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Week 8 • October 20

LESSON 8

RESTORATION

Lesson Text:

2 Chronicles 29:1-36; 2 Kings 22:1-20; 2 Kings 23:1-25;
Nehemiah 1:2-11; Nehemiah 2:3-18


Memory Verse

"And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his sou/, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses,- neither after him arose there any like him."
 2 Kings 23:25

Key Terms

Restoration • The act of repairing, renewing or rebuilding.
Renewal • An instance of resuming an activity or state after an interruption. 

Suggested Emphasis-

Renewed Purpose

God restores us, physically, spiritually fi­nancially so that we can fulfil his purpose. We must be strategic in allowing God to restore various areas of our lives. List those areas where you need restoration so that your purpose can be renewed. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the cat­erpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed (Joel 2:25-26). For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Out­cast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after (Jeremiah 30:17).

Emphasis 1:

King Hezekiah—Repair Gods House Restoration includes repairing items. For some we need to repair those areas in Gods house so that we can receive bless­ings. Servant Leaders, seek God for those areas that need our immediate attention regarding Gods house. Organize the be­lievers so that the tasks can be completed with joy. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them (2 Chronicles 29:2-3). Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord. And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly (2 Chronicles 29:20, 36).

Emphasis 2:

King Josiah's Reforms

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is writ­ten concerning us. 2 Kings 22:2-13

14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Har-has, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again (2 Kings 22:20). And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his command­ments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the peo­ple stood to the covenant (2 Kings 23:3). The passages shared demonstrate what Josiah did to bring reform to Israel. As believers, when we are restoring our lives, God's property, relationships, etc., we must review past practices/decisions and con­sequences to determine what reforms are needed. Seek God about the reforms needed, repent and then expect revival.

Emphasis 3:

Nehemiah—Rise up and Rebuild

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. 0 Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer (Ne­hemiah 1:6-11). Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jeru­salem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach (Nehemiah 2:17). We must put our strategies in action. "Nehe­miah, one of Israel's great leaders, tells firsthand the powerful story of rebuilding ancient Jerusalem's walls after the exile. In the face of great odds, this rebuilding represented the people's renewal of faith, their overcoming of national shame, and the reformation of their conduct. "(Ray­mond Brown, 2022) Dear reader, start over, resume, get it done, its time to move, to build, to renew and restore.

Missions Application Questions

As you re examine your walk with Christ, how will you approach using restoration as a strategy?
List some areas that you believe need to be repaired in your ministry or in God's house.

World Missions Prayer Points

Pray that we will recognize the areas in our lives that need to be restored.
Pray this: Create in me a clean hear and renew a right spirit within me.
Pray that the missions team rise up and build ministries across the globe.