2026: Your Year of Restoration
Have you ever felt like you're just learning to live with something broken? Maybe it's a relationship that seems impossible to fix, a health issue that won't resolve, or a financial situation that keeps you up at night. Year after year, you've hoped for change, but nothing shifts. You've adapted. You've accepted it. You've told yourself, "This is just how it is."
Pastor Gary Snowzell delivers a powerful message that challenges this resignation: What are you learning to live with that God wants to restore?
The God Who Specializes in Impossible
In Mark 3, Jesus encounters a man with a withered hand in the synagogue. The religious leaders are watching, waiting to accuse Jesus if He dares to heal on the Sabbath. Jesus doesn't hide. Instead, He tells the man, "Stand up in front of everyone." Then He does the unthinkable—He completely restores what was broken, right in front of those who said it couldn't happen.
This is the heart of the gospel. God doesn't shy away from your brokenness. In fact, He's drawn to it. While the world writes you off, labels you "too far gone," or puts up signs that say "no entry," God sees opportunity. He specializes in closed tombs, impossible situations, and people who've given up hope.
Recognition Precedes Restoration
Here's the truth we often miss: we all have blind spots. We can see some areas that need work, but often we can't see what needs to change most. Just like you wouldn't notice spinach in your teeth until you look in a mirror, we need God's perspective to reveal the deep issues—the attitudes, the unforgiveness, the patterns we've inherited and never questioned.
Restoration isn't just about putting a new roof on a crumbling building. It's about excavating the foundation, going deep, and rebuilding from the ground up. It requires recognition, humility, and a willingness to say, "God, show me what I can't see."
Unfair Favor
Perhaps the most liberating truth in this message is this: grace is unfair. You can't earn restoration. You don't deserve it more than someone else. God's favor doesn't make sense by human standards. He offers complete forgiveness to the adulterer, freedom to the addict, healing to the person who "should have known better."
If that bothers you, consider this: every one of us has failed someone. Every one of us needs that same unfair grace. The moment we start deciding who deserves God's restoration and who doesn't, we disqualify ourselves.
2026: The Year of Favor
Pastor Gary declares something he's never proclaimed in 38 years of ministry: 2026 is a year of special favor for restoration. Not just incremental change, but breakthrough. Relationships that have been broken for years will be restored. Health issues that seemed permanent will shift. Financial blockages will break.
This isn't about waiting another 50 years for jubilee. Jesus declared that the favorable year of the Lord is now.
Your story doesn't end with brokenness. The God of restoration is writing new chapters—in your relationships, your health, your finances, and your freedom. What you've been waiting for might just happen this year.
The question is: will you stand up and stretch out your hand?