Something new!



Happy New Year!  This New Year was more eagerly anticipated that many prior.  We are thankful for God carrying us through to a new year!

In order for one to fully enjoy newness is to let go of the old. We cannot be free to accept anything new or better until we have let go of the hurtful past. We cannot be renewed and refreshed until we surrender ourselves to Jesus.

God is wanting to do something new in your life, before He can do something new in your life, He needs to be able to do something new in you.

God wants to renew you - to restore a newness to you, your faith and all areas of your life. To renew means to give fresh life or to strengthen or to revive.

Our family has a tradition of purging items in our house during the beginning of a new year. This year I am not forgetting the spiritual cleaning in my life and our home.

I had some big hurts and disappointments in 2020, but I cannot let that overshadow my God’s faithfulness. Today, I choose not to dwell or hold on lot those hurts but to trust where God is leading me and our family. I know that God has always had a plan and there was a purpose for all that happened in 2020. I want to be free to receive the newness God has planned for me and my family!

I encourage you to let go of the past and do not let the past rob you of your future. God will make a way, when there seems to be no way!  The newness of your faith, the restored joy & peace, the new  job, the new home, the new or renewed relationship is coming, are you ready to receive?

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”  Isaiah‬ ‭43:18-19‬ ‭

In Christ.

Jennifer Ouedraogo

9 Comments


Isabel - January 2nd, 2021 at 12:16pm

Amen.

Sabine - January 4th, 2021 at 10:37am

Amen, thank you

- January 11th, 2021 at 2:11pm

Thank you for reading and commenting. I pray that I will post more regularly. May God continue to bless you.

Louise - January 6th, 2021 at 9:31am

Dear Pastor Jennifer, Thank you for your spot on words of encouragement and reminder of what God wants for His servants. ~L

- January 11th, 2021 at 2:12pm

Amen, praise God. Thank you for reading and commenting! Now I know some are finding these & reading!

Freddy - January 11th, 2021 at 2:27pm

Amen, I am ready to receive new things from God this year therefore, I let go the old things.

Thank you Pastor Jennifer

- January 11th, 2021 at 2:41pm

Amen, amen! Stay encouraged, remain blessed.

Jennifer - January 11th, 2021 at 2:45pm

Do something new in my life Lord, do something new in me o' Lord!

Freddy - January 11th, 2021 at 2:49pm

Amen 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽