Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord. Acts 3:19.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Jesus is My gift to you and He calls to you, “Come to Me all you are weary and find life burdensome and I will refresh you.” In Him I make you lie down in green pastures beside healing waters and restore your soul. I have given Him a well trained tongue, the tongue of disciples, to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them, that is, refresh them on the journey home to Me that is life in this world.
After the Israelites had sinned against Me and refused to enter the beautiful land filled with good things I had stored up for them, saying they would rather die in the desert, I made no secret of what they had spoken they would get and they knew they had only forty years to live, My friend Moses was still looking for Me to repent and give them refreshing. And I did, Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us, and the years we have seen trouble. Let Your work appear to Your servants and Your majesty to their children. Let the favor of the Lord (Adonai) our God be upon us; and confirm for us the work of our hands; yes, confirm (give permanence to) the work of our hands.” Psalm 90:13-17.
And whom does Moses address that Psalm seeking forgiveness and refreshment from? Yes, the rock in the cleft of which I hid Moses from perishing before My holiness and goodness (glory), Jesus, Adonai. Jesus would later tell the wondering crowd that Moses wrote about Him. And indeed Moses did. When you know Me, I show you My Salvation, Yeshuah, Jesus. The one who restores to you everything that you lost by sin.
Lord (Adonai), You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. Psalm 90:1.
Many of you have been burdened with many things from sins of your own and sins of others and there are just trials and troubles that come in the world as Adam and his descendants have corrupted it and made it a place of stress and trouble. But you will find in the middle of it all, if you just turn your heart to Me I have a Word to refresh you, to make your heart leap and your eyes fill with the sweet tears of gratitude for so great a salvation as I have given you.
All refreshment begins with being totally forgiven as if the sin, the wrong choices, the toil had never been. And I do all that for you and more in Christ Jesus your Lord.
But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Messiah (Christ) would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send Jesus, the Messiah (Christ) appointed for you, whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. Acts 3:18-21.
What is the refreshment I give to you in Jesus? It is the assurance of My favor to you in Him. It is a promise of joy unspeakable filled with glory replacing all the times of sadness you have endured.
Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’? Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy. Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. John 16:19-22.
You see the recurring theme of what brings you those times of refreshment when your joy is made full and you heart is renewed: the return of Jesus, your Messiah, to restore all things.
Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send Jesus, the Messiah (Christ) appointed for you, whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. Acts 3:19-21.
“Do return, O LORD (Yahavah); how long will it be? And be sorry for Your servants. O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.” Psalm 90:13.
It is in Jesus that I refresh and bless you. It is My doing, My call, that you are drawn to Him and come to receive Him. And in Him I take all you sins, pain, illnesses, brokenness, sadness, grief and account them to Him and punish them and atone for them by His sacrificial suffering and death as your substitute. He paid your judgment and satisfied your sentence and restored your righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
There are some of you who have been through darkness and seen many sad times, but listen! Take heart! I have seen your tears and heard your heart and I am about to bring you joy beyond all you could ask or imagine for what you have sown has grown to that tree of life I showed you that is your life. A place of gathering all in My love, to show them My Yeshuah.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls. Proverbs 11:30.
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but perversion in it crushes the spirit. Proverbs 15:4.
If you are not offering others what you have, the knowledge of what you have in Jesus, you are offering the world nothing. You have the Word of Life that can save them for eternity. Have the desire to bring win souls for My Kingdom. Be after My heart and in My heart you will find refreshment. And then things will begin to move that stayed dormant in your life for years, but though you did not see it, they were growing. There are times of refreshing coming, when the reaper will overtake the sower in miraculous harvests collected with joy. There are things coming in and doors opening up. Now is the time to shoot the arrows out of My quiver.
The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me. He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; and He has also made Me a select arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver. Isaiah 49:1-2.
Part of wisdom is knowing the times to move and the times to stay still. I did that for the Israelites in the wilderness by the pillar of cloud over the tabernacle. When it lifted and led them forth they all packed up and followed. When it rested and stayed, they rested and stayed there as well.
Refreshment has to do with being in My presence constantly and hearing My Words that revive you and open vast vistas of impossible things being possible for you even now. But above all refreshment comes in knowing you are forgiven and beloved and that I have a good opinion of you. I see no fault in you who are in Christ for He took all that was wrong in you and gave you My righteousness in its place, so that in My presence is FULLNESS OF JOY. The delights at My right hand forever. In My house, you drink abundantly from the river of delight, living water, for with Me is the fountain of life and in My light you see light.
There is a pattern here that must be followed to have restoration and the infilling of the Holy Spirit so that you may have days of Heaven even now on earth in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. For the world, under the lordship of Satan whom Adam abdicated his throne to and his lease of authority over the earth, is becoming darker and darker, covered in confusion, sickness, poverty, oppression, violence, and fear as the time of judgment and universal restoration come near, but on you, My Covenant people who know and revere My Name the glory is rising like the light of dawn, getting brighter and brighter until perfect Day. The Day that will never end. We have eternity.
Look again at the words of Peter to the astonished crowd in the Temple who had witnessed the amazing miracle of the healing of a man crippled from birth begging by the Beautiful Gate of the temple when Peter and John commanded him up on his feet in the Name of Jesus and you will find the road to your times of refreshing, and it is the same road back to the father’s house that the wayward son took in the parable Jesus spoke, which is known as the “parable of the prodigal son.” It is also the same road back to abundance, overflow, and the outpouring of My Spirit spoken by My prophet Joel many years before, thus releasing that way into the earth for Me to perform for you who follow it.
It is simple: Repent, return, rejoice, and I restore, and it is then you get filled with the Spirit. These are the 4 R’s that bring you into My house for days of refreshment now and forever. Let your good Shepherd lead you to the abundant life He came to give you – the freedom and prosperity, health and blessing of the perpetual Jubilee.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will pursue and overtake me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:5-6.
I love you. It is time for you to take seriously the signs of the times, for this is the acceptable time, this is the day of Salvation. You do not want to miss any of your benefits. And you do not want to miss what My Spirit is speaking to the church, the Body of Christ, so you can live out the extraordinary and unique life I prepared for you in advance that you might enjoy it and receive your full reward. I have given you the grace for your unique assignment, which means it will be what you enjoy, what you were born for. Jesus lived the life He was born for. He finished the work I gave Him to do. And He wants to enable you to do the same. Will you let Him? It is hard to kick against the goad and miss the life you were born to live and enjoy beyond all you can ask or imagine. It is your time of refreshing. Repent, return, and rejoice, that is your part, and I will do Mine—restore and fill you up to overflowing with My Spirit.