Come Alive in ’25! – 527

2025 is here. Couple days. It’s the year for all of us, His Body, to Come Alive! I believe that! By God’s grace, expect a fresh vision, a fresh clarity, a fresh view – of Jesus. And since Jesus is the radiance of the Father’s glory — the exact representation of His nature, Hebrews 1:3, we will see the Father more clearly as well!

This fresh view will cause us to thrive in 25; it will cause us to Come Alive in 25. This new year get out those rejoicing garments and shout out to God His praises!

On this matter of SEEING, there are some things that, when we see them, they will change the way we see everything else. As we SEE Jesus with more clarity than ever before, we’ll be recognizing GOD as OUR Father, and receiving His love. And that will change EVERYTHING.

Not sure? Let’s dig into 1 John 3:1. It says, “SEE how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called CHILDREN OF GOD; and such we are.” SEEING. That revelation view of the Father answers the question, “Who is my father?”

We are more than what we do, what we accomplish. We are our father’s child. And who is our father? “God is our Father,” declares John.

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus identifies God as our Father no less than 16 times. Before Jesus, almost no one called God “Father.” But after Jesus, every New Testament writer did.

Jesus came to reveal God the Father to us. He came so that we might know who we truly are. He came that we might experience the abundant life of living as the apple of our Father’s eye.

See “how GREAT a love the Father has bestowed on us.” The love of God is the kind that seeks the lost, raises the dead, and welcomes outcasts into his family. It is a divine kind of love such as the world does not know.

“And such we are.” There is no better confirmation of our salvation than that of knowing God is our Father and we are his dearly-loved children. “For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith” declares Galatians 3:26. Not servants but sons with all the rights and privileges that entails.“NOW we are children of God.” 1 John 3:2. For the believer, adoption is not some future event but a present reality. Our future is secure and blessed. Romans 8:17 and Galatians 4:7.

In 2025 you will see Jesus as never before. You’ll have a revelation of the Father, and – oh boy — will you COME ALIVE!