The God of restoration

Don't let the bad things that happened in the past mths define our year

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God can rewrite the story

We need to learn to be patience.. learn to let go llow and allow God to use it as ingredient for our future success

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Joel 2

Acts 1 8

We need God's power

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The same holy spirit  who wants to bring us a breakthrough is the same holy Spirit who will bring us out of our darkness in the past

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Areas God want to restore in our life

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Joel 2 25

Restore the years and not the crop

   When the crop is eaten, we will nv be able to have it back... We need plant again and takes time to grow

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It's not the lose of achievement tts the most hurtful but it's the time and efforts

Sometimes it's better for a person to go than to suffer in the earth

   What hurts us is not the Lost of the person but not spending more time tgt

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When we have deeper communion, we will know tt God is enough for us

Genesis 22

Abraham has alr reached the peak of his life, achieving things in God where it's time for him to retire

Issac represented everything and God's promise that Abraham will be father of many nation

   But one day, God ask him to sacrifice Isaac

God will nv play around with our life.. God will nv set a test to fail us, but a test to promote us

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Maybe we are struggling to make sense of God

   Actually we are in the right place in God... 

It is at first thought that it is a place of waste where Issac will be  sacrifice 

   But it turned out that Abraham knows that God is his provider

The ram = Jesus

   We will discover that Jesus is all we need

Nothing in God will be wasted when we trust in God fully

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Abraham is working hard to get things in life..

But then, crisis happens and things were lost.. God is bringing us to another level

   We must be willing to let go and let God

Receiving doesn't mean stop working.. work to please God 

When Abraham is stripped off everything, God will sometimes make us loss everything then we will start to pay attention to God

   When we are left with nothing, we can turn to God

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We will begin to appreciate the loss 

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God gave Abraham a good name... The man of faith

Nothing in God is wasted by a place with deeper in communion with God

We need to let go to rececice.. open our hands...

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Don't get trap in the past, and move on.. don't give up

2. Restore

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God wants to restore when we surrender and receive

When we see that our crops being wiped out, continue to  sow seeds of joy

It doesn't matter how we started

Ready to receive is to willing to go from and start all over again

#loss #restoration #letting go

THE FATHER'S BLESSINGS

God wants fathers to pass on his blessing to his children

4 ways fathers can practically bless our children

1. see life through God's eyes

-Jacob is reminding his son of his fruit is cos of his past trials

   -this is the reality of life.... not a bed of roses

-Jacob remained steady cos of the mighty hand of God

-the boy is a good Archer cos of his father's strength

-when we are weak and tired, God is our strength

-Joseph saw life through God's perspective

   -his brother plot to kill him, but Joseph bears no anger but see it as God's plan!

-continue to trust in God in tough times!

-we can be fruitful in the mist of trial!

2. live out the reality of God in our life

-guide our children 

we only can influence people by action!

people see and not hear

-me then we

-one person breakthrough with God will also draw others around into God's breakthrough

3. speak words of affirmation

God the Father affirmed Jesus

God the Father affirmed Jesus again

say affirming words to our children!

speak words tht build others up is a blessing

-We can choose and decide on the words to speak

-affirmation is a blessing

we do what we can and let God do what we can't

4. set our heart on eternity

-Joseph already own everything... Jacob is setting Joseph's heart on eternity

   -that Joseph will set his heart on God the heavenly father

a father's blessing is powerful

STEWARDSHIP OF POWER IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

special skill and talent gifted

skills, ability to teach

power also mean ability, influence, authority, supernatural enablement

-we are created in the image of God, given power in Jesus name

-the power is on loan to us.. not ours

use the power to help the powerless

when Adam and Eve have power, they listen to the serpent and plunge the whole being into sin

Hezekiah showed off his wealth

-everything came from God and God can easily take it away

-Hezekiah started well but his pride and greed

David was so angry and offended that he wanted to kill

-David was at the edge of becoming an evil person but Abigail saved Him

-we do things cos we have the power (the boss, the leader) with authority to those who are under us

-instead of using the power on loan for God's purpose but for gold, silver, wealth, pride

Jesus is the only person who is has the power but not misuse it

   -Jesus was hungry after fasting... Jesus is human

temptations to Jesus

Jesus was tempted but He did not use it for His cravings

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Jesus don't use His power to satisfy Himself

not doing things based on own wants but God's

-the gold and silver

   -Jesus knows where is His source

   -do we do know where are we in God... our value is not based on our wealth, position in the world

-in the wilderness Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit and was lead into the wilderness and tempted and passed the tests

-we are still the doing the same? to not give in to self cravings