YOU CAN START AFRESH (2)

Bible Text: Isaiah 43:18-19.
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.See, I am doing a new thing!Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

We live in an age of spiritual wastelands where people have become so tainted and corrupt by the horrors and illusions of this age that they have lost all hope in God ever changing the present human condition. They resign themselves to eternal pessimism and have lost all belief in things ever getting better. They are permanent residents of spiritual wastelands. They are so steeped in the spiritual quagmires of the past that they cannot see the new thing that God is doing today.

Such people live in wastelands where they waste away in body, mind, soul and spirit. Their souls are arid. Their hearts have been dried out by the problems of society and the general condition of living. Their minds have not been restored by the fresh waters of God’s love, mercy, and compassion. They sit in their dry corners, parched offices, and barren boardrooms.They cower in their fallow and squalid places never understanding that God has made a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. If they would only look up and go to those fresh water places that God has created for their renewal, they would then see that God is doing a new thing in their midst.

Where there is hopelessness, powerlessness, and joylessness, God will renew with hope, power, and joy. That which has been deemed impossible for humankind will be possible for God. To start afresh is to receive hope in place of hopelessness,to allow God’s power to replace powerlessness and to receive joy in place of joylessness. God is ready to do a new thing. He is always ready to change the narrative per time and per season. This is a new year and God can begin with you on a clean slate. The old order doesn’t have to continue.

Beloved of God, are you wasting away on your porches of despair, rocking in confusion and disillusionment even at the beginning of the year? You can trust God for a new beginning,you can hold on His Word for a fresh start. God can start with you on a clean note and change the entire narrative. He can do a new thing in your life,making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. The Lord can restore your joy and make you happy in the new year. Just trust Him and depend on Him absolutely.

Prophetic Prayer
I pray for you today:
1.⁠ ⁠May the God of new things renew your entire life in Jesus name.

2.⁠ ⁠He will add value to your life

3.⁠ ⁠The new year will command new things into your life

4.⁠ ⁠This year,your situation shall not remain the same

5.⁠ ⁠The wind and the wave of the new year will blow new new things towards your direction.

So shall it be in Jesus name. Amen!
Have a great day!

CHRIST IS THE ANSWER!

Yours in Christ,
Revd Dr Bayo Sola Aremu
Church Pastor
Yaba Baptist Church
Sabo-Yaba, Lagos