🌿 New Thing - Let Go

Let go, so you can let God.

My phrase for the year 2022 was New Thing! The year before, my word was Faithful. God had spent that season reminding me of His steadfast faithfulness — how He keeps His promises and how I’m called to mirror that same faithfulness in every area of my life.

So when the new year arrived, I sensed Him whisper: “Now, I want to do a new thing.”

This wasn’t a shift away from faithfulness; it was the next step in it. Because once you’ve seen God’s faithfulness, He invites you to trust Him for more.

The Limits We Place on a Limitless God

If we’re honest, we often put God in a box.

Not because we mean to — but because we’re human. We set limits for ourselves, and without realizing it, we place those same limits on God. We pray small prayers, ask for manageable blessings, or expect Him to repeat the miracles we’ve already seen instead of inviting Him to do something greater, something new.

But our God is not a God of repeats. He is “able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we can ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20).

Sometimes, God is simply waiting for us to stop replaying the old and start making room for the new.

God’s Invitation to Surrender

When I brought my prayers and desires before Him, I could almost hear His gentle response:

“Daughter, I know what you’re going through. I see the struggle. I hear your prayers for change — but I need your surrender. I want to do something new, something different. Surrender your way of thinking. Surrender your way of doing. Immerse yourself in My Word. Spend time in My presence. You want your situation changed — I want your life changed.”

That’s where we often get stuck.

We pray for change but try to control how it happens.

We expect God to work the same way He did before — for us or for someone else — and we miss the beauty of the new thing He’s already beginning.

So what does surrender really look like? The Word gives us the answer.

Forget the Former Things

Isaiah 43:18–19 declares:

“But forget all that — it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. 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.”

When God spoke these words to Israel, He reminded them of His past miracles — parting the Red Sea, delivering them from Egypt — and then told them to forget it. Not because those moments didn’t matter, but because He wasn’t finished.

He was saying, “Don’t get so focused on what I did then that you miss what I’m doing now.”

It’s the same message for us today.

We can’t walk into the new when we’re still holding on to the old.

A Renewed Mind for a New Move

Romans 12:2 urges us:

“Do not copy the behaviors and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.”

Transformation begins with surrender — releasing old mindsets and worldly habits so God can renew our thinking.

2 Corinthians 5:17 echoes this:

“Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun.”

Out with the old. In with the new.

God doesn’t want us to live on yesterday’s faith, yesterday’s blessings, or yesterday’s miracles. He wants a fresh, daily relationship with us — one that keeps growing, expanding, and transforming.

Fix Your Gaze and Be Refreshed

When God said, “See, I have already begun,” He was calling His people to look. To fix their gaze on Him — not the past, not their circumstances.

When we look to God, when we spend time in His presence and let His Word reshape our vision, He begins to reveal the new paths He’s already paving for us.

He says, “I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”

Think about that — direction and refreshment in the middle of desolation. God promises both.

He not only shows the way, but He also sustains us along it.

He turns barren places into rivers of renewal and restores what was once dry and lifeless.

The Call to Surrender — Again

If you want the new thing God has for you, you must be willing to surrender again — your thoughts, your expectations, your need to control the outcome.

God is saying:

“Open up and allow Me to do a new thing — in you, for you, to you, and through you. And it won’t look like what I did before. But if you surrender, neither will you.”

Ephesians 2:10 reminds us:

“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.”

You are His masterpiece — created anew for His purposes.

Let go of what was. Look toward what’s coming. And allow His rivers of life to refresh every dry place in you.

Reflection

What might God be asking you to release today?

What “old thing” do you need to forget so He can do a new thing in you?

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