A New Thing

July 13, 2021

Around 7 p.m. Central Time during Tuesday night service:

The Lord began speaking through Chief Apostle HC Gunn, audibly, as we were about to pray to open service. First in tongues then by interpretation.

He said: “I call you together tonight because I want to do a new thing in you and in the earth. Be a part of that new thing and you will see into the spirit and there will be no wall you cannot see through. There will be no mountain you can’t move.

As you sit and wait (on me), and as a child rests that’s winged from his mother, reconsider you. Go over you. And bow (to me). And I PROMISE you that I will make your life complete and you will no longer be empty and will no longer feed on ‘I don't know what to do?’ I send my word that you might know.”

But how often is God speaking in our lives and through his word, and we take it for naught? The Lord has been trying to tell us that what he has for us is better than we can imagine. Yet, we try to do it our way still. God wants us to participate in what he is doing in the earth and his kingdom. He wants us to experience life beyond our imagination.

Like Chief Apostle HC Gunn recently said: "God wants us to think Big." Our faith and our mind for Christ have been too small, and that is why we try to control everything and manage our own lives and we end up with the outcomes that are probably considered weightless on God's scale of blessing and provision because we won't bow to him and let him direct our lives.

Ephesians 3:17-20:

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.

When God spoke through Chief Apostle Gunn he promised us that if we wait on him and rest in him, examine ourselves and our wrong ways, and humble ourselves to him, then he can fulfill his promise to make our lives whole and to fill every empty place. He will ensure we are never living with a big question mark, but that we will always know his will and know the truth, and be confident that he will supply our every need - IF WE LET HIM!

Now, the ball is in our court. Will we accept God's invitation? Will we bow and let Him reign FULLY in our lives? Will we stop going back to what we are used to or our comfort zones? Or will we let God guide us into a land and life of a new thing?

I want the newness of life that God is sending and has sent. I realize how I have been missing out on expecting the new things he has promised and renewing my mind, faith, heart, and vision every day in him.

He is not talking about the feeling of getting a new job, new car, new house, new relationship, new clothes that wears off after you get used to it -- often because we become ungrateful. He is talking about the consistent renewal and refreshing he can provide in our lives every day. His mercy (power, compassion, reverence, relief, grace, generosity) is new every day and if we are grateful for it we will be able to recognize it, receive it and celebrate it daily.

God lives in the new, and we are often stuck in the staleness and oldness of our yesterday and our past or what we think we should have had or what we should have done, instead of what he is doing now! That is why in Exodus the Lord told the Children of Israel to go out and gather new bread every day. They were never going to run out because God had it in endless supply, if they would just follow instruction, but instead, some kept the old bread and it molded because they did not trust the Lord.

Luke 5:37-38

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

Colossians 3:1-10

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.

Ephesians 4:23-24

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Revelation 21:5

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

The choice is ours to make: God's newness or our old and ragged ways?