Restoration!

Yeah! The last of the credit bureaus has finally cleared my name! I'm no longer responsible for the medical bills incurred by my so called daughter! ;) My good name has been restored!!! It's really a lame case of identity theft, the collection agencies don't even have my name right. Why was I made responsible is really beyond me..., but what people did wrongly, God used it for good! The delay of house purchase actually has saved us some money! :) The condo we've made offer on originally is still on the market and it's now few thousand cheaper. Now I'm just wondering if God simply delayed our purchase to save a few bucks... or perhaps God didn't want us to buy that condo? If not, surely God will help us find another better property, right? Better keep our eyes opened!

Last night's prayer meeting, Brother GD taught us how to avoid being dry and weak... he mentioned several points, but I didn't take notes so I don't remembered it all... ;) But in a nutshell, basically we need to stay in God's love. Draw close to Him and He'll draw close to you. Only by staying connected to the true vine, can our branches be restored. God will give us strengths to do all things! Today's scripture reading, there was a passage in chapter 30:17 that popped out because Pastor Dawn talked about it on Sunday... saying that David fought hard from dusk til the evening of next day to recover everything the Amalekites taken... God is indeed the God of restoration. God can certainly do His miraculous deeds to restore stuffs instantly, but often God wants us to learn the lessons for ourselves. No pain, no gain. Sometimes pain is caused unjustly by others, but often pain can also be caused by our own screw ups! Whether it's caused by others or ourselves, it doesn't matter. God can turn things around for good. Of course in the case of it being our own screw ups, we gotta face it head on... and it may not be easy, but God will strengthen us and give us what we need in order to deal with it as God helped David to recover what he lost. We just gotta never lose faith, hope or love and keep marching on! Naomi and Ruth got thru their troubles that way. Job got thru his troubles that way too. Lots of bible characters got thru their troubles that way... and then end up a better person later on.

Satan can be quite convincing using sophistry to cause us to lose faith, hope and love when things don't look very good at the moment. May God give us all wisdom to be able to see thru satan's lies so that if we ever lose faith, we'll lose faith in satan! ;)

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