"My body's best days are behind me; decline is just what happens at my age."
How it sounds in your head: Every doctor's appointment confirms it—you're slowing down, things are wearing out. Your friends are all dealing with the same issues. This is just what sixty-something looks like. Accept it.
"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust."
-- Joel 2:25Enemy strategy to steal abundant life by attaching expiration dates to God's promises.
Every mirror, every physical limitation, every friend's health crisis seems to confirm the narrative. The medical system has programmed her to expect decline as inevitable at this stage.
At 85 years old, Caleb declared he was as strong as he was at 40—ready for mountain warfare, not retirement. God gave him the mountain he requested and he drove out giants while his peers were dying off.
I REFUSE the lie that my body has an expiration date on God's promises. IT IS WRITTEN that He restores the years the locusts have eaten—and I receive that restoration NOW in my physical body. I am not declining; I am the righteousness of God in Christ, and the BARAK blessing of Abraham protects and renews me. IT IS WRITTEN that He satisfies my mouth with good things so my youth is renewed like the eagle's. My best days are not behind me—they are NOW, because I am hidden in Christ and His mercies are NEW this morning. I am the head and not the tail, above and not beneath, and that includes my physical vitality.
The Father isn't watching you slow down with a clipboard tracking decline—He's running toward you with RESTORATION for every year, every cell, every system. While religion says 'accept your limitations,' He says 'I'm renewing you like the eagle.'