I want to receive more of the new wine! Don't you?

Russell & Styers

May 30

Yesterday morning after spending time with God, like most mornings, I asked Him what He would like me to read of His word. He told me Mark two and three. I opened my Bible and found it, then started to read. When I got to Mark 2:21-22 He revealed something to me, a revelation from those two verses. Something I never gave a thought to, never connected the two things together until now, when God spoke to me through them.

When God is doing a new thing, there are some who will not receive it. The old wineskin will not hold the something new. It cannot receive it, cannot hold it. In other words, the person cannot handle what God is wanting to pour into them. The person sees things in a certain way. It's hard for the person to change even though they know God is doing a new thing.

(Isaiah 43:19 "Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing. Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it?")

God knows who is willing to receive the new things He is doing. It's those who are willing to grow in Christ. Those who are hearing and listening for His voice and for those who are willing to obey God at all costs. It goes with what Pat, and I know and something we have heard from others in the last week.

When you step into Gods calling and what He wants you to do. When you are willing to obey Him at all costs. When you believe, know that you know that you know. When you will not let anything, or anyone change who you are in Him. When you walk the walk and talk the talk, there are things that will happen. You will lose friends, family members, some people will not like you, some will not understand you, and some will think you are crazy. The enemy also will come at you. He doesn't like those of us who have let go and let God have us. All of it will happen because we surrendered our life to Jesus.

That is okay with me. You see, I have to, no, I must do what I know He is calling me to do. I am one of the new wineskins and I want to receive more of the new wine. His will, His ways and His word, that's what I seek! Don't you?

"No one sews a patch of unshrunk (new) cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse. No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the wineskins. But new wine must be put into new wineskins." (Mark 2:21-22)