Restoration with Abundance

No use trying to reassemble from this low place of rejection. That would be to agree with being powerless. This was the condition of the people of God in Isaiah’s day.

I hate the word powerless. By its mere definition, a lacking or one devoid of capacity, strength, authority, or resources. That makes me angry all over. I believe that no matter what, there is always something we have been given by God that can be leveraged. We are not powerless. Perhaps, this is because on my journey and need to yet find that ‘something’ to leverage. It’s not uncommon for a life fallen to shatter into pieces but it does not necessarily mean that there are no options.

How many times have each of us stopped just short of that last bit of stamina and become disillusioned, giving in to that spirit of powerlessness. I call it a spirit because I have met it too many times in myself and others and seen how powerlessness can twist a person up into knots of despair, hopelessness, and shame.

God delights to restore and bring His light because, He as Lord over heaven and earth, and will neither slumbers nor sleeps. He knows and keeps count of the pieces lying on the floor, tattered and worn, and lost. Father God longs us to receive a new and spectacular masterpiece of creative plans for us and on our behalf.

If only in self-reflection, we can dare look up and see that our salvation will draw near (II Peter 3:15). It comes and shines like the breaking of a day, across the brokenness of our journey. Our story awaits signs of life with color and rich with a dancing gleam across those shards with renewed life and scattered with reflection in and through each of us in every direction, dimension, generation, and sphere of influence.  

See the variation of color the light brings to those shards of your life? Those are reflections of our Savior, the Lord who shows the beauty of His restorative abundance in our lives. Do you want to carry more light, life and restoration?

In the middle of Israel’s bondage exile in Babylon. Look at Isaiah 43, this is a picture of us today and how our God, is still and longsuffering despite all our mournful disbelief, He still believes in us and calls us by name. He calls us to take up our own space – we are His.

Arise, to your abundance dear one, remember who your Lord is, and how receiving His abundance brings into being restored in some new way. How can that fulfillment come? Start by practicing these four principles.

1.       Protect the word and pictures God gives you.

2.       Write them out, form a picture, share a fragment of what you receive with someone. Invest

in building it out in some way.

3.       Welcome His light to flood into your inner world to pour over this new revelation.

4.       Find your ‘Goshen”. A community, or church without walls where you can find a safe womb to

grow and develop a deeper spiritual strength.

5.       Ask yourself; can I keep going, not repressing but processing.

6.       Ask God to help you understand the difference between repressing and processing.

7.       Consider more…schedule a consult to learn more.