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The God Who Restores
The God Who Restores
I will restore to you the years
that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
my great army, which I sent among you.
How many years did you waste before you repented and surrendered all to Jesus?
How many years of your past life were eaten up by the cankerworm of sin and rebellion?
How often have you thought, "I could have been so much further in Christ!
The fact is, the closer you get to the heart of Jesus, the more those wasted years grieve you.
God can and will restore all your wasted years!
Joel Described Perfectly What Life Was Like Before You Repented.
The Lord utters his voice
before his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
he who executes his word is powerful.
For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome;
who can endure it?
Here is a picture of an unrepentant people upon whom the enemy has come like a flood.
What the cutting locust left,
the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
the destroying locust has eaten.
For a nation has come up against my land,
powerful and beyond number;
its teeth are lions’ teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
The fields are destroyed,
the ground mourns,
because the grain is destroyed,
the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.
The vine dries up;
the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and gladness dries up
from the children of man.
This is Desolation, Waste, Withering and Loss of Joy.
Joel Prophesies the Full Restoration of Those Who Repent.
I will restore to you the years
that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
my great army, which I sent among you.
To Repentant Sinners God declares:
Joel 2:19–20 (ESV)
Then the Lord became jealous for his land
and had pity on his people.
The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, I am sending to you
grain, wine, and oil,
and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you
a reproach among the nations.
“I will remove the northerner far from you,
and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard into the eastern sea,
and his rear guard into the western sea;
the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
for he has done great things.
Now, in Christ, all is new -EVEN THE CALENDAR!
God commanded a sabbath year - every seventh - in Israel
For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.
God need only speak the word, and the lost years can be restored to you!
This is how God restores our wasted years.
The Lord God desires to pour out on us all the blessings and joys in Him that we missed earlier!
“The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
There is such power in repentance.
It brings back to us all that the cankerworm destroyed.
God resurrects it all!
Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other.
When God RESTORES you, not even the old wounds can be found
LET GOD RESTORE YOU - TODAY.