1. Secret of Prayer is Praying in Secret
2. Living for GOD is dying daily

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983.
From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease”?
To this Arthur Ashe replied:
“The world over 50 million  children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis,
500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the  grand slam,
50 reach Wimbledon , 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals,
when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD ‘Why me?’.
And today in pain I should not be asking GOD ‘Why me?’ “

“Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrow keeps you Human,

Failure keeps you humble and

Success keeps you glowing,
but… only Faith & Attitude Keeps you going…”

Never Question God “Why Me?”

But  Ask Him  ” Show Me Your Way to Satisfy Your Will”

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“The real freedom is an endowment from God”.     —   Luke 15:11-32

he story of the prodigal son in Luke chapter 15 reveals to us the heart of the dilemma that we find many individuals and much of our Society in today. The story that Jesus tells us regarding the father and his two sons teaches us a great deal about freedom. This story’s application can be made not only to your life and mine, personally, but also to the life of our society.

“The real” freedom is an endowment from God and no one else. True freedom comes from God and God alone.
What the prodigal son teaches us is that there is a snare to freedom that we must watch for and be very mindful of. Because just like there is fake sugar, fake butter, fake milk, and fake hair, there is also “fake” freedom!

I want us to learn from the story Jesus told, three lessons that the Prodigal son teaches us through his own life’s experience.

Former American president Abraham Lincoln in October of 1863 said, “It is the duty of nations as well as of men & women to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

1. Prodigal Son wanted freedom to be on his own.

The Bible says in Luke 15:13, A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and took a trip to a distant land . . .
The prodigal son wanted his freedom more than anything! He was no different than any of us here today. We want to be free! We want to be from supervision, parents, and burdens. Our motto is to be free! We want freedom! But what does that really mean?

What does being free meant to you?

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Does it mean free to do as you please? Or does it mean free to do as God pleases? Does it mean free to live by your standards? Or does it mean free to live by God’s standards? Does it mean free to fulfill your pleasures? Or does it mean free to fulfill God’s pleasures?

The prodigal thought freedom meant getting away from the authority and limits of his father’s house. He got Dad to give him his portion of what was to be his inheritance and he no sooner got it then he took off for someplace far, far away from his father’s home, his father’s boundaries, his father’s rules.

But when he left his father’s home, boundaries, and rules He failed to realize that it meant that he was leaving his father’s provision, his father’s protection, and his father’s security. Just like the prodigal son, far too many citizens today are convinced that FREEDOM means being on your own, free of boundaries, free of rules.

Because just like the prodigal son many people today think that “freedom under God” really means “freedom from God”. And that’s not REAL Freedom!

2. Prodigal Son wanted a fashionable live as he pleased.

When I think of fashionable I automatically think of clothing. I am amazed at the cycle that fashion trends seem to take over the course of our lives. They were about three inches higher on the waist than the pants of many young boys. Fifteen years ago you were making fun of the kind repairman dress for letting his butt crack show and now it’s fashionable.

It’s fashionable to waste the money.
It’s fashionable to be drunk
It’s fashionable to have illegal sex
It’s fashionable to have illegal money
It’s fashionable to be homosexual.
It’s fashionable to kill unborn children.
It’s fashionable to label as self-righteous, narrow-minded..

The society & church is sliding its standards, where the only “truth” embraced is that there is no truth. We see the decay of morality and truth, our freedom everyday we apathetically sit idly by.

When prodigal son is corrupted & committed things against God & the father in far away country, it is resulted as famine in that particular country. God allowed new diseases, natural disasters, financial crisis in people lives because they live in their own way.. Where father was ministering over, there is abundance & peace naturally.

While freedom “from” God may sound appealing on the surface it offers only a devastating destination for all. The question is: When does my freedom become our funeral?

Proverbs 16:25 says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”

Fortunately, before it was too late, the bible says in verse 17, the prodigal son came to his senses. It is my solemn prayer that our people will be as fortunate.

And it was that transformation in the prodigal’s life that now offers us the third and final lesson that we learn from this story Jesus told.

3. Prodigal Son wanted futile to be anywhere but home.

“When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, `At home even the hired men have food enough to spare, and here I am, dying of hunger! I will go home to my father. Luke 15:17-18

“So he returned home to his father.” Luke 15:20

He came to his senses! He realized that real freedom wasn’t to be found in the pigpen. Real freedom was to be at home with a loving provider and protector. Real freedom was to be with his God the Father.

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As long as the church accommodates the immorality that is gripping the leadership, we only have the snare of prodigal freedom.
Our church in AP is only a couple of hundred years old. Yet, here we are, seemingly drifting slowly back towards the religiously repressive past that this church was founded to be powerless or nominal.

It is a revolution that will be fought and won by repentant people who have come to their senses and are humble enough to cry out to a Holy and Righteous God and ask forgiveness. Only confession of sins before God is makes people to regain joy, abundance & son ship back

We must come to realize that a Holy and Just God cannot and will not submit to such hostile rebellion against His Holy Name. Prodigal freedom is freedom from God.. True freedom is freedom under God.

“So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” –John 8:36

Never has there been a more true statement. Never has there been a more comforting statement. When Christ has freed you there is no force in this world that can take that away from you. When Christ has freed you, it is of little matter where you live, or how well or poorly you live. When Christ has freed you the things of this world become less and less important.

Christ has set me free. I am one man, under God, undividable, filled with liberty and justice that is available to all through the freedom of Christ. I come under His grace which in God.

So today, celebrate with your friends and family. Celebrate freedom as you have never celebrated it before. Remember, true Freedom is found only in God through his Son Jesus Christ, and it’s yours forever.
God bless you…

Collected & compiled
Rev. George Pasapala
Jireh Mission
Vijayawada

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