Divine Restoration II

Tuesday 5 July
READ: : Isa. 1:21-31
MORE LESSON: Eze. 16: 7 - 23

God is a specialist in restoring men. God wants to restore every dimension of man's existence: spirit, soul and body; including your health, finance, family, possessions etc. Today, the focus is on a kind of restoration which is of particular interest to God; that is, the restoration of a soul that is in a backslidden state. Often it is not easily noticeable to a man as he gradually falls away. This is the reason the Bible says, ...let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall: 1 Cor 10: 12(NKJV). It is dangerous to have lost touch with God and not know; such a man is beyond the reach of the divine restorer.
In the text of today, the Lord wonders how the faithful city has become a whore. How does a man lose the sense of inner life and yet feels unashamed and unaware? In describing this backslidden state, the Bible introduces a term that has to do with marriage. Faithfulness is a matter that is paramount in every marriage and it is expected that the husband will be faithful to his wife and vice versa. The Lord reckons lack of marital faithfulness as whoredom. This is the reason everyone that divorces his spouse and gets married to another is counted by God to be an adulterer; a whore. This means the spouse is no longer keeping his part of the covenant and he has been drawn away by a strange lover.
A man drifts when his object of love is changed. As it is in the marital covenant so is it in our covenant relationship with God. When a man begins to love other things, other than God, his faithfulness will diminish; he will only love one and hate the other. So Jesus said in the last days, which we are in now, the love of many shall wax cold. Friendliness with the world will breed enmity against God; love not the world or anything that is in the world, if any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. When your affection is beginning to shift away from God, know surely that the faithful city is drifting towards becoming a whore. Allow the Holy Spirit run a heart check on you today by answering the following questions:
1. What is your love level with God? How much time and resources have you dedicated to Him? Are you increasingly getting drawn towards Him or you are getting withdrawn from Him?
2. How faithful are you to the things of God? What priority do you give to money, career, and other legitimate things that pertain to you? Is anything ahead of God in your life?
In case your answer is below satisfaction, or you are unsure, God- the divine restorer-says He is more than willing to return you to the height from which you have fallen.

PRAYER/ACTION
* Lord, restore my first love for You, in Jesus’ name.
* Father, rekindle my fire and zeal for Your service today, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Oh God my creator, my eyes look up to You in this month of July, cause that my dreams and expectations will not fail to see the light of fulfilment, in the mighty name of Jesus.