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"Restore"

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Joel 2:25 (KJV) 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.

Joel 2:25 (AMP) And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten—the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, my great army which I sent among you.

Joel 2:25 (NIV) 'I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten-- the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm-- my great army that I sent among you.

Joel 2:25 (GW) “Then I will repay you for the years that the mature locusts, the adult locusts, the grasshoppers, and the young locusts ate your crops. (They are the large army that I sent against you.)

Joel 2:25 (TLB) "And I will give you back the crops the locusts ate! —my great destroying army that I sent against you. 

Repay: To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. To make return or requital; in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which cannot be repaid - are not commonly found to increase affection. To recompense, as for a loss. To compensate as false honor repaid in contempt.

 

Hebrew: shalem [shaw-lam”]: pay[d19], peace[11], recompense[11], reward[10], render[9], restore[8], repay[7], perform[7], good[6], requite[4], restitution[4], a primitive root; to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figurative 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. Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.


            I often comment that the most valuable thing you have is time. If you have no more time, you are gone from this earth. Time gives us what we need in the Restoration process. We need time to get back what the devil has stolen. It matters not how you lost what you lost but how you will get it back. God will restore years. Is that awesome or what. I have heard so many preachers talk about your wasted years and wasted life, but that is not what the God Jehovah talks about, He declares the taking back of the years that have been stolen from you. How is this possible. I don’t really know, but He does, and I don’t really need to worry about it. I have cast all my cares on Him because He careth for me. My job is to declare it.

          When I was a child and my dad would tell me we were going to the movies or the baseball game, I don’t ever remember questioning him about how in the world are you going to do that. Do you have the money to get this done or how are we going to get there. Never have a question. I just figured that if my dad said it, it must be true, and it was going to happen. That is childlike faith and hope and that is what the Lord expects of us. Not bickering and fusing and feuding over whether God can or will do such and such a thing but just believe that what the Lord has said about you He is able to perform. If He said He would Restore the years that the enemy has stolen, He will do it. I just praise you and worship you Lord for your precious and magnificent promises you have granted to us, and I believe that I will receive them into my life right now, in their entirety and completeness. I believe I receive it and will use it for your glory and will share the testimony around the world. Thank you thank you thank you for all you have done and are going to do!!! AMEN!! So be it. 


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