Prodigals get delivered and turn back. Prodigals get saved and backslide again. They take two steps forward and one step back, or worse, two or three steps back. We don’t understand it, because we walk in a fullness with God they need. I suspect that sometimes they go back into sin because there are spaces … Continue reading Empty Spaces Filled
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Kidron Reveals Redemption
“Jesus … went out with His disciples over the Brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered” (John 18:1 NKJV). That garden was the Garden of Gethsemane. But before we go there, let’s go back and look at the other mentions of the brook in the Old Testament: “Also [King Asa] … Continue reading Kidron Reveals Redemption
“My Soul Refused to be Comforted”
There are times it seems we will see no end, that prodigals will never be saved and stop living life outside of relationship with God, times when our faith is being bombarded, but in our anguish—and anguish it can sometimes be—we can look to the Word of God for direction. Psalm 77 is one such … Continue reading “My Soul Refused to be Comforted”
God Is Available
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (Psalm 46:1 KJV). God is our very present help in difficulty, pain, turmoil, grief, lack, questions, fear, sickness, and doubt. Our difficulties matter to God, because they are happening to us, His children. He is, after all, Jehovah Shammah, The Lord Is There. … Continue reading God Is Available
Abhor and Cling
“Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” That advice from Romans 12:9 (NKJV) could and should be a prayer for prodigals: Our Father, cause our prodigals to abhor what is evil, to never be comfortable with it or in it. We pray they will instead cling to what is good. In Jesus’ name … Continue reading Abhor and Cling
Prayer for Prodigals 