As we enter the eighth month of the year—a number biblically symbolic of new beginnings—a prophetic word from John Eckhardt is stirring believers: God is doing something new. While the world may look at the calendar as routine, the Spirit is marking this time as a moment of crossover, breakthrough and fresh anointing.
“Eight is a powerful number representing new beginnings,” Eckhardt declared. “And I felt that even as we complete this seventh month and step into the eighth, God is preparing to release new things into your life.”
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Drawing from 2 Corinthians 5:17—“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new”—Eckhardt reminded listeners that the new birth is more than a one-time event. It is a continual invitation into transformation.
“As a new creature, you were created for new things,” he emphasized. “You were never designed to live in the old—old failures, old trauma old patterns. God has created you to walk in the new.”
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The prophetic word wove together a rich tapestry of Scripture, from Isaiah 65 and 66 to Ezekiel, Psalms and Hebrews. Isaiah 65:17-18 was central: “Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth… I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.” Eckhardt explained this as more than a future eschatological promise—it is a present reality for the people of God.
“We are the new creation. We are the new people of God,” he declared. “And the new moon is symbolic of a new season. Isaiah 66 says, ‘From one new moon to another… shall all flesh come to worship.’ That means we are meant to live from new to new and from rest to rest.”
Citing Psalm 81:3, he added that the trumpet was blown at the new moon in Israel to mark the beginning of a new month and a new season. “August 16 is the next new moon. I believe this is prophetically significant. This is your time to walk in something fresh.”
He also issued a challenge to examine what God might be declaring in this season: “New doors, new relationships, new strength, new finances, new platforms, new creativity, new dreams—what is the new thing God is declaring over your life?”
“Prophets declare the new,” he said, referencing Isaiah 42:9. “Before it springs forth, I tell you of it. That’s the job of the prophetic voice—to announce the new thing God is doing.”
Eckhardt concluded with a decree of crossover: “This is your crossover season—out of lack into abundance, out of sorrow into joy, out of the wilderness and into the promised land. You are not created for the old. You are created for the new.”
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As the eighth month unfolds, this is the time of divine reset. It’s time to embrace it, walk in it and believe for new harvests, new rest and new beginnings.
Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
