Psalm 80 Devotional: Restore Us, O God | 7-Step Quiet Time for Young Adults

 God, Restore Us ❤️‍🩹

7-Step QT

1. 🙏 Quiet Time
2. 📅 June 26, 2025
3. ✝️ Psalm 80:1-19
4. 📖 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved! (v. 19; cf. 3, 7)
5. 📝 This psalm reminds us of a powerful truth: Even when we face the consequences of our failures, God remains our Restorer. He disciplines, yet welcomes us back with grace. His shining face brings healing, hope, and renewed presence.
6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?
7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.

Take a deep breath.

Invite God into this moment—not just to fix what’s broken, but to restore your heart to Him.

2. 📅 June 26, 2025

Today is a new chance to return to the One who restores.

3. ✝️ Psalm 80:1–19

This psalm is a heartfelt cry from a people who feel abandoned and broken.

They’ve experienced God’s discipline—but they haven’t lost hope.

Again and again, they pray:

“Restore us, O God… let your face shine, that we may be saved.” (vv. 3, 7, 19)

4. 📖 Key Verse

“Restore us, O LORD God of hosts!
Let your face shine, that we may be saved!” (v. 19)

5. 📝 Reflection

This psalm reminds us of a powerful truth:

Even when we’ve messed up—even when we’re facing the consequences of our own choices—God is still the One who can restore us.

• He is both Judge and Healer.
• He disciplines, but He also welcomes us back.
• His face shining on us means His presence, His favor, His grace.

💡 Think about this:

• Are there areas in your life that feel broken or distant from God?
• Do you believe He still wants to restore you?
• What would it look like to turn back to Him today—not in shame, but in hope?

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

• Where do you need God’s restoration?
• How can you invite His presence into your pain or regret?
• What would it look like to pray, “God, let Your face shine on me again”?

7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

Let’s pray for hearts that return to God—not just when life is good, but especially when it’s not.

He is the God who restores.

Scriptures

📖 1  Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth. 2  Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us!

3 Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers? 5  You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure. 6  You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. 9  You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. 10 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. 11 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River. 12 Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? 13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.

14 Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, 15  the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself. 16 They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face! 17 But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! 18 Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name!

19 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved! (Ps 80:1-19, ESV).

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