God Is Giving You Your Life Back
Feeling broken or forgotten? God is restoring what was lost and giving you your life back. Read this powerful word of encouragement from Dianna Hobbs today.
Scripture Focus:
“Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. ‘I am willing,’ he said. ‘Be clean!’ Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.” (Matthew 8:3 NIV)
I woke up with a fire stirring in my spirit, unable to shake this burning word from God’s heart for you: “I’m giving you your life back.”
Right now, the voice of the Lord is cutting through your circumstances, the loss, the disappointment, the silent griefs you carry. If you feel your best years are lost to regret or hardship, and you wonder if real restoration is even possible, this word is for you.
Friend, the wind of change is blowing in your direction!
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve lived in the shadow of what broke, who left, or what’s been reduced to ashes. God is reaching for you, declaring, “I am not finished. I’m not just willing. I’m not just able. I am moving toward you with healing in My hands.”
As God placed this word in my spirit, He brought me to the story of a man society had given up on. A man crushed by leprosy, cut off from the world, written off by everyone except Jesus.
You'll find his story in Matthew 8:1–4, Mark 1:40–45, and Luke 5:12–16.
Picture the scene: It’s early in Jesus’ ministry. After teaching the crowds on the mountainside, He heads into town, surrounded by people eager for a glimpse of a miracle. Suddenly, a man with leprosy pushes through—somebody nobody expects to see and everyone else avoids. Back then, lepers had to live outside the city, forbidden from touching or being touched.
They were outcasts, declared unclean, cut off from family, community, and worship. By law (see Leviticus 13:45–46), he had to keep his distance and publicly announce his own uncleanness.
But desperation can give birth to a faith bold enough to defy what’s always been done. Amen? That’s what happens here. The leprous man falls at Jesus’ feet, giving voice to the cry that his suffering almost smothered: “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
In that moment, the line between what shouldn’t happen and what God can do vanishes. Jesus doesn’t hesitate or step back. With deep compassion, He reaches into the man’s brokenness and touches him. It’s a touch overflowing with more love than the man had ever known.
“I am willing,” Jesus says. “Be clean.”
That word “willing” comes from the Greek thelō, which means more than a casual agreement. It’s to desire, to delight in, to purposefully choose. Jesus wasn’t reluctantly responding to a desperate man. He was revealing His heart: “It is my will, my desire, and my joy to make you whole.”
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Friend, God doesn’t heal, restore, or redeem out of obligation but out of genuine delight and love.
When Jesus declared His willingness and touched the man, instantly the disease dissolved. His skin was made whole. But more than his body was healed; his dignity returned and hope rekindled.
Jesus then sent him to the priest.
Now, under Jewish law, only a priest could officially pronounce someone “clean” and restore them to community life (see Leviticus 14:2–32).
What I find so fascinating is that priests in those days could identify leprosy and confirm if someone was healed, but they had no power to actually cure it. Only God could do that.
But aren’t you glad our High Priest, Jesus Christ, isn’t limited like that? He doesn’t just diagnose or observe; He cures and declares you clean, all in one! Nobody else can do that but God.
Not in Bible days. Not today. Not ever.
So, what does that mean for you? Well, if you’re looking at an “only God” situation, I’ve got good news for you: He’s about to do the impossible for you too.
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By sending the man to the priest, Jesus was opening every door that had been slammed shut, restoring his place in society, his relationships, and his future.
This was a full-circle miracle, reclaiming what life, circumstance, and people had tried to take away.
That’s what Jesus still does. He gives people their lives back.
Maybe you haven’t battled leprosy, but you know what it’s like to be isolated, cut off by grief, shame, illness, rejection, or loss. Maybe you’ve watched something precious slip away and wondered if you’ll ever feel whole again. But hear this: God is not limited by what seems incurable, irreversible, or impossible.
Jesus said in Luke 4:18 (NLT), “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.”
This is the announcement He’s making even now: The time of the Lord’s favor has come! And you ought to get excited, because the Jesus you serve is the One whose compassion and power never run out. He returns what was taken, resurrects what was dead, and calls forgotten souls out of exile.
I know your circumstances may look bleak, and Satan is whispering, “It’s all over.” Oh, but the enemy is a liar. I know this for myself!
God sent me to declare that every “no” and every “never” in your life is overruled by His “Yes.”
Yes, He will make you whole. Yes, He will restore what you lost. Yes, the same hand that reached for the outcast in Scripture is reaching for you. Yes, He is applying His limitless power to your limiting situation. Yes, it pleases Him to give you a breakthrough!
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You have not missed your moment. You are not too far gone for restoration. By the authority of God’s Word, I declare: God is giving you your life back, completely, abundantly, and with nothing missing.
The same Jesus who restored the leper is reaching for you. What you thought was beyond repair is being renewed.
What was taken is being returned. Your season of separation is ending. God is giving you your life back.
And just as David prayed in 2 Samuel 7:29, God told me to tell you to make this your prayer: “Now therefore may it please You to bless the house of Your servant…”
As you receive this word today, let this be your cry: “Lord, if it pleases You, bless my house. Restore what’s broken. Heal what’s hurting. Make me whole again.”
And let me assure you: It does please Him. He is willing. And He is working right now.
Now let’s pray.
Lord, thank You that nothing is too hard for You. When circumstances make me feel cut off, hopeless, or beyond repair, remind me that You still touch, heal, and restore.
Like David, I ask that it may please You to bless the house of Your servant. And by faith, I declare that You are giving me my life back, piece by piece, day by day.
Through Your power and grace, You are doing what no other power can do. And I praise You for it in advance!
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
