To The Prodigals!

I have a word for all of the prodigals out there who have abandoned their father’s house, oversight and authority because your father did not do what you wanted him to do.

You can continue to justify your rebellion but living in a pig pen like the younger brother in Luke 15, or in Haran in Genesis 11 and 12, is not where God called you to live, mature and fulfill your divine purpose.

The younger brother in Luke’s account of the prodigal son made a decision to take his inheritance and do his own thing. The father loved his son so much he accommodated his desire to live independently from, and in defiance of his father.

Abram on the other hand, partially obeyed his future heavenly father by leaving the land of his upbringing and embarked on arriving in the land of promise, only to decide to take family with him that God said to leave behind. In addition, instead of taking the tougher road to Canaan he took the expedient and more comforting path along the Euphrates River. Instead of settling in the land of promise he settled in the land of compromise.

The younger son ended up in a pig pen eating the food of fools and foolish behavior, having spent all the father gave him for free. He came to his senses on his own and decided living under his father’s governance was better than begging for bread.

Abram found himself in a totally different set of circumstances in Haran. Haran in the natural was a place of great blessing and prosperity. Haran means scorched place. You can prosper naturally in Haran but spiritually you will dry up.

Abram did not decide to finally leave Haran on his own. God spoke to him a second time while in Haran and told him to move to where He called him to go.

Hey prodigal, where are you?

Hey prodigal, are you in Haran or in a pig pen?

Hey prodigal, are you ready to come to your senses and move back to your father’s house or is God speaking to you to get to where He called you to be?

He is speaking to you in this blog!

I am writing to prodigals in general but specifically to those who God has called to Bethel Church in beautiful Brunswick, and the glorious Golden Isles of Georgia.

You father is waiting for your arrival so that he can place a ring on your finger, a robe on your back, and sandals on your feet and have a party celebrating your return to righteous living and your rightful place in the family of God.

What are you waiting for?

Keep HIS Faith! Keep HIS Passion! Keep HIS Purposes!

Dr. Kevin M. Drury, DMin

A Hisstorymaker

Mistreatment From Misdiagnosis

This is a follow up blog to my last one titled, The Shemitah, Blood Moons, The Pope And The Real People Of God. Since I wrote and published that blog “the windows of heaven were opened” and the State and people of South Carolina were introduced to challenges to their well-being that have not been seen in their State since the 1800’s. It has been reported that they [the citizens in the 1800’s] were inundated with large amounts of rain in a very short period of time. So, instead of a 1000 year event, as Governor Nikki Haley pronounced, it is really more like a 100 – 200 year event.

Back then there was not the amount of people, structures or infrastructure to be confronted with the severity of the situation!

I titled this blog Mistreatment From Misdiagnosis because there are those who want to believe that God Himself is responsible for this horrendous “heavenly” release of devastation. When doctors misdiagnose one of their patient’s problems they can prescribe a “cure” that produces the wrong prognosis.

Prognosis comes from two words that means, “to know before.” When what we “know before” is not what really is then the results can be disastrous. That is what is happening when people who say they know what God is up to, attribute what is happening in the world to Him, when He is not the source of the current events.

Their error is in what they believe they already know. These false prognosticators read into the Scripture current events instead of allowing Scripture to interpret Scripture. When Scripture is allowed to interpret Scripture we will discover that a lot of what is “supposed to happen” has already happened.

Let’s take a look at some very important truths that are hidden in plain sight. Those who have not already made up their mind as to the real culprit in this catastrophic circumstance will be presented with an very different picture of who is to blame for the plight of the people.

Psalm 24:1

“The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it. The world and all who dwell in it.”

The earth has always been, and will always be the Lords. One of the first mistreatments of Scripture is the belief that when Adam and Eve sinned against God they gave the serpent [devil] the title deed to the planet. They did not give him the title to the planet. They gave him their right to rule as ambassadors for God.

Matthew 5:5

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”

Jesus unequivocally states in the Beatitudes that God has reserved the earth as part of His children’s inheritance.

Matthew 5:43-48