Tuesday July 11th, 2023
« I will make you well again; I will heal your wounds, though your enemies say, ‘Zion is an outcast; no one cares about her.’ I, the LORD, have spoken »
Read: 2 Samuel 19:11-15 NIV
11 King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Ask the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his palace, since what is being said throughout Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
12 You are my relatives, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to bring back the king?’
13 And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my own flesh and blood? May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you are not the commander of my army for life in place of Joab.’”
14 He won over the hearts of the men of Judah so that they were all of one mind. They sent word to the king, “Return, you and all your men.”
15 Then the king returned and went as far as the Jordan. Now the men of Judah had come to Gilgal to go out and meet the king and bring him across the Jordan.
God’s desire is to completely restore all those who apply His principles of restoration to any aspect of their life wherein they suffer loss.
The degree of restoration a person experiences depends on their level of adherence to the details of these principles.
For example, Samson only experience partial restoration because that was what he asked for. He prayed to God in Judges 16:28NET, saying:
« Samson called to the LORD, “O Master, LORD, remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge against the Philistines for my two eyes! »
Sadly, he died with his enemies.
You will not die with your enemies in Jesus’ Name.
In contrast to Samson, Naaman experience total restoration.
Speaking on how God restored wholesomeness to him, 2 Kings 5:14NKJV says:
« Then he went down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean »
Naaman’s example is a model for those who want their restoration to be complete.
The first thing to note about his restoration in 2 Kings 5:14 is that he went down before restored.
We must get off our high horse of self-importance if we desire complete restoration after suffering any form of loss.
The next thing to consider is that Naaman dipped himself seven times according to the instruction of God’s prophet, not five or six time.
In other words, our obedience must be complete as we wash in the Blood of the Lamb.
We must forget our self-righteousness if we want to experience complete restoration spiritually or physically.
Many Christians who fall from grace are never completely restored because they did not thoroughly confess or restitute their ways completely.
Some have been caught in extra-marital affairs that produced children out of wedlock and under the pretext of taking care of the children produced by such illicit relationships, and they still involve themselves in semi-polygamous lifestyles with their mistresses. There is no way such Christians can be fully restored, and as a matter of fact, they are gambling with eternity in hell.
Some so-called children of God are even still riding cars they stole before their new birth! They have not completely repented of their old ways and therefore cannot experience the restoration described in today’s memory verse, like David did in our Bible reading.
Beloved, you can also be totally restored if you completely return to God.
Your health that is failing because of your extra-marital wandering will return if you dismiss all your concubines and other strange women in your life.
Have you fully restituted your ways?
Prayer point: Father, I believe in the possibility of complete restoration; please restore me to wholeness in all areas of life today in Jesus’ Name.
Author: Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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