New Beginnings
New Beginnings is not about the moments but about the momentum
As hard as we try there will be times we fail, or life happens in spite of efforts
Today we begin not with trying to get it all right, but believing when everything goes wrong
Isaiah 43:18-19 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
God has a new beginning, Not one day it might come, NO! now it springs up
New Beginnings! (How to start new when your family is in ashes)
Book of Ruth, time of Judges, a generation without God, faithfulness gone
The marks of a fallen generation is one where no leader follows God and they people grow up not seeing God’s power in their life
Family moves from Bethlehem to Moab, and the family falls apart
Ruth 1:13 It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD’s hand has turned against me!”
There is no Hebrew word for against me, instead, it is saying the Lord has left me alone, he does not see me
If it doesn’t feel like God is not against me, but he certainly has left me alone
Romans 8:28 We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
God does not do things to look good, to show off that he comes to rescue
Nor does he plan things to harm you, but bring goodness out of all things
Dr. Wilson, to know God’s will we must get two things right; Time, Attitude
For us to see goodness takes time, time seems quicker with the right attitude
Alesund, Norway, beautiful, costs for all church, but free museum, miracle house
To believe in new beginnings in your family, you must understand time, attitude
Joseph waited 16 years for God to bring goodness from the pain of rejection
Gen 50:20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
You intended evil, but God repurposed it for good to do good, good for me and others
Romans 8:27 He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
Naomi, call me Mara, bitter, just accept it, this is how things are
No, God has a new beginning for you for your family, and it has already begun!
Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.
Clear foreshadowing, the harvest was already coming, God working new…
Begin something new in your family by believing God’s New Beginning!
God was in the middle of Naomi and Ruth’s bitterness and family of ashes
They did not realize it, but the harvest had begun because God was moving
God had a harvest for Naomi and Ruth, he has a harvest for you and your family
If you make a new beginning, you will walk right into the harvest he is preparing
The enemy would discourage us, and give up before we reach harvest, there is no harvest
Eph 4:22-24 …put off your old self… be made new in the attitude of your minds;
and to put on the new self…
God has a new beginning for your family
Scoop up the ashes, and throw them up, declaring God, bring your new in us!