If you’ve made a decision to come home to the Father, here are a few suggestions to help you pursue relationship with Him.

Connect with God

  • Get a Bible and read it daily. The Gospel of John would be a great place to start. ()
  • Spend time in prayer with the Father daily. Learn to listen to your Father’s heart, as He speaks to you through the Holy Spirit. ()

Connect with a Community of Believers

  • Attend a church that preaches Christ and honors the Word of God. ()
  • Join a small group of other believers who desire to pursue what it means to love God and each other. ()

Connect with Lost Sons and Daughters

  • Love them as your Heavenly Father would. ()
  • Share with them your story of coming home to the Father. ()

Sons and Daughters are , , and then for a higher purpose. They delight to embrace the chief end for which their Father created them – to glorify Him by enjoying Him forever. Sons and Daughters , , and their Heavenly Father, as they pursue with worshipful passion the “Five Great Cs”:

I. The Great Covenant

Through repentance and faith in Christ, Sons and Daughters are Reconciled to God the Father through passionate embrace of the Great Covenant initiated by Jesus Christ, the Perfect Son. They are devoted to their personal covenant with Jesus. ()

II. The Great Commandments

Sons and Daughters are being continually Restored to the likeness of Christ as they learn to live out obedience to the Great Commandments: loving God with all their hearts and loving others as Jesus would love them. They are devoted to giving others “glorious glimpses” of what it is like to be loved by the Heavenly Father. ()

III. The Great Community

Sons and Daughters long to return to the early Church’s emphasis on relationships, togetherness, unity, connectedness, and love. They seek to continually stir one another to love and good deeds, in the context of covenantal communities, in a way that will draw hungry and thirsty souls into the Great Community. ()

IV. The Great Commission

Sons and Daughters devote themselves to being Released to pursue their God-given passion in the area of His calling for them. They long to fulfill the Great Commission – loving the lost into loving Jesus and seeing God glorified in every arena of society. ()

V. The Great Cause

Sons and Daughters “get” their generation. They believe that they’ve been born for “such a time as this.” They know they have a rendezvous with destiny…God’s destiny for them, and they long to fulfill it. Accordingly, they are devoted to contending for the Truth in an increasingly secular and hostile culture. ()

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another —and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. Romans 5:9-11, 17-19
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. II Corinthians 3:18
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit —fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.
John 15:5, 7-8, 16-17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. II Corinthians 5:17-20
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 4:1-2, 5:1-2
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. I Peter 3:15
And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”

In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do-