15 Oct The New Thing: Don’t miss it.
October 15, 2023
The New Thing: Don’t miss it.
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19
Have you ever noticed that whenever God does a new thing that He restores, he gives bigger, better, more spectacular than we had or imagined? Like Job in the Bible, the Lord gave him twice as much as he had before. The Lord blessed the latter days of Job’s life more than his beginning.
Trust God for the New
Are we trusting God for the next steps of our lives, the breakthrough, the needed deliverance, or are we so busy using the hands at the end of our wrists to fix and prepare things ourselves? Last week, the word was “Hands Up,” which I believe God always wants us to do. If our hands are lifted up to God, everything in them has been released to Him, the safest place for everything, every challenge and every blessing. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will act. (Psalm 37:5, ESV)
Two things we can learn from Job’s life.
Two things we can learn from Job. Number one is getting the fear out. Job said, “What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.” Job 3:25-26 Number two, we should ask God to show us where we have made a mistake(s): “Teach me, and I will be silent; And show me how I have erred. Job 6:24 We all miss it, and no one knows us better than Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Hearing someone asking why He would talk to me after what I have done, I don’t know Him, or I have not been faithful in my prayer/church attendance, I am ashamed to even come before Him—all the more reason to go to God. Pope Francis said, “Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.”
Let’s Continue and look at the verse just above our opening text. It says, “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Isaiah 43:18. We can’t get to the new holding on to the old. We are not omnipresent everywhere; at the same time, God is. We are not omniscient, which means all-knowing God is, so we must trust Him. The most precious things to us sometimes make us try to work things out ourselves. I heard a pastor say, and I am paraphrasing, that God is the only one who gives us gifts that will compete or rival with the level of love that only belongs to Him.
Are you ready for the new thing God has prepared for you? I am. I do not want to get to heaven, and God shows me everything I missed for any reason. Revelation 21:5-7 says, “And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.“He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” The New Thing: Don’t miss it!💕
If you do not know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. You can change that today. Just confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Theresa Woodard
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