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- I shared recently how I went through
a tough time this past summer, physically.
Skin cancer, my liver, my vocal chords,
menopause, no energy.
And God reminded me.
He said, "I am the God of restoration."
In fact,
I knew I'd heard from God to share this,
but all of a sudden I heard my dad say that the Lord
spoke to him and said,
this will be a year of restoration.
And he said, when God restores,
he doesn't bring things back to their original condition.
No, he makes it better.
Improves, increases, and multiplies
what was stolen.
Then I heard Creflo Dollar say God spoke to him,
that it's time of restoration.
I thought, oh my gosh,
I do hear from God!
But that's what I want you to get ingrained.
That God wants to restore everything in your life.
Everything!
Relationships, jobs, money, energy,
your metabolism, your health, your confidence,
your creativity, your marriage, everything.
Now I'm gonna show you
what God has taught me to experience restoration.
But first, would you help me out real quick?
Would you let me know if this channel
is helping you at all by subscribing?
You know, every week I put together these videos,
hoping that it's bringing you
some encouragement from God's word
to just help you live your dreams,
and I just need to know if you enjoy them
and you want me to continue to provide this.
So if you'll simply just push the subscribe button,
it encourages me so much
and it just lets me know, keep going.
So I want to say thank you for doing that.
And here's what I want to challenge you to do.
Here's my step for you today, envision restoration.
In other words,
get an image of what restoration looks like to you.
See, one of the greatest keys to success is clarity.
And when you start asking God
to restore some area of your life,
well what does that mean to you?
What does restoration look like to you?
You know, I think about my dad,
with classic cars.
See, before my dad was a minister,
he owned a car shop called Jerry's Paint and Body Shop.
And when someone would bring an old car that was beat up,
and I think this is the cutest thing
because we really did smash this little car up,
but people would bring him these old beat up cars
and they would ask him to restore it.
Well, restore it to what?
The image of this car in perfect condition.
Right?
See, they had have an image of what restoration meant.
And then my dad would replicate what that image looked like.
And when he was finished, there was no sign
the car had ever been damaged before.
It was restored to that image of restoration. Right?
Well, when I think about your health, what is your image?
You know, do you see yourself healthy again?
You know, I love the story of Miss Dodie Osteen.
You know, Joel Osteen's mom.
She was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
She was only given a few weeks to live.
And she said, when she looked in the mirror,
she just saw death.
She saw this weak, frail, deteriorating body.
And she said, I knew I've got to change what I'm looking at
If I'm gonna have victory over cancer.
So she said, she went through
the family photo albums and she found
pictures of her before the cancer.
She covered her bathroom mirror with those pictures.
She said, she put them all over the refrigerator door.
She put them in picture frames all over the house.
Here's what she said.
I had to surround myself with what could be not what was,
so you've got to do the same,
get pictures of you with a restored body,
you know,
get pictures of you in your best shape
and look at those images.
Now here's mine.
Stop laughing. It's not that funny.
This is my super fit Terri.
I don't know why my heads chopped off a little bit,
but I just put my head on top of this to me,
perfect body for me.
But you've got to get an image
of what a healthy restored body looks like to you.
What about financially?
You know, do you see $5,000 in your checking account?
Or $50,000 in your savings account?
Then print an image of bank statements
and write across what restoration looks like to you.
See, you have to see it on the inside
before it ever shows up on the outside.
And let me just remind you real quick
that your mind is like a magnet.
You know, you've heard of the law of attraction
that says that your mind is like a magnet.
That whatever gets in your mind,
you will attract it in your life.
Well see, that's basically Proverbs 23:7.
It says: "whatever a man thinks, so shall he become."
In other words,
what you think about you bring about, right?
Well, remember this,
your mind moves toward the images
that you keep before your eyes.
So if all you keep in front of you
is an image of the old beat up version of you.
Then that's what you can expect.
But if you're believing God for restoration in your body,
in your marriage, you know,
what does that look like? Get an image of it.
Do you see the two of you on vacation,
holding hands, walking down the beach, truly happy together?
Then get an image of that.
If you're believing for God to restore your home,
maybe you had a nice place to live.
Things happen.
Maybe even during the pandemic
and you want your house back,
then get an image of you living in the house of your dreams.
Put that image before you and start declaring,
"Thank you Jesus, for restoring my home."
So you've got to see it on the inside
before it shows up on the outside.
You know, I love this story
of this precious lady I met in Miami,
who was diagnosed with cancer,
Her name's Lisa,
and she was battling enormous feelings of depression.
Well, she was listening to Joel Osteen's radio
on Sirius XM one day,
and she said, she heard this woman
with like a child-like voice being
interviewed by Victoria Osteen.
That was me by the way.
And she said, she instantly just knew
her life was gonna change.
She said, instead of dwelling on death,
she focused on a vision.
Like what could her life look like
if everything was restored?
She got vision to live,
she said she got her house organized.
She got motivated to get in shape. She lost 12 pounds.
She got a vision for her job.
She said she got out of depression
and she is cancer free.
Thank you, Jesus!
Here's my question for you.
What does restoration look like to you?
I want to challenge you to get that image,
get it on the inside of you.
And here's what I want you to do.
I want you to download this list of restoration scriptures,
restoration scriptures,
that I put together for you
and just read them out loud. One by one.
I'm telling you, these are so powerful.
This is what I've been doing most of this year.
And I'm telling you,
God is restoring everything that's been stolen from me
and he'll do the same for you.
But this is the key, is to read God's word out loud,
out of your mouth.
So click the link in the description,
download these powerful restoration scriptures today.
And I want to remind you,
I am cheering you on to live your dreams.
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