restoration

We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.

At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart.

There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in reality the greatest opportunity imaginable.

Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time.

People who are starving and dressed in rags don__ want to hear someone read a list of propositional __ood news._ They want to see the good news in action. The church doesn__ hold revival meetings and call it a day _ we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, dig wells, and staff medical clinics. Social action isn__ an optional part of evangelism; it is evangelism. This is an important correction to the overspirituality that dominated evangelical Christianity just a generation ago. But the both/and of holistic mission still misses the heart of Jesus if we don__ see that the church needs the poor as much as the poor need the church. Jesus didn__ embrace the poor only because he pitied them or because he knew he had the resources to help them. Jesus embraced the poor because they were rushing into the kingdom ahead of the scribes and Pharisees _ those who called themselves God__ people. Jesus welcomed people who knew poverty because they were ready to receive what he had to offer. Religious people, he said, could learn something from them. Our spiritual lives are linked to the material conditions of our life. When we feel like we don__ need much materially, we often have trouble remembering why we need God. We comfortable Americans can go through an entire day without thinking of God. But Jesus gave the poor more than food to eat and relief from their sickness. He restored them to God__ beloved community.

Remember, God placed man on earth and gave him dominion over the earth to cultivate and steward it. The fall of man subjected the earth to the same corruption as the hearts of man, but the work Jesus did on the cross set the course for the reversal of this process and the return to our intended mandate. Instead, we as Christians tend to sit back while those who do not know the Lord cultivate and dominate the earth. This is not wrong. They are in fact doing what they were created to do, but they are doing it under a different master. Consider what the world would look like if we took up our God-given mandate and released, by restoration, the glory of creation to a watching world!

6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:1. Stop stressing2. Stop worrying3. Give rest to the problems weighing you down4. Lighten up5. Forgive yourself6. Forgive others

God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it!

You're going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do everything you can to help them restore that relationship. They are fighting a war that you don't know anything about.

We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .

Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it__rieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.