A RETURN TO GOD'S PROMISE OF HEALING

Hosea 6:1  '... He has torn us to pieces but He will heal us, He has injured us but He will bind up our woulds.'

God's call to return us not without a deeper work within us.  In Hosea F:1-3, God speaks of His intent to heal, to restore and to lead us to revival.  Just like Israel, God will allow His dealings to come into our lives with the sole aim of drawing us back to Him.  These dealings are not punitive and are intended to shape us to Christ-like maturity as His sons and daughters.  Seasons of dealings are often painful but God desires us to come to that place where we can trust them in His hands, the hands of a loving God.

• Pray that we will fully understand the Father's heart (Hebrews 12:4 - 11) in the area of spiritual discipline, knowing that in this, He treats us as His true sons and daughters.
• Pray that we will correct our wrong projections of God and His dealings in our lives.  Pray for right responses to the Father's dealings, knowing that He disciplines us because He loves us.  Let our hearts not be hardened.
• Pray that we will be willing to let go of everything that hinders our intimacy with God.  Let us come continually to the altar of repentance and consecration - allowing God to do a deeper work within us.
• Pray that we will know and understand that it is God's end intent to restore us, to mature us as His sons and daughters and to make us more Christ-like.