Fresh Encounters | Andy Elmes | 15th January 2023

Pastor Andy continues with his theme for us having new and fresh encounters with God. We need a fresh encounter with God. The good news is that God wants to give us fresh encounters. When we read about Jesus in the gospels, He always said, ‘Come to me all those who are thirsty’.  We need to thirst and desire Him in our hearts. We need Him to be our Lord and King, the good news is that He says He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. We need to feed off fresh bread from God, not stale bread we had months or years ago (spiritually speaking). 

Pride, procrastination and passivity can keep us from fresh encounters with God. The bible is full of people who had God encounters; we need only to think of Zacchaeus. If he had been too lazy to get up the tree he would not have had the encounter with Jesus that changed his life. Let us not be hampered by world ways, let us diligently seek our God for fresh encounters daily.