 Do you find yourself looking back on days when the power of God seemed to be more intense on your life? Do you find yourself wondering what happened to your prayer life, to your devotion to the Word? Do you feel as though you've been disqualified by some mistake in your past? I want to talk to you about restoring the anointing. I want to show you how to get back to the place where God is using your life again. Perhaps you've made some mistakes that you feel disqualify you from the call of God and you're hanging your head in shame wondering if God could ever again use your life. The good news is no matter how far you've gone, God can restore you. No matter what you've done, the Lord can bring you home. Maybe there was some compromise that you allowed in your life. Maybe there was a major fall into sin or maybe you're watching this and there is simply a subtle weakening of your spiritual life, your devotion to the Word, your prayer life, not quite the same as it used to be and you're wondering how to get back on track. So whether you've wandered far away from the path or you're noticing just subtle compromises in your life, it's important that you get it right. It's important that you align yourself with the perfect will of God according to His Word once again. I want to show you the path to restoring the anointing on your life. Now the truth is the Holy Spirit does not leave the believer when the believer makes a mistake. Rather, the Holy Spirit abides and he remains so that he might help you walk in holiness. The Holy Spirit is not a reward for holiness. He's the source of holiness. So it wouldn't make any sense for God to remove the Holy Spirit from you because you've made a simple mistake. It makes perfect sense though that the Holy Spirit would remain because the presence and power of the Holy Spirit is the only way that you'll truly live holy. So the Holy Spirit has not abandoned you. God has not given up on you and don't believe the lies of the enemy when he tells you such things. Instead, look to the Word of God, find the freedom in forgiveness and begin to take those steps back toward the destiny that God has given to you. I want to show you how to walk in repentance. I want to show you how to get back to the place where God is using your life again. Number one, repent. This means to turn away from your wrongdoing. First John chapter 1 verse 9 says, But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. We must learn to live a lifestyle of repentance. Now repentance literally means to change your mind and in the biblical context it means the changing of the mind that results in the forsaking of sin. So it's to say in your mind, Lord I agree with you about this thing in my life that needs to go. God I agree with you that this is wrong. God I agree with you that this should have no place in my life, in my mind, in my heart, in my soul, in my body whatsoever. I'm coming into agreement with what you say about this particular thing in my life. It's not just feeling bad for having done wrong. It's not just feeling shame for a mistake that you made. Repentance is aligning yourself with God's standard of holiness and saying I'm not going to allow myself to do this again. I'm not going to allow this back into my life. I'm not going to allow this back into my life even in small increments. I am going to walk according to God's standards. I'm going to come into agreement with God on this issue. That's repentance. And then you turn from that thing. You forsake it. You head down the path that God has set before you, turning away from your own selfish desires. That's the first step if you want God to restore the anointing on your life. Now again, let me emphasize, the Holy Spirit has not left you or abandoned you. So when I talk about restoring the anointing, I'm not talking about the Holy Spirit coming back to you. Rather, I'm talking about you coming back to the place where God can use you for His glory once again. That power is there. It's an untapped reservoir of the anointing. And you must come to the place now where you're again receiving of that anointing that He's placed in you that it might flow through you and reach those around you. So number one, you have to repent. You have to turn from that thing that took you off track to begin with. And then number two, return. Return to prayer and the word. Return to a lifestyle of worship. Return to having a standard of holiness in your life to where you won't let these things creep in, to where you turn your eyes from wicked things. You turn your ears from wicked things. You set your feet on the righteous path and don't go to the places that you know you shouldn't be. But return to your devotion to the word. Return to the prayer room. Get back to the place where you're praying good portions of your day. Get back to the place where you're consuming the word of God, not just the verse of the day. Not just the scriptures that you see randomly when you're scrolling down some social media feed. Coming back to the place where you get in the word to where the word begins to transform you, where you're digging deep into the scripture and the scripture is changing your mind. It's changing your nature. It's changing the way you talk. Return to these places again. You don't have to look back on your past and long for the days when you first began to seek the Lord. You don't have to look at your past and long for the days where you were devoted to the word of God. You can dig those wells again and God can begin to flow through your life with his power as you return to these spiritual disciplines. Return to that standard of holiness. Even if people make fun of you for it. Return to that devotion to prayer. Even if it means sacrificing large amounts of your day. Return to that devotion to the word. Even if it means setting aside the distractions that would actually result in no fruit to end with anyway. Revelation chapter two verses two through five say this. I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don't tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting. But I have this complaint against you. You don't love me or each other as you did at first. Look how far you have fallen. Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. Return to that place of prayer despite the guilt that you feel. Return to your devotion to the word despite the frustration over lost time. Return to holiness despite your blemished record. You see sometimes we don't like to come back to these places because coming back to these places and these disciplines reminds us of what we missed out on. It reminds us of how far we had come in our past only to see where we are now spiritually. That's one of the pains of falling away. That's one of the pains of getting off track for a season because when we go to pray we feel as though God is going to say to us and where have you been all this time? What amount of time you have wasted? We don't want to get back into the word because we realize my goodness I could have been getting into the scripture all this time and it's just so frustrating to see that I failed in this area. Or maybe you're afraid to attempt living holy again because of the shame of the past or because of your blemished record or because you feel like you're just going to mess it all up again. I'm telling you you must return despite the feelings of the flesh especially to these basic spiritual disciplines. When you go to pray yeah you will feel that sense of lost time but the Lord isn't wanting you to hang your head in shame going Lord I'm sorry I missed so many days of prayer rather he is filled with joy to see you back in the prayer room again. God isn't angry with you for having not read the scripture for X amount of days but he's happy to speak to you now if you'll simply begin to return to these spiritual disciplines. Number one, repeat forsake that sin that took you off track in the first place. Number two, return to these spiritual disciplines. Number three, and this is more of an internal practice, realize, realize that God has forgiven you, realize that God makes you new, realize that you are a new creation in him, realize that your sins have been forgiven you must learn to let go of the past and forgive yourself. Psalm chapter 103 verses 8 to 14 powerful portion of scripture says this though Lord is compassionate and merciful slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love he will not constantly accuse us notice what the scripture says there he will not constantly accuse us so if you are feeling constantly accused who is it that's doing the accusing it's not God let's continue to read nor remain angry forever verse 10 I love this he does not punish us for all our sins he does not deal harshly with us as we deserve for his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth he has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west the Lord is like a father to his children tender and compassionate to those who fear him for he knows how weak we are he remembers that we are only dust one of the most difficult things about returning is actually realizing that God can restore and accept you again you see this is where people who return to ministry or who return to preaching or simply who return to church this is where they get stuck this is really the battle because yes they'll forsake their sin yes they'll begin to implement their spiritual disciplines again but right here this is where the battle is they can't help but overcome that internal struggle with the shame of their past they can't help but be tormented by how much time they imagine they lost they can't help but be anguished deeply by the regrets that they have for the things that they did and they have trouble getting over this mental emotional psychological barrier they know in their hearts God forgives they know in their hearts God has restored them they know that God forgives they just have trouble believing God forgives them they know that God forgives sin they just have trouble believing that God forgives their specifics in they know that God is merciful and kind and compassionate they just aren't sure if they are the recipients of that kindness that mercy and that compassion they say things like well I knew better and I still failed the good news the grace of God applies even to those who knew better now this is not an open door to go and abuse the forgiveness and the mercy of God rather this is an encouragement to know that you can experience the freedom of forgiveness if you just stop listening to the flesh and you stop listening to the enemy people will still accuse you sure people will come against you but people aren't God you may still hold things against yourself but you're not God the enemy may accuse you but the enemy is not God there are no more stones to be thrown Jesus does not hold a stone in his hand he says neither do I condemn the go and sin no more he's with you he forgives you now it's time to allow yourself to move on stop replaying the mistakes stop replaying what could have been stop wearing the shame that other people may try to put on you for your past and instead embrace the forgiveness of God and realize that God's grace applies to you too and realize that God's mercy applies to you too his compassion his kindness hints his tenderness all of that applies to you to realize that and then number four reach ahead so number one repent number two return to those spiritual disciplines number three realize that God's grace reaches even you in your very specific situation and number four reach ahead once your soul has been restored it's time to reach ahead once God has finished the restoration process it's time to begin letting him use your life again now only the Lord can determine the time frame that you need in order to be restored and don't listen to religious voices who tried to put constraints on you that God himself has not placed on you rather move forward there's no one in scripture who God used who didn't have a past you must reach on ahead to the future in God Philippians 3 13 to 16 say no dear brothers and sisters I have not achieved it but I focus on this one thing for getting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God through Christ Jesus is calling us let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things if you disagree on some point I believe God will make it plain to you but we must hold on to the progress we have already made get back in ministry get back to serving get back to reaching the world let God restore the influence of his power on your life become a vessel a tool in the hand of God once more repent of your sin return to the spiritual disciplines realize that God has forgiven you and after you've been restored reach ahead to the destiny that God has ordained for you father I pray you help us do it Lord let them be so aware of the grace and forgiveness that's available to them that it transforms the way they think and behave father I pray against all forms of condemnation guilt and shame and we pray that every accusing lie of the enemy would be silenced in the name of Jesus father we pray that your truth would dominate the mind restore as only you can and let that precious anointing flow but it flow like oil say this say Lord I'm sorry forgive me I'm serious say now say Lord I'm sorry forgive me now say Lord use my life once I thank you Lord that you're doing it but that power begin to flow touch them I pray and let them never be the same again in the name of Jesus I want you to say it because you believe it say amen here now is a question for conversation has God ever restored something in your life that you thought you had lost forever let me know in the comment section right now make sure you're subscribed to encounter TV on YouTube and be sure to click that notification bell when you do subscribe you can also follow us whatever you're watching us I want to read a portion of scripture to you found in Romans chapter 10 I'll begin at verse 13 for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved but how can they call on him to 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