Isaiah 61:7 (MSG) ” Because you got a double dose of trouble and more than your share of contempt, Your inheritance in the land will be doubled and your joy go on forever. “

DAILY READING; Titus 2; Jeremiah 15-16; Psalm 126

Steele Johnson is an Olympic medalist who is well known for his Christian faith. Despite a great setback at the beginning of his sporting career, he has gone on to become one of the best known divers in the world.
Steele Johnson who began diving at age seven could have died even before his career took off.
On 21st January 2009, when he was only 12 years old, Johnson was practicing a new diving style known as reverse somersault tuck position, when he struck his head on the concrete platform. His scalp split open as he fell 33 feet and plunged headfirst into the water below, where he remained motionless and lifeless.
Fortunately, his coach was nearby and quickly dived into the pool and brought him out. As the blood flowed profusely, the coach tried to limit the blood loss, until medical help arrived.
The injury required 33 staples on Johnson’s scalp and left him with memory issues. Though he miraculously survived the devastating accident, it seemed an end had come to his budding diving career. However, he refused to give up and despite the severity of the accident, just a month later he was out of the hospital and later on resumed his diving career.
Johnson went on to win multiple national titles at both the junior and college levels. He made his Olympic debut at the 2016 Rio Games, where he won a silver medal and set one of the highest records for an American diver. Interestingly, the diving style that almost killed him was what he mastered and performed to near perfection in Rio Olympics to win the medal.
Today, Steele Johnson credits God for his miraculous survival, restoration and elevation in his life and career.

What matters in life is not how you start but how you finish.
Every person goes through trials, temptations, setbacks, and even things that don’t seem to make sense.
However, while the enemy is messing, God is always blessing.
Those times, when it seems to be over, God is able to take over and turn our lives around to His glory.
Setbacks does not mean the end of the road; it is only a bend. And if you will keep going forward despite the difficulties, you will soon arrive at a glorious end.
We have to understand that even when life is not fair, God is always fair. He is always faithful and never fails.
Even in life’s darkest hours, God works behind the scenes to turn every test into a testimony. Though you may have experienced trouble, God is able to bring restoration and give you double for all your trouble.

Indeed restoration is God’s agenda for His people.
Whatever life has taken from you, God is able to restore in greater quantity and quality.
It doesn’t matter what diagnosis the doctors may have given you or the negative condition in your business, career, finances, family etc.
We serve the all-sufficient God, the God of all hope. He is the resurrection and the life.
He is our strong tower that we can run into when the storms of life are raging all around us.
Therefore no matter what you may go through, never give in to despair, because that’s right where the enemy wants you. Rather keep praising God because He is in control and able to fully restore you and turn every pain into gain for you.

However, our restoration requires our participation because our actions determine God’s reaction towards us.
Despite her discouraging situation, the woman with the issue of blood, kept pressing through the crowd until she touched the hem of Jesus’ garment. In that instant, she was made whole.

Likewise, we must be persistent in faith and keep pressing forward and keep seeking God through His Word.
Certainly, there is restoration power in God’s Word. Remember that Jesus is the Word!
While He was on earth, He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. Today, through His Word, He is also doing the same. He is bringing deliverance, healing and restoration to everyone that comes to Him.
Indeed He is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
Therefore, whatever you are in need of today, be assured that your God is able and equal to the task! All you have to do is stay in His Word and keep blessing Him and you will soon experience a miraculous turnaround.
Even in the darkest midnight and in the face of great impossibilities, God will show up for you. He will do what no man can do and exceed your every expectations. He will show you a token for good and surely turn every mourning into dancing for you.

PRAYER; Lord, I thank You today for Your restoration agenda for my life. I know You are at work even right now to turn every test into my testimony. Please enable me to constantly study Your word and to praise You always so that I can experience Your supernatural turnaround in this season in Jesus Name.

QUOTE;
God’s Word is God’s ‘prescription’ for every area of your life, let God’s word fix that situation in your life. WORDBITE 222.