When the Lord woke me up this morning I felt a lightness in my spirit and after several days of heaviness in my heart I felt the obvious and most welcomed difference. When I walked into the bathroom there was an open window and a breeze blew in and met me at the door and all of a sudden I was overcome by the newness and freshness of the air. It was an incredible smell and an even better aroma to my spirit. I rejoiced in the Lord shouting out “this is the day I Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad.”
It has become my practice that during the warmer months when I don’t require a coat I take afternoon walks taking a break from my work desk. Today I was able to go for a walk. As I stepped outside my heart again rejoiced as I was met with the breeze I had been blessed with in the morning. As I breathed in deeply I heard the Lord say, the old has passed the new has come. Two things immediately came to mind. First, 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Secondly I heard in my spirit I am doing a new thing, do you perceive it? Isaiah 43:19 “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”
Even as I enjoyed the warmth of the day and the newness in the atmosphere I looked around I still saw the mounds of snow that have remained from the snow storms we had experienced over the last several weeks. As I came back to my desk one of my co-workers said Wow there are sure signs that spring is definitely on its way. I smiled as I said in my heart, Lord thank You for the new season that is now upon us.
And the Lord said, “Although there are things that may still remain that are a visible and irritating reminder of the last season you have already come into the new. In the realm of the Spirit I have already begun the new thing. You need not look in fear at your present circumstances as any indication of what I am doing; for behold the old has passed and all thing have become new. Shed the weight of the old season and begin to bask in the new. Before you know it, you will be able to see the new thing even with your physical eyes. You will taste it and touch it as the full manifestation of the spirit will come into the natural. You have waited a long time for this and many things have come to try to distract and discourage you but now I say your way shall be made clear and what was once dry and barren will spring forth new life flowing as rivers of living water. Get ready for the old has passed and the new has begun.”
And the Lord said, “Although there are things that may still remain that are a visible and irritating reminder of the last season you have already come into the new. In the realm of the Spirit I have already begun the new thing. You need not look in fear at your present circumstances as any indication of what I am doing; for behold the old has passed and all thing have become new. Shed the weight of the old season and begin to bask in the new. Before you know it, you will be able to see the new thing even with your physical eyes. You will taste it and touch it as the full manifestation of the spirit will come into the natural. You have waited a long time for this and many things have come to try to distract and discourage you but now I say your way shall be made clear and what was once dry and barren will spring forth new life flowing as rivers of living water. Get ready for the old has passed and the new has begun.”
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