The Reset Has Begun
Like many people, we have a nice upright steamer that we use to touch up our clothing (Ceci no longer likes to use the ironing board). I recall several years ago, I turned on the steamer and was waiting for it to heat up. I became distracted by something in another room and walked away for “a few seconds.” Whatever had distracted me then completely captured my attention, and I forgot about the steamer; the seconds turned into an hour or so.
When I remembered turning on the steamer, I ran to check on it, thinking I had either burnt up its motor, or perhaps even caught something on fire. Fortunately, there was no fire, but the water tank was empty, and the steamer would no longer operate. I refilled the tank, toggled the on/off switch several times, but I couldn’t get it to work. I had burned up the motor. This was a nice steamer, somewhat expensive, and I was really frustrated about ruining it. Several thoughts went through my mind: Do I take it somewhere and try to have it repaired? Do I tinker with it and try to fix it? Or do I just throw it away and buy a new one?
Then I noticed a small button on the bottom edge of the steamer, almost hidden underneath it, that I had never seen before. Could it be? I wondered. Does this steamer have an automatic shut-off and a reset button/feature? I pressed the button, and a few seconds later could hear the water heating up. In a minute or two, I had steam. Saved by the reset!! Reset features are wonderful, saving a lot of time and preserving many items from the junk pile—if we know they’re there, that is.
Currently, Congress, the Supreme Court, and especially the Trump administration are pushing the reset button on many areas of American governance. The borders were on overload, but Trump pushed the reset button. Spending was, and still is to a great degree, out of control, but Trump and Congress are pushing the reset button. The trade deficit was out of balance, but Trump pushed the reset button. Some federal judges were way out of control, but the Supreme Court has and continues to push reset buttons. Crime had gotten way out of control, but Trump and the National Guard are pushing the reset button.
Yesterday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told America’s military officers that he was pushing the reset button. Our military would exist for war, not politics and social experiments. He outlined a 10-point plan to reset the military. “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate-change worship. No more division, distractions, and gender delusions. No more debris…we are done with that (expletive),” Hegseth declared.(1) Reset!
God resets things: individuals’ lives (2 Corinthians 5:17), times and seasons (Daniel 2:21), nations (Jeremiah 1:10; Job 12:23), careers (Acts 13:2-3), and more. One of the New Testament words that has the connotation of a reset is apokatistasis, which is used in Acts 3:21.(2) Translated as “restoration” in most versions of Scripture, it basically means to “restore something to its original condition.” Some lexicons use the word “reconstitute” to define this word. Constitution refers to an entity’s construction - how it is made - and/or how it functions. Obviously, reconstitute, restore, reset, and even reformation would be synonyms of one another.
Acts 3:21 speaks of “seasons of restoration” - periods in which God is reconstituting situations on earth back to the way they’re supposed to be. The word “seasons” is a clear indication that historical resets of nations don’t happen instantly - there is no reset button for this. Nevertheless, the reconstitution occurs, restoring things to the way they are supposed to be. The margin of the Passion Translation states that here in Acts is the only time in the New Testament this form of the word is used, and that it is actually a medical term meaning “restoration of perfect health.”
God is restoring America to health and to His original purpose for her. He is reconstituting us. Unlike my steamer, it will take some time. But like my steamer, we have not been destroyed. God’s mercy, made possible through prayer and repentance, shut down the power flow of spiritual darkness that was attempting to destroy us. And He is resetting our nation. Pray for our leaders as they continue to do their part - we have a long way to go.
And also continue to pray for revival. Revivals enable the resetting of nations much more quickly, radically altering the mindset of millions of people. It is the closest thing to a cultural reset button. God has engaged it for us, and the water is heating. Feed this radical shift and reconstitution with your prayers as it unfolds and intensifies.
Pray with me:
Father, thank You for restoration, for reconstituting and resetting people and nations. It is Your grace and mercy, received by faith, that restores us. You have said You are restoring our nation. We can certainly see this beginning and, by Your grace, we will see it through to completion. We ask that You reset our government, our families, our churches, and our schools. Reconstitute us to Your ways and to the purpose for which You created our nation.
As revival continues to build momentum, we ask that it would touch all ages, races, and segments of society. We ask for powerful waves of revival to come into our inner cities, radically transforming them. Remove gangs and violence, and break the spirit of poverty from them. Raise up strong churches in these inner cities and wise leaders to spearhead revival and reformation. Deliver, heal, save, and transform. We also ask these things for the rural communities of our nation. Let no one escape the wave of revival as it sweeps across our nation.
And cause the transformation in our government to continue. Expose the corruption in the Deep State, the courts, Congress, and anywhere in the Executive branch of our government. Restore a God-honoring, God-fearing, Bible-believing government in our nation, just as it was in our nation’s beginning. All of these things we ask in Yeshua’s name. Amen.
Our decree:
We decree that the reconstitution of our nation has begun and will continue!
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James Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990), ref. no. 605.