Promise Of Restoration Series

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Promise of Restoration. 1 Kings 18:44-46

God is going to restore things for his people this month. Restoration is returning something to its former state. The devil has taken away the blessings from his children, health, money etc; God is going to restore it in Jesus’ name.

1 King 18:41 I hear the sound of an abundance of rain: Elijah spoke those words in a place and a time where there had not been one drop of water from the sky or dew on the ground, in 3-1/2 years.

What did that mean to have no rain? It meant no water, rivers are dry, no fish, no vegetation, no crops, no food, no cattle. Thirst, sorrow and weeping had been in Israel. For 3-1/2 years the condition has been the same. Elijah prophesied at such time that he hears the sound of an abundant rain.

God is telling you to get ready for rain, the rain is on it’s way, I hear the abundance of rain. It meant: life, recovery restoration, the rivers will run again, fish will be caught again, the crops will grow again, there will be joy where there has been sorrow, there will be laughter where there has been weeping.

Somebody listening to my voice is waiting for a rain. It means everything for you. It’s on the way, it’s on the way, it’s on the way (tell your neighbor, it’s on the way) Help is on the way, the answer is on the way, the breakthrough is on the way.

I don’t know who I’m talking to but you prayed and you fasted, and you’ve cried and you’ve confessed the word and from every natural evidence (nothing has changed, and if the truth be known for many of you it’s gotten worse). But I came to tell you: Change is in the atmosphere, the rain is coming, restoration is coming, healing is coming, peace is coming, joy is coming,

How can we receive the promise of restoration?

1. Read the Word.

Now, Elijah I hear the sound of the Abundance of rain: He did not see any evidence, didn’t see any sign, (but heard it). Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Only reading the Word of God can buid faith in you. Tell your neighbor: All you need is a word. If you’ve got a word you can make it through the storm. If you’ve got a word you can dance in the fiery furnace. If you’ve got a word you can sleep in a den of lions. If you’ve got a word you can beat the famine with a little meal and a little oil. If you’ve got a word you can walk on water.

There is a sound: Elijah heard the word. Stay rooted in the word. Read the word, practice, and obey the word.

2. Proclaim the Word.

Elijah heard and he proclaimed, I hear the sound of an abundance of rain. Even when there is no rain Elijah proclaimed it. It’s a decree in the spirit realm.

I proclaim victory over your situation today. Somebody’s faith is going to another level today, (somebody who has been struggling through the wilderness of just enough and barely getting by is getting ready to go into overflow.

Some of the stuff that used to hinder you, and used to pull down, after this service they are not going to bother you anymore because restoration is coming.

The rain was on the way but there was work to be done:

3. Pray.

Ahab went to feast and Elijah went to pray.

For every miracle, every breakthrough, every prodigal who comes home, every son or daughter who is delivered from drugs and perversion (Somebody has to pray)

Elijah got himself in the birth position (head between his knees) and began to labor in prayer for what he heard in the Spirit. He sent his servant out to look toward the sea for an answer:

His servant returns the answer: I’m looking but I don’t see any evidence of an answer to your prayer. But Elijah just keeps on praying, he sends his servant back to the sea seven times and while the servant is running Elijah is praying.

Pray persistently till you see the rain. You just have to keep on praying: When you have a word from God in your spirit you just have to keep on praying.

Daniel prayed for 20 days with no evidence whatsoever that God had heard him, but on the 21rst day the breakthrough came, Michael the warring angel broke into the battle and Gabriel got the message through. God will do whatever it takes to get it to you, if you don’t quit!