Singles Ministry

Singles Ministry

Spirit of Restoration!

Posted by AICOC on August 26, 2008 - 9:01pm

“When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.” Deuteronomy 30:1-5

From the days of Moses leading God's people out of Egypt through the desert, to Joshua leading those who would remain faithful into the promised land, it has been God's mission to lead those whom have gone astray back to Him. God gave the charge to Moses to go back into Egypt and set his people free from the bondage to slavery that they were forced into. He did this because the Israelites returned to God and cried out to him in their despair. Upon hearing the prayers of the Israelites and seeing the suffering that they endured God had compassion on them and sent Moses to fight for their release.

However just as God desires to bring his people back to him so Satan and his army always desire to lead them astray again. As in the case of the Israelites the moment Moses led them out the desert they immediately began to doubt. God in his desire to keep them faithful to Him, had Moses perform miracle after miracle to get the Israelites to believe but unfortunately they would not and their doubt led to sin and eventually led to their exclusion from the promised land. During this same time however, God was raising up a new generation of Israelites to serve him wholeheartedly. As Moses took up the charge to lead the people out of Egypt into the promised land in which he failed in the latter, Joshua was so commissioned to lead the people out of the desert and fulfill the mission God gave Moses to lead the people into the promised land of Canaan.