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Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has places his seal of approval. John 6:27

After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. John 17:1

If you have been in church for any length of time or if you have been devoted to reading passages I am sure you have heard about the The Prodigal Son, however, I will try and give a brief summary to help those who are not familiar with this parable and then share a real life testimony about how a friend/co-worker is like the The Prodigal Son.

The Prodigal Son is based around 2 brothers who live at home with their father and one of the son’s decides to stay and work at his fathers house while the other so decides to take his fathers inheritance and squabble it away on women and boos. While the son who is spending all of his money loses everything and cannot even get a meal from the pigs trough decides to return to his father and just ask to be a servant, however, his father embraces his son who has come home and puts his best robe around him, places a ring upon his finger, and kills a fattened calf in his honer to celebrate his homecoming. The brother who had been by his Fathers side the entire time becomes bitter which is a whole other lesson within itself and we will talk about this another time.

I have a friend of mine who is also a co-worker and a few years ago we had discussions and even several times throughout the year continued on various occasions these discussion about Christ and his love and kindness that he taught about.

This friend of mine had walked away from the church and even though his mother and father were ministers themselves he just did not want to be a part of that anymore. He did not see any reason why he needed the Lord, the church, nor did he want to have anything to do with it. He was done. However, I just had a recent conversation with him and not only is he committed to church, his adopted daughter and bringing her up in the church, he is also going to get baptized again to rededicate his life to the Lord.

This just goes to show the power of prayer and planting seeds that come from the Holy Spirit. Jesus was a teacher in this. His only commandment was to Jesus said, “Feed my lambs, Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep, Jesus said, “Feed my sheep (John 21:1-17). There is also a Proverb in the book of Proverbs (Chapter 22:6) Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

So take head my brothers and sisters plant those seeds, be diligent and faithful in your prayers, and be an example to those around you and the Lord will bless you and your family as well as those around you.