“Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall
you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.”—Isaiah 43:19
God
is doing a new thing. Isaiah the prophet
reminded Israel in 43:19 that God was doing a new thing and it would spring
forth, and then He asked them a question, “Will you not be aware of it?” God wants us know what He is doing,
so-much-so, that He sent the Holy Spirit to reveal them to us. “But
just as it is written, ‘things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,
and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for
those who love Him.’ For to us God
revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the
depths of God” (I Corinthians 2:9-10).
To hear
the “new thing,” we must remove the “old haunts”—the old way of doing things
off of
our
prayer time, and off of the way we pray, and then yield ourselves to the Holy
Spirit to do a new thing. When we yield
to the Lord, we defer to Him, we say, “Not my will, Lord, but Thy will.”
Yielding
is surrendering our personal agenda, our time, and our responsibilities to
Him. With an
attitude
of yielding in our time of prayer, He becomes our all-in-all, He becomes our
focus, and that is when we become one with Him.
Jesus expressed it this way in John 17:10 & 23, “And all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine…I in them
and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know
that You have sent Me.” Yielding is when we will truly see the
resurrection power of Jesus Christ working in our prayers and nothing shall be
impossible.
Prayer—Father, I ask You to shine Your light of
revelation on the “old things” in my life so that I can give them to You. Help me to see the “new things” that you have
for me, and help me to yield myself to You, in Jesus Name. Amen.
