A New Thing In Me

Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
—Isaiah 43:19

 

You promise something new, Lord. I want to perceive your Word producing life in me. Conceive in me, Holy Spirit. I’m meditating on Your Word, renewing my thoughts daily, and believing Your Word in my heart. Your Word is Truth. Guide me into all of it. Teach me beyond my natural ability to perceive. Take me to the place where I walk in peace, healing, and joy more abundant than I have ever known.
 
Amid the chaos, evil, unrest, and struggles, you tell me to keep my mind on You. I don’t have any answers. I know this is a matter of trust. You give me Your revelation to inspire hope. I want to receive it and share it with integrity.
 
You continually tell me that You are doing something new. But my perception is not yet Yours, Lord. I’m making the mistake of trying to understand with my limited mind instead of the spiritual mind You have given me. If I seek Your understanding with all my mind and heart and deny my own, I will receive the revelation You have for me. 
 
This journey of Your revelation is unlike any other. You take me out of my comfort zone, beyond the familiar, and open the life of Your Word within me. You expand my understanding from the ordinary aspects of this world to the extraordinary nature of Yours. I desire Your revelation more than human understanding. Nothing else is worth the divine unveiling of Your Word. Nothing comes close.
 
Everyone—whether they are from the world or from you—believes they have the answer. Their answers may be based on human logic or what they believe in your Word. Perhaps those who look for answers in Your Word have never considered that You possess a depth of understanding beyond their natural perception. 
 
Dare we open ourselves and allow You, Holy Spirit, to guide us into all Truth? The answer to everything is found in Your Word. We just haven’t perceived it yet so that it can be believed in our minds and conceived in our hearts. We haven’t been willing to risk venturing into uncharted territory with You.

When the Word has renewed us, we will trust You with our minds and hearts. You will keep us in perfect peace, no matter what rages around us. Our spirits are born-again in You. We perceive Your Spirit and conceive Your Truth with our souls (our minds and hearts). When what we believe comes into agreement with the Word, we align with Your Truth. We experience the physical manifestation of Your Word. When we place our faith in You rather than in the lies of the enemy, the world, religious tradition, or the opinions of men, You grant perfect peace amid chaos, unrest, and destruction.
 
“Behold, I will do a new thing. Will you not know it?  I make a road in this wilderness and give waters in this desert land to my people—to the ones that know me—the ones I have formed for myself. They shall praise me” (Isaiah 43:19-21).
 
You are the answer, Lord Jesus. The revelation of Your Word is the means you have given me to know you and to share you. But sometimes instead of allowing You to work through me, I fail. You paid the price, Lord; it is Your purpose, not mine. I am but Your servant. You give revelation. You bear fruit in me. You change hearts, not me. 

Lord, Jesus, may the meditation of my heart and the words of my mouth be pleasing in your sight. I take my hands off Your work. Open my heart to risk everything for you. Change me, Holy Spirit, into a vessel You can use so that Your Word will be manifested in those hungry enough to receive it. Help me write for hearts that are famished and willing to risk everything for You.
 

I have Your mind to exercise, Lord Jesus. I fix my mind and heart on You. I trust only you, Lord. I will keep sowing Your imperishable Truth in my heart, and You will bring forth something new in me.