This prophetic word is titled The Process of Your Restoration.
You are going to need to save this one because I can guarantee it 100% that you will need this at some point.
Who is this post for? Everyone. The Lord walked me through what it looks like to be completely restored, showing me that there are different types of restoration and the various ways He uses to restore us. He also showed me what was needed to restore someone and also what we need when we need to be restored.
The post is not just about marriage restoration, it’s for every possible type of restoration with marriage being just one of them.
And yes it is a long read but remember… the book is always better than the movie! LOL
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The Lord has been walking me through the process of restoration. Did you know there are different types of restoration? They fall under different categories, have different requirements, the payback looks different for each.
This post is related to the word for 2025 where I said that God was going to bring completion to some long standing issues in your life. The Breaker will show up and deliver you instantly. I also said that this could lead to some weirdness because you really don’t know how to handle not being in a place where you no longer have to pray for something, or complain about something because the issue as been resolved.
Let me ask you this, have you ever gone after something really hard and you finally get it and somehow the level of excitement you thought you would have is just not there? How about you get it, everyone knows about it, they come to you to congratulate you on it and saying things like “you must be sooooo happy!” But somehow you don’t have the same level of excitement like they do? Yes, you acknowledge that you finally got that thing but somehow, something is missing. There’s something there that stops you from tapping into the complete joy of the moment. You chalk it up to the fact that it took such a long time but the truth is, something else is wrong. And, you just don’t have the words to describe it.
That’s because you’ve come to realize that getting “it” was just the beginning of the process. You see, the possession of “it” has made you realize that there are some things that need to be done in order for you to truly celebrate getting “it”.
Healing – Rapha: To heal, to cure, to restore (Strong’s 7459)
You see, healing is to restore something to its original state. It is taking something that is broken and bringing it back to the original state. Healing is a form of restoration. When the Israelites wandered in the wilderness when we first heard the name Jehovah Rapha, this was about healing bitter water so that it would be drinkable.
Therefore healing is not always about physical health.
Your heart can need healing. Your mind can need healing, if there is mental illness and your soul can need healing.
Your soul is what holds your feelings, your emotions and your will and sometimes it needs to be healed.
You can say you want something with your mouth, you might even mentally want it, you can want it physically, but your soul says “nope! not doing it” and you can reject it with your soul.
As an example, let’s say you have been estranged from your spouse for years and they moved out of the house, you may verbally say you want your marriage restored, you mentally accept it because the Bible says that you shouldn’t get a divorce, and still within yourself, you’re conflicted.
Because your SOUL is rejecting it. You’re too hurt.
When they move back in, and you go ahead and share the testimony that they came back, everybody is singing “oh happy day!” but deep down…you’re just not feeling it. Because the restoration of the soul has not yet happened. Them moving back in was just the beginning but the complete restoration has not taken place.
You need to be healed. Your soul suffered some damage when you were going through it and you just don’t pick up where you left off and continue. You’re not a robot where you just click a button and you’re back! Nope. Every area of that relationship needs to be prayed over so that it can be restored, fully, bit by bit.
There is a Process for the Restoration.
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Whenever you’ve gone through PROLONGED periods of suffering and persecution, you need to be HEALED. This happens to all of us. It’s all over the Bible.
Psalm 23:3
He restores my soul…
David wouldn’t need to write words like this if his soul didn’t need to be restored. If you spent many years running from someone trying to kill you and constantly dodging traps set by various enemies, eventually you are going to need to have your soul restored.
Why do you think the Bible says this about the last days…
Matthew 24:12
And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
or as the CEV version says “Evil will spread and cause many people to stop loving others.”
You go through so much that it’s hard for you to love people, you become cold as a defense mechanism to protect yourself. Once you start getting cold you can’t follow the commands of Jesus to Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul and love your neighbor as yourself.
Do you see that? You’re not going to be able to do it.
You could be carrying some soul wounds that will open you up to something much more severe in the end. Like estrangement in your relationship with the Lord. You used to hear from God and now you can’t anymore. That is a sign. Someone tells you their problem and you just can’t sympathize because you pull out your internal scale and weigh it against your own problems to see if it’s worth you caring about it. If your problem seems worse, you don’t care… even if they are hurting<<<<<< this!! Except, God didn’t use a scale when He gave you this scripture >>>Romans 12:15
When you disconnect emotionally from everyone. That is a sign. When you’ve become revengeful and unforgiving. This is why some people turn to witchcraft, soul wounds. They’ve been hurt, they feel there has been an injustice and they want to balance the scales. Not for all, but for some, this is why they are doing it.
Another sign, you get triggered rather quickly.
You’re easily offended. I tell you what, nobody can trigger us more than the people God intended to be in our lives to grow us and be in relationship with us! WOOOOWEEEEE! It’s like they have a special gift! LOL.
The Lord is bringing this to the forefront now because when, not if, you receive your breakthrough HE wants you to really enjoy it! He wants you to be restored in all areas so that you can truly ENJOY your blessings not sit there and say “oh oh, what now?”
Now let’s look at how you get healed per the word of God.
I wrote in the 2026 prophetic word that theologians believed Job’s suffering was 60-80 years! Can you imagine enduring something for so long? Reading the book it seems like it all happened at once because it says while one person was giving him bad news, another came to give him more bad news. It just went on and on and then he was left trying to figure out why.
Job, while he got back twice what he lost, the man lost his CHILDREN. So he’s just supposed to move on from the fact that his sons and daughters died because now he’s twice as rich? Naw! There’s no way. It doesn’t work like that because you cannot replace people.
Do you have kids? If you lost your house today, all your money and God give you back 4 TIMES what you had before financially don’t tell me that you start celebrating that! NO! YOUR CHILDREN!!! No amount of money can make up for the loss of your kids. That would damage your soul in such a way that you could be the richest person on earth you would still be BROKEN.
A Physical restoration will never fix a broken soul.
He started with 7 boys and 3 girls and after he was restored he got 7 boys and 3 girls, why did God double everything else except the number of his children? If you have a theory, please put it in the comments. Personally, I think it was to tell us that very thing, you cannot replace people. I told you before that 10 is the end of a cycle, divine completion. He had the complete picture in the beginning and God gave him back the complete picture in the end, 10 children to start and 10 children to end which signifies that GOD completed his restoration.
Job’s soul needed to be healed at such a DEEP level for him to move on. You may be able to replace things but you will never replace a person. Quite frankly I don’t think you can replace your pets, animals either…you never get over your pets when they die, you remember them forever. You may get another one, same breed of dog, but they have personalities and that is what makes them special and unique.
We’re all special and unique.
Where else will you find a prophetic intercession website with corny jokes, misspelling, malapropisms and bad gramma? Yes, we’re very “special”! LOL.
How do you heal the soul?
As you are reading this, think about what I said in the beginning, look for the different types ,the various ways, how you receive restoration and how you give it.
1. You will need to cry over it. And, cry some more. It’s a purging. Mourn over the things you need to mourn over. You’re not a robot. Stuffing it or sweeping it under the rug and pretending it’s not there or it didn’t happen doesn’t change anything. A good cry helps! Demons also get exorcized through tears too, did you know?
Job 2:11-13
11 When three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. 12 When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief. 13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words.
They cried with him because they connected in their soul with his grief. Sometimes you have to cry with people over their stuff.
2. SHOW UP for them. If you are the friend of someone who suffered in any kind of capacity, you need to just be there for them. And, you need someone to show up for you too.
This is a part of healing the soul. Yes! And showing up comes in many different forms – physically by showing up in person (we do this with funerals, weddings, attending a graduation or visiting someone in the hospital), by bringing gifts we do this when they are home recovering or after a woman has had a baby and we show up with food or when someone just moved into a new home you bring them a gift, financially by helping them when they are in need, Spiritually by praying for them, Emotionally by just listening to them. Sometimes all you need to do is be a sounding board, just listen, you don’t even need to offer advice all the time. These are all forms of showing up for someone.
Job’s 3 friends showed up for him physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally.
YOU can show up in some form. Yes, you can!
>>>> ALL of us need this, to give it and to receive it… at some point in our lives. When you are wounded in your soul, and you need healing, it is like you become tone deaf to everyone else around you. You don’t realize that you need to show up for others too! When you need healing in the soul you become very needy. Do it for me…do it for me…I need this…I need this…you become selfish and self centered.
3. The Lord told Job to pray for his friends, Yep, regardless of his need the Lord made him give. But notice how the Lord did it, He never asked Job to show up in a way that he couldn’t. He said PRAY. PRAY. That is spiritually showing up. ALL of us can do that.
So then a part of our soul’s healing becomes what Job had to do, praying for those who hurt you. Praying for the person who contributed to the wounding of your soul. You have to pray for them. Whoever or whatever the circumstances. If it’s not even a person you know but it’s from afar off like those you consider racist, or the government or the media, or your employer, or whatever corporation, wherever you feel that something or someone added to your wounding you need to pray for them. The minute you recognize that something or someone is adding to your roundedness, PRAY for it, PRAY for them.
4. You need to repent for holding things in your heart against the Lord. Look at how Job repented to the Lord before God restored him.
Job 42:1-6
Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do anything,
and no one can stop you.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’
It is I—and I was talking about things I knew nothing about,
things far too wonderful for me.
4 You said, ‘Listen and I will speak!
I have some questions for you,
and you must answer them.’
5 I had only heard about you before,
but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
6 I take back everything I said,
and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”
You may not understand why you need to repent to the Lord, but you do especially if your anger is also directed at the Lord.
How will you know this? Estrangement in your relationship to Him. You’re distant. You still love Him. Still want to follow Him but you are distant. He tells you go left, you go right! Why is that?
Keep this in mind, while you are mad at Him. He’s not mad at you. He’s waiting for you so that your relationship with Him can be restored.
A part of the restoration of your soul is to restore your relationship to HIM.
I’ve seen many people have an issue with the Lord and they don’t realize it. Their marriage failed and they don’t know why and they blame God for not rescuing them or preventing it from happening. Their life isn’t going the way they want it to, even after many many years of following the Lord faithfully and they’re upset.
It manifests itself as stubbornness, lack of trust and “low key” disobedience. I say low key because it is veiled with “I’m just waiting for further confirmation, I want to be sure”. When the truth is they already know for sure, they know exactly what God is asking them to do, but they’re just delaying the obedience, which is? Disobedience, low key.
The issues need to addressed with the Lord so that it can be resolved fully. So that the part of you that is still broken (your soul) because of what happened to you can be healed.
At some point in our walk with God, there’s going to be a scourging. You’re gonna have test, trials, tribulation, persecution, denials, betrayals. It happens to all of us, it’s not personal. This is how we grow and how we show by our fruits that we belong to HIM, how we act even though we are going through it. How we treat other people in the midst of our own struggles.
The only one who has the ability to heal you and restore you is God, so you need to sit with Him and just repent for how you have been feeling, for your stubbornness, lack of trust and the low key disobedience and ask Him to restore you. You need to be healed so that your relationship with the Lord can be restored, fully.
Finally, the Lord highlighted the words comforting and consoling to me from Job’s story:
Job 2:11-13
11 When three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him.
Upon studying the word consoling (Hebrew: Nud) it says that it is the act of hanging your head down and shaking it side to side. You know that action of disbelief when you shake your head from side to side. I just imagine them saying Job, I’m so sorry this happened to you. It’s a heartfelt connection where your soul connects for a moment with someone else’s grief. You literally relate to their pain. This is the showing up physically, mentally and emotionally.
The word comforting (Hebrew: Nacham) is repentance, to say you are sorry. “Job, I’m so sorry for your loss”. This is also the same word used when Job repented to God. It’s the same word but the context of the repentance is different. “Lord, I am sorry for thinking that I knew better than you, I’m sorry for questioning your way of doing things, I’m sorry for not understanding that I needed to experience something bad so I could see and appreciate something good and not take it for granted, I’m sorry that this is what you used to give me purpose, I’m sorry for not understanding that you needed to use my life to write a book in the Bible so that millions of people could read it over and over again and find comfort when they need it, I’m sorry for not seeing that my life is being lived for more than just me “
But then there is yet a 3rd application of Nacham.
Remember that the first time Job’s friends showed up was in the beginning of his loss, and they showed up again at the end…
Job 42:10-12
10 When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before! 11 Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring.
Brothers and sisters, notice in the beginning 3 friends visited him, but when you read the book it says Elihu (who didn’t visit him) gave his opinion on things. These are the people that were not there, have no clue what is happening but they have an opinion. They base everything off second hand conversation. Notice it says his friends came to visit and his former friends, some people pulled away immediately once Job lost everything (we call these fair weather friends), others like Elihu said their piece and then they left him. He was no longer friends with any of them. Some were friends and some were former friends which means that sometimes to heal your soul you need to separate from some people. God asked him to pray for the 3 people for his restoration, not everybody, just the 3 people (Job 42:7-9). I believe those were his true friends not the other cling-ons (former friends) that showed up after his restoration.
In the end, everyone showed up, not just 3 friends….therefore the context of this “comforting” (Nacham) is an apology for wrongfully accusing him. It is not “I’m sorry you lost your kids”, but “I’m sorry I misjudged you, I’m sorry I spoke out of turn, I’m sorry for listening to a second hand conversation instead of asking you myself, I’m sorry for not believing you when you said you did nothing wrong”.
5. Sometimes to heal someone’s soul, they need an apology. Sometimes we need the apology to move forward.
However, there are times when you’re not going to get an apology and you need to move forward anyway. It is at this point you make the decision on whether or not you want that person in your life. There are various ways to apologize…
I’m sorry for being offended without asking you to clarify what you meant, I’m sorry that while my lips appeared to be so close to you deep down in my heart, I was far from you (Matthew 15:8) and I’m sorry for that.
Somebody told me this ___________ about you and I never asked you, I just took what they said and ran with it. I’ve now come to find out that it was a lie, I should’ve at least given you the chance to explain I’m sorry it won’t happen again.
I’m sorry for abandoning you when your life took a turn for the worse everybody in town was talking about you and I didn’t want that reflecting on me and my family and I’m ashamed that I did that to you, sorry.
I’m sorry this got way out of hand can we start over?
I’m so sorry Job, I brought you a gift… (A few moments later after much laughing and talking) …I must say I was kinda happy when I heard that things weren’t going well for you because it made me feel better about myself…your life is perfect, you’re good looking, your wife is good looking, your kids are “A” students, you’re doing really well financially, people love you, you seem to fit in everywhere you go…that’s kinda hard to measure up to and I’m serving God just as much as you…so yeah…when you fell, it made me felt better about myself… but I’m really happy for you that God has restored you….
You need sound effects for this one
#Sus LOL
And that! is how Job ended up with friends and former friends.
Just imagine when those former friends saw that he was doubly blessed and that his daughters were the most beautiful in the entire region!!!!!!!!! (Job 42:12-15)
Sigh. If someone falls and you’re secretly in your heart happy about it? Your soul needs to be healed.
Absolutely no one who is completely healed, feels delight or relieved when someone else falls because they feel better about themselves. This is an indication that they need to be healed in their SOUL.
This is when you start to make distinctions between friends and former friends (at least until they get healed) because if you have someone in your life that will be happy if you fail, that’s not someone who has your best interest at heart.
Misery loves company.
Remember when David was hiding in the cave at Abdullam and he started getting comfortable making arrangement for his parents while he continue to stay there? Gad, the prophet, had to go there and tell him to get out of the cave! (1 Samuel 22:1-5). Don’t get jealous of the people God sent to pull you out, use them as an example, an inspiration, a motivation to leave the pit. Don’t get comfortable, ask the Lord to heal your mind, so you can change your mindset about your situation. Otherwise, when the physical breakthrough happens you may not even realize it.
Do you know how many times I’ve seen Jesus open the prison doors and people still remained seated in the prison? They needed to be healed in their soul before they could notice that the prison door was open all along.
The other thing I need to point out to you about Job’s restoration is that GOD made his 3 friends give to him financially as a part of their restoration (Job 42:7-9) and when the brothers, sisters, and former friends came to visit him they too showed up for him financially by bringing gifts and money.
6. Some of you may need to sow a seed for the restoration. Read Job 42.
There is the giving and the receiving. Job gave repentance, his friends gave to him financially and ask him to pray for them. He received their gifts, prayed for them and they were ALL restored.
So the financial giving is for your own restoration not for the person you are giving it to. Your giving a gift to them has nothing to do with them, it is for your own restoration.
God is not going to require you to give something that you cannot give. Job didn’t have any gifts or money to give to these people, so God asked him to repent and pray. His friends had it, so the Lord made them give financially.
God wants your restoration to be COMPLETE, just like it was for Job. You could take these same point and see them playing out in Joseph’s story. He also was fully restored in all areas, and got double which was passed on to his sons, Mannaseh whose name means “God has caused me to forget” and Ephraim whose name means very fruitful or double fruits!!!! Because God doesn’t want partial restoration and the payback for restoration when GOD was the one who brought the scrounging is DOUBLE.
He wants you completely restored spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, relationally!! EVERYTHING!!!
Oh Hallelujah!!!
I believe in the end, that some of your relationships will be restored and others will not.
Why did the word make of point of saying Job’s friends and his former friends came to visit? Because they remained former friends even after his restoration. You can still say hello and chit chat but you’re not going to confide in them. You need to have boundaries with some people. This is necessary.
The Lord will help you navigate this when the time comes. What you don’t want to do is make major decisions from an unhealed soul.
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When there is no one to bring the healing to your soul the Lord Himself does this through His word…
Proverbs 4:20-22
My son, pay attention to my words,
and listen closely to what I say.
Do not let them out of your sight;
keep them within your heart.
For they are life to those who find them,
and healing to their whole body
His word heals you when you read it and meditate on it.
Psalm 107:20
He sent His word and healed them,
And rescued them from their destruction.
Ask Him to give you the scripture that speaks to that wound in your heart, read it and meditate upon it. He will guide you to exactly what you need to read to heal that wound. Just ask Him.
Prayer: Lord God, I’m asking you to prepare me for the breakthrough that You have for me. I want to enjoy it when it comes. I give You my heart and I give You my soul and I’m asking You to show me what is broken there so that it can be healed. Show me the instances where I was wounded and help me to walk through the process of healing. I’m offering myself as a living sacrifice to You, Lord Jesus, I’m freely giving myself to You and asking for You to heal me completely – mind, body, soul and spirit. Only You know the breakthrough that will come next so I ask that You would heal whatever needs to be healed within me in preparation for it. Wherever there is woundedness give me the scriptures that I need, give me the actions I should take, send the people that I need to help me with my healing, if I have a hardened heart remove my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh. Renew me and teach me how to protect my heart and my soul so that I won’t endure this level of woundedness again. Show me how to put the correct boundaries in place, especially for the people that I have around me and have no way of separating myself from them. Grant me a heart of forgiveness and show me the relationships that need to be reconciled and the ones I need to step away from, most importantly restore my relationship with You. Forgive me. Help me to understand the purpose for all that I have endured and in the instances where it was not Your plan, I pray for the grace to forget. Wipe it clean from my mind and restore a newness to my heart and soul so that the devil will be out to shamed at the level of your miraculous restoration. And for all of this Almighty God, I ask for the double restoration, the double repayment, in Jesus name, Amen.
Blessings!
