Are You Ready For Restitution or Restoration?

I'll take either. I'm crying out like the widow to the judge, "Get justice for me from my adversary." I started reading a book about 5 yrs ago and recently picked it up again. Bob Sorge's Unrelenting Prayer. The dog-eared page I opened reads like this:

Restoration constitutes a return to the original condition. Your enemy has come against you to steal, to kill, and to destroy. He has taken from you what is rightfully yours as a child of the King. When you cry for justice, justice demands restoration of what is stolen. To satisfy justice, the judge says to your adversary, "You must return what you took. Totally and completely." Justice will be satisfied with nothing less than full restoration.

However, if the enemy has stolen from you, and then God has borne loooooooong with you, another element plays into the equation. Not only have you been without that thing, but now you've been without it for a looooong time. Now you qualify not only for restoration but also for restitution. Restitution involves punitive damages for losses sustained over time. In other words, if you've been ripped off by your adversary for many years, justice demands that you be compensated for more than the original loss; justice will not be satisfied until you are also compensated for the personal distress, inconvenience, and loss suffered due to the duration of the deprivation.

It happened with Joseph after his brothers threw him in a well and he was robbed of his freedom. He not only got his freedom restored but he got back much more and a high government seat. Job was robbed of his health, finances, and family. He got all that back, double the kids and finances. Elizabeth was robbed of the joy of having a baby, and she ends up giving birth to John the Baptist.

The devil wants you to believe that justice delayed means justice denied (so that you will lose heart and give up asking). But in fact, justice delayed means recompense compounded.

Proverbs 6:30-31-People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is starving. Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold; he may have to give up all the substance of his house.

So that's the cry of my heart these days, "Get justice for me from my adversaries!" What's yours?