I Will Restore To You

Since so many years (may be for last 5 years) I was just brooding that my professional life is stuck. All of my friends have moved on and settled in nice jobs but Iam just sitting at home as a house wife .....
Had problems with in-laws for couple of years and then delivered a baby and had to take care of him so I was just stuck at home... One of my ultimate desire is that I always wanted to be a working woman .....
Seeing my friends always talking about their work and professional life made me more mad about my life so I completely shut down myself from social networking.... MY GOD was always encouraging me through his word all these years but I was OK for time being and again used to go back to those depressing thoughts ....
This new year I was so depressed and feeling dull regarding that I wasted my life doing nothing... Today my heart was so burdened when I was reading his word, but God spoke to me through the following message that encouraged me a lot ....

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2013

I WILL RESTORE TO YOU
by David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011]

“I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten" (Joel 2:25). The New American Standard Version says, "I will make up to you for the years . . . eaten."

This promise is incredible! We want to make up those lost years when we weren’t following Him, to make amends and repay Him! But He says, "Wrong! You cannot repay Me for a single wasted hour. Walk before Me in righteousness now and turn from your sins, and I will make up all the losses, whether they were yours, your family's, or Mine!"

To repentant sinners the Lord declares, "Fear not . . . be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things" (Joel 2:21). You need not be ashamed of your wasted years. God is going to remove from you the evil army, and you will eat and be satisfied. You will never again be ashamed (see Joel 2:19-20, 26-27).

You were born for His eternal purposes. He planned for you a life of satisfaction, joy and usefulness in His kingdom but then sin entered, and God's plan for your life was interrupted. The devourer moved in and years were wasted, lost.

But now, in Christ, all is new—even the calendar! The Lord goes back to the day the locust came, and He removes all those wasted years and starts counting again from the moment you repent. All those blessings you missed were stored up. All the joy, peace, revelation and usefulness that you thought were dead and gone forever were actually kept by the Lord.

In hell, the damned may be haunted with a vision of what their lives could have been. Some may see what they lost. But this is not so for the repentant. All will be restored. They need never again say, "Oh, what I missed. What I could have been. God had so much for me, but I blew it." No! God can restore all the wasted blessings.

The Lord desires to pour out on us all the blessings and joys in Him that we missed earlier. Yet He does not make it all up with outpourings alone. The outpourings become overflowings! "And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil" (Joel 2:24).

There is such power in repentance. It brings back to us all that the cankerworm destroyed. God resurrects it all!

After reading this passage, Iam 100% confident that MY GOD is going to restore all the years that I have lost .. Iam just eager to see how MY GOD is going to turn my mourning into joy and will definitely testify when that day comes to give Glory to his name ...