“At each and every sunrise you will hear my voice as I prepare my sacrifice of prayer to you. Every morning I lay out the pieces of my life on the altar and wait for your fire to fall upon my heart.” Psalms 5:3 TPT
God Is Doing New Things ~ Know Them
In life we can get comfortable with what we know and start leaning into the experience of our life, knowing how to “live” out of our life wisdom, instead of leaning into God every single time we make decisions, from every moment to every choice. Why? Because life should always be a Great God Adventure, because God is always doing something new and we want to know it from His perspective, His kingdom perspective, not our experiential knowledge, our worldly viewpoint. We want to step into something new with God, Great God Adventure! Listen Up To This 1 Minute Encouragement Video:
Jesus sat down and taught the people from the boat. When he had finished, he said to Peter, “Now row out to deep water to cast your nets and you will have a great catch.” “Master,” Peter replied, “we’ve just come back from fishing all night and didn’t catch a thing. But if you insist, we’ll go out again and let down our nets because of your word.” When they pulled up their nets, they were shocked to see a huge catch of fish, and their nets were ready to burst! They waved to their business partners in the other boat for help. They ended up completely filling both boats with fish until they began to sink! Luke 5:4-7
Experiential Knowledge
Peter was an experienced fisherman, with much wisdom gained in fishing knowledge. Peter knew what he knew and sometimes we are the same, we know what we know and are not open to God for new things. Peter said yes, and Jesus did something new and Peter experienced the miraculous. Jesus was not going to fit the ways of the world’s traditional living into a stale religiosity, Jesus came to shake things up with something not of this world, but a new Kingdom Perspective. The ways of newness in Jesus’ Kingdom, don’t exactly fit perfectly into the ways of yesteryears experiential knowledge. Wisdom is good, yes, but learning something new is better. Will You Know Something New This Life Season?
“And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!” Luke 5:21-26 NKJV
The Definition Of “New”
A definition of “new” is: different from before, being “other than” the former and not familiar, not yet experienced. We have seen strange things today. New! Could it be we don’t know what we think we know, that there may be a different perspective, a Kingdom perspective? The mundane worldly viewpoint that binds us up in every day sameness. Let’s break free from that and encounter God daily, being led by His Holy Spirit into Great God Adventure, into something new. No matter what our age is, no matter how much experiential wisdom we have gained, God is doing some thing new today. Will we know it? Will we step out of each day with the anticipation of seeking the newness of God in the new day at hand? Or will we drink out of old wine skins?
“Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”Luke 5:36-39 NKJV
Grow In New Things
We can’t contain the newness of this day through the lens of old experiences. Our Creative God is doing something new! All of our life experiences translate into life wisdom, because we learn something from our life experiences, and this becomes experiential wisdom. Experiential Wisdom is good until we lead with it so much, that we are not depending on God to teach us something new. Wisdom becomes our comfort zone and we stop growing in the new things God personally has for us.
I pray with great faith for you , because I’m fully convinced that the One who began this gracious work in you will faithfully continue the process of maturing you until the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ! Philippians 1:6
The New Wine Of Jesus
God is creative in nature, and is always doing something new. He wants to teach us something new, but we have to step out of the comfort zone of experiential wisdom. We are not done yet, there is much to learn and God is always teaching something new. God Finishes What He Starts! God is not done yet. We should be growing and learning new things from God until the day He takes us home. In light of this truth, ask yourself this question: Am I “Set” In My Ways? The Pharisees were like old wine skins, as they set their face like flint towards their traditions and not towards their God. If He was speaking, they did not hear Him. When the new wine of Jesus was poured out, they could not accept it, it angered them because it challenged their comfort zone of traditions. Jesus brought freedom in His grace: God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense. The enforced legalistic rules of the Pharisees over others became old wine skins that broke apart in the newness of the freedom of God’s Grace.
Becoming New Wineskins
“How do we become new wineskins? Let’s start by looking at the physical process of renewing a wineskin. Once a wineskin has been emptied of all the old wine, it becomes dry, hard and brittle. The wineskin needs to be submerged in water for a period of time. Then, it has oiled poured onto it and the oil is massaged into the leather to renew it and make it pliable again. I believe that God follows a similar process when renewing our ‘wineskin.” Beverly Watkins Dig deeper: https://www.restoringthewells.org/faith/renewing-the-wineskin/
“Ask me anything in my name, and I will do it for you!” “Loving me empowers you to obey my commands. And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Savior, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who will be to you a friend just like me—and he will never leave you. The world won’t receive him because they can’t see him or know him. But you know him intimately because he remains with you and will live inside you.” John 14:14-17 TPT
Questions For God
Lord, does the wisdom I have gained from my personal life experiences keep me from learning something new from God today? Am I open to move past my religiosity to a personal relationship with God? Do I talk to God with the expectation that He will answer me with something new for my life? Is the oil of the Holy Spirit being massaged into my spirit?>
Think On It
…the oil is massaged into the leather to renew it…Oil is the Holy Spirit, Who Jesus left us, to lead us into new things, so life could daily be a Great God Adventure. The Holy Spirit leads us and sustains our strength. Would you say you are adventurous, loving the adventure of learning new things? The Person of the Holy Spirit is a difference maker, a game changer. God is doing something new. Do you know it? Are you personally led by the Holy Spirit of God from every moment to every choice, or are you stuck in the experiential wisdom of the past? Not moveable? Change it up. Start right now. Pray This Prayer: Holy Spirit, I want to know You, I want to hear from You, I want to experience new things by the navigation and dunamis power of Your Life alive in me. I want my life to be a Great God Adventure. God, something new, do something new in me. Amen.
The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Psalm 138:8
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