#Key_Scriptures : Ezra 3:10-12 / Psalms 126:1-4

Ezra 3:10-12 KJV

12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

• I want you to declare this 2025, is going to be a great year. I sense it and work it out and God got my back. I am going to experience the best from the Lord, in Jesus' name.

• We continue with the Rhema word of restoration is in the mix.

• God has brought this word because.

• First, He is about to restore you from the loss. You have been losing stuff. You have been experiencing bad things, now God is going to restore you.

• Secondly, a word like this comes as a vaccine, that is just before you lose so that when you do, you will have hope of restoration.

• Israel had been in captivity for a long time. Another kingdom led by King Cyrus came and conquered those who had taken them into captivity. He released all those who had been in captivity (Israel).

• When God restores, it looks too good to believe, it is like a dream.

• Several spheres were restored, the temple, Cities, and livelihood.

• I declare a multi-faceted restoration in Jesus' name.

• When restoration takes place there is a mix of feelings.

• When there is war and captivity people lose their livelihood.

• People have to start all over.

• In Kenya, we know what happened during post-election violence, how livelihoods were affected, and how suddenly people became internally displaced people (IDP). This is a form of captivity.

• I declare that families, jobs, businesses, faith, and health will be restored in Jesus' name.

2. FAITH_RESTORATION

• Judges 6:12 – We see Gideon was disoriented. The angel of the Lord appeared to him, but his reception was cold, because “if the Lord is with us why have all this been happening?

• Does this seem familiar? Has it happened to you? Where you feel that God has forsaken you.

• Judges 6:3 shows us the two enemies who attacked Gideon's people. These enemies attacked what the Israelites had planted just before they harvested.

• Have you experienced a situation where you are too close to victory, but it doesn't materialize?

• Today I come to declare that the restoration is not to just give you what you lost, but to promote you to new levels.

• When you are restored, your worth shoots to 1000x times.

• There was a time when David was barred from going to battle, and they told him he was equal to 1000 soldiers in Israel.

• The battles you have conquered are to increase your worth.

• The time for hiding is over. Gideon had hidden for long. Now come out the Lord is in your side.

4. RESOURCES_RESTORATION

• 2 Kings 6:24 -25 – We see a siege in Samaria. All edible resources were depleted. A donkey head was sold for 80 shekels. It God so desperate that two women agreed to eat their children.

• In this desperate context, God brought a word “Listen tomorrow, Famine will be over. Food will be plentiful. 2 Kings 7:2

• When this happened the soldier at the gate refused.

• Unbelief happens when you think about the normal systems in life.

• But God is outside time, he operates outside time to fix our situation.

• It is in these scriptures that God used the four leapers to bring the restoration.

• Your restoration is about taking place in God's ways. He says, my ways are not your ways, my thoughts are not your thoughts.

• Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV - 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

• The scarcity in Samaria didn't mean there was scarcity in the whole world. The fact you don't have money doesn't mean there is no money.

• The fact you don't have resources doesn't mean there are no resources in the world. This means God is restoring your situation.

• When in battle sometimes your life becomes visionless. You focus on now because of your hopelessness.

• That is why Jesus calls a man in John 9:6-10

• When restoration happens, some people will recognize you but can't understand how you got there.

• This happened to Joseph, his brothers struggled to believe it was him.

• This year as God restores you, he will retain your identity so that those who mishandled you will be in disbelief.

• Some people are just comfortable when you remain in a bad state, so they can continue taking advantage of you.

#PRODIGAL_SON

• The foundation of all restoration is a changed mind.

• Luke 15:17 When the boy came back to his senses.

• The expanded Bible version says, “When the prodigal son realized what he was doing….”

• This means he never understood what he was doing. When God began to restore him, he restored his senses.

• The father took him as a restored son.

• If you think correctly, you will be treated right.

• The son said, make me…these shows his senses were back.

• When you come back even when life has battled you, your father will receive you.

• Daniel 4:33 – 35 Nebuchadnezzar was a king but consuming greens.

• The prodigal son was about eating pigs' food.

• So, what you eat is determined by how you think!

• When the boy comes back to his senses, he realizes his diet wasn't that of pigs.

Daniel 4:34 NIV

34 At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.

His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.

• His sanity was restored.

• His honor of being a King was restored.

• When God restores you, all other things are restored in Jesus' name.

This day, I declare restoration to your life in Jesus' name. Every aspect of your life is hereby restored in Jesus' name.

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