I Lost my way back to God, How can I be restored?

It is often when I sin or slip by, I struggle to get back to the track. I peddle and wobble restlessly to be restored unto the Lord. But all my efforts turn futile. It seems that nothing in me can help me work out my Restoration. Of-late I’ve realised that it is this nothingness that facilitates God to come looking for me. I silently walk into His presence and wait there. I remain until He comes and restores in me the Joy of my salvation. May that be half a day, a day or two, but I remain at His feet silently pleading for the gift of reconciliation. And I wouldn’t walk out until I’m assured that I’m restored.

It is very often that we don’t get to repent by ourself. Honestly, we don’t even feel that urge from within. True repentance comes from God, so is the restoration, We need to ask and wait for the Lord to work out His process in us. It is like a small child who disobeys the words of father, and later come and silently remain in the presence of the father. The child doesn’t know what to do but simply goes and stand before the father no matter what. We also, ought to go the Lord likewise. The Heart of the father is very sensitive to the silent walk-in of His children. Sometimes repentance in itself is walking into His presence and silently waiting there at His feet.

As a child of God we need to develop the art of being silent in the presence of our father. He likes to hear, and when He finds His child silent, He is compelled to speak! And when He speaks, His words start working! For He is full of Grace, Love, Compassion and Mercy.

‘Quick, bring the best rope and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet’  (Luke 15:22). These are the very first words that came from the mouth of the Father at the return of his son.

Can you notice that the father didn’t utter a word to his son, but instead spoke to the servants first? God will speak His word to your situations around you at first, He will command His sonship over you. And then He will Restore your identity, and your place in the kingdom of God, and call in for the celebration!! The son simply entered the presence of the father, and the father ran to hug and kiss him and the restoration began!

We sin so often, and still fail to understand the way to get back to God, God doesn’t need our words, He rejoices at the heart of His children coming into His presence. You may feel dry and empty; you may not feel the urge nor His presence. Doesn’t matter! Walk right upto God. Stay there. Make space, Wait on Him. Remember His goodness. Call it a day, sing your song. Your spirit will slowly begin to revive. It’s the sign He has come. He will fill you and lift you up; He restore you all that you’re entitled to, as His child!

Joseph Suhas 

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‘RISING IS IN YOUR DNA’

“And the philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.” – Judges 16:21

Here is a warrior who can crush a skull with just one hand, a man who can tear a lion just by its jaws. Mighty and powerful, seen being dragged down the gates of shoel.

Samson, the Judge of Israel and the chosen of God, is at the hands of his enemies. Deceived, and tricked, he is gouged, stripped off his strength, and is captured.

Look what has happened of him – gouged eyes – no vision; hair shaved- no strength; no one to save – no hope, and captured from all sides.

But notice this:

“But the hair of his head began to grow again….” – (Judges 16:22). This is a stirring turnover of the climax!

I tried very hard to understand how his enemies missed to notice the hair growing over his head, but…‘His hair began to grow…’ His strength began to build up, His muscles grew stronger with time, even in the pawns of his enemies.

I can’t stop imagining the grace that picks up God’s children regardless of the sins we commit or the mistakes we make. 

You may have sinned, made mistakes, or tripped into a trap, whatever. But there is an element of God in us that grows regardless of what happen to us! God has embedded it in our DNA and it is unstoppable. It calls everything within us to grid up and get back to our winning! We are called to Rise! We are called to Shine! We are called to Conquer! There is a strong truth in this verse from Bible: “the righteous will fall seven times and yet rise again“!

You may be bound and chained by situations, or by enemy. Held tight, squeezed, tortured, paralyzed, helpless and hurt. But let me tell you, there is something growing in you that is building you back. It will empower you to rise again.

The very pillars that bound him became the pillars that killed all his enemies that day, than any other days of his life. The Greatest victory of all!

The set up enemy planned to execute you will be the same set up you shall execute your enemy!

Listen, You can’t be kept captive for long, your source of strength has the ability to grow in itself without your knowledge. Your enemy also doesn’t know this. That’s how it functions for the child of God. Take your position. You will rise, you will conquer, you will stand, you will overthrow him, and you will win!!

Joseph Suhas.B

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Doing the right thing; taking the right path; going the right way!

Have you ever felt like you’re going in circles and not making any progress? At least not the kind of progress you are expecting.

The constant appeals of the world is pulling you in a million different directions, causing you to question if you’re headed in the right one? You have plans and dreams that you want to fulfill, but life is confusing at times. And there are days it seems like you’re just surviving instead of living out those dreams or accomplishing your goals.

Numerous distractions. Too many choices. Endless interruptions!!

There have been days I’ve felt like one foot on the ground, while my other foot scurried in every direction. Spending a lot of energy and mental fatigue, but going nowhere. Can you relate?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to wake up every morning and be assured you’re on the right path? To know with certainty that you’re headed in the right direction? To feel confident with each step without constantly questioning yourself?

Too many times I’ve second-guessed a decision I was confident about. I want so desperately to follow God’s will, but then feel uncertain, not wanting to make a wrong move. I wonder: Maybe this isn’t what I’m supposed to be doing. Maybe this isn’t part of God’s plan for my life.

As I wrestled with indecision and insecurity, I’ve sought God’s Word for help. A few months ago I found a priceless nugget of truth in the Bible. It addresses our desire for guidance and shows us what to do when we need a clear-cut direction.

King David composed these words in a beautiful psalm, tucked within the pages of the Old Testament:

“Show me the right path, O LORD; point out the road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you” (Psalm 25:4-5).

These verses reveal David’s humble and learning heart. He wanted to be guided by God and led by His truth. David knew God was his Savior and placed all his hope in the One who created the right path for him.

We find the answers to David’s request for guidance only a few short passages away. Promises we can claim for our own lives:

“The LORD is good and does what is right; he shows the proper path to those who go astray. He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them his way. The LORD leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all who keep his covenant and obey his demands” (Psalm 25:8-10, NLT).

When our hearts are humble and truly seeking God’s will, we can be confident of this:

1. God will always show us what is right for us.
2. When we get sidetracked, God will direct us back to the right path.
3. We are not alone. God leads and teaches us along the way.

4. God leads those who obey Him with unfailing love and faithfulness.

If you’re unsure about some things in your life, don’t wait another day to figure it out on your own. Ensure your heart is in the right place of humility, and then ask God to help you. Once you’ve asked, simply trust that God is directing you!.

If you know you’ve gotten on the wrong path, seek God for direction instead of looking to the world for answers. As you take steps to follow and obey God’s voice, He will lovingly show you the way.

Months ago I asked the Lord to etch these verses on my heart and mind so I’d always have them with me — especially the days when I feel like I’m going in circles and lacking direction.

Today, if you’re there and you can relate this to your life, I bring this to you. God will surely direct your paths and lead you into the peaceful green pastures. So, get going! He is our good shepherd.

– Joseph Suhas B

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THE SHUT DOORS!

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from Him (Ps 127:3). It is a woman’s joy and privilege to give birth to children. They are everything a woman would want to have. There are few women in the Bible whose wombs were shut. They struggled with barrenness, and transited to be a great blessing. The Process prepared them for the greatness.

Sarah, though a chosen vessel, and the wife of the friend of God, faced barreness. Her womb was shut. Not a curse, but just the shut womb. 

Hannah, loved by her husband was given a double portion and was shown more love. She definitely would be a woman of good nature. Yet, her womb was shut. 

Elizabeth, a righteous and a godly woman, dedicated to the Lord’s service along with her husband, in the temple of God, and yet her womb was shut. 

A shut door doesn’t always mean a curse, a barrier, or a shame!

In the kingdom of God, a shut door is the phase of preparation for a greater glory.

God shut the door of Noah’s ark to preserve a generation. The tomb of Jesus was shut and sealed. On the third day out of the shut door came forth the Resurrected Jesus. If God has shut some door in your life, He is either preserving or preparing you!

God shuts some doors, slows down some process and halts certain phases to push us through that breakout point of transformation. During this wilderness, nothing around you seems to work. No progress; only stillness. It is so hard-pressing as if you’d either want to give up, or strive to emerge out.

In this process, God cultivates in us the very essence required to birth out great things. Like the pregnant women in pain during delivery trying to push the child out, to a new life. 

God chooses some vessels and shuts them in the wilderness to push forth a new life out of them. Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, and many more went through challenging times of great shame, taunts, discouraging voices, insults, hurdles, pain, agony, and yet they stood. God was working greatness in them behind their shut doors.

At the right appointed time of their breakthroughs, each of them brought forth the greatest prophets of the century; they shook the world, wrote history and created a legacy.

Are you someone behind the shut door of: Job, financial crises, marriage, children, provision, healing, or a miracle?

Are you going through pain, agony, and shame?

Let this word be known to you, what will birth out of you in this season will not be ordinary. You will rise above and beyond your companions, to write history and create legacy!

Hold on, God is birthing greatness out of you. Just remain at His feet until He’s done with you!

Joseph Suhas. B

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“But then this I Recall….”

Endless efforts are put to fight the Pain, agony and struggles. It is as if life is getting tougher day by day. Let’s face it : there are times we have the strength to fight, there are times we collapse; there are times we feel helpless and stuck; and times we don’t know what to do! 

I’m glad there are people in the Bible who had a similar situation, even tougher ones. The Psalmist Asaph had many challenges and storms. He seemed to have lost God somewhere, as if God had abandoned or is angry with him.
He wept, wailed, and shouted. He couldn’t sleep, he was distressed, hopeless and lost!

But how he responded to the situation caught my attention! Let’s read this:

After all the wailing and weeping, he stood the ground and said:
“But then I recall all you have done, O LORD; I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago” – Psalm 77:11

He sat down, and re-read the God he knew. He travelled back to those junctions of his memory where he encountered God. One by one he pulled them out and read them aloud to himself:

  • I was down and hopeless, but the Lord came to my rescue!
  • I was sick and dying, but the Lord miraculously healed me! 
  • I was rejected and looked down, but the Lord lifted me and gave me position and honour!
  • I was sorrowful, but the Lord brought Joy!
  • I was in a mess, but the Lord traded beauty for ashes!
  • I was so confused, but the Lord took over and directed my steps!
  • I’m overwhelmed at the wonders of God in my life!

He recalled them all to his mind, flashed those memories before his situations. His faith began to rise! His strength gathered. His past memory of God began to defeat his present challenges and storm.

“I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.” Psalm 77:12

He whispered to himself:
The same God that I met before, is the same God whom I serve today. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. What he did before, He will do it again! I will see the hand of God like I saw before. I will see the salvation of God, like I tasted before! The God of wonders is still alive, He did it at Egypt, and He will do it today, and He will do it again!

Life sprang forth even as he recollected from the pool of memories with God. It is wonder how God works through our memories. There is power embedded within it. Every memory of yours with God has a small seed of faith fold in it. In your times of dark, open it, and light it up. It will spark the miracle for you! 

Remember always; When you’re stuck, when you’re sinking, and when you’re helpless, the gift of memory is a powerful tool. Unwind to those junctions of God’s blessings. Recall and bring to your attention, the acts of God, meditate and ponder on them. Speak of them; Let it sink, absorb and release the faith. It will invoke God’s power and invite God to move over you, and you shall rise!

Memory is indeed a beautiful gift and a weapon of Recovery.
You’ll be suprised how recollecting memories can do wonders! 

-Joseph Suhas. B

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Jacob blessed with Pain!

Jacob, the Lord’s chosen wasn’t exempted of painful journeys. When he learnt about the death of Joseph, He wept for the loss of his most beloved son and for many years his joy was incomplete. Everytime he saw the coat he gifted Joseph, his pain would shoot up unbearably and he wept bitterly. It was a deep pain inside his heart. Though Joseph was alive, God hide this truth from him for almost 20 years.

In all those years Jacob didn’t get any dream, vision or a word about Joseph being alive. Remember, Jacob was walking, talking and having communion with God everyday.

Years of pain, kept for a purpose. Jacob began to lean on God. His strength failed him, and this kept him near to God. The Loss of his beloveds, first his wife Rachel whom he loved the most and then his favourite son Joseph both was too heavy a pain for him to bear alone.

When Jacob saw Joseph as the Prime minister of Egypt, the pain he bore for years turned into Joy, his strength revived. It was worth; worth all those years he silently bore. Finally the day dawned, the sun shown, the hidden pain revealed in Joy, Jacob bowed down and worshipped the sovereign God.

Paul had a pain, a thorn in his flesh, and God did not remove it, but poured grace to sustain. He wrote half of the new testament. 

There are some paths that God allows us to travel, and He breaks us on the way, until our strength is sapped. Until we are broken and fall dead. And for our sake He keeps a part of the pain, not as a curse but as a blessing. A reminder, an element of God’s dependency. That’s His way of making!

Every great men of God had a broken past, pain and hurt that kept them bent, and they walked straight and long, in the strength of God. 

When we don’t understand this, we would only be fighting against this pain. Pain remains a pain as long as you fight it but when you begin to accept, it turns into healing. Let it work on you, God has hidden a purpose in your pain. He plans our life meticulously, and articulates them wonderfully. 

Pain from the Lord is beautiful and is a healing to us!

– Joseph Suhas.

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HE WON’T REST FOR YOU!

“….Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today”.
(Ruth 3:18)

The story of Ruth takes a twisting events after the above verse. Until then Ruth, the moabite did everything she was told to do, on her part. The last she did was to rest at the feet of ‘Boaz’, as instructed.

The immediate verse in the next chapter starts with Boaz calling the assembly to settle the matter for Ruth, and Naomi. The events that lined up pushed the long awaited helplessness, and hopelessness of Ruth, unto settlement, once and for all.

Boaz took the matter into his hands, and stepped up to redeem Ruth, and everything pertaining to her. Ruth left everything to follow Naomi to a place unfamiliar, and to a future unknown. That day, Ruth a hopeless widow got married to the best man of the land, blessed with a good family, became the owner of the field she worked in, and was clothed with honour and glory! Besides, blessed with a Godly generation(JESUS CHRIST)

Boaz, symbolizes a picture of Jesus Christ, Our redeemer. Our helper. Our advocate, and Our Love!

If we could only go to the presenc of Jesus, and lay there; He will pick up our matter, and will not rest until He deals with our concern, our challenges, our storms. He won’t sit quiet until He redeems us from our misery, and restores us to a glorious life unthinkable.

Has he not brought us with a price, His life? He will also redeem us from our troubles, and will give us a life and future. A life you can’t imagine.

Are you troubled, and restless today? And do not know what to do?

You may be waiting for a miracle, a breakthrough, a light of hope, and do not really know what else to do, how to process, how to get things back, and get going. Do not be restless, but instead go and rest the matter at the feet of Jesus, He will not rest until He settles it for you. His settlement is the full flegde restoration of all the matters of your life. Not just the request with which you go to Him, but YOUR EVERYTHING.

He owns all of you, and all that happens with your life. You simply need to rest!
Your part of the story is to go to Him and lay there. It’s over. His part will begin, and His finish will be a dramatic end to all your sorrows and beautiful beginning to a new Life and Hope in Christ Jesus, with Jesus.

  • Joseph Suhas. B
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The GOD of Promises in accurate timing!

“In the first year of Cyrus king of persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia…”
Ezra 1:1

It has been years after Jeremiah prophesied the return of Judah. Pretty much happened over a period of seventy years. Jeremiah is dead and gone. A generation has passed away; curtains have changed, kings replaced, the old has gone and the prophesy of the return is probably forgotton.

While the hopes of Judah seem to be turning off; right at the appointed time, in the first year of king Cyrus, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus for the word spoken ages ago. Wait a minute! King Cyrus was no where close to being a godly man.
And that didn’t matter!

Hear me, It doesn’t matter how old, how long and forgotten. The Spoken Word of God eagerly awaits for the pre-set time. It doesn’t depend on the person, pastor, prophet or any external factors. Let them all be gone but His word is alive and unchanging. It doesn’t need a timer, or a reminder. In the right appointed time it shall spring forth out of the dead and gone.

Cyrus was a heathen king, still the Lord birthed out an unusual desire of building a temple for the God of Judah. A Babylonian heathen king in reverence to the God of kingdom of Judah, a kingdom under captive? In the ordained time, God will stir up even your enemy to establish His Promises for you!

You may have had so many God’s promises for your life. You might have forgotten them. You might have ignored few in the context of your present situation. It may look utter impossible now. But let this remind you that your God is the God of Promises. He delights in keeping His promises in pinch accurate timing. Let alone everything, God will bring it to pass for you, whether you remember it or no. Out of the most unbelievable circumstances; from the most unexpected people, in a most unimaginable way He will bring it up to you! So hold on to Him. You’ve got a bunch of God’s promises for your life? He will touch everything and everyone around you to favor you, and establish you. Not one shall be missed, Not ONE!!

– Joseph Suhas

Heaven’s Voice Of Restoration

Prayer Mobilization India.

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THE PANDEMIC WAVE AND THE CHURCH!

The world is in panic. How about the church? Sadly, the church too is. We’re living in a world unpredictable. What we see today is no more for tomorrow. Whom we cherish today is vanishing behind the curtains of death. Look around you, there is panic, outbreak, cries, pain and agony everywhere.
Is this normal? Where is God in this? Is He silent?

Throughout the ages we have heard of disaster, catastrophes, incidents, accidents, tsunami, storms, earth quakes, massive massacres, plagues. These were no surprises. They are patterns. In 1918, more than 1.2 Crore people alone died in india. And ‘this one is nothing’. You may say, how mean!!

Come with me to Amos 3:7. “The Soverign Lord will not do anything without first revealing His plans to His servants the prophets.  Notice the word “does nothing”. It is sharp and deep. And the next part – “without revealing to His Prophets”.
_Wait a min!_ Did you mean God has not concealed any movements/plans that is happening around?
Nope!

I’m challenged in this panic to hear Him and know His plan and not be suprised. His people will know it! God allows to a certain level of degree for the enemy to work out his plan. It’s his days. He works pretty fast. He is 24*7 restlessly working. Doing what? Taking as many souls as he can along with him to hell. And the church has the responsibility on the other hand to quicken the process of reaping as many souls as it can be into heaven. If we delay, we will lose many more to satan. It’s the hard truth. Digest it. So christ always recruited labours, he said the harvest is plenty but labourers are few. This blow is of the enemy to swallow as many as he can. And those souls who are lost, and we couldnt reach, we’re somehow, in someway, responsible for it!!

And to those who are under the church banner, and yet suffereth the plague, we’re to raise beyond it, and it is time our faith needs an alarming sound to stand and fight this. It is time for Kathryn kulmans, Smith Wigglesworths, Oral Robert’s, T L Osborns to raise up. It is time you and I should seriously stand in the gap and hold the torch. This is a awakening alarm to the church. It’s not about building your careers, houses, dreams, goals, families. It is about building the kingdom of God. Time is up, we’re closing. Seek ye first then the kingdom of God.

O Lord arise, give us that strength and power of the spirit to do what you have called to do. To stand tall, even if we need to stand alone and fight this out. You’ve made us warriors, God’s general, and soldiers for such a time as this!

It is time! Church, hear the sound, wake up! He is near!!!

Joseph Suhas. B

Heaven’s Voice Of Restoration

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THE GOODNESS OF GOD

  • The Goodness of God!

The Beginning started with an ‘Urge’. An Urge to do Good. Like God was desperately looking to do something good. He found a waste land, empty, dark and desolate and said, ‘this can hold more of my goodness’. Out of it came forth the most beautiful and magnificent Earth ever made!!

As He created something new each day, it was good, but He wasn’t done with it. He pressed on until it became very good! He didnt rest but continued until the earth looked very beautiful, wonderful and glorious. And on the 6th say of creation, He said “It is very good” and then rested! 

Though being human we sometimes don’t sleep until we do that good thing that’s within the reach of our hands to do good. It bothers us until we settle with it. We feel so happy, glad and relieved after doing it. A sense of Joy takes over. And That’s We.
Now think about God!!

Do you know God has so much of goodness in Him that it drives Him to do good to as many children of God as He can. It is this very urge that makes Him do good all the time. It is in His nature. He longs to do good over and over again in our lives. Not just GOOD, but VERY GOOD. He is therefore called “The Good Good Father!!”

Today, let this truth hit you hard, grip you tight, prepare you into recieving His goodness. Your life might have been messed up, dried and gone. That’s exactly what God is looking for today – Someone who can accomodate more of His goodness. Someone with nothing will draw the goodness of God over them. More than you wanting to be blessed, God is more eager to bless you. He doesn’t rest until He showers His goodness over you. Rejoice then, O all ye people of God!

‘I will make all my goodness to pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you…’ said God to Moses. The Goodness of God walks ahead of His name. So it’s His goodness that will reach you first, then you shall hear His name!

When His Goodness pass by you, it will take over you and make you beautiful in every way. Streams of waters will spring forth out of deserts, a way is made in the wilderness, Joy is sprinkled in the valley and hope is shone like the sun that never dawns. You’ll then say as God said “IT IS VERY GOOD!!”

“Surely His goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life…” Psalm 23:6

Joseph Suhas.
Heaven’s Voice of Restoration.

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