Today I have the prodigals on my mind – those who have known the Lord but have turned away from their faith in lesser or greater ways.
Salvation, spring up from the ground
Lord, rend the Heavens and come down
Seek the lost and heal the lame
Jesus, bring glory to Your name
Let all the prodigals run home
All of creation waits and groans
Lord, we’ve heard of Your great fame
Father, ’cause all to shout Your name
Stir up our hearts, oh God
And open our spirits to awe, who You are
Put a cry in us so deep inside
That we cannot find the words we need
We just weep and cry out to You*
I pray that in this next year these men and women would be drawn by Holy Spirit, encouraged by godly men and women, and would return to the fold of Believers. Lord Jesus Christ, rend the heavens, come down, and cause these precious ones to you to cry out to you and call on you for grace and restoration. Lord Jesus, come soon we pray. Amen.
“Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains would tremble before you!
As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake before you!
For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,
you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
You come to the help of those who gladly do right,
who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry.
How then can we be saved?
All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
No one calls on your name
or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us
and have given us over to our sins.
Yet you, Lord, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord;
do not remember our sins forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people” (Isaiah 64:1-9 NIV).