Lost Years Regained
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1. What are my lost years?
1. What are my lost years?
Years I spent in sin.
Years I spent in sin.
Years I spent in sorrow
Years I spent in sorrow
Years I spent in disbelief
Years I spent in disbelief
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
2. How are my lost years restored?
2. How are my lost years restored?
I realize
I realize
I remove
I remove
What idols in my life need smashing?
What idols in my life need smashing?
I return
I return
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
3. What does my restoration look like?
3. What does my restoration look like?
It is a divine work. “I will”
It is a divine work. “I will”
It destroys demonic strongholds in my life
It destroys demonic strongholds in my life
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
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4. What do we learn?
4. What do we learn?
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
You must take the first step. “Return to me”
You must take the first step. “Return to me”
Remove and repent
Remove and repent
You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.