But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger! I will get up and go to my father. Luke 15:17-18.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Seeking is all about returning. It is realizing everything you are seeking away from Me you already have in My house. Adam took you all out of My house, but the good news is there is a way back home. My Son has opened a new and living way for you as your forerunner behind the veil.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:19-20.
It is only through Jesus that you can come back home.
“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in Me. There is more than enough room in My Father’s house. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with Me where I am. John 14:1-3.
Without Jesus there was no return home because without Him becoming man and offering his eternal life in the flesh (born of the seed of My Word from above as Adam was originally), there was no one descended from Adam’s perishable seed of the lie by which he was born again from below that had an eternal life to give for the one you lost in Adam. But Jesus paid it once for all.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6.
Return, I have forgiven you.
“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.” Isaiah 44:22.
Seeking Me brings repentance for sin and repentance brings redemption and redemption brings return. And the return brings rejoicing and the rejoicing brings restoration and multiplication. And when I restore it is better than it was before. You no longer are limited to an eternal life on the earth, you have a home in My house in My Kingdom. And in My house there is unlimited, unhindered love, joy, peace, provision, and perfect protection, and it is forever.
Your lovingkindness, O LORD, extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like a great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast. How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. Psalm 36:5-9.
Now Heaven and earth will meet in one forever kiss of shalom peace in Jesus, for He has joined us as One. In Him I have joined My divinity with your humanity and your humanity with My divinity in one seamless life that can never be broken apart. For no man can separate what I have joined as One. And I have sealed you in Him by the Holy Spirit of promise.
“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” Mark 10:9
In My house, the walls are salvation (Yeshuah) and My gates are praise. Jesus shields you from the wrath to to come. In Him you are safe, like Noah in the ark. Jesus is the secret place of the Most High.
And I will make peace your administrators and righteousness your overseers. Violence will not be heard again in your land, nor devastation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise. Isaiah 60:18.
Adam never realized that the dominion, power, and knowledge that he left Me to get he already had and so much more. He wanted to be like Me but he already was. I formed you in My image and according to My likeness. You belong with Me. That is where you fit.
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. Psalm 84:10.
Where go seek elsewhere when you already have the very best?
My Son told you a parable about what Adam did and the remedy for it in the parable of the prodigal son. The son left the abundant goodness of the father’s house looking for what he already had, but not finding it, he suddenly came to the revelation that if he could just return home he would be well supplied and blest again as he had been before he left to make his way on his own. And the wonderful thing was there was a way back home.
So let us begin.
There was a man had two sons. He was a very wealthy man. The younger of the sons said to his father, “Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.” So he divided his wealth between them. Luke 15:11-12. The younger son was the one who asked for his inheritance before the father had died, usually an inheritance can only be determined when there is a death of the one with the property and the first born son gets a double portion and the younger gets one portion. But the Father here is Me and you who believe in Jesus and are in Covenant with Me are My children, and it has pleased Me to make you joint heirs with Christ and give you the Kingdom even now.
And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living. Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished. Luke 15:13-14.
No longer under the loving eyes and care of his father, with the rules and order of the father’s house, he did monitor himself but let all loose in evil and ended up getting tied up by the devil. He found out that the attraction of sin, when given in to, steals, kills, and destroys. His dreams of great wealth and an exciting life free of all constraint on his flesh were gone.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, an ungodly person who was not in Covenant with Me, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. Something I had forbidden My people to do. And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him. Luke 15:15-17.
Trapped by the devil in a life devoid of My Word and lacking friends who believe in Me that would pray for and mentor him, his life ended up in a mess. Running away from Me to sin never brought anything good in to anyone. Just enslavement to sin. The prodigal son had chosen the ways of the world, the flesh, and the devil and now he was reaping destruction.
But something wonderful happened, something the father had been praying for and waiting for. The prodigal son came to his senses at last, i.e., he repented. He changed his mind.
But when he came to his senses, he said, “How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired men.”’ So he got up and came to his father. Luke 15:17-20.
And repentance led to return. He headed home and the angels began to rejoice with Me. You need to understand the order here—repent, return, rejoice, and then I can restore and fill you with the Holy Spirit! Repentance brings the change of mind, the return brings you into the Kingdom by being born again from above by My Word that you have changed your mind to believe—Adam was born again of perishable seed by submitting to a lie over the truth. You are born again of imperishable seed by submitting to the truth over the lies you have been walking under far too long.
While the returning prodigal was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.
And here you see the complete cycle, repent, return, rejoice, and all is restored better than it was before. But please note, the father was watching for the son’s return. And the minute the boy came to his senses, the father discerned it and ran for him. You draw close to Me and I draw close to you! In fact, I run to you and embrace you and kiss you!
The prodigal was guilty over what he had done and did not seek reinstatement of fellowship with the father. He kept his eyes down on the ground and was not comfortable looking at the father with so much sin and unfaithfulness between them. But the father would have none of it. He wanted a son, not a slave. He wanted fellowship and oneness with the one who was in his image and according to his likeness.
When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. Genesis 5:3.
And what did he do for the poor, hungry, filthy, repentant and humbled boy who had returned home? He clothed him in the best robe, the robe of righteousness, and gave him the signet ring of authority and the footgear of the good news of peace and reconciliation. And then he went and had the unblemished calf slaughtered and they ate the sacrifice. You see where I am going with that. The word used here for “calf” is the same Word as I used for the sin offering from the herd that was sacrificed at the ordination of the priests in the Tabernacle of Moses for the sin offering. Jesus has released you from your sins by His blood and made you a kingdom, priests unto Me, your God and father. And at their ordination, the priests ate the sacrifice with great joy and praise.
And then what happened? Celebration! The sin is gone and the party is on! The angels are rejoicing over every REPENTANT sinner.
What do you see in this parable?
- Repent – be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Purpose to change, know the way you have been living is wrong and acknowledge it before it destroys you, but don’t stay there in shame and regret, go forward with hope knowing you are loved and forgiven.
The prodigal son sinned and then saw it was wrong, it did not take him where he wanted to go or make him into the great independent person he wanted to be, instead it shamed and enslaved him. He wanted to go back to his father’s house where it was good and not evil.
- Return—come back to the right mind. Come back to truth and be born again from above by the imperishable Word. Come back to the Eden blessing and enter the Kingdom. I offer you to join Me in Covenant through My Son. Covenant opens the way back to Me.
The prodigal son returned to the father and what did the father say had happened because the boy repented and came home?
“Let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.” Luke 15:23-24.
- Rejoice—celebrate that you are loved and forgiven, that by the blood of Jesus I have paid your ransom and released you from your sins and given you a whole new life as a new creation in Christ. That your sentence of eternal death has been taken care of by My Son and you have eternal life in Him. And the voice of thanksgiving works wonders! You will find yourself healed, whole, and blessed with every spiritual blessing in the Heavens, and joyful thanksgiving is the catalyst that makes all the things already received in your spirit manifest in the flesh. And in the rejoicing comes the miracle of the restoring.
- Restore—I make all things new. I will make up to you the years the devil stole by sin in you and others. I take you as My child again and make you a joint heir with Christ, and all I have is His. So all I have is yours.
You are with Me always, and all that I have is yours. Luke 15:31.
I will increase you more and more for when I restore it is of a better quality and richer in quantity than what you had before.
And the final result? You learn that from My prophet Joel, for he also shows you that your part is to repent, return, and rejoice so I can restore to you all that you lost or just missed in your life because you did not walk in the way I had prepared for you, there is one more step to keep you in peace, in joy, and in righteousness. I pour out My Spirit upon you and you prophesy. You become full of the Holy Spirit.
And that is when life becomes amazing.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21.
I love you. Seek Me and you will understand everything. You are always welcome in My house. Why don’t you move in permanently? I want you with Me all the time. I am rejoicing when My children come home to stay.
Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6.
One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the delightfulness of the LORD and to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4.
“Enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; lengthen your cords and strengthen your pegs. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations and will resettle the desolate cities.” Isaiah 54:2-3.