Restoration – Part 3
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God is giving His former rain and His latter rain. When it comes, it first comes for seeding, and then for harvest.
It’s also very interesting…did you know that Jesus was not born on 25 December? “But, Pastor, I thought it was Christmas?!” If that’s the way that the word recognizes that Christ was born as a Savior to this world, then we celebrate with them and preach the gospel to them. But some people believe that Jesus was born on 11 September.
I don’t know if that’s the exact date, but they believe that it was earlier in the year, not so late as December as it would be too cold for shepherds to be out in the fields in December. If that is true, and when you study the Bible you see that the former rain comes in the time of September or October, then you see that the birth of Jesus brings seed in your life.
And then the latter rain comes in March and April. Do you remember what holiday is in April? Good Friday. His birth brings seed, but his death brings your harvest. That’s why your barns can be filled with wheat and your vats overflowing with wine and oil, as it says in Joel 2:24. This is a picture of bountiful harvest. When God restores, He always restores much more, because He wants us to share with our neighbors! He wants to bless us so that we can be a blessing!
Abraham was blessed, but the Bible also says that “in you, Abraham, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” This is what I want to say to you right now: don’t look at your past, at your mistakes, at your failures…look now and see that today in you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed through you because the blessing is coming on you!
In those days they used barns to store wheat…it’s like our Tupperware today…it overflows. Your water bottle, it overflows with new wine and new oil. God wants to bless you with so much that you can’t contain it, and you can’t help but to share with other people!
Today we preach the gospel to our friends, not as a compulsion, not because it’s religious, we preach the gospel because God is good to us! Wherever there is a lack of evangelism among young people it’s because there’s a lack of people who rise up to say that “Hey, God is good to me in my life irregardless!” When the gospel of Jesus Christ is preached and people hear the good news, that everything is because of Jesus, because of the divine exchange, His death for our life, His poverty for our prosperity, His wisdom for our foolishness, you will become masters of the universe. I pray that we will see more and more youth pastors and leaders and young people rising up and saying “hear the good news!”
Pastor Benjamin
To be continued…
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