"I wasted my childhood and those years are gone forever"
How it sounds in your head: You spent all that time on video games and stupid stuff. Other kids were getting good at sports or learning instruments. You can't get those years back. You're already behind everyone else.
"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you."
-- Joel 2:25Enemy condemnation using worldly comparison metrics to steal identity before it forms
He sees friends excelling at things they started years ago and feels like he missed critical development windows. The world constantly tells him peak performance requires early specialization.
Timothy was young and people despised his youth, yet Paul told him to let NO ONE look down on him for being young. God made him a LEADER of churches while still in his teens/early twenties, skipping decades of 'normal' development.
I REFUSE the lie that my childhood years are wasted. IT IS WRITTEN that God RESTORES the years the locusts have eaten. Every moment I think was lost, my Father is MULTIPLYING back to me with supernatural acceleration. I am Abraham's seed, and the BARAK blessing breaks every timeline the world says I should follow. IT IS WRITTEN that with God one day is as a thousand years—He collapses decades into moments. I receive INSTANT RESTORATION of everything the enemy claims I missed. My best days are NOW and AHEAD, not behind.
Your Father isn't counting wasted years—He's been PREPARING your accelerated path while you were still playing. He's about to give you in months what took others decades, because you're covenant and the blessing doesn't follow worldly timelines.