August 26th
Behold, I Am Doing a New Thing
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Opening · Section 1 of 11
“For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:18Read full chapter →
The God of the harvest does not forget the labourer. Your work in the Lord is never in vain. Even the tears you watered the ground with are counted and will return as sheaves of joy.
Rejoice in the harvest, but give the glory to the Lord of the harvest. The strength, the seed, the sun, and the rain were all His. You were simply honoured to be a co-labourer.
Notice the order in which God works. He speaks before He shows. He promises before He performs. He names you before you behave like the name. If you insist on seeing the evidence before you trust the voice, you will spend your life waiting at the wrong door. Faith is the decision to organise your life around what God has said while the visible world is still catching up.
Let today's word travel further than your own life. Send it to one person who needs it. Fire spreads; a devotion kept private has only done half its work. What God pours into you is always partly meant for someone else's drought.
The Prayer
Pray it slowly, out loud, movement by movement
1. Adoration
Holy Spirit, You are not a force or a feeling but a Person — the very presence of God given to me. You convict without condemning, comfort without indulging, and lead without ever losing the way. I honour You, and I make room for You this morning.
2. Confession
I confess how often I have quenched You. I have chosen noise over Your whisper, opinion over Your counsel, and hurry over Your leading. Where I have grieved You by my speech, my appetite or my unforgiveness, I repent and turn.
3. Petition
Fall fresh on me. Order my steps, sanctify my speech, sharpen my discernment and make my life a dwelling place for Your glory. Teach me to recognise Your voice above every other voice competing for my obedience today.
4. Consecration
I welcome You to lead, correct, interrupt and redirect me. I will obey quickly and without negotiation. Come and take Your rightful place at the centre of my life. In the Mighty Name of Jesus! Amen.
Daily Declarations
Speak these over your life today
- I wait on the Lord and my strength is renewed; I run and do not grow weary.Isaiah 40:31
- The favour of God surrounds me like a shield.Psalm 5:12
- My God supplies every need of mine according to His riches in glory.Philippians 4:19
- I lack no good thing, for the Lord is my shepherd.Psalm 23:1; Psalm 34:10
- Whatever I put my hand to prospers, because I am planted by streams of water.Psalm 1:3
- I am blessed to be a blessing; I give and it is given back to me, pressed down and overflowing.Genesis 12:2; Luke 6:38
- Goodness and mercy pursue me all the days of my life.Psalm 23:6
Prophetic Decrees
- I decree that my family line comes under the covering of the covenant of Christ.
- I decree that prodigals return, hardened hearts soften and dry bones live again.
- I decree revival in my private prayer life before I ask for it in public.
- I decree that the fire on my altar will not go out, in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
Dig Deeper
- 1.What is God inviting you to lay down in response to this passage?
- 2.What is He asking you to pick up?
- 3.Where have you seen God prove this true in your own history?
- 4.How does remembering that shape your faith for what you are facing now?
Further Passages
- Isaiah 43:2 →
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned.”
- Psalm 139:23-24 →
“Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!”
- Matthew 28:19-20 →
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And behold, I am with you always.”
Today's Assignment
Write today's key verse on paper and keep it where you will see it all day.
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