System Restore

re·store /rɪˈstɔr, -ˈstoʊr/ [ri-stawr, -stohr]
–verb (used with object), -stored, -stor·ing.

• to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
• to bring back to a former, original, or normal condition, as a building, statue, or painting. 
• to bring back to a state of health, soundness, or vigor.
• to put back to a former place, or to a former position, rank, etc.: to restore the king to his throne.
• to give back; make return or restitution of (anything taken away or lost).
• to reproduce or reconstruct (an ancient building, extinct animal, etc.) in the original state.

Genesis 40:13, 20-22

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.

Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials: He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand, but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.

Genesis 40 has the first time that restoring is used in the Bible. It isn't used necessarily in a way that God restores to his kingdom, but the concept is introduced.

Current Questions That I Have Been Pondering (unrelated):

• I have been praying recently (actually, 11 years) for a righteous change, so can God change me?
• If God can change me, why hasn't he? Does God care?
• Is the so-called creator of this universe not powerful enough to change me or does God not want to change me?
• Is a habit more powerful than God's power?

Genesis 41:13

"And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged."

Exodus 4:6-7
Then the LORD said, "Put your hand inside your cloak." So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was leprous, like snow. "Now put it back into your cloak," he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
 
Deuteronomy 30:1-10

When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

To get restoration, I have to obey first. So, that creates a whole new situation. The situation, the question that is mentioned above, is God bigger than a habit? Or, is the habit bigger?