In reviewing the parable found in Luke 15:11-32, let’s focus on “The Loving Father.”
There are three sons; the younger son who is identified as the prodigal, the second son who is the older brother, and the third son Jesus who is narrating the parable. The fourth participant is “The Loving Father.”
In studying this parable we see negative bias in full display by the older brother. Concerning any believer, who has been wrongly mistreated by the Body of Christ, we asked for forgiveness and we repent on our own behalf. Some in the church are following after the older brother in this parable while believing they are representing our Father God.
We base our asking forgiveness and our repentance on the truth of the statements below.
We declare that the Loving Father as presented in the Parable of Luke 15, is the example we will follow in the receiving of anyone who desires to repent and return home to Him.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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My son, the father said,
“…you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.
But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead
and is alive again; he was lost and is found.”
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“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
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Name of our God: Our God is our Father.
Is he not your Father, your Creator,
who made you and formed you?
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The Cross Of Jesus –
We say to all prodigal sons and daughters;
…before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
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The Blood of Jesus –
In Ephesians 1:7 where it is written;
In whom we have redemption through His Blood the forgiveness of sins
according to the riches of His Grace.
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Our Prayer/Decree
Father,
I ask for forgiveness for myself and the Body of Christ for any expression of hardness of heart towards the LGBTQ+ community. You’ve created each person to have a close intimate, active and alive relationship with you. This includes all within the LGBTQ+ community. Jesus, you shed your blood and died on the cross for all within the LGBTQ+ community.
Father, I decree in Jesus Name, the true, pure Gospel of Christ’s death, burial and resurrection which is the Gospel of hope and freedom. The Gospel of Peace. The Gospel of adoption. The Gospel calling all Prodigal’s home. I degree that the Gospel be brought clearly to all within the LGBTQ+ community, in Jesus’ Name. AMEN!