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The Personal restoration Part two Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhD Family Worship Center. Job 42:10 . And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. rEview Part One: The personal restoration project. RESTORE- verb.
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The Personal restorationPart twoPastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhDFamily Worship Center
Job 42:10 And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
RESTORE- verb “Restore” is a verb that means to return something to a previous usable state or condition, to reestablish, to return what was lost or stolen or to make something like new again. When something is restored it brings back the value and beauty to it.
The God of Restoration • “Restore to you the years…” God makes it so good, it seems like it never was bad. Joel 2:25 • God called them to truly repent. Joel 2:12-13. • God Restores when Man Repents
The Work of Restoration • Repentance. • Faithfulness / Holiness. • Don’t Sabotage your success.
Joel 2:28-29 28 “And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. 29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
Job 42:10 And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
God Restored Job WhenHe Prayed for His Friends • God wants you to let go of past and be ready to move forward in life. • Not holding bitterness as it sabotages the blessings.
Mark 10:28-31 28 Then Peter began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You.” 29 So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s,
Mark 10:28-30 30 who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.
Restoration of ThingsIn Your Life • Job went through trials first. • Stay faithful and get ready for rewards. • Repent! • God expects faithfulness and integrity.
Restoration of Relationships in Your Life • Sometimes God restores the broken and sometimes God creates new. • Mistake of holding onto past & impossible • When divorced and spouse has moved on you need to move forward with God. I Cor. 7:15. • Mistake of moving on and not allowing God to work where possible- I Cor. 7:12-16.
Restoration of Relationships in Your Life • The most important restoration God wants to do in your life is restoring your relationship with Him. • II Cor. 5:17- 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.