Quotes About Restoration

The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt. The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart. The hand is the hand of God. The nail is the nail of God. And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nail, the doors of heaven opened for you.

When he finally confessed his immorality, he made only one request of God: Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me (Ps. 51:11).

Why did God leave us one tale after another of wounded lives being restored? So we could be grateful for the past? So we could look back with amazement at what Jesus did? No. No. No. A thousand times no. The purpose of these stories is not to tell us what Jesus did. Their purpose is to tell us what Jesus does.

A Dios le interesa la restauración. La sanidad del corazón implica la sanidad del pasado. Así que Dios sacudió las cosas.

Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man and said, 'I will. Be healed!' And immediately the man was healed from his disease" (Matt. 8:3).

Why did he do it? One reason. So when you hurt, you will go to him - your Father and your Physician - and let him heal.

Bob," I have inquired, "have I said something to upset you?" "Mary," I have asked, "there seems to be tension between us. Are we okay?" Without fail the step has resulted in restoration. Never in my four decades of ministry has this practical teaching failed to achieve its goal. When Scripture is mixed with obedience, a healing elixir results.

Guilt sucks the life out of our souls. Grace restores it.

Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain Fall softly, dewdrops And cool my brow again. Storm, blow me from here With your fiercest wind Let me float across the sky 'Til I can rest again. Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white Cold icy kisses and Let me rest tonight. Sun, rain, curving sky Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone Star shine, moon glow You're all that I can call my own.

I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them

Least said, soonest mended.

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

Chemical dependency destroys slowly but thoroughly

Enough is enough. It's time to stop running. I miss myself. I want to get comfortable in my own skin. I want my soul back. I want to go home.

We can rebuild. We can't resurrect." I

God is able to use even our past mistakes and failures when we release them to Him with thanksgiving.

Redeemed and restored, love returns us to the promise of everlasting life. When we love we can let our hearts speak.

God loves you. His chastisements can be painful, but God never turns His back on us. He will discipline us, but He will not forsake us. He will always seek to draw us back to a place where He can bless us once more.

Psalm 107:20 says, "He sent forth his word and healed them.

God is far too faithful to allow the prodigal life to be cost-free.

Christ came to set the captive free—no matter what kind of yoke binds them. He came to bind up the brokenhearted—no matter what broke the heart. He came to open the eyes of the blind—no matter what veiled their vision.

How like Jesus to start stitching a heart back together even as the knife was tearing it apart.

For the Lord has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit. Isaiah 54:6

I will certainly bring health and healing to it and will indeed heal them. Jeremiah 33:6