It is almost time again for our Spring 90 Day Prayer Journey for our beloved prodigals.    As in the past, we will begin on Wednesday, April 1. Our theme this year is 'Welcome Home.'

We pray and fast for our prodigals to return, but have we thought about the personal responsibility and commitment of loving them home and then loving them to complete restoration?    Loving prodigals requires a cost; a complete trust in Our Heavenly Father and submitting fully to the process within us and them.  

As the rooster crowed the second time on that early morning in Jerusalem, the Apostle Peter realized what he had done.    He had failed Jesus.    We can only imagine how he must have felt.    Jesus knew.    He didn't send a word of reprimand, or "Remember what I said you would do," or "I told you so." He didn't put him through steps of earning back his place with the eleven.   

 

Peter didn't need to be told how wrong he was.    He already knew just as our beloved prodigals know.    Jesus simply had the young man dressed in white by the tomb that day to include Peter by name, when he announced the instructions to the women where they could go to find Jesus.    That was His 'Welcome Home' sign.    He could return and he would be safe.    Just come home.   Your welcome is waiting.    He even trusted him with the message of The Gospel on The Day of Pentecost. 

 

Having the heart of Jesus with our prodigals takes time in His presence and The Word.    It takes much intentional preparation and commitment.    It takes spiritual warfare and rest; rest in our minds and bodies.    It takes persistent childlike faith and trust.  

We love them when they do not deserve to be loved just as Jesus loved us and sacrificed His all for us when we were yet in sin and unlovable.    The heart of Jesus says you may not feel you deserve to be loved but, "I want you home.    You are welcome.    I am here until you are healed and whole.    I won't preach to you.    I won't quote or send scriptures in text.    I won't re-preach sermons.    I won't look for opportune times to manipulate your thoughts.    I won't judge or condemn you when you fall.    I won't try to change you.    I'll trust Jesus to do that.    I'm just going to love you.    His Spirit within you will lead and guide you.    We can trust that process.    You and He will do this together.    With healthy boundaries understood by both of us, I commit to love you until..."

 

As we approach the eleventh 90 Days of Prayers For Our Prodigals Prayer Journey, let us think and pray about The Father in Luke 15.    His heart had been in preparation while waiting for his wayward son.    We don't know how long the son was gone.    We just know that 'gone' can mean anything.   Praying and preparing in trust, takes intentional focus; not on just the son but also on The Father.  When the son returned, the Father's heart received (Greek: dechomai...warmly receptive, welcoming) him.  He had no fear of the days ahead or the restoration process.  His heart was perfectly aligned and prepared.  

Lord, prepare our hearts as we pray for Your covenant children's return to You.  There has been no greater or more important time on God's timeline up to this time for bringing home Your Covenant Sons and Daughters!   Let us be mindful of the work You desire first in us.  Help us to align our 'Welcome Home' with Yours.  In Jesus Name, amen.  

With a deep longing for the harvest,

Don and Dy Anne Long

POA HOPE Prayer...for prodigals and those who love them. 

Pentecostals of Alexandria

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Notes: 

*  We will pray the book Prayers For Prodigals, 90 Days of Prayers For Your Child, by Dr. James Banks in unity. These prayers will be prayed for ALL prodigals.  

* United 90 Day Prayer Journey begins 4.1.20.     We will conclude 6.30.20.  

* United Fast Days are Day 1, 4.1.20.    Day 45, and Day 90.   

Spring POA HOPE PRAYER Team is READY!

 

We will again pray together the book, PRAYERS FOR PRODIGALS ...90 Days of Prayers For ALL prodigals, by Dr. James Banks :   April 1- June 30.God's Word will be fulfilled. What He's done before, He will do it again. Our theme is WELCOME HOME. "And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border." Jeremiah 31:17 (KJV)  

Get your 'welcome' ready. Freshen the best robe. Fatten the calf, shine the ring and shoes!    Set the table in great anticipation. Speak of the glorious things God had done and is already doing. Look out the door, down the road with an expectant heart! Align your spirit and will with The Father to give a  Luke 15 'Welcome Home' to your beloved prodigal.