I’ll Be Home for Christmas!
I was sitting here and had been hearing from The LORD a lot about Prodigals.
Then tonight my 90 year old mother told me a Dream she had about traveling a long distance and ending up at this house of two children that she knew in the Dream had been away from home for a long time.
In the Dream she said that when the children saw her, they ran and she ran to embrace them and she was aware in this Dream that they had been gone for a long time, but their hearts were now wanting to come home terribly.
She said that they stood and embraced for a long, long time sobbing.
Sound familiar?
Instantly, I thought of the story in The Bible in Luke 15:11-32, of the prodigal and how his Father ran to embrace him.
He didn’t give him a lecture because he knew that he had learned his lesson just by being out there away from the Father’s house.
No, instead he put a robe and ring on him and made ready a tremendous feast! That is our God!
And almost as instantaneously as I heard that scripture The LORD spoke to me and said, “Many will be home for Christmas this year, make them welcome!”
Then, no longer than a minute after this, I opened up my Facebook to find a post by Debbie Hubbard she had posted from Glory Encounter Community that said this
“We decree that prodigals are hearing a voice they cannot resist, and feeling a tug they cannot refuse, They are coming Home”
Now that was three conformations within about 5 minutes!
I am here to say to you what The LORD is saying “Many will be home for Christmas!” — and then to boot, The LORD began to run that old song through my memory “I’ll Be Home For Christmas! “
Folks, it is time to get out the ring and the robe and prepare a feast!!
Let’s Decree this till we see it!
“Therefore the redeemed of The LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.” Isaiah 51:11
And this!
“Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.” Isaiah 60:4
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Lyrics: Kim Gannon. Composer: Walter Kent. Recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby
I’ll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents by the tree
Christmas eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
I’ll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have some snow and mistletoe
And presents by the tree
Christmas eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
The Parable of the Lost Son
“Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’
And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’
But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’
And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’” ” Luke 15:11-32
~ by Jo Ellen Stevens
Arise Shine!
Jo Ellen Stevens of TCIC Ministries is a Prophetic speaker, author, worshiper and intercessor. She has ministered with her husband for 23 years and was a worship leader at the Assembly of God for many years. She is an ordained minister (Restoration Ministries) and works with Restoration Ministries in their Ministry Rooms doing prophetic worship with her husband. She has taught many bible studies and have led many intercessory prayer groups.
I literally have been walking through stores and such singing this song with tears rolling down my cheeks.
Thank you for posting! I, like many, long for the return of my daughter. I decree, she will hear that voice that she cannot resist and return to the Father and her earthly family too, in Jesus’ beautiful name Amen.
Oh Jesus, I pray this is for me. Oh Lord bring him home.
Amen – let it be so !