JEHOVAH RAPHA – Our Restorer
There are quite a number of ways we can experience how Jehovah Rapha operates as not only our Healer and the Balm in Gilead, but also as our Restorer.
To restore means to return to its original or usable and functioning condition. Let’s have a quick selah (stop and ponder) moment here… what needs to be returned to its usable and functioning condition in our lives? Hmm, I imagine a whole lot! Before we run off with responses such as finances, health, marriage, emotions, and the likes (by the way they all are relevant candidates of restoration), take an extra minute or two in your selah state. The answer is you, I, we are the foremost candidates of restoration. Where am I going with this?
In the discovery about Jehovah Rapha – The Balm in Gilead, we find that only the Balm can rid us of every symptom of sin and prevent us from death. Now, when we go to the Balm in Gilead and are saved, we are either returned to how we were before sin consumed us or how we should be after being cleansed.
In Ps 51:12 David prayed that God should restore the joy of his salvation and uphold Him with His free Spirit. The joy of one’s salvation can mean the past essence of one’s relationship with the author of Salvation; Jehovah Rapha. When that has diminished into only a memory, then we know we are in need of restoration.
According Ps 23:3 Jehovah Rapha restores our soul and leads us in paths of righteousness for His name sake. Our relationship and fellowship with God needs to be restored for us to be usable and in the right functioning condition.
Based on the passages above, we know that He not only restores us to a usable condition but He gives us the necessary maintenance to remain functional.
After we have been returned to our original or usable conditions, Jehovah Rapha can now regenerate (return to live, get or give new life or energy to) dead areas in our lives. What dead areas are you experiencing? What areas do you need life or energy returned to?
He repairs, replaces parts or puts together what is torn and broken… has your life been torn apart or your marriage been broken? Go to your Restorer and get your life and marriage repaired. Perhaps there are missing parts in your life; you should have a spouse but you don’t, you should be working but don’t have a job, you should have graduated from college but have not yet, remember that He replaces parts and He will replace every missing parts in your life.
He also reestablishes our freedom from bondage, what bondage are you in? What strongholds have seized your joy, peace and freedom? In Jeremiah 27:22 God says He will visit you from where you have been held captive and bring you up from there and restore you to where you should be. Isaiah 49:24-25 affirms that God will deliver us even though our captivity is lawful
Jehovah Rapha – Our Restorer can restore lost years back to you. He can restore lost opportunities, lost vision; anything that has been lost or stolen from us can be restored. In Joel 2:25 He assures us that He will restore the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm
He wants to restore our health – one of the things that all, some or one of the worms described in Joel 2:25 may have eaten is our health, Jehovah Rapha has specifically said in Jeremiah 30:17 that He will restore health unto thee, and He will heal thee of thy wounds. There is hope for the reproached; those scorned and laughed at. As long as you are called by God, He will restore health back to you.
He wants to restore comforts; a lot of people go around seemingly joyful, but lacking comfort within. Are you mourning the loss of a job, loved one, career, relationship or marriage? The bible says you are blessed because you will be comforted. In Isaiah 57:18 God tells us that He will heal us and restore comforts to us and to those that mourn with us. Alas we will be comforted again!
There are quite a number of ways we can experience how Jehovah Rapha operates as not only our Healer and the Balm in Gilead, but also as our Restorer.
To restore means to return to its original or usable and functioning condition. Let’s have a quick selah (stop and ponder) moment here… what needs to be returned to its usable and functioning condition in our lives? Hmm, I imagine a whole lot! Before we run off with responses such as finances, health, marriage, emotions, and the likes (by the way they all are relevant candidates of restoration), take an extra minute or two in your selah state. The answer is you, I, we are the foremost candidates of restoration. Where am I going with this?
In the discovery about Jehovah Rapha – The Balm in Gilead, we find that only the Balm can rid us of every symptom of sin and prevent us from death. Now, when we go to the Balm in Gilead and are saved, we are either returned to how we were before sin consumed us or how we should be after being cleansed.
In Ps 51:12 David prayed that God should restore the joy of his salvation and uphold Him with His free Spirit. The joy of one’s salvation can mean the past essence of one’s relationship with the author of Salvation; Jehovah Rapha. When that has diminished into only a memory, then we know we are in need of restoration.
According Ps 23:3 Jehovah Rapha restores our soul and leads us in paths of righteousness for His name sake. Our relationship and fellowship with God needs to be restored for us to be usable and in the right functioning condition.
Based on the passages above, we know that He not only restores us to a usable condition but He gives us the necessary maintenance to remain functional.
After we have been returned to our original or usable conditions, Jehovah Rapha can now regenerate (return to live, get or give new life or energy to) dead areas in our lives. What dead areas are you experiencing? What areas do you need life or energy returned to?
He repairs, replaces parts or puts together what is torn and broken… has your life been torn apart or your marriage been broken? Go to your Restorer and get your life and marriage repaired. Perhaps there are missing parts in your life; you should have a spouse but you don’t, you should be working but don’t have a job, you should have graduated from college but have not yet, remember that He replaces parts and He will replace every missing parts in your life.
He also reestablishes our freedom from bondage, what bondage are you in? What strongholds have seized your joy, peace and freedom? In Jeremiah 27:22 God says He will visit you from where you have been held captive and bring you up from there and restore you to where you should be. Isaiah 49:24-25 affirms that God will deliver us even though our captivity is lawful
Jehovah Rapha – Our Restorer can restore lost years back to you. He can restore lost opportunities, lost vision; anything that has been lost or stolen from us can be restored. In Joel 2:25 He assures us that He will restore the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm
He wants to restore our health – one of the things that all, some or one of the worms described in Joel 2:25 may have eaten is our health, Jehovah Rapha has specifically said in Jeremiah 30:17 that He will restore health unto thee, and He will heal thee of thy wounds. There is hope for the reproached; those scorned and laughed at. As long as you are called by God, He will restore health back to you.
He wants to restore comforts; a lot of people go around seemingly joyful, but lacking comfort within. Are you mourning the loss of a job, loved one, career, relationship or marriage? The bible says you are blessed because you will be comforted. In Isaiah 57:18 God tells us that He will heal us and restore comforts to us and to those that mourn with us. Alas we will be comforted again!
He wants to restore Restorers. Who are the restorers? Everyone that has been restored has become themselves, restorers. Isn’t it just brilliant!
Titus 2:14 buttresses the point that we have been saved to save… Christ gave himself to redeem us from every lawless deed and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
He has restored us so that we can become His salvation to those saved and those yet to be saved.
Is 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Is 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Gal 6:1-3
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Restoration should be a culture imbibed; we might be more familiar with the term Restitution. A lot of people are uncomfortable with the term because it involves paying back which may be costly, but in some cases life is guaranteed only after Restitution. Ezekiel 33:15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Get to know Jehovah Rapha – your Restorer and relish in the newness He gives.
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