Days of Restoration

I would like to encourage you during these days of economic uncertainty, fear, and loss that God is in the restoration business. Restoration, in every dimension of the human experience, is at the heart of the Gospel. It is woven throughout the Scriptures and must be at the forefront of our ministry of truth and a reality in our everyday lives.

"Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times (or days) of restoration of all things which God has spoken by the mouth of all His Holy prophets since the world began."
~Acts 3:19-21

Restore means to bring back to a former state or original condition. According to Scripture, when something is restored it is always increased, multiplied, or improved so that its latter state is significantly better than its original state.

" So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, and chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And my people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel; I am the Lord your God and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame." ~Joel 2:25-27

When God restored Job after the terrible trials he endured, He gave him twice what he had lost and blessed him more in his latter days than in the beginning.

"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. Then all his brothers , all his sister and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold. How the Lord blessed the later days of Job more than this beginning..." ~Job 42:10-12

Jesus told his disciples that anyone who gave up anything to follow Him would it restored one hundredfold.

Then Peter began to say to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You." So Jesus answered and said, "assuredly, I say to you , there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time --houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life." ~Mark 10:28-30

I hope to be writing on the subject of restoration for the next couple of days, so if this is of interest to you please visit again and tell a friend about Locus Life.