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In the prayer meeting at our church the other night we read a passage from Matthew 9 which quoted Jesus as saying the following:
“Men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved." Matt 9:17

As I let these words reverberate through my mind I began to realise again how good God is (not that it is easy to forget!).
God’s desire is to pour out new wine. He is not interested in giving us anything old or stale, no matter what our condition is.
But He is also not willing to harming us.
Therefore if He wants to pour out new wine, and He realises that we will not be able to cope with it in our current state, He does something amazing; He renews us. He transforms our old wineskins into something new and fresh, something that will be able to contain the new thing He is doing.

Over the last few months we have been witnessing more and more miraculous healings in our church. It is amazing! But it seems as though God is doing this little by little; He is preparing us, renewing us for an out pouring of His presence – an overflow.
God does not want us to rupture or ruin, but neither does He does want to hold back the ‘new wine’ He has in store for us, our churches, and our city. We will be renewed by His Spirit but we must desire and accept this renewal for it to happen.

Lord, make into new wine skins ready for your outpouring.