It's A New Season

Isaiah 43:18-21

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¹⁸ “Do not call to mind the former things,
Or ponder things of the past.
¹⁹ “Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
²⁰ “The beasts of the field will glorify Me,
The jackals and the ostriches,
Because I have given waters in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert,
To give drink to My chosen people.
²¹ “The people whom I formed for Myself
Will declare My praise.

Seasons change all the time. Leaves fall off a tree in a certain season. Seems like you are missing or lost something when that happens. God is taking you through transition. The leaves fall for a reason.  They are there only for a season. You have to know who is a season friend, acquaintance or who is there for life. We know a brand new season is coming. Don't give up on God Yo are in transition. What you lost God will replace with something new. When your seasons change you have to praise God for the old and  the new. If you saw that was on the way you wouldn't cry over what is old, brown and dead. The new blessing that is coming won't compare to the old.

¹⁸ “Do not call to mind the former things,
Or ponder things of the past.
¹⁹ “Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.

This thing is getting ready to happen so fast that you won't believe it. Some of you are in a  wilderness. He will make a way in the wilderness. In the midst of your struggling , your condition, lies being told on you, God is getting ready to bless you. Stop worrying about how people feel about you. You won't get anywhere in life being a people pleaser. He will send rivers in the desert. The desert is that dry place. God can wink and water will start flowing. He can blow on your and your finances can change or whatever you are dealing with will change.

If you put a saint a in the desert He knows how to put you in the top. IF you just hold on God will turn the water on. He's getting ready to fix that thing.

Ezekiel 11:19

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¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

1. When God does something God will give you a brand new heart.

When you go to the next level you start to love your enemies.

Proverbs 16:7

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⁷ When a man’s ways are pleasing to the LORD,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

You have to walk in love. It's hard because people try to kill you. You don't have half of what they think you got. Gthey hate the potential, what's on the way. Your potential is putting presssure on them.

2 Corinthians 5:15,17

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¹⁵ and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

Cross references:

1. 2 Corinthians 5:15 : Rom 14:7-9

Cross references:

1. Proverbs 16:7 : Gen 33:4; 2 Chr 17:10

¹⁷ Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

There is a new way of walking and talking. You don't do the things you used to do. You can be minding your own business and people are attacking you. You want people  to see God bless you that you curse them. Stop reversing the curse and bless the other

Romans 12:14

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¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Be the bigger person. You have to do it because you have God. It's not that the person. It is the devil. You can't fight flesh against spirit. Fight with prayer. Get som kneeology. Speak in tongues.

2. You have to have a new confidence.

Have the audacity to believe God will do what He said He will do. You don't believe because you are caught up in sin.

Hebrews 10:35

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³⁵ Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

The devil knows how to condemn you. There is no just man (Ecclesiastes 7:20). We have an advocate (1 John 2:1). We don't have to fall but if you do fall get yourself back up. We have something in our closets. Don't leave church because people judge you.

3. God will give you a new voice.

Cross references:

1. Hebrews 10:35 : Heb 10:19
2. Hebrews 10:35 : Heb 2:2

The people were able to walk to the Promise Land. Listen to the voice that will get you over the hump. Moses took them as far as he could. The next man was at the bottom of the mountain. When you get to the top make sure you have someone holding your ladder. Learn to be a blessed #2 and not a blessed #1. Joseph was always a #2. The position fell on Joseph. Are you stuck because you can't hear the new voice.

4. You just need a brand new Word.

Psalm 105:17-19

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¹⁷ He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They afflicted his feet with fetters,
He himself was laid in irons;
¹⁹ Until the time that his word came to pass,
The word of the LORD tested him.

Proverbs 29:18

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁸Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Don't neglect the old Word. Timothy was instructed to to stir up the gift ( 2 Timothy 1:6). Don't let doubt doubt and fear rob you of your prophecy. Prophecy is neither old or new. It's predetermined. Some of us are so talented but doubt and fear have robbed us from the manifestation.

Mark 4:3-9

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³ “Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow; ⁴ as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵ Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. ⁶ And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. ⁷ Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. ⁸ Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.” ⁹ And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

 

Some of you should be further along in life but fear and doubt got in the way.

 

Matthew 9:16-17

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¹⁶ But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. ¹⁷ Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Don't get caught up in the old stuff. There is no one way of doing things. Don't let people talk you into tradition that will hold you back.

New wine caused the old skin to burst. When you get a new idea and you are shot down that is confirmation new wine can't be put into old wineskin. Don't slap God in the face by trying to put new wine into old wineskin. You can't be put into a box. There is no sense in God giving you new ideas and you put it to the side. Don't let a day go by without embracing the new idea. God will give you someone for what's on the way that's new. Don't cry over the last man or woman. He will give you someone who is not jealous.God knows how to make lemonade from lemons. He knows how to make a testimony from a test.God will not leave you in the old predicament and not give you an opportunity to walk into the new season.

It's New To Me

This message was preached by Elder Osiris McClough

Joshua 3:5-8,13-17

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⁵ Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.” ⁶ And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over ahead of the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.
⁷ Now the LORD said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you. ⁸ You shall, moreover, command the priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”

¹³ It shall come about when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, and the waters which are flowing down from above will stand in one heap.” ¹⁴ So when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people, ¹⁵ and when those who carried the ark came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest), ¹⁶ the waters which were flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho. ¹⁷ And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

Joshua was the foot of the river. He was with Moses when the Red Sea was parted. God will do something new to the people but it is not new to Him. This was a brand new group that came to the Jordan. Joshua had already seen God move. He had faith. Sometimes God will do something new for you all over again. Joshua was being pursued. A river represents a situation or a problem that is to block your path to your promise. There are risks in jumping in the water to soon. When we jump head first we drown. We need to prepare and not move too fast. When you rush it doesn’t work out. Here are other situations we can come across:

1.     Cloudy water – It’s hard to see. You can’t see where you are going. We can get caught up and miss what is going on with all that is going on.

2.     Steep Banks – They prevent exits. When you get down too far you can’t get out. We move too fast and we get stuck.

3.     Undercurrent – We can get swept away and possibly dragged under the water. We feel overwhelmed with what’s going on and we became depressed, miserable, have suicidal thoughts.

4.     Strong weeds – Legs can get entangled. People in your life you drag them where you go. They become a burden and you sink. Cut them off.

Let's look at Joshua again:

⁵ Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

 Get yourself together. You can’t take some things into 2012.

⁸ You shall, moreover, command the priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’” 

You have to take God with you wherever you go. We lead too much and don’t want God to lead.

¹³ It shall come about when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, and the waters which are^]flowing down from above will stand in one heap.”

God is in the middle of your problem and situation. The waters become still when God moves first and become subject to Him.

¹⁴ So when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people,

When it is time to move it’s time to move. You can’t stay stagnant.

¹⁵ and when those who carried the ark came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest), 

After God leads you get yourself right. You let God get into the middle of the thing you get to your harvest.

¹⁶ the waters which were flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.

When God lifts everything up everything that hinders us will get cut off. God is ready to move for all of us. 

¹⁷ And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan. 

Sweatless victory. He is ready to do anew thing before you.

2 Corinthians 5:7

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⁷ for we walk by faith, not by sight—

Reruns- God will do it all over again. There’s a new season after the rerun. You get double for your trouble. If you can just hold on God is getting ready to do something new.

Psalm 37:25

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²⁵ I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.

New Season

Ecc 3:1
 ¹ To everything there is a season,

      A time for every purpose under heaven: 

God deals with us in seasons. A chapter comes and goes. Every season is supposed to be better than the last however there are times you can be going through a wilderness which also makes you a better person. If it's not a season of wilderness you may be in disobedience.


Today is the 1st day of summer. When you see the natural change the spiritual season has changed as well. Old stuff has passed away. You will will in new things. Your season has to change because it's a new season. You have done all you are supposed to do. Today is the last day of your bad habit. God will supernaturally heal you.

Summer is the hottest season. What are you going to do when the Holy Ghost sets you on fire? Some things will burn off. This is the last night you will not be on fire for God, not wanting to pray, speaking in tongues and so on.

Summer is also the time of the year when the days are longer, when you can see things a little bit longer. How are you going to act when God gives you longevity in your spirit, money, fast, and prayer? What are you going to do when your vision gets brighter.

Another thing about summer is that the nights are shorter.

Psalm 30:5
5 For His anger is but for a moment,

His favor is for life;

Weeping may endure for a night,

But joy comes in the morning. 

What are you going to due when joy comes sooner?

Summer is the time when fruit is distributed in abundance. An abundance of rain is coming and you will see the fruits of your labor.

Proverbs 28:20
²⁰ A faithful man will abound with blessings,
     But he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

There is no recession in heaven. You are blessed in the city (Deut 23:3). If God said it then that settles it. You are blessed and highly favored.

The last point about summer: In the fall leaves fall from the trees. Stuff just falls away. It was a season of separation. The same things that left is now brand new.