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SOMETHING

DO NEW

Wendy Erskine, Region 8 Director, shares how God is at Spring Harvest and the first in taking responsibility for
always promising to do new things and how this was the stand. With the support of members from several
very evident at her visit to Spring Harvest earlier this branches, it was great to be reminded in many ways that
year. Here she combines a Devotional and a report to the Lord continues to do a new thing.
encourage and bless us.
We had people coming and sharing that they had
Behold, I am about to do something new, even now it is found new life in the Lord Jesus after reading the New
coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in Testament that had been given to them. One man
the wilderness and streams in the desert. See, I am doing said that growing up, his parents had been Jehovah's
a new thing! Now it springs up: do you not perceive it? Witnesses, but as a child he had always been uncertain
(Isaiah 43:19) about it. He was given a Testament at school and
managed to keep it and read it secretly each night. The
In the above verse from Isaiah, God promises to do a
new thing even greater than He had done before for Lord did a new thing in his life quietly and slowly over
the next few years. By the time he left home and joined
the people of Israel. What amazing things He had done,
such as holding back the Red Sea as they left Egypt while a church, he had received new life because of what Jesus
had done on the cross for him.
fleeing from their oppressors.
God says in this verse, "I will make a way in the wilderness Chatting with friends in a cafe is a great opportunity to
share our story. When we pray before we meet them,
and make streams in the desert".
the Lord will prepare the way, and we may be surprised
They needed to remember this because, when life was how much our friends want to hear and read about Jesus.
difficult again, they could trust God that He would still be Remember, someone took the time to tell you about the
there to guide and protect them. Lord Jesus and His love.
Finally, God says to them, this new thing will spring up God’s Word never changes; it is always new, and we
and suddenly surprise them. They needed to be ready to should not be surprised when He shows us the new
recognise it and respond. things He wants us to do.
This year, GOOD NEWS for Everyone! had a stand at
Spring Harvest; it was a new thing for me, the first time

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