Breathe Again
Acts 3:19 – “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.”
Peter is proclaiming to the people that had gathered because of the healing of lame man who is now leaping that they need to repent. For so long the church has had a limited understanding of this word, which literally means to “change the way you think”. You cannot successfully turn away from anything, sin or old mind sets unless their has been a change of mind which has been caused by the revealing of present truth by the Holy Ghost. Peter is declaring to this host that they need to change the way they think about this Christ, about his coming. The people couldn’t except Jesus as messiah because he had been crucified and anything hung on the tree was cursed but they didn’t understand the mission of the messiah so Peter is bringing light to the darkness, revelation.
I like to say this verse like this, “Change the way you about Christ and His coming so you can return to your original purpose and create a karios or opportunity for the Lord to breathe again.” The release of the fresh breath (refreshing) is directly connected to repentance, not from sin but from a mindset that didn’t understand His coming. As we allow the Holy Spirit to change our mindsets concerning His coming, it creates in the spirit an opportune moment for God to breathe (exhale) again into the earth and the result is verse 21, which is the “restoration of all things” as described in Acts 3:21.
While many are looking to get out, God is looking to get in. There is a mindset, a paradigm shift coming in they way we have perceived the end, which will loose the people of God to receive a fresh breath and release it to the world around them bringing restoration, which has to come.
Acts 3:21 says specifically that Jesus is received into heaven “until” the restitution or restoration of all things, which comes as a result of a fresh breath that comes from a change of mind about Christ and His coming. We do the word injustice when we limit the Lord to only two comings. He came to Adam in the garden, Abraham as smoking flax, Moses as a burning bush, Joshua as the captain of the Lord’s host and many other pre-incarnate appearances. Even after His initial
Ascension (to place blood on the mercy seat) He appeared for forty days; again He appeared to Paul on the backside of the desert. The Lord has come, He is coming and He will come.
The Lord has visited every generation and I believe He is visiting us with with wisdom and revelation about His Kingdom so that we can participate with Him in the restoration of all things.
Colosians 1:27
“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:”
The Church, the Bride who is to release the glory of Christ and the wisdom of God into the world.God’s confident expectation of the glory being released in the earth is Christ in you. As Jesus takes His rightful place in our heart and restores the fellowship that was broken in the garden, we receive the same glory and commission which the first Adam had. The original commission is still the commission today.
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