Revival and Restoration

During the revival our church is having our evangelist has mentioned restoration many times. It seems it is God's theme for this time in our church. Last night was one of those services that is hard to explain. The glory of God filled the place. God is at work in Victory Tabernacle and we are rejoicing in that!

Webster defines restoration as:

1 : an act of restoring or the condition of being restored: as a : a bringing back to a former position or condition : reinstatement b : restitution c : a restoring to an unimpaired or improved condition d : the replacing of missing teeth or crowns
2 : something that is restored; especially : a representation or reconstruction of the original form (as of a fossil or a building)

I believe God is restoring to an unimpaired or improved condition! When God restores, you don't see any cracks or deficiencies. It just like when God healed Les of Muscular Dystrophy - Les hasn't spent the rest of his life walking with a limp, still showing signs of the disease that had attacked him. He was made completely whole! His health was restored 100%.

Restoration of the soul is a work that only God can do. I love these verses in Joel chapter 2:

21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
26 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.
27 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.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

"Restore to you the YEARS..." it doesn't matter how far or how long we drift, God is fully capable of restoring.