~Jesus Speaks~

This is another Mommy moment post.  I hope you like them because I am praying for many more!  :)

I had the boys out playing the other day and I looked up at the sun starting to set behind the mountain.  It was breath taking.  The sun was this round ball of pinkish orange fire and out to each side were those flat looking clouds that had pink, orange, purple and grayish hues to them.  Above all that were those marshmellow puffy, fluffy pillow white clouds and above that were spotlight rays of sunshine shooting out.  It was beautiful.  I wish I had been able to take a picture.  I looked at Thomas and said, "Thomas look at that sunset.  Isn't that the prettiest thing you have ever seen?"  He said, "Mommy, I think Jesus talking to us."  I said, "I think you are right.  I think Jesus is telling us that he loves us."  With this grin on his face and a look that partly spoke for itself, he said, "No Mommy, Jesus saying, 'Good job Thomas!'"  It was priceless! Those are definitely the words I want to hear my Savior say!

We will be starting campmeeting at our church this week and sitting in church last Wednesday night I just felt the word restoration going over in my spirit.  I know God is going to move in a great way this week in many areas, but I really feel like there is also going to be restoration in many areas.  The sky is going to look bluer and the grass is going to look greener.  We are going to see hope where it looked like all hope was gone.  O taste and see that the Lord is good and His mercies endureth forever!

Psalm 23:3
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Galatians 6:1
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Psalm 51:10-12
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Restore-To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; To make good; to make amends for; To renew.  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. 
Restoration- The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal;
Renew- To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to reëstablish; to recreate; to rebuild. To make new spiritually; to regenerate.  To begin again; to recommence.

Ephesians 4

1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.