Timeless Truth
With Pastor Tope Oyeneye
The Matter of Restitution
Scripture.
James 5:16 KJV
"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much".
Message:
Restitution is an extension of confession and opening up. It is opening up and making amends with a person you have offended or a group of people that were affected by your negative word, action or reaction. Restitution is saying sorry and apologizing where necessary. It is taking care and dealing with a past so that the future can remain accessible. This is a major topic that the Genz generation is not familiar with. Anyone interested in making heaven must understand topics such as this.
Never forget that, the past you refuse to settle can give place to the enemy to deny you of the future that you desire. Settle the past amicably so that your future can be established. There are people you need to go down on your knees or prostrate to today, so that God can raise you up tomorrow. Many years ago in my former church, we were preparing for a convention and I was in charge of publicity. We had billboards, cloth banners etc fixed and hanged around the city in different locations.
After the banner fixing, I had ropes that were used to hang cloth banners left in my car. We bought bundles of it, so I took part of what was left to hang clothes behind the house and dropped the rest in the office with the mindset that the church and my pastor does not need it again. The next day, God came to me and said that was wrong and my conscience was disturbed. I took the rope to my Pastor the next day and said I was sorry and explained.
He looked at me with deep love, said it is okay, prayed with me and sowed the rope back to me as a gift. I felt free, relieved and happy to have obeyed God. This is an example of what it means to make restitution. I could have secretly dropped it in the store but my conscience would not have been relieved to secretly do that. Deal with that matter today, so that the devil will not use it as a foothold to deal with you tomorrow.
Prayers and Counsel
Counsel.
(1) Restitution is saying sorry and apologizing where necessary. It is taking care and dealing with a past so that the future can remain accessible.
(2) Deal with that matter today, so that the devil will not use it as a foothold to deal with you tomorrow. There are people you need to go down on your knees or prostrate to today, so that God can raise you up tomorrow.
Prayer.
Father I ask for supernatural grace to make proper amends where necessary, in Jesus name.
Daily reading:
Psalm 58v1- 11, Prov. 17v1- 28
Leviticus 7v1- 38, Math. 12v1- 50
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