BETHEL UNITED CHURCH
Highgate P.O., St. Mary

Sasheena Lynch
Age: 16

A broad topic which can be heard repeatedly in the Christian realm in each new year is renewal and transformation. Each new season brings new possibilities. In order to achieve growth, renewal and revival in a new season their has to first be a vision, then a plan, then the carrying out of that plan.

Being a Christian youth in the modern society is a hard plight but knowing that the youth are the future of society, We have to be the catalyst for the renewal and transformation, not only in the Church but also in the country and world at large. We the youth have to start planting seeds that are

worthy of bloom and reaping. In order to start the growth, transformation, renewal and revival in this new season, firstly more time needs to be spent in worship; that is reading the word of God, praying and fasting.

A new season demands the development of new ideas that can successfully become apart of reality. In order for us to do this God has equipped us with “a spirit of power and a sound mind,” and He told us “let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid,” more time also needs to be spent establishing and building a higher standard of Christendom, so that each new season can flourish and become more prosperous.

Being a Christian means being faced continuously with obstacles trying to break down the transformation which we have in progress but if we” seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continuously,” each step in the growth of the Christian society will seem easier because the Lord makes our “yolk easy and our burden light”

The people are said to be the church, and the church is predestined to be the persons who lead our slowly declining , economically unstable society “ towards the mark for the price of the high calling of God” In order to achieve growth in a new season a person needs to first learn how to get rid of hindrances. Hindrances are anything that blocks or inhibits a person from receiving what is rightfully theirs or something that stops or retards progress, such as, sin, unforgiveness, unbelief, pride, fear and ungodly soul ties. In order for renewal to take to take place hindrances need to be reduced or demolished. Prosperity involves trail test our character and help shape our faith.

Transformation in a new season requires of us to raise our level of expectancy, because it activates the power of God. The Church and society at large needs to replenish their supply of God’s gifts. God has called us to be people of excellence and integrity. To successfully achieve revival, renewal and transformation there needs to be less fear and more faith, because faith can move mountains and the removal of those mountains/hindrances can lead us to the transformation for each new season. Renewal shows growth revival means growth, transformation is the execution of growth.