A Safe Return

‎Hi fam!

‎It's an honour to have you here. Today we would be walking towards a new mindset. However we need to be nourished for the journey. I want us to thank the Lord who sees our needs and orders our steps.

‎Let's pray:

‎Father we thank you and love you, we thank you for your kindness and patience, we thank you for clarity and we receive the meal you have set before us, let it heal, sustain, nourish and give us strength for the journey, Amen.

‎Our meal today has different ingredients which are sourced from two places I want us to connect the dots from.

‎John 12:24(NLT)

‎24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But it's death will produce many new kernels- a plentiful harvest of new lives.

‎I have been undergoing a mindset renewal, for me this scripture points to a type of death I have to undergo in my personality and the things which would die are "Isolation, hiding, running, fear, lack of trust, old pain and wounds, bad or negative dreams and vision.

‎But it's death produces new people, community, dependence, extra help, influence and a harvest of new lives. For you death might have a different dress or look.

‎Now our second place;

‎Luke 15:22-24(NLT)

‎22 But his father said to the servants, 'Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet.

‎23 And kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast,

‎24 for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.' So the party began.

‎Luke 15:27(NLT)

‎27 'Your brother is back,' he was told,' and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return.'

‎First of all let's pay attention to the word lost, some of us may look at it from the perspective of going astray or missing but there is more to the word.

‎Lost and Lose as a verb; what it means:

‎• To evade or shake off (a pursuer, to escape from)

‎•To decrease in, to undergo a reduction of.

‎•To be deprived of.

‎This verse is the parable of the lost son a story Jesus told about a young man who wanted his inheritance too soon, split from his father and squandered his living.

‎He returns back to his senses and goes back home, but all this while his father had been preparing for his return and filled with love watching the road and waiting to catch a glimpse of his son, not knowing when his son would return but knowing he would, he rushes and embraces him and celebrates.

‎I believe before you and I came to this earth, God had a way He had created us and with a mindset of Kings and Queens. Daughters and Sons of God.

‎But in the course of life we have taken on different forms which is not a true reflection of who He is.

‎Today through the power of the Holy Spirit we are going to shake off that old form or personality and ways of doing things.

‎We are going to decrease the weights that hold us down and step over the behaviours cultivated in our childhood and youth that deprives us from walking in the fullness of who God has created us to be this season.

‎Father says, you would survive this process, you would have a safe return to who He has called you to be and he has a special celebration for you.

‎Let's pray:

‎Dear Lord, we come to you just as we are, cleanse us, renew us, bring us back to life, we repent of our sins and we ask you to come into our hearts and fill it to the brim, be our Lord and Saviour, we believe you died on the cross to reconcile us back to our Heavenly Father, we receive your love and a new life, Amen.

‎Arise! Become New!

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