God's three-part life restoration plan
Zephaniah 3:20 (NIV)
"At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home. I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes," says the LORD.
What a great restoration promise!
God made this three-part promise to His people many, many years ago; we read in the Old Testament that it was a promise originally spoken under an old "law-based" covenant. I believe that it is still a valid promise for you and me today and we should be even more excited about it than those it was original spoken to, because we receive it knowing we have a new and better agreement (covenant) with God, one based on faith and grace.
There are three distinct promises of restoration in this verse:
1. I will gather you and bring you home (redeemed and restored).
2. I will give you honour and praise in the earth (re-established).
3. I will restore your fortunes before your eyes (prospered).
Wow – this is a three-part plan you do not want to ignore! This is one of those promises that are worth learning inside out and upside down – make it such a part of you that you can recite It in twenty different translations, and even Hebrew!
Notice what the first step is: God says He will bring you back to Him. Listen, if you want the other two you have to first experience this one because it is the most important one to God.
If you have been away from Him, or drifted a bit in your relationship and seen stuff in your life go wrong, realise that first God restores "you and Him", and then He will restore everything else. Don't try and bypass step one, let God "bring you back to Him", then see Him re-establish your life and name and then, as it says so well, you will watch as He restores your fortunes or, as it says in the amplified, "reverse your captivity". The reverse of captivity is freedom and that is God's intention for your life. But remember, first He wants you back!
God bless,
Andy
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