January 2016: Behold, I will do a new thing!

Categories: Grow your Faith

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.  (Ezek.11:19)


 

This is the legacy of Elim Christian Fellowship.  Elim means “Oasis” – streams in the desert; a well within a parched land.  I believe it will be so for Elim and our church family in 2016.  Here are the scriptures and a summary of my message from Jan.2:

Even though Ecclesiastes says that “there is nothing new under the sun”, God (because He is God) says “Behold I am doing a new thing!” (Rev. 21:5)  Just like there’s nothing like a new baby to bring life and joy into a home, even when there’s been struggle and stress, there’s a spiritual parallel for us, as we celebrate Christ’s birth and the New Year – a season of new beginnings.  We want to position ourselves to be a people of His presence.  He is pouring out, can heal, restore, renew, breathe life into dry bones, that they may live.  God calls into being the things that are not, as though they were.   God creates or gives us, among other new things:

  • New heavens and a new earth – Is. 65:1717 ; 2 Pet. 3:13
  • A new covenant – Luke 22:20
  • A new commandment I give you, that you love one another – John 13:34
  • New self – Col 3:10
  • New and living way – Heb. 10:20
  • New name written on the stone – Rev. 2:17 Isaiah 62:2 KJV
  • A new song (Rev. 5:9; many references in the Psalms)
  • A new heart and A new spirit (Ezek. 36:26)
  • Creates in us a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17)

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May the Lord convince you of His faithfulness to do a new thing and may you allow Him to start with doing a new thing in your heart, and activate those old wells and springs.  May the spirit of our Lord rise up within us and may He prepare us to pour us out. May our response to this new birth be like Mary’s “be it Lord, as you have said unto me.”

Author: Angela Kays Burden