Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of kings and Lord of lords, be King of my heart and Lord of my life, as I begin my day in communion with You. ...
“I am about to do 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).
My family and I came to the beach Saturday with some friends. Yesterday we spent a wonderful day on the beach. I got up this morning and walked down to the beach to set up our chairs and umbrellas. I looked at the sand and though we spent a wonderful, full day yesterday ton the same spot of beach I was now standing: laughing, talking, eating, drinking, and enjoying our time together; this morning there was no trace that we had even been there. The waves of the incoming time had smoothed the sand and erased any signs of the previous day. The waves had prepared the sand “New” for today. I’m reminded that the Bible often speaks of new beginnings.
Lord, give me eyes to see the “new thing” You’re doing -- in me, around me, in my world, in the Body and Bride of Christ. Give me ears to hear what Your Spirit is speaking to Your Church, what Your Spirit is speaking to me. And give me courage to embrace it, faith to believe it, and grace to make it my own.
Where there’s been a wilderness, You’re making a way. Where there’s been a desert, You’re releasing Your river to flow.
By the power of Your grace, let me perceive it; let me receive it. Don’t leave me out of it! And do everything You need to do in me for me to be in the middle of it! ...
As I wait and listen for Your response to the cry of my heart, what comes to mind immediately is the Promise of Your Word:
“But as it is written:
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’
“But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God” (1 Corinthians 2:9-12).
O Lord. We have no idea the depth of the things of God about to spring up in this “new thing” You’re doing in this time of new beginnings. But Your Spirit is beginning to reveal it and the world can no longer conceal it.
And I’m all in! I’m not holding back! I’m full of expectant faith and confident hope in You -- the God of new beginnings and faithful endings! He who began a good work in me, and in all Your Body and Bride for all the world to see, will be faithful to complete it until the day of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
My family, may you sense the waves of God’s grace washing over you this morning, smoothing out the uneven areas of your life and preparing it for a brand new day today! May you be filled with expectant faith and confident hope in the new things the Lord is revealing by His Spirit and doing in your life and His people for the glory of His name, all in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friends!
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