🙌 Celebrate Jehovah Jireh

The God who sees 👁️ and the God who provides 🕊️.

We celebrate His faithfulness and provision.

2025 Vision: Engage with God + Engage our Faith

• We are going after the:
• Detached 🙃
• Drifted 🌊
• Those Who Don’t Know ❓

🟢 God Is Doing a New Thing

📖 Isaiah 43:19 (ESV)

“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”

📜 Context:

• Written to Israel in exile under Babylonian captivity.
• Chapters 40–55 of Isaiah are known as the “Book of Comfort” — written to restore hope to a displaced, discouraged people.
• Israel’s temple had been destroyed, their hope vanished, and they felt abandoned.
• Isaiah recalls past miracles (like the parting of the Red Sea) but urges them to focus on what God is about to do next.

✨ Theological Significance:

• Affirms God’s sovereignty and covenant faithfulness even when His people fail.
• Declares God as Creator and Redeemer — the One who brings new life out of chaos.
• Reminds us: Exile is not the end — it’s the prelude to restoration.

🟢 Behold = Wake Up 👁️‍🗨️

• “Behold” is a wake-up call — a spiritual alarm clock.
• → Stop looking back. Start trusting God for what’s next.
• “I am doing a new thing” — The Israelites, like many of us, wanted God to move but didn’t want to change how they were living.
• ⚠️ Don’t pray for answers only to reject God’s solution when it doesn’t match your comfort zone.

💭 Worry and anxiety blind us to what God is doing.

God is faithful to work on it even while we’re worrying about it.

🟢 God Makes a Way in the Wilderness 🌵

📖 Isaiah 43:19 (again)

“I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”

• God specializes in impossible places — turning dry ground into living water.

💦 Ezekiel’s Vision: Step In Deeper

📖 Ezekiel 47:1–6 (ESV)

1 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. 2 Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east; and behold, the water was trickling out on the south side. 3 Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep. 4 Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep. 5 Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. 6 And he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?”

📜 Historical Context:

• Ezekiel prophesied during the Babylonian exile (597–571 BC).
• The temple had been destroyed; the people were displaced.
• The vision (given in 573 BC) offered hope of restoration.
• The water from the temple symbolized the presence and blessing of God flowing out to heal and renew the world.

✝️ Theological Fulfillment:

The river represents Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit bringing life.

📖 John 7:38 (ESV)

“Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

📖 Hebrews 9:13–14 (ESV)

“13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”

💡 The altar (source of the water) represents Christ’s sacrifice — the source of all life.

🩵 Step In – Levels of Faith

🦶 1️⃣ Ankle-Deep Faith: First Steps of Trust

• Start small — read Scripture, pray, take one obedient step.
• Faith begins when you decide to step into the flow.

🙏 2️⃣ Knee-Deep Faith: Commitment Through Prayer

• As the water rises, so does your dependence on God.
• Prayer becomes a priority, not an emergency plan.

🌊 3️⃣ Waist-Deep Faith: Living in Obedience

• You can feel the pull of the current — life is no longer just about you.
• Your life revolves around God, not convenience.

🕊️ 4️⃣ Over-Your-Head Faith: Surrender to the Current

• Stop fighting for control — let God carry you where He wants to go.
• This is where joy replaces fear, and trust becomes freedom.

🟢 The River Brings Healing and Fruitfulness 🌳

📖 Ezekiel 47:11–12 (ESV)

“11 But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. 12 And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”

• The water transforms everything it touches.
• Dead seas come alive 🌊.
• Deserts turn into fruit-bearing lands 🌾.
• God’s Spirit brings healing, nourishment, and new growth wherever it flows.

🟢 The River of Eternal Life 🌈

📖 Revelation 22:1–2 (ESV)

“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”

• The vision comes full circle — what began in Ezekiel’s temple ends in the New Jerusalem.
• The river of life flows from Jesus, the Lamb of God, forever healing and refreshing His people.

🎯 Final Call: Step In! 🏞️

• God is calling you to step into deeper waters.
• You can stay in control — or you can let the current carry you into His purpose.
• Don’t just pray for a move of God — be the one who moves first.
• 💬 It’s time to step into the water — where healing, growth, and new life begin.