19 Nov Shifting Mountains

There are markers in our lives where everything seems to change, something happens and we are traveling in a new direction. I was listening to a sermon mp3 of one of my favourite preachers from Singapore (I mentioned him in my last post). He was talking about the theme for his church. He said “this is The Year of Restoration”. And not only restoration, but add 20% to it, yes 120%. The number may not be taken literally I just see it as Gods work is always so much better and bigger than what we could have produced with our feeble efforts.

I have 30 years of vain efforts behind me, This consisted of a hard slog up the mountain of religion, and then falling in a ravine, and before I knew what had actually happened, thirty years had passed. While listening something jumped inside of me, I think it was faith, yes, this pastor is talking to me. Sitting on my couch I said “this is the year of my restoration”.  Lost years, lost opportunities are nothing to God, and it was actually God speaking to me personally, He really does speak to us, He is ready and willing to restore back everything and it is better and bigger this time, I don’t beat the floor under a brassy heaven, I feel like I am walking already on streets of gold with a shiny new linen suit of the righteousness of Jesus.

It is all accomplished through the work of The Cross, Jesus has said “Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.  Ephesians 1:3. This is not some pie in the sky blessing . The Spirit of God holds in place, every subatomic particle, Every thing we can see, touch, smell hear or feel, is by His Word. And this same Spirit has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. This is why Jesus can say ““Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. Mark 11:22-24.  

I am not thinking of changing the landscape in any significant way, but I do believe back early this year faith came into my heart and I spoke to my circumstances and everything changed from then on, now I can say not only am I where I was as a young man, having just opened the door to Jesus and being really happy and excited about this new life, I can truly say it is better this time, I am not under the illusion of slogging it out on some mountain slope of religion, I can now see that I have been placed in Jesus and he just says walk with me, in the light, how do I do that, I just believe.

If you would like to hear the message I heard ‘This is the year of Your Restoration’  message from Pastor Prince in Singapore, here is a link;

“the Year of His Restoration”

All bible scriptures are New King James and the emphasis is all mine.