Every now and then we come to a place in our lives where we just want a fresh start. Those moments where we close one chapter or door in our lives and decide it is time for another chapter or door to open. Often, i speak to women who are tired of the same routine or they are at a place in their lives where they are looking to start new ones.
The good news is, new beginnings are always possible no matter what age or season of life we find ourselves in. In fact, God delights in giving us new beginnings and He has the ability to “make all things new”. If you are in that place in your life where you are seeking God’s will for your new beginning or looking for scriptures to pray with to start something new, here are some of my favorite scriptures on that subject. Be encouraged and encourage someone today.
NEW BEGINNINGS START WITH US. WE CHOOSE IT.
“...to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
—Ephesians 4:22-24 (NIV)
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.”
—Isaiah 55:6 (ESV)
GOD MAKES NEW BEGINNINGS AVAILABLE EVERY DAY
"Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
—Lamentations 3:22-23 (NIV)
GOD RESPONDS TO OUR DESIRE FOR NEW BEGINNINGS
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
— Matthew 7:7 (NIV)
“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”
— John 15:7 (NIV)
GOD RENEWS OUR SPIRIT FOR NEW THINGS
“For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.”
—Hebrews 3:4 (NASB)
“And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh”
—Ezekiel 11:19 (ESV)
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
—2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)
“We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”
—Romans 6:4 (ESV)
GOD MAKES WAYS OUT OF IMPOSSIBILITIES
“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.”
—Isaiah 43:19 (ESV)
“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.”
—Joel 2:25 (ESV)
GOD MAKES THE NEW EVIDENT IN OUR LIVES
“And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’ Also he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.'”
—Revelation 21:5 (ESV)
“Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your end will increase greatly.”
—Job 8:7 (NASB)