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Revelation 21:5 (the message)

The Enthroned continued, "Look! I'm making everything new. Write it all down — each word dependable and accurate."


Ironically, this little gem of hope is something that people have for years clung on to for the dream that things will change, situations will turn around, and that the promises we've been holding onto for years will no more be vague notions in our hearts and heads, rather fulfilled realities before our eyes. So let's look at this promise of newness and hope in a new (how many times can we use the word "new" eh?) way.

The fact is that your Father in heaven is crazy in love with you, and according to Romans 8:34 all day every day prays for you and me. Jesus, right now, sitting next to His Father is praying for you... Selah.

"Look! I'm making everything new. Write it all down - each word dependable and accurate." If you want something new, make some changes. If you've been down and out, get positive and happy, write verses on paper that make you have faith again and put them on your bathroom mirror, spend time with people who lift your spirits and make you feel loved and positive about the newness of God and what He wants to bring into your life. Maybe even take a course and learn something new. Fast and give up something you love until your specific breakthrough happens. Don't get comfortable in the place you're in, satisfied with floating through life. Write down the things you know you want to do, the person you want to be, and what you think you're still on this earth for. This verse says that God can be trusted. Believe God for the big things to come - He has things for your life that you can't even imagine... keep pushing for them!
He makes all things new... your life is one gigantic masterpiece He is daily making perfect.

And if life has handed you a doozy and it's too painful for you and your heart to make it out of bed, let alone hope for the light of a new day, from the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry. It's okay. God has you wrapped up in His arms, and has your newness for you. Hold on and take one breath at a time... in and out in and out.
He makes all things new...even your broken heart.
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