NEW YEAR MESSAGE
A new year can feel like a clean page—or like the same old chapter with a different number on the cover. As we step into New Year 2026, God gives us a word that cuts through both excitement and anxiety with holy confidence. In Isaiah 43:1, He doesn’t offer us a motivational quote; He announces a divine initiative: “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”
This is God speaking to people who knew what it meant to be weary, waiting, and wondering. And yet, He calls them and us to look up. The message begins with one powerful command: “Behold.” In other words, pay attention. Heaven is saying, “Don’t let your eyes be held hostage by last year’s disappointments.” Some of us enter 2026 still carrying the weight of what didn’t work out, prayers that seemed unanswered, plans that collapsed, relationships that strained, opportunities that slipped away. But God interrupts our replay of yesterday with a fresh reveal of His presence today.
The enemy loves to keep believers staring at what was; God invites His people to recognise what is, because while you were counting down the year, God was already counting out His mercies.
Then the Lord declares, “I will do a new thing.” Notice who owns the action. The foundation of our hope is not our willpower, our resolutions, or our routines important as they are. Our hope rests on the nature of God: the One who creates, restores, revives, and redeems. And when God says “new,” He doesn’t always mean “new location.”
Sometimes His new thing is a new heart in an old situation, new strength for a familiar battle, new wisdom for a complex decision, new unity in a home that has felt divided, new hunger for prayer, and new boldness to live holy without apology. This year, we are not doomed to repeat cycles. By God’s grace, we are empowered to break them. God adds, “Now it shall spring forth’’. New things often start small like a seed cracking open underground. Don’t despise the “springing” stage: the quiet prompt to pray again, the courage to forgive, the discipline to return to Scripture, the nudge to serve, the idea God keeps placing in your heart.
A spring doesn’t announce itself with noise; it announces itself with life. Church, don’t measure 2026 only by big events measure it by real growth. And for anyone beginning the year in a difficult place, God seals the promise: “I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Wilderness is confusion; desert is dryness. Yet God specialises in both guidance and supply. He makes a way where there was no path, and He sends refreshment where there seemed to be none.
So, we enter 2026 with our eyes open and our faith awake: expecting God’s new thing, recognising His movement, and walking forward together. Behold—He is already at work. Hallelujah!
Happy New Year!
Dozie Moneme