Luke 15:11-32 The Parable of the Prodigal Son, Jesus spoke this story to his disciples about a father who has two sons, a younger and an older. The younger son asked his father for his inheritance( I call his free will), and the father grants his son’s request, without a complaint or a waring of impending doom. The father didn’t whipped his son with threaths like some people do to win souls fo Christ. The father let the son go in faith. The younger son took his inheritance and squandered it( like what many of us do with the free will we are given and uses it for our own bad and selfih ambitions), eventually becoming destitute. In Luke 15:17 Finally he came to himself… It wasn’t written that the son not only came to himself alone, but by the father’s faith, the thing that cannot be seen, that connection in his spirit, the image of his father he was created in burst through within his soul as a reminder to who he is and where he came from. Knowing now that his actions and behavior was wrong and it profit him nothing; he now has to return to his father in humility excepting the fact his father never fought him, but allowed him to go when he had everything he need already, excepting his curiosity of the world without his father discipline and guidance. Before he could reach his father in Luke 15:20 “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him, he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” The younger son confessed to the Father that he has sinned against him and his father didn’t dignify it with an answer, but his called for the servant to bring his son the best rob(a covering for the shame he felf) a ring on his finger (covenant between them) and a sandals for his feet(protection for whatever path he walks). The father gifted and blessed his son, not just because he returned home, but he knew why he had returned home “for if it hadn’t been for the Lord” that’s why the father had the celebration it was a thanks giving for his son being alive and of sound mind.

The older son who was out in the field( about his father business working) returned home to no celebration for him. After all he wasn’t being selfish when he got his inheritance and left his father. He stayed and continued to work for and with his father. He refused to enter the feast for his brother(Luke 15:25-30). But, understand who would ever think by doing what is believed to be right and noble, seems to be a bad thing when those who do wrong seems to get so much attention and blessings. It’s like the Jesus with the sinners and not the Pharisee, the Jews and the Gentile, working all day to get paid as someone who worked for an hour or to find out all that you thought you were doing as a Christian according to what you interpret about the Bible is wrong to you even prosecuting and condemning people. It would be like the older brother make you angry to go into a celebration for them also.

The father explanation for his action towards the younger brother is he was, dead but now alive again Luke 15:32 he was only celebrating his son finding his way, by realizing that what he believe that would bring him happiness was only short lived and instead devastation. The fact that he pleaded with his older son to come into the celebration and all that he has is his also, because he is always with him Luke 15:31. This show the Father was showing no favoritism that his concerns was about both his son’s and they are very important to him despite their differences in the choices they made for their lives.

The Prodigal son, this parable explains to us that as human beings not two of us are the same even though we are siblings and family. The love of God for us is, like that of being a parent. A parent loves and care for their children despite their inadequacy. No matter what they do as long as they understand that home has a revolving door when the world has gotten to hard. But one thing return home with humility, gratitude and respect. The son didn’t return home with the same attitude he left with. Life had thought him there’s no place like home, the safe place where you’re guided, protected, taught and cared for.

Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into him and he became a living being. The breath (spirit) is for eternity, but the form (flesh) temporary. In the beginning God poured his spirit into man and like a tear drop, it trickled down through out our soul. We can’t even begin to imagine from that drop, the power we were given, created in his image. This is how God is inside each and everyone of us and why we can be considered a God ourselves, Psalm 82:6, John 10:34.

We know now that the power of God works in us and through us, that’s how we intercede for others as well as to help ourselves. The power is ignited by connection, having a relationships with God. This connection has only been broken when Adam and Eve was tempted by the devil to eat the forbidden fruit in Genesis 3 and mankind has been struggling to regain it. We must understand through the life death and resurrection of Jesus this connection, this relationship is our choice through faith.

We were formed of the dust in the beginning and through Jesus we were reborn through water, fire and the Holy ghost. What power we possess with this triple blessing. We are taken from the dust to water, fire and the Holy ghost we are just climbing up the mountain and this is something for us to realize when drawing nearer to the unseen, but yet reachable.

Whenever you encounter someone that can make a difference in your life by helping you out with any situations without them even knowing you, that is God showing up as we can only imagine a loving, caring, merciful and loving being, that’s why we call him, father.

As Father’s day is drawing near in four days this year 2018 I heard a voice say, “write about fathers.” I thought to myself, “what, I am a mother, I can speak from a woman’s point of view as a mother, but a father? This definitely has to come from God himself.” So hear goes something in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Famous fathers of the Bible are Adam, Noah, Job, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Zacharias, and Joseph. None can be compared to Joseph, why? Joseph is the earthly father of Jesus the immaculate conception(Luke 1:35). It is very important for all fathers to see themselves in the same position as Joseph when it concerns their children. Your children are not yours, they belong to God. You fathers are here to be in His stead, like Joseph was to Jesus. Understand you have it better than Joseph ever did because of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, you have the Holy ghost, the comforter, to help you. Adam was formed of dust from the ground(Genesis 2:7) whereby Jesus man and divinity and part man.

So father’s who are you? You are created in His image, but Jesus said something that all who follows him must have this understanding where God is concern. John 14:9-10 “Anyone who has seen me has seen the father. The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.” Wow! A lot of people miss this very important revelation and teaching. Father’s you are daddy’s when on earth and Father’s when you’re consecrated and connected to God in oneness. To see you should be like Jesus said, is to see God the father. Dad’s you’re supposed to be representing the most high.

Matthew 23:9 Do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 1 Corinthians 11:3 Realize that the head of every man is Christ. This is to teach you humility you are not a God, but the son. Remember God is always in control so to be a good father is to allow God to direct you path. Being able to acknowledge that sometimes it’s not about you, but you serve a purpose, even if it was for a minute, like an extra in a movie, not being the main character, but to be humble and greatfull for the role you’ve been given no matter how minuscule. In one of the greatest story of the Bible, Joseph being called for such a purpose and being a man, wasn’t popular at all as though being the earthly father of Jesus was not so important.

Joseph was amazing father and man of God Matthew 1:18-25. Much wasn’t mention of him in the bible other than he was a carpenter and he may have had other children, even be a widower. In Matthew 13:55 it was said about Jesus, ” is that not the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers, James, Joseph, simon and Judas?” But one thing about Joseph, he fulfilled his role as a father to Jesus and a husband to Mary in every way, lead by the angel of God from the time he dreamt not to put away Mary quietly when he found out she was pregnant and they had not consummated there relationship. Matthew 1:24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him.

Are you fathers doing what you are commanded to do for God? A father can only be a good father when it’s not about himself, and he is present. His role is a big one, equally shared. A father could never be a father without a mother and same goes for being a mother, the roles is shared which brings balance to the entire unification as to what is called family. And let us not forget God!

God has put me here in this world as an individual. Even though I am created in his image and inherited my parents genealogy I am fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14).

As a child going to elementary I used to imagine, just by watching my classmates, what their lives must be like at home. I’d think maybe exactly like mine. It would only be confirmed to me the reality when I’d go for birthday parties or school projects; definitely their lives were nothing like my mine. I had brothers and sisters and some were only childs, I lived in an apartment and they lived in mansions and I was poor and some of them rich. It seemed to me that their lives were much more better than my own, considering I thought their lives were just like mine.

It was then the reality of myself living in a world created especially for me, hit me like a head on collision. My life was completely dysfunctional, when I believed it to be normal. My father left my mother, my mother left myself and siblings after my father left her when I was a baby; i don’t know her at all. He moved to Canada with another woman leaving his wife, my mother, pregnant and alone and when he got to Canada, he got that woman pregnant also who left him when she heard he had to come get his kids who was abandoned by his wife. My father loved women, lots of them all at the same time and he also like beating them (domestc violence). My siblings and I were passed around from our grandma to aunties until my father found a woman bold, patient, loving, caring and understanding to put up with him, his many children form different women and her one child and his verbal and physical abuse. This is just a summary of my world when I’d began to see and understand it as a small child and I believed it to be normal.

I could only imagine some of the untold stories about my parents lives leading up to my conception. I do believed that God had a plan in all the madness of those two worlds coming together. I also realized even though my siblings and I lived in the same so called world because we came from the same parents, both coming together as one seed planted, bloomed into a tree, we’ve all became individual branches with leaves. And this is how my world began individually. I have stories of my own when I woke up out of my childish imagination into adulthood reality.

My world began with being a branch, leaf, then a bud turn into a seed of my own.

Genesis 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” Anyone who’s dealing with sibling rivalry or any kind of family dysfunction should ask themself this question. One day I heard the voice of God talking to me as I was struggling with the cruelty I believed I’ve experienced throughout my life from my love ones. Strangers may have treated me the same way, but it wouldn’t have affected me as much as my family and dear friends. “Just unacceptable, I thought.” The pain and despair I felt was turning me into someone I didn’t know.” For what they had done to me for my love, compassion, mercy and understanding, how could God let them get away with it, I thought?” I wasn’t deserving of the treatment they gave, which partially crippled and buried me with fear, doubt, and hopelessness even depression and mental illness. Like Cain, they would have been better off to have killed me, for their motives toward me was exactly the same as he did towards his brother Abel. In some ways, as I thought about who I use to be compared to who I am today, the real me has truly died. Family should be the foundation in which we stand to go out and face the real world. If you can survive the dysfunctions of family, you can face the world with vigilance, resilient and tenacity.

To be treated unfair and unkind for no apparent reason does something to the mental state of a person. I could see all my flaws, and accept criticism, because it will help me to be and do better. I am also not too prideful to take into consideration advice either. I believe sincerely in treating others exactly what is taught in the Bible when Jesus says, “do unto others, what you’d like done unto you” Luke 6:31. Because of all this, I now suffer with trust issues; always questioning the motives of others. I been lost for so many years and thanks be to God for hearing and answering prayers through his messenger (Bishop Td Jakes) whom I don’t know, but by watching his sermons online has helped me to heal. Td jakes, I’ve always believe God has sent him specificly for me after believing in my spirit I would never trust another man or woman of God, because of having bad experiences. God speaks to me through him for every tears I’ve cried, for the fear and hopelessness I have felt. He may not be a messenger from God to everyone, but for those whom God himself has elected, such as myself. He is the only minister of God that goes to the depth of my soul with his preaching and can pull me out of my despair especially when I feel like giving up. He is the real deal for me, as someone once said about me,”he is the true servant of God, and you can see he does it with love.” I am speaking for myself as for how much he impacted my life. Some people say, “he’s just a man” But so are all the other men of the bible starting from Abraham all the way to Paul, they were all just man, except for Jesus, with an anointing and calling from God to do what they did. There was even a time I had even given up on wanting to serve God if it meant I had to deal with people. Serving God to me was setting up myself for my faith to be like Abel. The devil didn’t make Cain kill his brother, it was Cain way of thinking give way for the devil to possess him. That’s why sometime people can’t always blame the devil, we allow him to walk right in instead of resisting him.

At one point I quit serving God in public and went underground, I call it dimming of my light. I was afraid of the height they saw me climbing with God. My loved ones isn’t whom I would want a fight with, it would be like cutting out my own heart. To be in war you have to be selfish, something I just can’t possess, I care too much about others, especially my loved ones. Your family is not who you choose, but as written in Genesis 4:11-12 you shouldn’t hurt them, because you’ll only curse yourself. Joseph suffered the same thing at the hands of his siblings in Genesis 37. They didn’t kill him, but really wanted to, and instead sold him into slavery. But what give me fresh courage is Genesis 50:20 Joseph replied to his brothers, “As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this to preserve the lives of many people.” Very powerful! Joseph show himself to be worthy of every blessings he had recieved. He could of been just as evil to his siblings as they were to him. I always considered myself a woman Joseph because like him, for the love and forgiveness he had for his family regardless of how they’ve treated him God favor was always abound with him. I’ve often wondered of the unwritten thoughts and actions of Abel concern Cain. Is it only at the time of his killing he realized then, how much his brother hated him, or was there other signs?

We sometimes fail to realize that whatever we wish, or hold negatively against anyone, especially our love ones, is like faith, which is an energy we possess that we can throw at each other unknowingly. This can also be for good when we pray for someone. Our love is also like faith a very powerful energy.

I use the story of Cain, Abel and Joseph, because it all about jealousy, siblings rivalry and family. I couldn’t help but believe that man fight with the devil is under the same circumstances.

The feud in family is so much more complex because first what is the meaning of family to you? Number one is blood relations, love and expectations as a family unit as it suppose to be from generation pass as the law of loyalty, respect and unity.

Matthew 4:19 “Come, follows Me” Jesus said… Now today, both men and women are in ministry to win souls for Jesus, but are no longer fishers. Today because women is no longer shunned as a preacher and leaders, they’re just as important to the building of the kingdom as the men. If Jesus was to come again he would tell them to come follow him, he will make them mother’s of all, not just children. The men will always remain fishers, because they would forever be taught on how to catch, where by as woman mothering I do believe is not something that can be taught, but comes naturally.

I was created to be a companion, to stand along side him not beneath or above. It was never said he was my equal, or I am his, but in the sight of God we were creat as such, equal, “man”. We talk, walk,work, play and disagree, yet we should be unite with each other in marriage to create(make babies) as God has planned and to defeat the devil(the force against us), to become one body, (flesh), even to connecting as one with God, three in one and one in three. I shouldn’t need to be heard, allowing my character and my illuminated energy ( created in the image of God)to speak for itself. I was created for and from man who, was created from the earth, who was created by God, who created me and is me. God and the earth is like a man and a woman, both together are one. Genesis 2:21-23

God impregnated the earth (metaphroically) to bring forth man just as he did for everything on earth and in the universe. God, parthenogenesis (the virgin birth) this is who created and creation had began with. Because I am woman I know who I am; man (My companion) you don’t intimidate me, we are one, (flesh of my flesh and bone of my bones) Genesis 2:23; Why would you see me as a threat? The holy book of God and man (bible) has been interpreted to give you dominion over me, what is then your great fear? Ephesians 5:22-24

Today March 8, 2018 marks as International woman’s day and I feel the chains falling, the oppression is finally over for woman, we can speak and do, not all things, but somethings just like man. The seed of this understanding has just blossomed recognisable to both men and women alike being planted many generations ago. It couldn’t of come in a more better time such as this where all truth are being revealed, which is called the enlightening time. Nothing is hidden, not a about God, creation and the evolution.

Let us not take this opportunity likely, but use it for positive changes in this century and do not abuse it, for the future of all young women depends on it.