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Welcome to Insights on Healing a weekly podcast. Today’s Episode is: “The Parable of the Lost Son.” You will learn how much God loves you.”
I am Joan M. Blake, author, and I am your host. The purpose of Insights on Healing Podcast is to provide content that brings inner healing and restoration to individuals who have dealt with trauma and who are dealing with difficult life-situations.
Insights on healing includes the reading of Scripture, praying for my audience, reading from one of my books and interviewing individuals who found purpose in their lives through the power of God. I pray that God would bless you and give you hope.
Today’s podcast is taken from the book of Luke chapter 15: 11-32 New International Version. Following the reading, I would reflect on the scripture passage and pray.
11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 27 ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’
28 “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 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.’”
I thank God for the reading of His word. This parable speaks to how God regards us, his children. With love, compassion, and forgiveness, he waits for each of us to come back to Him.
Let us pray. Father, I thank you for your love, compassion, and forgiveness that you afford us. I pray for that man or woman who is listening to this podcast that he/she will not procrastinate but will return to you to receive healing and your blessings of comfort, joy, peace and restoration in the name of Jesus, Amen.
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