"I shall restore to you double the years the locusts have eaten." (Joel 2:25)That's what God Almighty promises to do for us. To restore, (Hebrew - chayyah; Greek - katartizo). Compare to 1 Peter 5:10
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Many people especially Christians are living unfulfilled lives since our enemy, Satan, the ruler of this world stole from you and I.
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10)
Satan can kill your life - your motivation. He can destroy your motivation to be productive. Has Satan has destroyed your marriage? Are you struggling, single, separated or divorced?
God wants to return your life to its original or usable and functioning condition.
God has promised to regenerate your health: to give new life to your dreams and new energy to your joy.
God has promised to give you back your finances that the locusts ate. To bring back your wealth that Satan snatched from you its rightful owner!
He has promised to repair, restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken in your psyche, in your mental faculties. To repair the damage to your reputation.
Have you been struggling all along in your life jumping from career to career? Moving from place to place?
God has promised to restore, to bring back into original existence, original use, original function, and original position; "restore law and order"; after a life of disorder, after a life of lawlessness, "reestablish peace in the region"; reestablish peace in your life after living a chaotic life, after a life of confusion. After emotions riding high and low on a roller coaster.
God intends us to have a perfect life but sin has entered in this world with Satan, as the ruler, therefore many things have been broken in our lives. Restoration - the act of restoring something to a satisfactory state or to a previous position. Our finances, our joy, our love, our marriages, our ability to plan intelligently, with knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
restoration - restitution: getting something back again; restitution of what the thief, the Devil, Satan stole to its rightful owner, you and I.
God has promised to restore to its former good condition our ability to see and hear clearly.
When our lives have been restored or reconstructed, we will look exactly like the original! that’s when you hear people saying that, “You changed!”
God has promised to restore, to bring back to a state of health, soundness, and a vigor as well to our jugdement.
The verb form of the root word is shalam and is usually used in the context of making restitution. When a person has caused another to become deficient in some way, such as a loss of livestock, it is the responsibility of the person who created the deficiency to restore what has been taken, lost or stolen. The verb shalam literally means to make whole or complete. The noun shalom has the more literal meaning of being in a state of wholeness or with no deficiency.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/27_peace.html
Since Satan is evil, he does not restore what he has stolen, killed or destroyed. It is only God Almighty, our Father who can restore.
Restore what has been taken away from you by force, stolen away from you, cheated out of you, plucked from your hands / possession, snatched from you, stealthily taken without your knowledge and without your permission.
Then when you are complete and made whole again as on the day of your creation, you will be able to live in harmony with your political life, social life, cultural identity, mental faculties, psychological state, emotional state and spiritual state.
He has said it. He will do it. Just believe.
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