God of Restoration

I will restore a relationship…. God gave me this promise in the year 2008.

We had prayer fellowship at office every Wednesday. That week we had a special guest and she prayed for each of us. I too went for prayer and asked her to pray for me. She prayed for the burning sensation I use to have and I was totally healed of that burning sensation. Then God spoke to me through her. He said, “I’m going to restore a relationship for you. Many people have played against you in that relationship but I’m going to restore it to you.”  I was wondering which relationship He was speaking about. I thought maybe it was my father or maybe it was my cousin sister.

                Years passed by. In the year 2012, we (my sister and me) were part of the Christmas choir team in Shalom Ministries. Due to this exposure, we got another opportunity to sing for God. But I was not very comfortable in that place. To be very frank, I was jealous of my sister. She sings really well and people praised her. I was hurt. I can never hide my emotions. I kept telling to my mom what I felt. But my mother kept putting some sense into my mind. She asked me not to feel jealous because ‘Love is not jealous’. There were other reasons also why I was not comfortable. The people whom we were singing with did not have the spirit of God in them. Their faith was not strong. They were not rooted in scriptures. My sister and I both had the same feeling regarding the faith part. We were not able to quit since we had committed. So we kept this in prayer and were waiting to see how God would move.

                One fine day, I could no longer be normal. I started telling God how I felt and that He should heal me. Then God spoke to me in my heart. “Do you remember what I promised you in the year 2008? That’s what I’m doing now.  I’m restoring the relationship between you and your sister. This choir and this singing, it’s not just about making you both sing but in the process I had actually strengthened your bonding” He showed me how we both spent the weekends together. We both enjoyed the time we practised. We used to look forward for the weekends. We would lunch out together, every Saturday and Sunday. We drove by ourselves. We sometimes used to go out for shopping after practice. We spoke a lot during the drives. We had a lot of girl talks. I realised that my sister was closer to me than she was with my mom. She would speak her heart to me openly without any inhibition. She would listen and take any advice I gave. She had always looked up to me. She did whatever I did.

YES. God was indeed right. He had restored our relationship. When God gave me the promise in 2008 I never thought it was the relationship with my sister He was speaking about. I never realised that my sister had missed me from childhood and that she was always looking forward to spend time with me and that she looked up to me as her role model (of course! our mom was our role model ). As my mother always used to say, “Your little sister is always going to look up to you. So be careful of your ways. If you are good then she is going to be good” I never thought that was true until I saw it with my own eyes and heard my sister say it.

                When God spoke He said that many people had played in this relationship. Yes! Many people were against us being together. We had some “good” relatives who were constantly separating us and coming between us during our childhood. The story dint stop there, I asked God, “If what I’m hearing in my heart is really true, then you should stop us from singing in that place. I’m really uncomfortable.” In a week’s time, I fell sick and was not able to sing. My sister very firmly told the people that she would not come alone to sing. She told them ‘we both will sing together only so please find someone else to sing for you’ God gave her a clear conviction and she stopped all communication with that group.

I realised, God is a serious business man. He does not say anything by chance. God is very particular when He says something. When He purposes something in His heart, He is able and mighty to bring it to pass. God is sovereign.

God is a ‘God of Restoration’ and when He restores He does not restore just what we lost but He gives it back to us double, triple fold. I pray that God would restore every broken relationship in your lives. God bless you!