HELEN SANDERS
12-31-2025
DRAINING THE TANK

As we leave the old year of 2025 and prepare for the new year of 2026, the Lord showed me this analogy.

If you have ever had a generator that runs on gasoline, then you must know that you cannot leave any gasoline in it for extended periods of time after being used. If you do, it will clog the engine and could ruin the generator.

When you are ready to store the generator for an extended period of time, you must “drain the tank.” You must run the generator until it uses up the gas in the engine and shuts off. The tank must be drained before being put into storage. Then, when it comes out of storage, you can put fresh, clean gasoline into it and it will run smoothly.

Some of you feel so drained that you can hardly lift one foot up and take another step. You are tired because you have been running in “full throttle.” Now you have no energy or even desire to do what you have been doing. You feel like your “tank” is running on empty. You may wonder what in the world is going on, and wonder why you do not have the energy to do things like you had before.

Do not walk in fear over this. God is allowing the “old” things of your life to run out like that generator. You need a period of rest before he “fills you up” and starts a new assignment. You are feeling drained because He is removing the “old” to make way for the new. Again, I must emphasize that it is a time for you to rest. Yes, there is work to be done, but it will be there when God is ready to “fill you up” with the new.

This is not a time of demanding answers from God. It is a time of trusting that He alone knows what is best for you. Many of you never take time to rest, and He is calling you to rest now, before a new season. God cannot work through you the way he wants when your body, mind, and emotions are “running dry.” Give Him the opportunity now to minister to you, and wait for Him to bring the timing to minister through you. Yes, you feel drained, but use this time to rest, trusting in His plan, and not yours.

God isn’t through with you; he is renewing you.