The Start of Something New

Angelique Wilson
May 23, 2024
5 min read

God speaks. Even through your favourite childhood songs.

I love when God speaks through songs, particularly through those that we don’t anticipate for Him to speak through. This morning, God led me to this childhood favourite: ‘The Start of Something New’ from High School Musical. When I listened to it, every word rung true, and I strongly felt that every word was a prophetic declaration for me at the moment.

The song begins like this:

Living in my own world

Didn't understand

That anything can happen

When you take a chance

I never believed in What I couldn't see

I never opened my heart

To all the possibilities

In this past season, I have been following God’s leading every single day – step by step. I have been opened to new aspects of faith, including having God-sized faith for greater miracles, dedicating myself to prayer, fasting and intercession, completely immersing myself – soaking - in His word and so much more! Before this season, I truly didn’t understand that anything is possible through Him. I didn’t have the faith for large-scale miracles and couldn’t see how God could create something out of nothing. Frankly, for a long time, I couldn’t completely see past what was taking place in the physical.

Yesterday, God led me to do something that was absolutely pivotal in this season. What He had asked me to do was risky and I was absolutely terrified of making a horrible mistake and getting everything wrong, including mistaking the way that I heard His voice and leading. I was unsure of whether what He was asking me to do was rooted in my own emotions, or whether it was actually Him. The outcome, if I got it wrong, could have potentially ruined me and destroyed all of the important relationships in my life.

I sat on and prayed into the instruction for days, weeks, months, until I believed that it was the right time when God said “now.” Once I felt that it was time, I prayed for God to slam the door if I had heard Him wrong. But, to my surprise, He didn’t. He led me forward and asked me to trust that He would go before me and fight for me.

And so, yesterday, I was obedient and took a leap of faith - “I took a chance” - despite the fear and anxiety that I felt. What came next, put a smile on my face that I could not wipe away. Everything that God had revealed to me, told me to do and the words of knowledge He had entrusted me with were all spot on! In the situation I was in, God really did go before me and it turns out, I had heard His voice more accurately than I ever thought I was capable of.

Finally, my heart was completely open to all the possibilities, of what God is doing in this situation, in my life and in my future.

Yesterday, I felt that a new day was dawning. I felt a heavy impression on my spirit that it was “a day of victory.” When I drove to work in the morning, and looked towards the Heavens, I noticed the sun shining brightly. And I felt God say, “the sun is a prophetic declaration of the victory that is won through Me.”

Now, it had felt like it had been raining for weeks…months even. I wrote a poem about what I saw prophetically, which you should totally read! But the sudden shift in weather spoke volumes.

The change of weather – from rain to sunshine – declared that a new thing. A new season was beginning. And today, as God laid this song on my heart, I felt Him confirm that I am, and we all are, entering an entirely new season where I am about to experience the incredible riches and mercies of God. I am about to see Him perform the miracles that I have hoped and prayed for. I am about to experience a greater depth of His spirit. I am about to see Him shift and change things in my life where everything that I have lost, not just in this season but across the span of my life, will be completely restored. But not just restored - multiplied!

The chorus of the song speaks to this as it sings:

I know that something has changed

Never felt this way and right here tonight

This could be the start of something new

It feels so right to be here with you

And now looking in your eyes

I feel in my heart

The start of something new

As I look into Jesus’ eyes, I see the new beginning. I see the potential for greatness and for new life – resurrection life.

It continues to say:

Now who'd have ever thought that

We'd both be here tonight

And the world looks so much brighter

With you by my side

I know that something has changed

Never felt this way

I know it for real

This could be the start of something new

It feels so right to be here with you

And now looking in your eyes

I feel in my heart

The start of something new

I don’t just feel it, “I know it for real”. That this season is SO much brighter than the last. As I walk hand in hand with Him, I am experiencing things that far exceed the boundaries of my imagination. Something has tangibly changed and shifted. Even when I was speaking to my colleague, she confirmed that she too, had felt a shift in the atmosphere.

Before this trial God gave me a word in season from Isaiah 43. This word has been my anchor in the trial and the very thing that God has continually confirmed, spoken into and brought me back to. Everything that He has led me to in the word has confirmed that He truly is doing a new thing, which involves restoring, resurrecting and rebuilding everything that was barren and desolate, destroyed and broken down.

Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV

““Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

So, today, I choose to forget the former things and look forward to the new thing God is about to do. God has shown me that miraculous things CAN happen to me, and they can happen to you too! Yesterday marked the end of the old and held the action of crossing the threshold into the new. God is asking me, and us, to forget the things of old. To let go and release everything that we have known, and to set our eyes on what is to come – the new, miraculous works that He is preparing that will suddenly come to fruition before our very eyes. He only has more in store – depths of riches that we never believed possible. And I am filled - overflowing in fact - with such an intense hope, anticipation, certainty and sense of gratitude for what lies ahead!