It might surprise some religious folks who’ve been banging their gavels zealously for years when God raises up the “prodigals” to push forward the frontlines.

 

You see, they’ll be coming with nothing left but Jesus and His gift of grace. What the church thought was unworthy has been made worthy by the King, Himself. His blood was always sufficient.

 

They may have spent it all while in rebellion, but some of that which they lost, we need to lose. They lost some religion we all can’t seem to part with. The kind that requires a never-ending repayment for sin. The kind that forgot it was a finished work on the cross.

 

They’ll not be attracted to the status quo because it helped bury them. Naaah, they about to mess some devils up.

 

Some of their “big brothers and sisters”gonna be mad because the Father wasted no time returning their robes of righteousness and didn’t ask nobody’s approval for it either. This in itself reveals a heart problem.

 

Some of them were kicked out of our churches because they didn’t measure up. Problem is, we don’t either, and frankly, we didn’t deserve them.

 

They had in them a buried passion and gifts that were mistreated and misunderstood. Sure, they may have fallen into sin that blazed on an open trail but it isn’t any different than the trail we think is hidden to our holy God.

 

These prodigals will have nothing to their names but Christ alone. They’ll

Be “no names” and “unnamed” by society. No seminary degree, no titles, no royal lineage in the worldly realm. No following. No booked up calendar of invitations and no “ism” they lean on.

 

Their faces have been on the “unwanted” posters.

 

Ha! Look at this!!!

 

They are the “least likely.” The “problem children.” The “outcasts.” The “Lepers.” The “Misfits.”

 

Prepare yourself for their return.

 

They will be calling us out for our Luke warmness. Our piety. Our religious spirits. Our nasty demeanors. Our lack of grace. Our need for more compassion. Our dead theologies. Our flesh driven houses of worship!

 

Their coming out of the wilderness with POWER💥

 

They ain’t gonna be quiet about it either. They’ve been set free!!!

 

I imagine their praise is gonna be louder than we like. Deeper than we understand. Undignified like David. Yet, beautiful to Heaven’s ears.

 

The gossip grapevine will be lit on fire pretty quickly in utter disbelief. “How could God choose them????”

 

Because It’s what He has always done…we, dear friends, just seem to keep missing the heart of Jesus, entirely.

 

It’s gonna be wild and it’s gonna be grand!

 

He is gonna confound the wise and turn over a few tables with these chosen ones.

 

These prodigals are coming with swords in their mouths exposing hidden darkness and uncovering devils in disguise.

 

They’ll call to repentance those who have a form of godliness but deny His power, those who’ve criticized from the couch, mis-edited every ready-scribes posts, misquoted the surrendered saints, and called innocent people false prophets and teachers.

 

They’ll bring us hearts on fire, a fresh passion that ignites dying embers, and hearts in need of nothing to prove to mankind.

 

They will be His and He will be theirs.

 

Bless the Lord!!!

Here come the prodigals!!!

Pushing the frontlines of Heaven’s army.

Dishonored by man.

Favored by God.