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Broken marriages don't break in one moment - they erode slowly.A sharp word here.A cold silence there.A distance that becomes normal. Then something happens that feels final.Trust collapses.One heart...
During Nehemiah's rebuilding of Jerusalem, The bible highlighted a gate - the Sheep Gate - and the names connected to it. "Then Eliashib the high priest rose up... and built the Sheep Gate."Nehemiah 3...
Healing doesn't begin with effort.It begins with a Person. Malachi describes Jesus with an image that rises gently yet powerfully over every kind of brokenness:"But to you who fear My name, the Sun of...
After healing the man at Bethesda, Jesus sought him out again. Not to rebuke him.Not to shame him.But to protect him. "See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."John...
In the Old Testament, there is an offering:אָשָׁם - "asham," the guilt offering. It wasn't only about forgiveness.It required restoration - full value plus 20% (Leviticus 6:5). God designed it that wa...
When believers hear the word "discipline," they imagine punishment.The Bible speaks of a loving Father shaping His children. Scripture says, "For whom the Lord loves He chastens" (Hebrews 12:6).Love -...
Paul used a word so overflowing that translators struggle to contain it: ὑπερπερισσεύω - "huperperisseuō,"meaning "to overflow beyond overf...
"Then I restored that which I took not away."Psalm 69:4 Jesus quoted this verse in the Upper Room (John 15:25), making it clear -this was about Him. He didn't steal your peace.He didn't cause your los...
Sometimes you look at someone living in open sin and think:"They look happy. Nothing seems to happen to them." Let me explain what really happens. Solomon wrote,"The way of the transgressor is hard."P...
The Psalmist showed us 2 things on God's heart. First: forgiveness.Second: healing. "Who forgives all your iniquities;Who heals all your diseases."Psalm 103:3 Healing is not an optional extra.Not a sp...
Many believers wonder why restoration seems slow, delayed, or distant.But the Bible tells us that: Restoration begins where guilt ends. Leviticus shows that whenever guilt was acknowledged and transfe...
There's something breathtaking about the way Jesus sees people. In a crowded synagogue, He noticed a woman bent over for eighteen years - someone most people no longer noticed at all. "When Jesus saw...
In God's hands, failure is never final -it's fertile. Under the guilt offering (Leviticus 6), anything lost through sin had to be restored full value + 20%. God didn't design this to encourage sin.He...