Father God Restores His Children
Author: Pat Aman
God told us we had been faithful”. And we realized we were in the battle.
He said, “Even under everything you both have gone through you never left me. And even how less or much was in your bank account, you always paid your tithes and offering first. You understood, Give and It Will Be Given To You pressed down shaken together men shall give into your bosom (Luke 6:38)
You both understood ““Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty. “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.” (Malachi 3:8-12), now is time for Restoration.
See, we had learned giving is an attitude that allows us to give all that we are, have and possess in the Holy Spirit to provide greater glory for God.
You studied My word. You prayed daily with your family. You gave your time for service to others. You raised you children to have faith in me. Now it is time for restoration my children.”
Joe and I experience the devil stealing from us.
And we have testimonials of Father God blessing us over and over for what Satan stole.
But when we were going through it was almost as if everything was been sucked down into this black hole of darkness.
We sat down and made a list of all that the devil had stolen. Not because we were dwelling on the lost, but just because we wanted a visual list in front of our eyes to be able to thank God for His seven fold restoration every time we looked at the visual list on paper.
And it was hard when the list included friends we had help, given jobs and trusted. People like Accountants, Banker, Bank Employees, Lawyers who decided they wanted what we had for theirselves.
But Father God has restored us with new friends, business leaders and people we trust and respect and they trust and respect us.
Our stolen goods list long….
- Houses
- Cars
- Boats
- Money
- Clothes
- Health (from been under constant stress)
- Medical Aid
- Insurance
- Holidays
- Our Jobs
- Our Name
- Our Reputation
- Food
- And so much more
- We almost wondered the simple things like our hairdresser! (long story), would be on our list, but she actually stood up for us and told some of her long time customers to leave and not come back. She believe and knew us.
We actually started sowing furniture and household items to others before we had them stolen. We would tell people just come get it if you need it.
But a strange emotion occurred when we started the list.
It started with the my Health, but if I trust God, God will take care of it. I was not going to let the devil steal more money from us again, because if we were spending money on Health then we were not standing on what God promises us.
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.”
III John 1:2
Ps 103:5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Second on my list was my family’s health & stress related symptoms. I kept on hearing this quiet whisper: ” but my Son has paid the price for your healing.” 1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness– by whose stripes you were healed.
Another revelation! You don’t need to pay money for medication when Jesus paid the price in with His blood for your healing. This was hard after seventeen surgeries and health scares.
Next up was the houses and the cars:
God just said: If I’ve called you both to be a sojourner through this earthly land, din’t you need a house and a car? Yes, you do, but God provides all the way! The question God challenged us with was “did we trust God to provide a house and a car?”
Another issue sorted! God was taking them off our list at an alarming rate!
Our jobs, and everything. Insurance, money for college for our children. We had to learn to live by faith. We felt for us and our family, God was saying, I want you to rely on Me for your daily provision, and a roof over your head.
The name and the reputation was sorted out by when I found the following scripture:
Isaiah 61:7 For your shame ye shall have double; …
It was a tough lesson to learn.
When the restoration word came, the Holy Spirit whispered: “do ya’ll really want to go back to the bondage of a salary, medical aid and insurance? Do you really want to trade all the lessons you have learned living by faith for a lifestyle of just enough (salary) and of having a backup Plan in case I do not come through?
Our response was: but what happens if it all gets stolen again?
This was not a good question to asked Father God!
“If the devil has stolen from you and you have learned to live by faith, you are able to faith it all back! And once again, I will restore more that the devil took! What have you really lost?” was quietly offered as an answer.
The devil cannot rob us of our Faith in God!
As the Holy Spirit made mince meat of all of our “stolen goods to be restored Seven Fold” points, the only thing we came up with was what had truly been stolen was Satan trying to make us doubt Father God’s abilities. By faith God could heal and replace all of the rest, we only had to believe. Was our relationship and Father Gods just proved to us once again that we did not know God well enough to trust Him to restore. Are the Satan just messing with our minds.
The devil has stolen many of our ours & the children’s relationships with family and friends.
Our list left us once again realizing:
Father God is only interested in His children’s and them living as Father God’s children.
Only when we had started “seeking first the kingdom of God” had we received the promise of seven fold restoration. Only once we started leading people to the Lord, praying for the sick, started preaching the good news of the Gospel, – all the things important to Father God, did the promise of restoration come. See, we had somewhere taken our eyes off of Father God, while thinking we were serving Him by helping others. But, the help Father God wanted us to do was not just material things, but more important, spiritual things.
Once our sights were focussed on what Father God saw as important, People, not just people, but where people would spend eternity, how we treated individuals, what words of life had come out of our mouth to sow life. He sorted out the rest.
All else comes down to our faith level in “Only Believe”
Matthew 6:33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
The reality check was we experienced all Restoration seven fold to with all the lessons we have experienced since 1989 really needed to shift our thinking into “the mind of Christ” before thinking of “things to be added to us.
Now, we can truly look forward to God restoring each and every relationship, and *seven fold blessings of restoration!
And I can promise you that Father God will continue to restore many more because He promised He would restore seven fold all that the devil had stolen.
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