God says He’s doing a new thing. He’s asking us, “Do you not perceive it?” Then even before we know how to answer, God simply begins to explain what He’s already causing to happen in the EARTH.
You might feel like resisting this message. I know we’re all still sore from 2020, and 2021 hasn’t exactly felt like the antedote for which we were hoping. So may I challenge your vision just a bit?
Look deeper. Look closer.
Ask Holy Spirit to help you see beyond the obvious.
Maybe just stop. Sit still.
Look again.
Can you see it?
The sprouts are beginning to pop up out of the ground. The seeds planted long ago, lovingly watered, prayed over and believed for…
These sprouts, they all have names. They are our children – sons and daughters. They are our grandchildren. Do you see it?
Do you see that these are they? These are the ones with whom God is doing a new thing in the Earth.
Will you trust God for the new thing He is doing? Will you ask Him to fill you with faith? Love? Courage? Belief?
We older ones who have walked this journey a bit longer; we are the ones who need to look and look again. We are the ones who need to catch a vision of what God is doing in our sons and daughters. Because we are the ones who will contend for them.
Unfortunately, our young ones have not learned to contend in prayer for themselves. Sadly, we’ve not diligently taught our sons and daughters how to encourage themselves in the Lord. The depths of God’s word have not yet been stirred by the youngest among us.
Do you remember Elijah praying with his head between his knees? Interesting reading in 1 Kings 18. {Go. Read it for yourself.}
Elijah was travailing in prayer to our Lord God Almighty to bring rain in a drought. In the middle of crying out to God, Elijah sent his servant to go look for any sign of a cloud.
The servant went and looked. He brought back a negative report. Undeterred, Elijah continued to send his servant back with the admonition to look again.
Finally, on the 7th trip out, he saw a small cloud like a fist coming up from the sea. Don’t you know how ecstatic he was to bring a good report to Elijah?
I beseech you. Look again.
Look with faith eyes. Ask God to remind you of all the dreams you’ve had for your children. Remember God’s promises to you as you cradled that babe in your arms. Recall in faith the hope of life and believe that God is Redeemer.
Restorer. Resurrector. Healer. Deliverer. Mighty to save!
Thus, it is up to us to look up and scan the heavens for the tiniest semblance of a cloud, and declare out loud that we will trust God for the new thing He is doing in our sons and daughters.
God’s doing a new thing in the generations… Do you perceive it?
Eyes on Jesus and Shine,
~Lisa
