“2012” Year of Recover

As I was thinking about what to write in this first bulletin devotional of the year the word recovery was coming up out of my spirit. And I believe the following is what God wants you to believe for in this coming year.

I want to make the following prophetic declaration over your life “2012 will be a year of recovery for you”.

The word recovery in the Bible means the following:  To regain the rightful condition, to retrieve, to recuperate, get back what has been lost, to reclaim. The word also refers to the taking back of an object from another's power.

This is the year of recovering and taking back everything that the Bible says is ours and is not real in our lives. There was a song that used to be sung a few years ago and it had a part in it that says “I went into the enemies camp and I took back what he stole from me”. There are too many believers that are living their Christian life far below the standard of the word and allowing the enemy to come in and steal what is rightfully ours. It’s time for recovery. Make the following declaration “2012 is my year of recovery”, everything that has been lost, or taken away whether it is spiritual, physical or financial is going to be reclaimed.

It’s time to recover your salvation, healing, the blessing, your joy, your peace, your prosperity, your vision, your calling, your gifts and talents, your passion for Jesus and the church, the fire you once had is coming back in Jesus name.

We must be aware of one great truth, that the one that does the recovery is not God but it is you and I, for God through Jesus Christ did everything He will ever need to do on the cross. Many people wait around for recovery to just show up out of the blue and then get frustrated when nothing changes, that is due to a lack of understanding that we are the ones that have been given the power to recover.

In 1 Samuel 30:1-31, King David arrives at the city of Ziklag with his men only to find the city has been burned to the ground by the enemy and their wives and children taken captive. As is normal David and his men began to be in great distress and to cry and lament until they had no more strength to cry. It was a terrible situation. But then David does something that changes the scenario, it says in verse 6 “David encouraged himself in the LORD his God”. And he enquired of God and asked “Shall I pursue the enemy? Shall I overtake them? Now notice the    response that God gives David through the priest, He said “Pursue: for you shall surely overtake them, and without fail RECOVER ALL. So David went after the enemy and in verse 18 it says “And DAVID               recovered all” verse 19 says “there was nothing lacking to them neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David RECOVERED all”. Notice that it says and David recovered all. God gave Him the go ahead to go and recover and he did.

God tells you on this first day of the year 2012 “Go and Recover everything that has been lost”.

Pastor Esteban San Martin