FRESH START
It is the dream of nearly everyone at some point in their lives to start over again. Maybe we made wrong choices, maybe we messed things up, maybe we did profane things, maybe bad things were done to us and we were hurt or rejected, maybe we feel we have lost control of our lives, and we long to leave the past behind us and make a fresh start.

TOTAL MAKE-OVER
The good news is: by God's grace and through the blood of Jesus Christ, it is possible for anybody to have a total make-over! God washes us by the power of the Holy Spirit. He gives us new birth and a fresh beginning. He saves us because of His mercy, and not because of any good thing that we have done. (Tit 3:5) God is in the people-changing business. He's never met one yet that He couldn't fix.

HE MAKES ALL THINGS NEW
The regenerating grace of God creates a new world in the soul He makes ALL things new: Then the One sitting on the throne said: I am making everything new My words are true and can be trusted. (Rev 21:5)
Promise: The One on the throne (God) makes this promise. He says His words can be trusted.
I: It is only God who does the renewing work in us - no human initiative is necessary. We cannot do it ourselves.
Everything: There is not one aspect of our lives that God won't change.
New: The old things have passed away. Everything is NEW, not just better new and fresh.

A NEW CHANCE
When things look like they're pointing in all the wrong directions, when cir tances are depressing and there is no light at the end of the road, when you feel there is no hope, no answer then God makes a new thing. When our minds are held in chains by fear, or deception, or guilt, and when we allow God to do what we cannot do to lift us up, THEN God gives us a new chance shows us a new way makes us new people.

NEW, THROUGH CHRIST
Do you feel discouraged, rejected, unattractive, insignificant, useless, unsightly, condemned, impure? turn to Jesus! He makes all things new.
2Cor 5:17: Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world. Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being. It is only by accepting Jesus as Lord and Saviour into your life, that God can start His renewing process in you.
So change the way you think and act, and turn to God to have your sins removed. Then times will come when the Lord will refresh you. (Acts 3:19-20)

THE OLD IS GONE
The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence. God has done all this. He has restored our relationship with Him through Christ. (2Cor 5:17-18)
God promises not to ask any embarrassing questions about our past. He does this not because of anything we've done or promised to do, but because of the deal He made with Jesus Christ on the Cross. Our job is to accept or reject the gift He would like to make.
.. I'll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins. (Heb 10:17), ..events of the past will be completely forgotten (Is 65:17)

GOD CAN DO WHAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO US
Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already - you can see it now! I will make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there. (Is 43:19)

GOD SEES WHAT WE CAN BECOME
When we give up on ourselves, concluding that we are too bad to ever change, God says Wait a minute. I made you and I still see what you can become. You can't change yourself, but I can change you if you will let me. This is God's word on the subject: I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out--plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. (Jer 29:11)