Isaiah 40:29 (KJV)

What does this mean?

Isaiah is speaking comfort to a people worn out by exile, tired, far from home, and wondering if God has forgotten them. He says God gives power to the weary and strength to those who have none left. The verse does not say God keeps his people from ever growing tired; it says that when they have nothing left, he is the one who supplies what they lack.

What does this teach us?

Weariness is not failure. When your strength runs out, that is exactly where God's strength begins, he gives power to the faint, not to those who have it all together.

How can we apply this?

If you are running on empty today, stop pretending you are fine and admit it, to God and to one other person. Rest without guilt, ask for help without shame, and let God be the one who supplies the strength you do not have.

Related KJV passages

• “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

  Isaiah 40:31

• “Wait on the LORD : be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD .”

  Psalm 27:14

• “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

  2 Corinthians 12:9