GO BACK

Joel 2-13-14

Surrender your heart and go back to God, and who knows if He will send you a blessing.

2 Kings 8:3

The widow woman whose son Elisha brought back to life left Israel for seven years during the famine. When she returned from the land of the Philistines she went to the king, told him her story, and asked that all she left be restored to her. The king restored to her all her house and land that she left.

This is a principle in the Bible that will work in every area of your life:

If you are going to get what you lost, you have to go back to what you left.

Consider this: If you left your healthy habits of eating, sleeping and exercise and now find yourself I bad health, you have to go back to what you left – the healthy lifestyle habits you once knew. Society left the morality it once knew, and now the world is in a mess. If we want our world to recover, we have to go back to what we left – God.

You can’t leave holiness and still have God.

When you leave something, you lose something.

You cannot leave God’s word and not lose.

It may take a while to catch up to you. You must return to God.

If you lost joy, return to praise.

If you want to stay depressed, God will let you stay there if that’s what you choose.

But if you lose joy return to praise.

If you lose victory, return to the Word.

You can’t leave the fear of God and expect to have the smile of God.

You can’t leave prayer time without losing something in your life.

Do you have a prayer life, or do you have an internet life, and Netflix life, a TV life?

Do you have an internet life instead, or a Netflix life.

If you leave your prayer live, you will lose.

You’ve got to go back to what you left.

Its costing you something to not be close to God.

Samson didn’t lose his power because he lost his hair. He lost his power because he left his purity, he turned his back on his vows.

If you leave the principles and precepts of God, it’s a matter of time before you lose His presence.

The generation we live in today wants what it lost, but it appears people are not willing to go back to what they left—God.

We left prayer and consecration.

We left selling out and taking up our cross for Christ, but instead take up the pleasures of this world.

We have to live for Jesus.

Go back to what you left to get back what you lost! Jesus fills you with joy, peace, gives you a purpose. You cannot afford to lose the presence of God.

People might not know what you are doing, but God sees it. If you lose purity, you lose the power in your prayer life and your walk with God suffers.

If you come back, you get back.

The widow woman in the Book of Kings gave up everything. Seven years later she went back to see the king. If you want to get back what you lost go back to King Jesus. If you are going to come back, you have to come back to the King.

Revelation 2:4-5

You left your first love. Repent (come back) or I will remove your candlestick out of this place.

We can’t even take our next step without God.

The prodigal son of Luke 15 left his home and lost the blessing, the goodness, and the love of his father. At first, He didn’t even know he lost anything because he had all kinds of money and friend. It was only a matter of time before he lost everything. No one can leave righteousness and godliness and not lose. It may take a while, but you will lose.

Thank God we are allowed to come back no matter what we do.

Let’s get back to the Acts 2 church. Tell people about power of the blood, the Gospel, preaching to the unsaved.

If you leave the Holy Spirit, you will lose His power and anointing. It seems the church today has lost its joy. We need to put on the garment of praise and get back that joy!!

Gratitude is the attitude to see the breakthrough! If you have a grateful heart, God will break through in your circumstances.

2 Samuel 6:5

David spent 18 months in despair; he never wrote a song although he was a worshipper, a singer, a composer, a praiser.  He went back to the Ark of the Covenant and had it returned to the temple. During the procession when it was returned, David and the entire house of Israel played music and praise before the Lord. David went back to what he left—the ark. He got back what he lost, his song, his joy.

Joel 2:13-14

He will give you a blessing when you come back.

The grain offering and drink offering… that is communion.