigh to God. Psalm 91 also reiterates this as it opens by stating, “He that abides or dwells in the shadow or the secret place of the Most High, shall say of the Lord. It then goes on to tell you the benefits of abiding in the presence of God. The provision of Psalm 91 is not for just any one or any believer. It is for the believer that will take the time to commune with Almighty God and set his love on God. You spend your time on what you love. I have known many golfers and they are consumed with spending time on the golf course because they love playing golf. Are you consumed with spending time alone with God and waiting on Him? The benefits are beyond listing in this short amount of time. Psalm 103:2 also lists several benefits that come from God. The end of the verse states your youth is renewed like the eagles. Even Jesus, the sinless son of God, would daily get away and spend time with His Father to gain direction and strength.

Why not make a commitment to start spending time with God and lean upon His chest to hear His heart beat? The cares of the world and our fast paced society crowd in to take us away from the presence of God. By spending time each day in the presence of God you will find renewed strength, vigor, and spiritual insight. Plug into the power source of life.