He’s Doing A New Thing

“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.”
Isaiah 43:18–19 NIVUK

God is doing new things. Right now, across the earth, in churches, families, communities, and even in the hidden corners of ordinary lives, heaven is bursting with fresh initiatives of grace. But here’s the honest truth: many of us struggle to step into the new. We’re creatures of habit. We do life by muscle memory. We run church and ministry the way we always have because we know it works—or at least, it used to. Familiarity breeds confidence. Predictability feels safe. And let’s be real… we love ease.

Yet Isaiah’s prophetic call is God’s remedy for our rut: “Forget the former things…”

Firstly, God calls us to forget. Not to forget His faithfulness—never that—but to stop returning to the filing cabinets of the past for strategies, methods, or blueprints. We often try to solve tomorrow’s challenges with yesterday’s tactics. God says, Cease that. Let there be a holy interruption. This kind of ceasing is helped by fasting—fasting preferred methods, fasting ease, fasting the instinct to default to “how we’ve always done it.” Pause long enough to ask, “Lord, what new thing do You want to do here?” Without that pause, we may never notice the gentle shift of divine direction.

Secondly, God says, see it—perceive it. Once we stop leaning on the past, we must make space to see the future. Prayer, fasting, journaling, dreaming with God, or simply getting around people who are daring to do new things—these practices stretch our spiritual imagination. Sometimes it’s asking the dangerous question: “If we could do anything—what would we do?” A bit of Spirit-filled blue-sky thinking with a few faith-filled friends releases surprising wisdom. In prayer retreats, pilgrimages, silence, and solitude, heaven whispers and hands us new lenses to perceive what God is birthing.

Finally, God invites us to go somewhere new.
“I am making a way in the wilderness… streams in the wasteland.”
Wilderness places are uninhabited, unfamiliar, untried. You may never have imagined that God would work there. A new community. Your workplace instead of your church. A new country. A family desert that has never known revival. A neighbourhood, a holiday region you love, an adventure park instead of a church building, or even a forgotten corner of your own heart. But if you saw the new place, you’d begin to see the new work.

So pray. Seek. Fast. See.

He’s doing a new thing.

And it could all get very exciting.

God is doing a new thing in my life, and I choose to perceive it and receive it. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19). I open my heart to what God is birthing in this season.

I declare that even in the wilderness, God is making a way. Where there has been dryness, delay, or uncertainty, He is creating paths of life and provision. “I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19).

I release the former things and refuse to live anchored to the past. I trust the God who brings renewal out of barrenness and hope out of hard places (Isaiah 43:18). The wilderness will not stop me—
for the Lord is making a way, and His new thing is unfolding in my life.

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