🌾TAKING BACK WHAT THE ENEMY STOLE FROM ME THURSDAY🌾

Breaking Bread at the Mustard Seed with Stacey

🍞Just a Little Daily Bread…🍞

🤍RECLAIM THE FIELD🤍

Joel 2:25 ~

“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten…”

There are few things more frustrating on a farm than watching something destroy what you worked so hard to grow.

You prepared the ground…

You planted the seed…

You tended the field…

You waited…

And then something came along and started eating away at the harvest.

Whew.

Somebody knows exactly what that feels like… and I’m not talking about crops! 🙌🏼

The enemy has tried to eat away at some things in your life too.

Your peace…

Your confidence…

Your joy…

Your identity…

Your dreams…

Your family…

Your calling…

Maybe he convinced you that because something was damaged, it could never be fruitful again.

But I came to remind somebody today…

THE ENEMY DOES NOT GET THE FINAL SAY OVER YOUR FIELD!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

God said,

“I will restore!”

Not maybe…

Not if the damage wasn’t too bad…

Not only if you can figure out how to fix it…

I WILL RESTORE!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

And sometimes restoration begins when you finally walk back onto ground you abandoned.

Maybe fear ran you out…

Maybe disappointment made you quit tending it…

Maybe rejection convinced you that you weren’t called…

Maybe failure made you believe the field was finished…

But what if God is saying…

“Go back!”

Go back to praying…

Go back to believing…

Go back to writing…

Go back to serving…

Go back to dreaming…

Go back to the place where the enemy convinced you to surrender something God never told you to give up.

Because taking back what the enemy stole doesn’t always mean getting the exact same thing back!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Sometimes God restores it BETTER!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

The enemy may have stolen a season…

but he cannot steal God’s purpose!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

He may have touched the crop…

but he does not own the field!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

And he certainly does not own YOU!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

So straighten that fence…

Pull those weeds…

Plant again…

Pray again…

Believe again…

Put your boots back on and walk that property like somebody who remembers WHOSE LAND THIS REALLY IS! 🙌🏼

Because the same God who gave you the seed is still Lord over the harvest.

And perhaps this time you’re not starting over at all…

You’re starting again… with wisdom, authority, deeper roots, and a testimony you didn’t have the first time. WON’T HE DO IT!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Jesus, I surrender every place where loss, disappointment, fear, or the enemy has convinced me that restoration is impossible. Thank You that what has been damaged is not beyond Your reach. Give me courage to reclaim the places You never told me to surrender. Restore my joy, strengthen my faith, renew my mind, and breathe life into the dreams and purposes You planted within me. I trust You with what was lost, and I trust You with what You are rebuilding.

In Jesus’ name, Amen! 🤍

💚Reflection💚

What “field” have you stopped tending because you believed too much had already been lost?

Could God be telling you today…

“Go reclaim it.”

🧺Bread Basket🧺

A damaged harvest does not mean the Farmer abandoned the field.

God can restore…

God can replant…

God can rebuild…

And God can bring a harvest from ground you thought was finished.

The enemy may have touched the crop…