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JOIN THE LIFE BOAT

GOING BACK HOME

hatever allurement the devil advertises, it is only Your first step towards restora-
to steal, to kill and to destroy. A slight degree tion and redemption is to arise
Wof deviation from God’s purpose for your life and take your leave of that
may eventually become thousands of kilometers away from environment. Do not prepare
your course. A brief trip into backsliding may actually trip any more to leave; just leave. No
your feet into the bottomless pit of woe and confusion. The preparation you make can be
merciful Father stands with an outstretched hand gazing, sufficient; your best resolve, you
looking and longing for His prodigals to come back home. will only break. Stretch out your
The devil employs anything available to derail God’s people. hand to the Saviour who is
holding the rope of deliverance
A drowning man cannot be purged while still in the waters.
to you today and just come out.
He must be taken out of the
Leave everything behind. You
mire before any work of will not need all those rags in
cleansing can begin.
your Father’s house. Just
There is no change of “Have you made a personal come as you are.
raiment out there in the
far country for the decision to follow the Lord? Your Father in heaven says,
prodigal son. He must Have you not known that it is not “Come now! Let us settle the
rise up out of that place matter.” Go and settle the
to return to his father. where you were born or matter with Him and Him
how you were born, alone. There are the good
Friend, it is possible that
things your Father’s land
you went to sojourn that determines your placement in produced while you went
in that strange country down to that far country.
where sin reigns the purpose of God now on earth You will eat freely if you will
supreme. You may have and then in eternity? come back in repentance
been having feelings of and obedience.
remorse and a desire to It is your decision now
change your life. It will that determines your location in The way a man takes to go
not amount to anything away from the Father is still
until you arise to come Eternity.” the way he must take to
out of that place of sin. return home. The Father did
You must rise and take a not look out for the prodigal
step of repentance towards God today. son from another route. He
looked for him daily on the way
You cannot cleanse yourself out there. You cannot change
by which he departed.
your internal raiment there as well. Your saying, “I will
change” will not amount to anything until you actually arise To have a genuine restoration,
to walk out of that wrong relationship. You must change we must retrace our steps and
your location before you can find the newness of life you are do the first works we learnt to
longing for. That girl ‘friend’ with whom you are falling into do when we first met the Lord.
sin is that ‘Moab’ and unless you deliberately rise to get away, Nothing changed for the
she will always overpower you. prodigal son until he came to
himself and made that personal

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