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Greetings,
We must be willing to let go of what we have trusted in the past to be able to pick up what God wants us to learn to trust today. God is always up to something new! This is the nature of life! If we seek only the comfortable places of our past, or even the present, we will be bound to a place of moments and memories and we will not find the present momentum of God’s path of destiny in our lives. As leaders, we lead others into a path of God’s will and that path is a path of God’s kingdom influence. God’s kingdom is a kingdom of internal influence upon our hearts and minds, and it is a place of faith. Faith happens when we hear God in our hearts and faith is the testimony of God’s wisdom that leads us forward into God’s path of destiny for our lives. God is always speaking, so we can expect to have to embrace things we haven’t seen, heard, or thought about before in our journey of being led by God. This is what it means to be obedient to faith. A journey of faith doesn’t happen according to our will. It is according to God’s will. What opposes faith are the things we have seen before. Natural sight is the opposite of faith.
2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Natural sight is the opposite of faith and natural sight manifests as sight, sound, feelings, and anything that is propagated by creation and created things. Those created things can even be experiences that we have received from God in the past. Any time God moves in our lives it creates an experience that brings life to our souls, but if we get stuck in that experience the experience becomes more valuable to us than the One who created it. Our walk of faith must be filled with continued new experiences in God. Leading others is leading them to find the fresh experiences of God in their lives. It is about His kingdom coming and His will being done in all things.
Isaiah 43:18 “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert. 20 The beast of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen. 21 This people I have formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.”
We are in a season of the grace of the Spirit of Knowing and it is the Spirit of Knowing that will empower us to be the people of God. This is not a Spirit of information, but a Spirit of intimacy with God and one another as the people of God. Even the things of the flesh, the spiritual powers of the way of the flesh, and the strength of the passions of the flesh will see the life of God’s Spirit prevail in the places that seemed to lack God’s presence. It is God’s presence that transforms the wilderness places to spacious places of the work of God’s grace. God’s presence in our own lives will transform us from where we have been to where we need to be today. It is in the place of God’s now presence that the new thing of God springs forth. That is the place where we find the path of God’s future and hope in our lives. The unknown place before us is the place where God can create what we have not seen, heard, or thought of before. This is the place of new life! It is not a place of our doing, but of God’s doing.
Isaiah 48:5 Even from the beginning I have declared it to you; before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my carved image and my molded image have commanded them.’ 6 “You have heard; see all this. And will you not declare it? I have made you hear new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them. 7 They are created now and not from the beginning; and before this day you have not heard them, lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’ “
We cannot substitute the creative ways of God for the creative ways of ourselves. To embrace the new things being created by God we must be willing to let go of things that were previously created. We must not fall for the temptation of creating something new from what God created yesterday. We must allow God to create the new thing now! God tells us things to come, but our own preconceived ideas can resist what God is telling us. We must not be quick to judge the new things by old things. We must judge all things by the Spirit of Life in Christ. God is doing a new thing!
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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