lord my desire is to be like you say the things you say do the things you do let me hear your still...

Lord my desireis to be like you

say the things you saydo the things you do

let me hear your still voicethrough all the other noise

so that I can bejust what you want me to be.

WHAT IS GOD LIKE?

LUKE 15:11-24

A GOD WHO REGRETS

YOUR REBELLION

A GOD WHO RUNS WHEN YOU RETURN

LUKE 15:13 (CEV)

13Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living.

LUKE 15:30

30This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast."

LUKE 15:15-1615He went to work for a man in

that country, and the man sent him out to take care of his pigs. 16He would have been glad to eat what the pigs were eating, but no one gave him a thing.

LUKE 15:17

17Finally, he came to his senses and said, "My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death!

P.O.T.D

Point of Total Desperation

ROMANS 2:4

4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?

LUKE 15:20

20The younger son got up and started back to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him.

HOSEA 11:1-2

 1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him,  and out of Egypt I called my son.  2 But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.

A GOD WHO RESTORES YOU

WHEN YOU REPENT

LUKE 15:21

 21"The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

LUKE 15:22

 22"But the father said to his servants, 'Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

LUKE 15:23

23Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate.