Behold // Ps Josh Greenwood
Prophetic words – new chapter. New rain.
Want to prophesy and declare a word over your life.
One scripture can be enough to change your year, your perspective, your expectation, your reward.
ISAIAH 43:18-19 18 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
God wants to do a new thing. New home story. Expectation for the new thing. Elizabeth. Wrote the letter. Walked on it. Claimed by the blood.
Get an expectation for your future. Faith without works is dead… between faith and works is what?Expectation. Expectant people go beyond that faith that God can, but he will for me!
He’s about to do something fresh in your life!
We can’t base our future expectations on past experiences.
BEHOLD, I AM DOING A NEW THING! NOW IT SPRINGS UP, DO YOU NOT PERCEIVE IT
Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Hope can only be forward looking! Faith is the glasses we look through, but it was never meant to be a reflection of what’s behind me, it was meant to bring clarity to what’s ahead of me!
Don’t settle. Behold or see: Stand in Awe. WOW.
New house Sjhans bought new throw, new rug, new cushions. I’m like we don’t need it, the old is good enough. But Sjhans says “how do you not perceive this”. Because I assume she thinks, others think how I think. And I think on what I know.
We do this too to God, we perceive he thinks how I think. But his ways are not my ways. And his thoughts not my thoughts.
Barrier to your new could be the old.
Isaiah reminds them… how cool was the way through the sea. Now this time he tells them he’ll make a way in the wilderness.
Whatever is next is better. But it could be different.
Moses struck the rock last time (Exodus 17) but this time he says speak to the rock (Numbers 20). Maybe it’s different this time. And missed out on his promise.
Whatever is behind me shouldn’t be what’s before me.
ISAIAH 43:18-19 18 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
When the Lord asks, "Do you not perceive it?" He is saying, "Do you want to open yourself to My new thing? Are you willing to embrace it?"
This verb "perceive" in the Hebrew language is far more than insight. It is the total giving of yourself, as in the husband-wife relationship within marriage. This "knowing" is a full embrace.
Me in BALI & the grab…
The enemy tries to keep us bound to safe. But the STEPS not the stops of a righteous person…
The Lord is saying, "I'm going to do a new thing. Will you embrace it? Will you receive it into your life?"
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it hasn't started. ISAIAH 43:18-19 18 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
This is where the DEEPER places come to play…
The Hebrew word "spring" is the word for "sprout." The problem I had was that the word "now" suggests that if God's going to do a new thing, I should be seeing it "right now." However what this text actually says is: "now it shall sprout." In other words, before we see the blade above the ground, there is the sprout beneath it.
The promises of God are found not on the surface but in the deeper places. Often we’re judging where God is and we is doing by what we see, but we live by Faith and not by sight.
The bread in feeding the 5000 wasn’t enough on the surface. But in the deeper places. It hadn’t sprung, but it was sprouting.
The water wasn’t wine. But through the faith of the pouring, they realized what was in the deeper places.
You may be in the sprouting of a healing. It’s been paid in full, now received in faith.
Waiting on the provision. Whether is see it or not, it’s already mine because of Jehovah Jireh.
What the Lord wants us to understand when He says He's going to do a new thing is that it is in deeper places, but you have to perceive it to receive it.
You can't see it yet, but it's set in motion; just a dig of faith. Just a step of expectation.
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Regardless of what happened in your past, God has a plan and purpose for your life—and it lies in your future. We "arrive into" circumstances: we may not have created or produced them, but nevertheless we're in the middle of them. But don’t stay stuck there!
That’s why Paul said, Philippians 3:13 “but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead…
This takes some vulnerability… which the Holy Spirit loves…
You need to let go of what you know to grab what takes you forward
Scared to buy a new house
Don’t go into new relationships
Business ventures (people that went bankrupt).
Call into ministry
If you hold onto history you could lose your destiny
The greatest victories of the past don’t compare to what’s ahead.
I AM MAKING A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS AND RIVERS IN THE DESERT.
God has made a way, carved a road to lead you and positioned rivers of provision to refresh you.
Streams where things were dry - Living water. Refreshing!
Sometimes the storms bring back the rivers.
There’s a new chapter being written in your life. So, stop thinking about the past and allow your thoughts to come into agreement with God’s thoughts:
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope”
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind
It’s sprouting, its growing, it’s coming. Keep watching, it’s coming, it’s coming.
Breathe on me.
New wine pour in me.
River of God, come.
Holy Spirit come.
