The Prodigal In A Shifting World Atmosphere

Wow, I remember celebrating the beginning of the new year 2026 and already we are in March. How time sure does fly. Happy Sunday to all of you today. As is my practice, today I woke up and turned on my tv to internet to watch Harvest Fellowship Christian church service. I’m so impressed by the organization of this church and how it feeds my soul everyday. I say everyday, because they also offer a platform application that offers daily biblical resources on Discipleship, where you can read and study together with other members of the church who participate in the discussion and activities offered on this site. Well, in the process of listening to the message, of course it provided me more food for thought to write into my blog post today.

Today’s message was about the Sower of Seeds found in Luke 8. It brought to my realization how in the four categories to how the seed fell and took root that in my Christian journey, I can say that it described different phases I went through while finding my path in life and its purpose. As a small child just learning about God, it seemed that as people spoke to me about God that their words were sowed, but it just hit a hardened ground and didn’t take root (I can attribute that mostly to my immaturity in being able to grasp the concepts that were being presented to me at the time.) and I just continued on my way. I’ve always felt since the age of four that I had an understanding of God and often spoke to Him, but didn’t understand quite how he fit into my life. Then the time came when I heard the word again and I was interested in what I heard and felt a yearning to serve God, but then again the ground was shallow and full of rocks, so there was some growth production, but soon the roots could only go so far and then the growth died. Then came the time in my life when I heard the word again and this time the need to serve Jesus was engrained in my heart and my faith grew and it flourished. I was baptized at the age of 12. There was a time where I couldn’t get enough of church and serving in it, but again even though this was for a long season, I let the busyness of life pull me back into the world and let other priorities take precedence over attending church regularly and more importantly serving regularly. So we come to the fourth sowing of seeds and where the prodigal returns to what she knows to be true for her life and now have my roots in soil that has been cultivated and filled with nutrients and my growth and roots are on solid ground and daily growing and my faith is the strongest it has ever been. My turning point came in 2018 when I started attending a local church, Our Father’s House in Los Banos and it provided me with a lot of understanding and resources to work on my relationship with God. From 2018 through 2022, I felt God was working in my life and there were many transitions that took place in my life as the result. All through these different phases of seeds being sowed in my life, especially the last three phases, Harvest Christian Fellowship was always present in my life. When I wasn’t attending a physical church, I would go on line and search for resources to study and also started to live stream previous recorded messages and then transitioned to live streaming each Sunday as Pastor Greg Laurie and other Pastors spoke. Prior to the message there is a time for beautiful Worship and giving in order to move the ministry forward.

Because of the teachings I’ve received throughout my life, I know in our time right now that a shift in the world is happening. It’s been happening for quite awhile now. It started with the pandemic — there was a shift that was like a pause in the world, where families actually got to spend time together for 24/7 due to everything shutting down. There was a period of strong division due to politics in the USA. There was a shift in what we thought had been changed in the world, but had only been suppressed until our eyes were opened to how discrimination and intolerance actually was still very much alive in our culture. As I was attending church before and after the pandemic, I felt deep in my soul that God was doing something and that quite possibly an awakening and revival of the church would transpire. I didn’t know how, but I felt it was coming and sure enough in 2025 revival is happening worldwide. If you are on social media, you can read about it everyday how thousands of people (mostly young generations) are giving their lives to Christ. People have been searching for hope and have found it through the Church — the body of Christ.

Along with the shifting there have been many natural events that have occurred on our planet. The changes in weather, the earthquakes, the flooding and many natural disasters and weather patterns we have never in our lifetimes experienced before. Our technology has advanced to levels that personally blow my mind — being a child born in 1960.

And yesterday, a monumental shift with a war that was waged against the dictator oppression of Iran by the USA and Israel. As the result of this war, the Supreme Leadership of Iran was killed. There are Iranians celebrating what might be the beginning of a different kind of democracy for themselves if they can take over their government and remain free from the oppression that has held them captive for over 30 years. As a Christian, we all know that any unrest in the Middle East that occurs involving that area actually is biblical prophecy unfolding. Although the thought of war is unsettling, because it not only affects the enemy, but many innocent lives that may become casualties as part of the conflict — I know a shift is occurring and I’m not afraid as I know that the only one who can actually control the outcome of everything that is happening in our world is God. For me, that brings me comfort. I believe in the Rapture and I believe we are living in the moments that it can occur. As we see everything unfolding we can pray for everyone involved. The countries involved, those who are making the decisions, those who lives are directly impacted by the war, those who are serving as soldiers in the conflict and their families who know and wait to see the outcome of everything.

As I sit in the comfort of my home while chaos occurs in other homes where fire is falling from the sky, I feel compelled to share my thoughts in my blog posts. I don’t know my audience anymore, but I write in the hopes that maybe my words will bring you comfort or insight into what you might be thinking and experiencing in your own lives as you watch these events unfolding. God Bless each and everyone one of you reading this and may peace be with you.