When Fresh Starts Grow Stale
When fresh starts stall
When fresh starts stagnate
When fresh starts fizzle
When fresh starts flounder
When fresh starts fall over
Q: “What FRESH START have you been praying and believing God for over this series ‘favour follows fresh starts?’”
Health, healing, finances, business, school, relationships, family, addictions, friend or family member to know Jesus!
Q: What do we do when our Fresh Start Grows Stale?
James 1:2-4MSG
“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.”
Hebrews3:14NLT
“For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.”
Faithful with your family
Faithful with your finances
Faithful with your faith
Faithfulness in these areas positions you to step into a new season, a fresh start...
2. Reflect on His Faithfulness
BUT without the power of perspective every fresh start grows stale...
Whoever you are, God is saying to you right now...look at how fresh things are for you TODAY! Look at how far I have brought you already....
Philippians 1:6 TPT
“I pray with great faith for you, because I’m fully convinced that the One who began this glorious work in you will faithfully continue the process of maturing you and will put his finishing touches to it until the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ!”
God is putting some FINISHING TOUCHES on your FRESH START today...this week.
What you thought was growing stale is in fact the very fresh start you’ve been praying for!
3. 10X (Refresh YOUR Faith)
What are you believing God for?
“Sometimes our fresh start grows stale because we’ve grown stale....”
Psalms66:5TPT
”Everyone will say, “Come and see the incredible things God has done; it will take your breath away! He multiplies miracles for his people!”
I wonder if your FRESH START is the kind of fresh start that will take people’s breath away?
A multiple miracles kind of fresh start?
I want to give you permission right now to refresh your faith! Let’s ask God for more.
For a home? Why not an investment portfolio
For a school friend to know Jesus? Why not your entire class?
For a promotion? Why not a new business
For relief from the pain of a bad back? Why not for total and complete healing?
Community impact and influence? Why national or global impact?
Your Fresh Start might need to be 10X
I want to offer someone the opportunity to step into the freshest start of them all...your stale, dry and broken life has an opportunity right now to become fresh, alive and healed. Your fresh start can start today by inviting Jesus into your life....
1 Corinthians 1:26-31MSG
Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.
If this is what you have been believing for today... pray this prayer after me...
[YTJ] [SLIDE 10]
Jesus, this is my decision
Today I say yes to you
You died on the cross
To pay the price for my sin.
I invite you to be my saviour.
Come into my life.
Forgive my sin.
Fill me with the power of your holy spirit.
Amen
What is something FRESH you would like to start this week?
In which area of your life have you seen God’s faithfulness?
Are you still praying and believing for breathtaking miracles?