The NEW Wine

 An Emoji Devotional for Wed 21 Sept, 2022

Topic: The New Wine

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Nor do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins burst, the wine runs out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, people pour new wine into fresh skins, and both are saved." St. Matthew 9:17

If you really want to see great transformation in your life. You have to change your ways to the body of Jesus Christ. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8

What are God's thoughts? Sure they are good thoughts for us according to Jeremiah 29:11. We need to demonstrate that we live in God's thoughts so that our faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. You have to demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:4-5. Not folding your hands looking at the world passing you by. You must declare the will of God for your life like someone with spiritual eyes. Have you ever seen someone in charge of an office who keeps quiet when communicating with their subject? They must say something. 

So is why you need a new wine to demonstrate the power of Holy Spirit of God. 1 Corinthians 2:12 Now, we didn't receive the spirit that belongs to the world. Instead, we received the Spirit who comes from God so that we could know the things which God has freely given us.

If you don't control the world, the world will control you even if you are God's child. 

What are the things God has freely given us: It is the grace and Spirit of eternal life of Jesus Christ to impact our world into the way it should be (God's way) in divine order. You need new wine to get this done. Not like the way we get intoxicated with the canal wine to misbehave - God forbid!. The new wine gives divine wisdom that reveal the true definition of God's people demonstrating God's power. You cannot know take new wine to demonstrate properly unless you change the wineskin with which you were known for unless you will limit or defeat the manifestation of the real you when the new wine gets into you.

The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments. 1 Corinthians 2:15-16

The new wine makes us become highly intellectual instead of intoxicated as well as more than highly intellectual because it is the same Spirit in the blood of Jesus Christ. To make you see into the difference between the dream and the reality; then you can no longer take the shadow for the substance. It is like the parable of "... treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field." Matthew 13:44

Change your wineskin: When you have discovered the new wine, you change your wineskin. It will cost you letting go of certain unacceptable things in your life. Then you begin with demonstrating power of God's spirit, You may be judged for it, condemned because of this, depreciated, slandered every day of your life, but the arrow flights of human judgment fall far short of you. Hebrews 12:14 says "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" 

Remember this is not just a physical fight to flout orders but a decision to fight spiritually against principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness of darkness in high places who wants to subjugate you into injustice of life. Ephesians 6:10-12. The new wine will make you see these things and give you the courage to make moves (demonstrate) to deal with them.

When you are ready to take on the challenge! Do it with confidence that Christ got your back. "For if you eat the bread or drink the cup unworthily, not honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God's judgment upon yourself." 1 Corinthians 11:29

Prayer: Holy Spirit pour your New Wine into my spirit's throat in Jesus name, Amen.