BBD 03.09.21 Take it Back! (Classic)

#1 · March 9, 2021, 10:24 am

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Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

09 March 2021

Take it Back!

Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God; for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you - the former rain and the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust. - Joel 2:23-25.

Carolyn Risher says, "We are taking everything back that the devil ever stole from us.” Last year in Inglis, Florida the mayor of Inglis, Carolyn Risher issued a proclamation banning satan from the town. She declared the small city (pop. 1,400) to be a satan-free zone and embedded copies of the proclamation in posts at four entrances to the city. The mayor said she was concerned about the kids dressing "Goth,” DUI drivers and child molesters.

Once you have banned the devil from your life, what do you do then? Take it back! Take back what the devil has stolen from you. Take back what the locusts have eaten up.

When we are involved in sin the devil eats up our time and lives just like devouring locusts eat up crops. Time and resources that could have been used to bring glory to God are redirected to bring pain and shame to our own lives and families. Years may go by while the demons romp and play destroying all that they can that is good in your life. When we finally turn back to God, and He kicks the devil and sin out of our lives we may be tempted to think that it is too late to live the way we should. We may think that it is too late to do anything productive with our lives to bring glory to God.

When the prophet Joel spoke those words so long-ago God’s people had experienced firsthand the devouring locusts. God’s promise to them, and I believe to us as well, is that God can restore the years to us that have been wasted. How can He do that? He will do it through quality of life and blessing. As we take back what the devil has stolen by living our lives to bring glory to the Lord the years will be restored. Joy and blessing will pour from the Lord to our lives, and from our lives to the lives of countless others.

Take it Back!!

Copyright © 2002 - 2020. Ed Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70 countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright, Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Pat S., Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hillary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe Marx; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad.

Please pray for the coronavirus COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our devotions, we read devotionals.

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Posted by: burningbushdevo <burningbushdevo@...>

Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

09 March 2021

Take it Back!

Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God; for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you - the former rain and the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust. - Joel 2:23-25.

Carolyn Risher says, "We are taking everything back that the devil ever stole from us.” Last year in Inglis, Florida the mayor of Inglis, Carolyn Risher issued a proclamation banning satan from the town. She declared the small city (pop. 1,400) to be a satan-free zone and embedded copies of the proclamation in posts at four entrances to the city. The mayor said she was concerned about the kids dressing "Goth,” DUI drivers and child molesters.

Once you have banned the devil from your life, what do you do then? Take it back! Take back what the devil has stolen from you. Take back what the locusts have eaten up.

When we are involved in sin the devil eats up our time and lives just like devouring locusts eat up crops. Time and resources that could have been used to bring glory to God are redirected to bring pain and shame to our own lives and families. Years may go by while the demons romp and play destroying all that they can that is good in your life. When we finally turn back to God, and He kicks the devil and sin out of our lives we may be tempted to think that it is too late to live the way we should. We may think that it is too late to do anything productive with our lives to bring glory to God.

When the prophet Joel spoke those words so long-ago God’s people had experienced firsthand the devouring locusts. God’s promise to them, and I believe to us as well, is that God can restore the years to us that have been wasted. How can He do that? He will do it through quality of life and blessing. As we take back what the devil has stolen by living our lives to bring glory to the Lord the years will be restored. Joy and blessing will pour from the Lord to our lives, and from our lives to the lives of countless others.

Take it Back!!

Copyright © 2002 - 2020. Ed Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70 countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright, Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Pat S., Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hillary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe Marx; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad.

Please pray for the coronavirus COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

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