{"id":1973,"date":"2025-01-22T00:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2025-01-21T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T04:19:39","slug":"planting-spiritual-seeds-day-22-refresh-renew-restore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/planting-spiritual-seeds-day-22-refresh-renew-restore\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 22-Refresh-Renew-Restore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 22-Refresh-Renew-Restore<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. <\/em>\u00a0Acts 3:20-21 ESV<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Seeds are:\u00a0 Refresh-Renew-Restore<\/p>\n<p>Someday Jesus will return and restore all things as God originally meant them to be, but until that time, that God only knows, we should be going about doing the Lord\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>Today we have three different kinds of seeds to plant, although they are quite similar.\u00a0 We will be refreshing seeds that were planted but need watering.\u00a0 Renewing seeds that may have become dormant and Restoring seeds that might have been damaged in some way.<\/p>\n<p>All of these seeds need care.\u00a0 They need a caregiver to come along and water them, break up their fallow ground and repair them.\u00a0 That is our job today.\u00a0 We need to be on the lookout for any people that cross our path today that might need our care in this way.<\/p>\n<p>So get ready! Be prepared to be a caregiver today and do what is needed to refresh, renew and restore people spiritually, and then pray God\u2019s hand will revive them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>God, you gave us plenty of rain. You <strong>renewed <\/strong>your worn-out land.<\/em> Psalm 68:9 NIRV<\/li>\n<li><em>You gave abundant showers, O God; you <strong>refreshed <\/strong>your weary inheritance.<\/em><br \/>\nPsalm 68:9 NIV<\/li>\n<li><em>You caused abundant rain to fall and<strong> restored <\/strong>your worn-out land;<\/em> Psalm 68:9 GNT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SGLY Ministry @2025<br \/>\nwww.smilegodlovesyou.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 22-Refresh-Renew-Restore \u2026that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. \u00a0Acts 3:20-21 ESV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[3006,3,2912,198,2944,2907,2063,2055,1868,338,2616,30,32],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planting-spiritual-seeds","tag-acts-320-21","tag-daily-devotionals","tag-january-2025","tag-jesus-christ","tag-plant-spiritual-seeds","tag-planting-spiritual-seeds","tag-psalm-689","tag-refresh","tag-renew","tag-restore","tag-revive","tag-sgly-ministry","tag-smile-god-loves-you"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Refres-Renew-Restore-Acts-3_20-21.png?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1995,"url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/planting-spiritual-seeds-day-29-water\/","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":0},"title":"Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 29&#8211;Water","author":"SGLY Devotionals","date":"January 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 29--Water Today\u2019s Seed is: Water Today we will not be planting seeds we will be watering seeds that have been previously planted, either by us or by someone else. 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