88: Seeking Restoration

 It’s A New Season

 

“New” can be defined in various ways.  As an adjective, it can mean:

1.   Recently created, or having started to exist recently (now); or

2.   Different to the one that existed earlier; or

3.   Not yet familiar or experienced; or

4.   Not previously used or owned; or

5.   Recently discovered; made known.

An adjective is a word that describes, or tells us more about, a noun (a person, place, thing, event, day (time), …).  In this series of conversations, You, as a person, are the noun we’re talking about. Your soul (and its destination) is the place we shall explore. Your life, is the thing we shall describe.  Your transformation is the event we shall celebrate. And Your season is the day (time) we are moving in right now.

“Newness” is the quality of being new or original.  After accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior, born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5-6), the Bible confirms in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. You, dearly beloved, are a new creation; an original, a one of kind, no other like you copy of God’s image on earth.  Would you like to celebrate that together?  That’s exactly what we’re going to do in this “It’s a New Season” blog series.

It’s time to “dance like David”, I mean get ecstatically (filled and rolling over) joyful in the Lord for how far He’s brought you up to now.  The tears may still fall, the scars may still be open, but we are going to intentionally stop that flow and be healed once and for all, for “It’s A New Season”—a new time, a new day; and you must prophesy into your life how you want to live the rest of your life: Victorious!

Israel and New Breed’s song New Season sings worship to our Lord for the newness I pray to share with you at the top of 2021.  Please purchase that song and replay it throughout this year. 

Newness is a noun in different forms: as in a person (you), in a place (your soul’s destiny), of a thing (your life), an event (your transformation), a day (today, your season).  Newness also means RESTORATION.  Plant this word deep into your soul because this is what “It’s A New Season” blog series is all about.  We are going to travel boldly into it, uproot and remove the weeds choking it, clear the land and make room for building up the new life—the restored life—that is meant for us in Jesus Christ. 

This is not a journey for the weak.  Put on God’s Armor (Ephesians 6:10-18), keep bearing His Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), and let’s walk by faith and not by sight. 

We have an awesome task to complete in this season. Please prepare your body, soul, and spirit this week with the scriptures indicated above. See you next week.

 New Season¹

It’s a new season, it’s a new day

A fresh anointing is flowing my way

It’s a season of power and prosperity

It’s a new season coming to me.

 

© 2021 by Patience Osei-Anyamesem. All rights reserved.  Published by The Light In Me Enterprise.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—without the prior written permission of the publisher.  The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews or other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Unless otherwise stated, all scripture quotations are from The New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.  Used by permission. All rights reserved.

1. “New Season” lyrics by Israel Houghton, 2001.

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87: To Fill Up Your Life, Empty Out All Strife

  Living In Abundance Series

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice (Ephesians 4:31).

When prophet Elijah instructed the widow to bake a cake of bread for him, knowing that it was her and her only son’s last meal “that we may eat it, and die” (1 Kings 17:16), she obeyed.

Later, when prophet Elisha instructed the widow to “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere—empty vessels; do not gather just a few” (2 Kings 1-7), she obeyed.

In both scenarios, it required an emptiness of some kind—nothing left to prepare a meal or nothing in the “bank” to pay debts.  That nothingness indicates “emptiness”.  In their state as widows with children, all they had was a quiet trust in the Lord.  The answers to their prayers were found in the prophets—true men of God who stood unshakable on the solid foundation of God’s word as spoken to them and delivered to the “empty-hearted”.

When your soul finds its way to God’s love, it yearns to know what that love is all about.  That soul longs to be in the presence of the Lord, because, in His presence, there is abundance and fullness of joy.  Living in abundance first begins at the soul level where the reasoning of the mind meets the emotion of the heart and they (mind and heart) agree with God to allow Him to take control over what is blocking the natural flow of abundance in your life.

Abundance is supposed to be a natural occurrence in the life of a Christian for Jesus affirmed that I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10b).  But only an empty vessel can be filled.  That vessel is your soul.  What is it filled with? And how can it be emptied?

The lives of the widows were filled with worry and indebtedness.  Yet, they did not get bitter, wrathful, cause clamor (commotion); neither did they speak evil of their dead husbands or curse God.  They simply got quiet, and spoke their problems to the men of God. They emptied out what was troubling or cluttering up their hearts first to God in prayer and later to the servants God sent to help fill their lives again with abundance.

You may be experiencing hard financial times, or a sickness, or a fear of “tomorrow”.  You may have lost a father or husband or child. You may be facing the mountain of rejection or severe adversity or persecution for clinging to living a life of righteousness.  The list of tragedies and various ‘goliaths’ in the life of a Christian may challenge our faith in God, the Father, because we just cannot understand “why?” 

However, through all life’s adversity, we all have a choice to make: Either to trust and obey the will of God for our lives as He refines us into the image and likeness of His Son, Jesus Christ; or to allow our hearts (our vessels) to become full of bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking.  God cannot come into a heart with no space for Him to in-dwell. 

Just as a law of physics says that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time, in the same way, the Bible says that No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be loyal to one and despise the other.  You cannot serve God and [ego or self] (Matthew 6:24).  If you live to please the passions of your flesh which wills to serve its ego (the “I”, “me”, the selfish inclination), then you cannot be empty to allow God to fill up your life with His infinite abundance.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you (Ephesians 4:32).

 

NOW OPEN UP YOUR EMPTIED HEART TO RECEIVE AND EXPERIENCE

THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING!

 

© 2021 by Patience Osei-Anyamesem. All rights reserved.  Published by The Light In Me Enterprise.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—without the prior written permission of the publisher.  The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews or other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Unless otherwise stated, all scripture quotations are from The New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.  Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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