Joel 2:25-27 ‘And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, 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’

DAILY READING – • Luke 10:1-20; Genesis 17; Psalm 10

Jack Coe was one of the pioneers of the Voice of Healing Revival that swept through America during the 1930’s to the 50’s. His name stands out among all the great ministers of that day because of the extra-ordinary healing anointing on his life. Jack conducted open-air healing and miracle revivals underneath the largest gospel tent in the world and his ministry made a great international impact. However, humanly speaking, looking at the beginning of Jack Coe’s life, no one could have predicted all these outcome.
Jack’s youth was not a happy one. His father was a gambler and alcoholic leaving his mother to single-handedly raise their seven children. When Jack was nine years old, the burden proved too much for his mother and she sent Jack and his older brother to live at an orphanage. To make things worse, Jack’s brother was hit by a car and killed while trying to run away from the orphanage. When Jack was seventeen, feeling aimless and alone, he left the orphanage and took up a life of drinking and carousing. He drank so much that his health soon began to suffer and his doctor told him that his next drink could kill him.
One day, he attended a party, and was brought home in a drunken stupor. By the next evening Jack felt he was dying and had to be rushed by an ambulance to a hospital. While there, he cried out to God to give him just one more chance. God answered his prayer, his symptoms disappeared and he went home fully recovered.
However he still went on another drinking binge, where his heart virtually stopped. After that Jack Coe was done with drinking and running from God. When the next Sunday came, he arbitrarily chose a church out of the phonebook, went there and gave his life to Christ.
After his conversion, Jack Coe served God with relentless passion. He was ordained a minister in 1944, when he was 26 years old, and within a short time God granted him supernatural recovery of the lost years of his youth. While still in his 30’s God used his ministry to mightily impact the world. His crusades were unprecedented as his tent revivals grew to become the largest in history. He was one of the first evangelist to host a regular television program, a daily radio broadcast and produce its’ own magazine. Coe also opened a massive children’s orphanage and erected a large church building known as the Dallas Revival Center.

Indeed it looked like Jack Coe was headed towards a wasted life, but through salvation, God arrested the process of deterioration and granted him supernatural speed and restoration.
Truly, there is no destiny so battered that God cannot recover it. God is in the business of second chances. And God has ways of creating shortcuts in destiny’s road map and compressing time, to enable us to still arrive at our preordained place despite the wasted years.
In Joel 2:25-27 God promises ‘And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, 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’
From scriptures we find that every move of God is accompanied by waves of recovery. And part of our supernatural harvest is recovery of lost time.
We’ve all been through seasons where it feels like we’ve lost time and had years eaten away from us. Perhaps it’s the years we spent in frivolous pursuits or the years we let fear hold us back from pursuing our dreams.
Though outwardly it may seem like it’s too late, or you have missed your season, never forget that God alone has the final say over your life. He is able to send a harvest so bountiful that it will cover up for the lost years. All those years you worked without tangible rewards or labored without results, indeed God is able to restore them back.
We serve a supernatural God who knows how to make up for lost time. He’s not going to just restore the years you lost, He is going to make the rest of your life the best years of your life..
However, Revelation is our access to manifold restoration and recovery. In Luke 15, when the woman who had lost her silver coin lit a candle and went on a diligent search she was able to recover it. The Spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord. Therefore as we light up our spirit man through prayer and search diligently in the Scriptures, we will find the revelation that will lead to our recovery.
And when you find it there shall be a reward and your expectations shall not be cut short. Indeed as we continually praise God in this season, we going to recover all lost ground and experience overflow of blessings, joy and favor.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for supernatural speed and restoration in this season. Please enable me to meditate constantly on your Word so that I can receive the revelation to recover all lost ground in Jesus Name.
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God knows how to work everything together in your life for your own good. WORDBITE 222