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New wine
There are moments when a song does more than play in the background of life. It begins to echo in your spirit. You find yourself singing it without thinking. It fills your dreams, and when you wake, the melody is already on your lips.
Lately the song New Wine has been doing that to me. It keeps running through my mind, almost like a whisper that refuses to be ignored.
In Scripture, new wine refers to freshly pressed grapes unfermented or in the process of becoming something new. It is a symbol of divine blessing, abundance, and the joy of the harvest. But it is also a powerful picture of the Holy Spirit and the transforming message of Jesus.
Jesus spoke of this when He said that new wine cannot be poured into old wineskins. If it is, the skins will burst and both the wine and the vessel will be lost. New wine requires new wineskins.
The old wine may taste familiar and comfortable, but it has become rigid and unyielding. New wine is different. It is alive. It is fresh. It expands, stretches, and requires a vessel that is flexible and able to grow.
But before new wine is formed, there is a process.
The grapes must be crushed.
In Hebrew, the words translated as “new wine” carry the meaning of freshly pressed, squeezed, expelled, and trodden out. The grapes have passed through the winepress. They have been crushed and pressed underfoot.
And yet from that crushing comes something new.
I sense the Spirit saying that we are entering a new wine season.
Many have been crying out, “Lord, where is Your power? Why don’t we see Your Spirit moving as we once did?”
And the Spirit responds:
“I am pouring out new wine. But I am also forming new wineskins.”
God is calling His church back to intimacy. Back to a place where He Himself becomes our greatest delight. In that place He stretches the vessel of our hearts so we can carry what He is about to release.
There may be a season of crushing. There may be stretching. But it is not to destroy you it is to prepare you.
He is looking for vessels that are willing. Hearts that are soft. Lives that are surrendered.
Jesus is calling His church to become new wineskins flexible, growing, and able to contain the fresh outpouring of His Spirit.
Church, the question is not whether God is willing to pour out new wine.
The question is this:
Are we willing to become the wineskin that can hold it?
The new wine is already being poured only the willing wineskins will be able to contain it.
The church keeps asking for the wine, but God is asking for the wineskins
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