“2018, The Year of Restoration” is really the overall theme of God’s Word, the Bible. “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed,” Joel 2:25-27 (KJV). The word “restore” in Joel 2:25 is from the Hebrew word “shaw-lam” and it has much more powerful implications than our English word and means to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively to be (causative make) completed; by implication to be friendly; by extension to reciprocate (in various applications):- make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-) pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace (-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper (-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, surely. Therefore we see from the Hebrew definition of restore that it’s more than just restoring back to it’s original condition but to make it better than the original. That restoration process is the hope of the Believer, the heart of God, and the destiny of the Church. The Word of God is the roadmap to that restoration and faith is the highway. Take away the highway and there’s no road for the restoration to travel from the Restorer to the restored. Love is the motivation for that restoration and all that comes out of the heart of our heavenly Father. That restoration process is revealed in the Believer as we keep open the highway of faith in our hearts. “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God,” Rom. 12:2 (KJV).
In His Service,
Pastor Jeffery A. Muchison
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