A New Thing!

I know that many of you have experience terrible heartache and disappointment. Many of you have struggled through tragedy after tragedy. Some of you ladies have moved from one abusive relationship to another. Some of you men have wrestled with the fact that your father was not there. There are those of you that feel like your life has been one big failure after another. It seems as if there is no hope. When you look back everything that you see speaks to you and tells you that there is no hope, but just as the Apostle Paul told us in Philippians, his secret was in refusing to look back, forgetting those things that were behind him and pressing forward to those things that lie ahead.

God also spoke through another great man he had chosen. God spoke through Isaiah and said, "Do not remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." (Isa. 43:18-19)

"Do not remember the former things"; stop focusing on the failures of the past. Stop thinking about how the enemy oppressed you because that is not your heritage. Stop dwelling on yesterday because My power releases you from its grasp, meaning your past has no power over you. "...I am doing a new thing..."; not I am going to do, but I am doing, meaning that as you read this, God is working the supernatural in your life. He simply needs you to step out from behind the shadows of your past and stand in faith.

"Now it springs forth"; at this moment that new thing that the deepest recesses of your soul tells you is real is standing before you. That things that has caused you to hope against hope, has been worked out for you! You thought you had failed, but God was working through your fallibility to develop your potential and your capacity for blessings.

Dr. Rick Wallace

"Do you not perceive and know it?"; Can you discern the reality of this great movement in your life? Do you know it exists? How can it be that God is working this new thing in your life and yet you can't perceive it? It is because it was not encapsulated by faith. You are hearing, but your heart is failing to believe. Hebrews Chapter 4 tells us that the Israelites did not received the promised land of rest because they did not receive the promise through faith.


"Roads [Way] in the wilderness and rivers in the desert"; meaning that His providence will be present in those moments of uncertainty, His hand will move on your behalf in those situations in which the circumstances dictate that there is no hope. It means that he will transcend the impossibilities of your life to bring about your breakthrough, elevation and victory. God is doing a new thing in your life right now. You simply have to receive it. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace