10 More Prodigal Decrees that Prophesy & Release Your Loved One’s Divine Destiny

I want to share the parable of the prodigal son again, but from a different translation.

There is something in the words Jesus used when He was telling this story that is found in the original language, the original Greek text. I feel very prompted to focus on this.

This story would affect His disciples from Pentecost through the rest of their entire ministry lives. My heart leapt inside me when I saw this. God’s Word is so alive. Just one word can quicken things.

There is a wind of Holy Spirit on this amazing parable of the prodigal son as if it’s being freshly told to us. It’s prophesying, I believe, into our moment right now, a phase of our Kingdom’s movement in this era. Jesus told His disciples:

A man had two sons. The younger son told his father, “I want my share of your estate now before you die.” So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.

A few days later this younger son packed all his be- longings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.

When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, “At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! I will go home to my father and say, ‘Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.’”

So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. His son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.”

But his father said to the servants, “Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet. And kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast, for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.” So the party began.

Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house, and he asked one of the servants what was going on. “Your brother is back,’ he was told, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return.”

The older brother was angry and wouldn’t go in. His father came out and begged him, but he replied, “All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!”

His father said to him, “Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours. We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!” (Luke 15:11-32 NLT)

In this magnificent depiction of Father God’s heart, Jesus tells us that when the father saw his lost son off in the distance, he ran to him. He didn’t walk or stroll; he ran. The father was looking for his son to return. He was anticipating it and when he saw him, he ran to him. It’s the only time Christ ever depicts Father God as running.

The great God of Heaven and earth is not depicted here as sitting on the throne of the universe ruling and reigning, though most certainly He does. He is not depicted as standing before billions of angels and giving them orders, though He does. He is not depicted as riding a chariot of fire as the most awesome conquering warrior in all of time and eternity, though He is. He is not depicted as the great I Am leading people in awesome deliverance and promised inheritance, though He is. He is portrayed as Father God, filled with unconditional love running to welcome a lost child home.

There could be no greater graphic portrayal than the one Jesus gives us here. Instead, religion and pharisaical ideas have portrayed Father God in a completely different way.

Religion says: “I messed up, my dad is going to kill me!”

Sonship says: “I messed up, I need to call my dad.”

Jesus tells us as soon as He sees prodigals returning, He runs to welcome them, kissing their cheeks and hugging their necks.

God is Running

We are moving into an amazing era and this world is going to see Father God run. He’s running with a divine purpose. He’s going to run and He’s going to bring the lost sons and daughters home. He’s going to run and He’s going to restore them. He’s running to help them; He will clean them up and put new clothes on them. It is a present campaign being launched right now by Holy Spirit.

In Luke 15:20 (KJV), Jesus uses words that we need to focus on because it speaks to another awesome aspect of this campaign I believe is now beginning. He says in essence, “When the father saw his lost child coming, he ran to him and fell on his neck, kissing him.”

“Fell on him” or “fell on his neck,” as King James puts it, is the Greek word epipipto (Strong’s 1968). It would ring in the hearts of these disciples for the rest of their lives. It would become a common phrase in the early church, throughout the book of Acts, and the apostolic travels in the New Testament. Its understanding gives such great hope. Epipipto means to embrace someone in love, to hug someone in love, or it means to hug someone you love. Epipipto was called the love embrace.

In Acts 10:44, Peter was at Cornelius’s house. Remember, Cornelius was a Gentile. He was Italian. The Jews had no dealing with Gentiles. They were prejudiced against them because they were considered unclean people. They were from the other side of the tracks. You don’t eat with them, you don’t have anything to do with them, you certainly don’t fellowship with them.

Holy Spirit gave the apostle Peter a vision where he saw a sheet come down out of Heaven with all sorts of “unclean” animals on it. Holy Spirit said, “Rise and eat.” But Peter said, “I’m not going to do that, they are unclean.” Then Holy Spirit said, “Don’t you call common or unclean what I have cleaned.” Through this vision and Holy Spirit’s admonition, Peter then understood these people were not unclean. God can make them clean, and Peter began to minister to them. He obeyed the Word of the Lord and he began to declare the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Italian people.

Decrees

1. I decree Holy Spirit’s presence is overwhelming me with His peace.

2. I decree there is a launch in the Spirit realm and things are shifting and an outpouring is manifesting.

3. I decree Father is running to help our sons and daughters come home. He is running to welcome them, to kiss their cheeks, and restore.

4. I declare a release of God’s love on this generation, reclaiming and redeeming what the enemy has tried to lock up.

5. I decree God hugs released in this era to the prodigals, as well as those who have just grown weary or are not where they used to be.

6. I decree the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases and His mercies are new every morning.

7. I decree that as God’s hugs are released that any bruises the enemy has tried to inflict are removed and healed—spirit, soul, and body.

8. I decree that the rich and pure love of God is reaching into our prodigals innermost beings and healing and restoring God’s original intention for their lives.

9. I decree that God never ceases to gently and tenderly call my prodigal home.

10. I decree that one touch from the Father’s hands changes everything.