The Best is Yet to Come! – The Presidential Prayer Team

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. – Isaiah 65:17

Have you ever noticed how people light up at the prospect of a new car, a new phone, or even something as small as a new haircut or article of clothing? It’s a natural human instinct to get excited over new things. Are you just as excited about the ultimate “new things” Jesus will be bringing with Him when He returns?

At the end of the book of Isaiah, the prophet describes the new Heaven and the new Earth that God will create after Jesus returns to Earth one day. Christians know that when Jesus came to Earth the first time, He brought salvation to people. But before leaving, Jesus promised that one day He would come back to Earth to finish the work that He started. God promises that He will build a new Heaven and a new Earth, that will be far better than anything today. There will be safety, peace, and plenty in this new place.

Isaiah 65 is full of exciting descriptions of why Christians can look forward to the new heavens and the new earth that God is going to create. Find hope in knowing that no matter what happens in this world, the best is yet to come! Thank God for what He has already done and all that He has yet to do. Pray that He would use the current leaders of the nation to completely fulfill His plan.

Today’s Verse: Isaiah 65:17

“For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.

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Recommended for further reading: Isaiah 65:17-25

“For behold, I create new heavens
    and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
    or come into mind.
¹⁸But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
¹⁹I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.
²⁰No more shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
²¹They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²²They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
²³They shall not labor in vain
    or bear children for calamity,
for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
²⁴Before they call I will answer;
    while they are yet speaking I will hear.
²⁵The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.