Restoration

 

Restoration

 Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

 

There is nothing too hard for the Lord. We must run to Him and wait on His timing for all things. There is a set time for everything under heaven. There is a bigger plan that God is divinely rolling out from the heavens and earth. He has angels that sit and wait for His commands. We too must learn to sit and listen because our help comes from the Lord.  Psalm 121:1-2 I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help? 2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.

These bodies that we live in are weak and flawed. Sometimes, we get sick and there is no cure to bring our pain and suffering to an end. But there is always a balm in Gilead that knows how to heal, restore, and comfort our souls. Psalm 23:1-3 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. Jesus is our healer the balm in Gilead because He was sent by God the Father to save us. Everything that happens to us the Lord already knows because our souls belong to Him. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

We live in a fallen world that is corrupt with evil and sin. As we reflect when Adam was placed into the garden of Eden where there was no pain, sickness, suffering, toiling or sadness. He was living an abundant life with no fear, lack or discontentment, until he disobeyed God’s command. Genesis 2:15-17 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 3:4-6 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. God cursed the serpent and punished Adam and Eve, and they died spiritually. Genesis 3:24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Our disobedience is sin. When we disobey God’s Word it is sin. He is a holy God and hates sin. He established commandments, laws, statues, and ordinances with His people. When we ignore them and choose to disobey, we bring calamity and suffering upon our lives. 1 Kings 21:25-29 But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up. 26 And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. 27 So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning. 28 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29 “See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house.”

The people whose lives are in the Bible can help us learn things and teach us the right way to live before God. It is God’s will and desire for us to love and know Him and reverence Him in our lives. But we often fail to realize that God wants us to obey Him before we present our prayer list to Him. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5:14-15 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

As we live our lives some people have experienced a lot of misfortune and have discovered to seek God for help and have found Him. It is through our pain and suffering when we feel the fires burning us. These times are ordained to wake us so that we will realize that God is calling us higher. Our minds must shift to seeking the kingdom of God. There is no other way to live that will bless our souls to enter the kingdom of God. It is a spiritual kingdom where God reigns and is sovereign. John 10:9-10 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

This step is very important that we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior. He is the anointed one, the Messiah who is the Lamb of God. He died for our sins and bore our infirmities and diseases. Matthew 8:16-17 When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.”

God is working out His divine will and plan in our lives. Our restoration may not look like what we hoped for, nonetheless, God has decided our portion. Sometimes, His restoration may be to remove us from a hard place into a better situation or allow us to endure something painful and bless us for double in a new season. Isaiah 61:7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs. Job 42:10 And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. As we see that in these circumstances the Lord spoke and fulfilled His Word. Therefore, He knows what we need and how to transform our lives to bring us into the kingdom of God which is eternal life.

Our physical healings are a blessing but are nothing compared to our spiritual blessings and healings. The physical ends when we die, but the spiritual is life in the Spirit which is eternal life.  Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. Philippians 3:20-21 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

The Lord is weaving His Word into us to draw us close. We are being made new. The righteousness of the Lord is being knitted within our souls as we renew our minds with the Word of God. Our hope is in the promises of God and should not be in the physical and tangible things that are only temporary and fading away.

Many of God’s people have witnessed His love and mercies in near death experiences. They know how merciful God is according to His faithfulness. He has not forgotten us. We must repent and ask the Lord to remove the stone away from our hearts, so that His love, Word and Spirit flows in us. As we pray to God let us give Him our hearts so that we will be made new.

The righteous are the fruit of the harvest. It is better to seek the Lord while we still have time, because the hour is nearer. Let us be vigilant, sober-minded and watchmen over our lives, families, neighbors and remain servants. There is greater coming, but we must not lose heart in trusting God. Let the weak say I am strong and forget not all His benefits and new mercies. Jesus is alive and the blood never loses its power to save and resurrect us. Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

 

 

Be Still

 

Fast and pray for discipline

Your mind and spirit need renewing

The soul gets tired and weak

There are things that are invisible

They surround your life and thoughts

You must learn how to fight

Negativity will hinder your progress

If you don’t understand how to pray

God is there to help you through it

 If you believe and seek His will

The forces that are against you will flee

Be determine to focus

 In the quiet places within your soul

God is shaping and restoring

The potter’s clay to make you whole

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