Welcome Home: Returning to the Father's Embrace

So verse 17, it says, when he came to himself, the scripture says, he remembered who he was. He remembered who he was. Let's remember who we are. Let's remember who we are as a prince of heavenly kingdom and princess and queen of heavenly kingdom. That is our true identity, not what others are seeing us, not what we are doing, but our relationship, our inheritance, our bloodline with God, which he is became available because of the Christ he shed the blood for us. Right? [00:50:51] (48 seconds)  #RememberWhoYouAre

So each time we turn toward our father, we are not just forgiven, but we are welcome home, and he is pouring us with the wordiness and reminding us with the our identity as his son and his daughter. K? So let's come home, not just physically, but spiritually each day because they're where our father's weight. Okay? And embracing to change everything with us. Okay? Forgiveness and is starting from our surrender to our father's love. K? And remember what to be forgiven, and let's work on that this week. What to be forgiven and having a different relationship with the god this week. Okay? Let's close in prayer. [00:57:17] (59 seconds)  #ComeHomeToFather

God's love is like this father's that he's still waiting, engaging each and every day. He's still looking at us. If we are in situation in the younger sons in our heart, he's waiting on us. He's gazing us. He's asking, come back. Come back home. Come back, my daughter. I love you. I'm waiting for you. That's what I'm sensing it anytime I'm passing by father's house church, so I have to stop by to say hello to father. [00:42:00] (42 seconds)  #AbbaIsWaiting

God's love is like that. He never gave up on us. How far we think we are? How far we did something wrong? How far we have shame covered in our heart or our soul? So this morning, as we read the parable of our lost son, it remind that everything's begin with repentance of son. Repentance means not we are trying to giving back to god or giving to father or he gave our inheritance. It's more like a turning around and realizing where he was and turning around and going back to father. That is the starting of the repentance. [00:35:51] (50 seconds)  #RepentAndReturn

All these things actually starting the change of everything is starting when the sun was hit bottom. Right? When we hit the edge of the cliff. Unfortunately, that's the time when the change is happening, when the repentance begins, when not the guilt, but the realization of who we are and asking to to help to God. Right? When when we at the edge, who's gonna say? Not my father, not my mother, or my sister, or my coworker, what I have done. We hold on to God. Right? [00:50:03] (49 seconds)  #RockBottomRepentance

In this story of this, it's not too late to be forgiven, reminding us that how far we are gone, he's always waiting for us to coming back and pulling us in. And then forgiveness is starting from the repentance, which means surrender to Abba's father's arms and his love. Okay? And and as all those biblical woman that Juliet Shearer, we need to remember coming home means that standing in his presence and going through the perseverance. K? So at the end of the story, the table is set. The celebrations of the father says, this is a son of mine dead, and he's alive again. [00:56:23] (52 seconds)  #SurrenderToAbba

Yet this son who had everything under the roof of the father, Now he doesn't have anything, and now even feeding this unclean animal. And it's even worse that he thinks that he wanted to even have this food that the pig was eating. He he doesn't have anything, which means he didn't have a friend. No one's care for him. He actually hit the bottom rock. Something that it's reminded me when I read this scripture is that something comes easily sometimes to go out very easily because we do not know the value of those. Right? [00:47:43] (44 seconds)  #RealizeTrueValue

So here, the son was leaving, not just means a physical distance, but the emotional distance. So let's think about it. How many of us have something distance from it? You know, not just a family, but from colleague. Right? There's a something disconnection, dissatisfying, and our desire is just like escape Put a distance between. But oftentimes, that is when enemies are coming in. Right? Enemies are coming in and starting to color and leading us away from little more and little more difficult, dipping us away. [00:44:03] (48 seconds)  #EmotionalDistanceDanger