Out with the old and in with the new!

Have you ever bought a new outfit but were not able to wear it because you had no shoes to match? I am guilty of doing that. I was so excited about my new outfit and just knew that I had something in my closet to go with it. Only to return home to search and find nothing to match my new outfit. It is not a good feeling to be excited about wearing that outfit but not being able to because you don't have any shoes! The same is true with our walk with Christ. Many of us are looking mix matched. We are trying to put our new beautiful garments over our old dirty garments. It will not work. For in doing so we are ruining the new!  “Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before."~Matthew 9:16(NLT) It is time to get rid of the old in order to embrace the new. The word of God tells us that old things are passed away. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."~2Corinthians5:17(KJV) Out with old and in with the new.

Another way to look at out with the old and in with the new is to look at how we view pouring new wine in old wine bottles. Does this make since to you? Would you do that? Do you know in doing so you not only waste the new wine but break the wine bottle? “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins."~Luke 5:37(NLT) We do this in our every day life when we start a day with out asking God to empty us. We enter the day full of heaviness from the day before. We need to start empty so that it is God who is filling us with His new mercy. God's mercy is new everyday. "Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning."~Lamentations 3:23 Let's remind our selves each morning to ask God to empty us. Out with the old and in with the new.

Is there an old pattern of behavior in your life that does not line up with your new identity in Christ? Is this behavior hindering your walk with Christ? Let today be the day you make up your mind to no longer hold on to your past. Let it go. Let old habits go. It is time to walk in the fulness of what God has prepared for you. Let today be the day you say out with the old and in with the new! New mindset and new focus on your purpose. 

I would love to touch and agree with you today with a word of prayer. Father God, I come before you today praying for my brother or sister that took time on today to read this blog and that feels the wooing of your Holy Spirit. I pray that you have shown them what it is in their life that you a desiring for them to put aside. What you are desiring for them to get rid of through your grace and through the authority that you have given us through your son Jesus Christ. Father God we cry out to you today and ask that you would lead us on the path that you have for us. We long to do your will and be emptied daily so we can be filled with your glory! In the mighty name of Jesus we pray and praise you in advance for your work being completed amen! If you do not know Jesus Christ as your savior and you have not accepted Him into you heart and confessed Him as Lord, let today be the day that you receive eternal life. 

Wake Up!!

I was reading the other day and one of the scriptures jumped off of the page. "When he arrived at the house of Jairus, he did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John and James, and the child’s father and mother. Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. “Stop wailing,” Jesus said. “She is not dead but asleep.”~Luke8:51-52 So I came today to let you know that you are not dead you have been asleep! So I shout today wake up! It is time to rise and go forth your morning has come! “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.~Isaiah60:1

For far too long many have felt dead. You have felt dead and you have acted dead! No life has come forth from you. No new ideas, no new visions, no new dreams, and no excitement! So let today be the day that you have a spiritual awakening! Let today be the day that you refuse to lay down and die or to stay down and be counted out! Let today be the day that you make up in your mind that you are not dead but you have been asleep! You have been asleep for too long! When something does not move for awhile it is easy to assume that it is dead! Because of your lack of growth and movement many have counted you out, but today is the day for you to rise up and go forth! You now what happens when you sleep for to long? It takes all of your energy! Have you ever slept so long that you felt worse when you actually got up! You just got too much sleep! My friend you have been sleeping for too long!! Wake UP!

We have to be careful who is around us speaking into our lives! When you allow the wrong people to speak into your life they can declare you dead! They can already have your obituary wrote up and printed in the paper. When we allow the wrong people to speak into our lives they can get us to stop believing what the word of God says. That is why Jesus removed everyone when he went to the house of Jairus. Everyone was put out of the room except for those people that had faith to believe! He did not need those in the room that were going to be weeping because they thought the girl was dead! Jesus did not need or want anyone in the room that was declaring she was dead. This shows us we have to remove some people from around us that are weeping and declaring that we are dead! It also lets us know that we need to place people around us that have the faith to believe that we are going to live!

So rise up my brother and sister! Don't allow your current situation to cause you to think you are dead! You are alive! You are blessed! You are going to go forth and do everything that God has predestined for you to do! You are going to rise up and declare the word of the Lord! My friend you are not dead you are sleeping! Wake up and go forth and do the things that God has purposed for you to do!