By Timothy Femi Abiodun

Scripture: Joel 2:25

Restoration comes when a review of the past activities is carried out. When God says He will restore, He means He is going into your past to see those waste that have decayed. Good news: God knows about the pains of the past. He saw you while you struggled and at the end of the day could not break even. God knows about those wasted dreams, He knows about those investments that went down the drain…He knows about those relationships that failed after much investments…He saw the places where your hopes were dashed! Now He says, ‘I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten…” Believe it!

The losses of many years can be converted into gain by the Lord in just a moment of time. If you don’t believe me ask from Peter. He has toiled all through the night without a single catch, but when he met with God the restorer, in just a moment he had the kind of catch he had never had in all his fishing life. There is someone reading this message now, the kind of profit you have never made all your life, God is pushing you into it in Jesus name.

The ashes of the past can become the beauty of today and the glory of tomorrow. This is my prayer for you, as I received this message from the Lord. I say it again that God will turn the ashes of your past to beauty and a glory for your tomorrow in Jesus name. I declare to you by the spirit of God that your time of divine restoration is now in Jesus name. There is someone weeping as he is reading through this message now, because of the many disappointments of the past; I have God’s leading to pray for you that henceforth, no more disappointments in Jesus name.

I have just three prayer points for you today; please pray each one seven times and the God of restoration will prove himself faithful in your life. I love you and I always pray for you!

PRAYERS

1. Father, visit my past. Whatever should have been gain to me that I lost, convert it now to gain for me in Jesus name.

2. Father, take the ashes of my yesterday, process it and turn it to beauty for me. Let the testimony emanating from it become a glory for my tomorrow in Jesus name.

3. Father, from today, shield my life from the activities of locusts and every form of destroyers in Jesus name.

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31”

The prophet Isaiah noticed two kinds of people in his walk with God: those who depended on themselves and those who depended on God. Those who depend on themselves wear out and faint along the way, but those who depend on God are given renewed strength. This renewed strength makes them soar like eagles, they run and don’t wear out or get tired, and they walk and do not faint. Dear beloved, you must choose between relying on your own strength and waiting on God. Depend on His Word for everything, even though sometimes you may have to fast to empower your spirit to be more receptive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Make time to always fellowship with God so that you can be enabled to know and do what He requires from you each day.
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1Kings 3:9-13
Dear Brethren, this message is being presented so that we can be what we are supposed to be before God Almighty. I need to let you know that God is real. God is a loving God and God is interested in the affairs of your life. God is a Father, who cares for His children. God wants you and I to please Him with the way we live this life that He has given unto us. If you please your earthly father, there are things he can do to reciprocate your good behaviour, without your asking. The same is true of our Almighty Father. There is a life you can live, for God to start to bless you in some very special ways.
There are some important questions that will be addressed in this message. For example, “what kind of life can you live for God, your Father, to bless you in a marvelous way”?. How can you live your Christian life, that even before you utter a prayer, God would have answered? What type of a person must you be or how can you live close to God in such a way, that blessings will be pursuing your life without struggling?. These are some of the questions that serious Christians will ask if they think deep about the story of King Solomon as recorded in 1 Kings 3 vs. 9-13 “Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours. The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon has asked this thing. Then God said to him: Because you have asked this thing and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice. Behold, I have done according to your words, see I have given you a wise and understanding heart so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked for…”
Beloved, can this King Solomon’s story be true? Can God look at you and say, “that which you have not asked for I have given you?”. Is it possible for God to bless you, without your labouring for hours in prayers?. Can you please God with the type of things that you ask in your prayers, in such a way that God, will not only answer your prayers, but will go beyond your prayers to grant you other things that you have not asked for?. Dear brethren, all these are possible. Our God is a great Father, who can bless His children beyond what they have requested for in prayers. Ephesians 3:20.
Beloved, how can you have that Potiphar’s type of experience in our own home and life?. What type of help can you render to others for God to locate you for special assistance?. How can you and live please God with our lives that God will be blessing people around us?. You may be a child of God that is reading this message. I want you to start to ask yourself if your Christian life is attracting blessings to you and to others around you. Are the people around you and those associated with you being blessed by God because of you?. If not, why not?. When people associate with your life, do you influence them for good or for bad, or does your association with others bring blessings or curses to others?. These are issues that you need to be concerned with in your Christian life. There are many Christians in our country, but what is level of influence that we are having upon our nation and society?.
Let us consider another incident in the Bible that is related to our current focus. If this incident had happened today, where there was an advertisement that the “General Overseer” of “Elijah’s Church” was about to select a replacement of himself. One can presume what the scenario will be, and what some pastors would have done. If some so called ‘Pastors’ can bribe their way there, they surely will, and, if they have to ‘kill’ or bastardize other, they would do exactly that, just for them to become the “General Overseer”. It is an unfortunate reflection on the low state of many so called ‘men and women’ of God, acting as ‘Pastors’ in many of our so-called ‘Pentecostal Churches’ today. . See what happened in I Kings. 19:19-20. “So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth, then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him. And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you” and he said to him. “Go back again, for what have I done to you”.(NKJV).
Dear reader, times have changed from the time of Elijah and Elisha to this time. Today, if the mantle of Elijah had been put up for ‘sale’, many will struggle to buy it. But in this story, here we find Elisha, who was committed to farming. He was not looking for the mantle of Elijah, and there was nothing to suggest that he ever prayed that he becomes the successor of Elijah. Yet, God located him and commanded Elijah to place the mantle of succession upon Elisha. I Samuel 16 s. 7 says : “ … for the Lord seeth not as the man seeth; for the man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart”. Beloved, God has a special plan for your life. God can promote you to a height that you never thought that you could reach in life. This same God can give you blessings that you have not asked for.

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“For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. Chronicles 16:9”

Devotion : Is it not beautiful to read that God is always ready to bless His children? In fact, He is looking for whom to bless-the one whose heart is perfect toward Him. Jesus Christ reinforced this point when He said blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8). A pure heart is the perfect heart God is looking for because He is a holy God. It is time for us to set ourselves apart unto God by using our spirits, souls, and bodies solely for God’s purposes. We should also walk in wisdom and never be influenced by the dictates of the world. On the other hand, if we don’t set ourselves apart unto God and instead allow our hearts to be corrupted, then we will experience an abundance of trouble and challenges. Let’s get ourselves ready because God is about to show Himself in a mighty way in our lives. Praise the Lord.

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