I heard the message “to each according to need” which, to me, is also a great way to deal with sibling rivalry, especially situations similar to that described by Bruce today – we had one child who turned the teenage years into a WHOLE new experience for us as parents and our other children. It affirmed not just our past actions but also how a current situation is being dealt with. What will I do? Keep on making the best decisions I can in the circumstances and saying “Your will be done”
I heard of GOD’s great and infinite love for us, his wayward children and realise that we fell far short of his pure and selfless love , when we were parenting. It challenges my reaction to situations, which I have often misunderstood What will I do? Well first to try and listen more closely to others, learn their body language, to understand on a different level, hopefully. Ah! If wishes were fishes, they would swim in the sea. But wish it were possible to go back in time with knowledge I have now, and try to do life better. Probably… Read more »
Thankyou Bruce for a most beautiful and powerful sharing today. I’m sure most parents can relate to the story of the Prodigal Son. I’m sure God gave us this story to illustrate the depth of His unlimited unconditional love for us. Your wonderful father has through you, shown us an example for all parents to follow. God bless, you, Rosemary and team.
Jenny De Fonseka
3 months ago
Thanks for the beautiful message this morning about God’s love. You got emotional talking about your Dad and I’m sure like me, many others, would have had a tear in their eye too.
Yes how could we not. A very heartfelt message thank you Bruce. God the Father’s love for us is almost more than we can comprehend. Only by His word can we believe it & know it. 💓
Jenni
3 months ago
Powerful witness of God’s amazing & unending love!
Wow Bruce, your devotional today really opens out God’s love for us. Your Father was an amazing man, such a better world we would have if everyone could hear this devotional. Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you Bruce for sharing, it brings home how we need to love selflessly and unconditionally through God. I hope, like your Father, I can show that pure love to my children so they can experience God’s love working through me. What a wonderful, wise and humble man your Father was and now you are sharing his love with us. Thank you
Donna Redfearn
3 months ago
It happens time and time again, in my family, in yours and others, thanku for the reminder.
That was just emotional just listening to it!! All of the stories from the Bible relate so much to our ordinary lives, this was explained so beautifully by Bruce today. Lots to think about there for all of us. Blessings Bruce & team
Vera
3 months ago
We are saved not by what we do, but by what Christ has done for us
Carol
3 months ago
Bruce, thank you for sharing this beautiful message of God’s love in such a compassionate way by relating what your dad said to you. This reinforced how God knows us individually and knows our needs. He knows when we need extra loving and attention. That’s absolutely astounding! What a wonderful Heavenly Father we have! My prayer is that I will not only comprehend this amazing love but become an instrument of God’s love to othere. Blessings to you and your team
ANDREA McHUTCHON
3 months ago
Please pray for my healing of PSP. I would also like you to pray for the salvation of Mark and Benjamin.
Lord God ❤️ please help Andrea feel Your healing Love ❤️ today Thank You 🙏 Lord God ❤️. 😊.
Pauline.
3 months ago
love this story Bruce, very powerful. may God bless you, you are doing such wonderful work.
Leonie Cornell
3 months ago
Hello Bruce. I just want to acknowledge to you that your story of your brother and the obvious love you show towards your dad’s example and your brother, touched my heart in a very personal place. It helped me understand so much more how much God uses us even when we do not know that is what is happening. We are just responding to circumstances. , And how much God loves us, and protects us and all those we hold dear no matter what.
Maureen Green
3 months ago
Hi Bruce, Every morning you open up with ” Its wonderful to have you with us” . Well it is even more wonderful for us to have YOU with us. You always seem to choose the right thing to say when it is what I need reminding of. A month or two ago I added my daughter to your prayer wall as she was struck by with cancer. Yesterday, she hung up on me when I suggested she might start praying. First she said there was no God and then that He gave her the cancer.! How is that for… Read more »
I will pray for you dear one, as being a mom certainly does have joys and at times great sorrows! 💔I will pray for your precious child also! We will ask for His miracle working power to change her way of thinking… we will intercede for her physical healing but spiritual and emotional healing as well as she is very deceived! 🙏❤️🩹
I remember as a young girl praying “Father I am lonely but I know I am not alone…”. You have a multitude of people praying for you needs and that of your daughters needs! Trusting Him to turn things around! Until then stay close to your church family… as imperfect as we are… we have pure hearts He gave to us to pray over and watch over each other!
Thank you so very much once again Sandie. I needed to be reminded of the wonder people in the church that I belong to. I will continue to thust in Him and know that in the end everything will be ok.. Thank you for the reminder. God Bless.
So hard to bear. Both the diagnosis and her reaction to your suggestion. I pray for both of you that GOD heals in every way needed Thank you almighty GOD
Thank you very much Valerie, I have had so much support from Do many. It is very much appreciated.
Gloria
3 months ago
Dear Bruce
That was such an emotional message that it has left me in tears. I can relate to the message but I am however waiting for my daughter to return.
Thank you so much for highlighting all these messages and for all you and your team do for us. So much food for thought today and always
May the Lord bless you and your family🙏🏽✝️
Elizabeth
3 months ago
Please pray for my husband and his adultery partner Maria. May their eyes be opened to the truth of God’s love and mercy. May Steve return to his faith and his family. May he know he is deeply loved and his family needs him.
Elizabeth sit in a Chair and see Steve there ❤️while watching with You 😊TV . I heard someone praying and doing this and Her Husband came back ✨. God Bless ❤️
Thanks Robert, I will try this. I know it’s important to speak truth into our situation and to believe in miracles- God works them everyday! God Bless you!
Mary
3 months ago
Thankyou Bruce for showing us God’s love for us in what and how your Dad was with your brother, how beautiful that was. We all have someone in our family or know someone who truly needs more love and kindness and I pray that I can help who needs it the most in my family, Thankyou for being you.💜🙏💜
Thank you Bruce for sharing with us your heartfelt example of the profound love of your Dad had towards his rebellious son, that relates so deeply to the story of the Prodigal Son. But even more, the similarity between his love towards his son and the Love our Heavenly Father has for each one of us!!! Bruce it is evident how much you love your Dad and miss him…I imagine your Dad being so closely loved by our Heavenly Father and your Dad lovingly looking down at you, praying for you and the ministry, to miraculously keep going further and… Read more »
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Natalie
3 months ago
Thank you for your honest and heartfelt story. Your father taught you God’s love so beautifully.
Gertrude
3 months ago
Thanks for this beautiful message on God’s love. Touched my heart deeply. Pray that it also touches the heart of my children and grandchildren. God bless.
Susan
3 months ago
I did not even begin to understand this until this moment. My single mom was that with three of her sons. In my heart I know I held this against her. I did not ever let her know that but I needed her too. My heart had not matured to the understanding of what was going on..until today.. I now know. Of course she loved me but they needed her more. They are all together now and I feel the love that was always there. PS I have cried more tears so far this Lent than in my entire life.… Read more »
Lana
3 months ago
Thank you for your emotional, heartfelt message about your Dad and brother. I will always think of them when I read about the prodigal son. ❤️
Melanie
3 months ago
A beautiful, heartfelt message of Gods love. Thy will be done.
Sandie
3 months ago
Such beauty and insight…thank you so very much for sharing from your heart as that makes all the difference. May your earthly father look over from the balcony in Heaven and smile with pride in who you have become and may Our Heavenly Father continue to use you to bring a new level of awareness of His great love of each of us! I give thanks to God for His leadership in your ministry so needed to bring about revival in every family and every church!🕊
Linda
3 months ago
This story of the protocol son and the way you explained it really touched my heart thank you I will hate this with my husband because we too are witnessing this with our son God Bless you Bruce
What a beautiful heartfelt message. Thank you Bruce for helping me understand that God’s love is unconditional…..I haven’t realized that during these 76 years. Thank you.
Judy
3 months ago
My son to call me and show me love and help. For him to come back to CC his wife needs help
Heal my arm without surgery. I am alone and need h egg lol
Most of all for direction for my life.
Amen
Robert
3 months ago
Good Job 👏🏻 Bruce&Rosemary ❤️ and Team ❤️for being Good Godly People ❤️. We Appreciate 🙏 You All for helping Us ❤️ with Lent ✨. Have a Blessed Day and where ever You are God ❤️ is with You 😊.
Kathy O'Connor
3 months ago
Great message Bruce. God Bless you. Powerful.
Nancy
3 months ago
Thanks Bruce for your beautiful story you shared with us today. So what I heard today was God Loves all of us the same; however, those who are not following God’s commandments, lessons, and those who hunger, need shelter,need help; God is going to reach out to them first because they do not see the Glory of God. If they knew God he would not have to teach to them about his Glory; they would be praying and trying to reach him deeper. Thank you for your great understanding of the Bible and God’s Love for us. You are truly… Read more »
Rose
3 months ago
Bruce, You touched my heart and got very emotional because in my family I paid so much attention to my oldest child and my youngest. My two middle children were independent so I didn’t worry about them. But I realized that I repeated history because when I was a girl my dad always paid more attention to the youngest boy . He couldn’t do no wrong and me and my sister were at times overwhelmed. God is love and he has an infinite love for us for me and family no matter what we do. God I pray for a… Read more »
mike
3 months ago
Bless you Bruce. That touched me today.
Christine
3 months ago
Thank you for today’s reading as a parent I need to look to the example of God’s love to do what is right for my children
Joanne Millington
3 months ago
Thank you Bruce for sharing in such a personal and moving way, to show us a glimpse of the beauty and totality of God the Father’s love
mark shoffner
3 months ago
It’s interesting how God uses a message to correct our thinking and path. I have a son that is dealing with addiction, a theft tendency, and mental health. It was enough, because of my health and schedule that I put him out of my house. Bruce, the story of your brother/you/dad and the prodigal son hit me hard. Sometimes as parents we forget that our kids aren’t the same or need the same thing. This message, so far has hit me the hardest since Lent started.
You are not alone. Please do not beat yourself up. GOD knows us through and through. We had a similar circumstance, not quite the same and we could have been more understanding. Forgiving ourselves for things we regret is really hard. With the love and forgiveness of our Lord and GOD anything is possible Love Val
Cecilia Rebenstorf
3 months ago
My Prodigal son passed away on April,12th, 2020. It was Easter Sunday. He had suffered from drugs and alcohol, but was clean and sober the last 5 yrs if his life. My older son, vwhom I call Servant of the Lord, couldn’t understand why I helped him so much. Many people feel tough love is best, but in this case, as Bruce has made me realize, Xavier needed more love, and I’m glad that I gave him more love. At the end of his journey, Xavier, was good with the Lord, having turned his life around. 🙏 Thankyou Bruce, for… Read more »
Peggy
3 months ago
Thank you so much for being so personal with this story of the prodigal son. I have seen this from the perspective of the sibling and of the parent – two very different views. My parent view was more loving and forgiving.
val cleaver
3 months ago
We had a very worrying time with our 16 year old daughter, she went off the rails when her 19 year old brother died of cancer. She was angry with God, angry with the doctors. She dropped out of school, left home and moved into a flat with some other young people. She was doing all the things we don’t want our teenage children to be doing but all we could do was to be there for her and hope she will come back home. She got a job as a waitress in a pub, then a job cleaning in… Read more »
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Comments and Reflections
After watching the message take some time to reflect on the following:
I heard the message “to each according to need” which, to me, is also a great way to deal with sibling rivalry, especially situations similar to that described by Bruce today – we had one child who turned the teenage years into a WHOLE new experience for us as parents and our other children. It affirmed not just our past actions but also how a current situation is being dealt with. What will I do? Keep on making the best decisions I can in the circumstances and saying “Your will be done”
I heard of GOD’s great and infinite love for us, his wayward children and realise that we fell far short of his pure and selfless love , when we were parenting. It challenges my reaction to situations, which I have often misunderstood What will I do? Well first to try and listen more closely to others, learn their body language, to understand on a different level, hopefully. Ah! If wishes were fishes, they would swim in the sea. But wish it were possible to go back in time with knowledge I have now, and try to do life better. Probably… Read more »
When you know better you do better😉. Share your wisdom and how God was there in the midst of life’s struggles ! That is priceless!
Thankyou Bruce for a most beautiful and powerful sharing today. I’m sure most parents can relate
to the story of the Prodigal Son. I’m sure God gave us this story to illustrate the depth of His
unlimited unconditional love for us. Your wonderful father has through you, shown us an example
for all parents to follow. God bless, you, Rosemary and team.
Thanks for the beautiful message this morning about God’s love. You got emotional talking about your Dad and I’m sure like me, many others, would have had a tear in their eye too.
Yes how could we not. A very heartfelt message thank you Bruce. God the Father’s love for us is almost more than we can comprehend. Only by His word can we believe it & know it. 💓
Powerful witness of God’s amazing & unending love!
Amen 🙏
Wow Bruce, your devotional today really opens out God’s love for us.
Your Father was an amazing man, such a better world we would have if everyone could hear this devotional.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Amen.
Thank you Bruce for sharing, it brings home how we need to love selflessly and unconditionally through God. I hope, like your Father, I can show that pure love to my children so they can experience God’s love working through me.
What a wonderful, wise and humble man your Father was and now you are sharing his love with us. Thank you
It happens time and time again, in my family, in yours and others, thanku for the reminder.
Yep 🙏❤️
That was just emotional just listening to it!! All of the stories from the Bible relate so much to our ordinary lives, this was explained so beautifully by Bruce today. Lots to think about there for all of us. Blessings Bruce & team
We are saved not by what we do, but by what Christ has done for us
Bruce, thank you for sharing this beautiful message of God’s love in such a compassionate way by relating what your dad said to you. This reinforced how God knows us individually and knows our needs. He knows when we need extra loving and attention. That’s absolutely astounding! What a wonderful Heavenly Father we have! My prayer is that I will not only comprehend this amazing love but become an instrument of God’s love to othere. Blessings to you and your team
Please pray for my healing of PSP. I would also like you to pray for the salvation of Mark and Benjamin.
Lord God ❤️ please help Andrea feel Your healing Love ❤️ today Thank You 🙏 Lord God ❤️. 😊.
love this story Bruce, very powerful.
may God bless you, you are doing such wonderful work.
Hello Bruce. I just want to acknowledge to you that your story of your brother and the obvious love you show towards your dad’s example and your brother, touched my heart in a very personal place. It helped me understand so much more how much God uses us even when we do not know that is what is happening. We are just responding to circumstances. , And how much God loves us, and protects us and all those we hold dear no matter what.
Hi Bruce, Every morning you open up with ” Its wonderful to have you with us” . Well it is even more wonderful for us to have YOU with us. You always seem to choose the right thing to say when it is what I need reminding of. A month or two ago I added my daughter to your prayer wall as she was struck by with cancer. Yesterday, she hung up on me when I suggested she might start praying. First she said there was no God and then that He gave her the cancer.! How is that for… Read more »
I will pray for you dear one, as being a mom certainly does have joys and at times great sorrows! 💔I will pray for your precious child also! We will ask for His miracle working power to change her way of thinking… we will intercede for her physical healing but spiritual and emotional healing as well as she is very deceived! 🙏❤️🩹
Thank you so very much, All prayers are very welcome. Right now I feel very alone.
I remember as a young girl praying “Father I am lonely but I know I am not alone…”. You have a multitude of people praying for you needs and that of your daughters needs! Trusting Him to turn things around! Until then stay close to your church family… as imperfect as we are… we have pure hearts He gave to us to pray over and watch over each other!
Thank you so very much once again Sandie. I needed to be reminded of the wonder people in the church that I belong to. I will continue to thust in Him and know that in the end everything will be ok.. Thank you for the reminder. God Bless.
Always remember God loves our children more than we could ever!
❤️🙏
Thank you very much Robert
🙏❤️
So hard to bear. Both the diagnosis and her reaction to your suggestion. I pray for both of you that GOD heals in every way needed
Thank you almighty GOD
Thank you very much Valerie, I have had so much support from
Do many. It is very much appreciated.
Dear Bruce
That was such an emotional message that it has left me in tears. I can relate to the message but I am however waiting for my daughter to return.
Thank you so much for highlighting all these messages and for all you and your team do for us. So much food for thought today and always
May the Lord bless you and your family🙏🏽✝️
Please pray for my husband and his adultery partner Maria. May their eyes be opened to the truth of God’s love and mercy. May Steve return to his faith and his family. May he know he is deeply loved and his family needs him.
Elizabeth sit in a Chair and see Steve there ❤️while watching with You 😊TV . I heard someone praying and doing this and Her Husband came back ✨. God Bless ❤️
Thanks Robert, I will try this. I know it’s important to speak truth into our situation and to believe in miracles- God works them everyday! God Bless you!
Thankyou Bruce for showing us God’s love for us in what and how your Dad was with your brother, how beautiful that was. We all have someone in our family or know someone who truly needs more love and kindness and I pray that I can help who needs it the most in my family, Thankyou for being you.💜🙏💜
Amen ❤️. Mary 😊.
Thank you Bruce for sharing with us your heartfelt example of the profound love of your Dad had towards his rebellious son, that relates so deeply to the story of the Prodigal Son. But even more, the similarity between his love towards his son and the Love our Heavenly Father has for each one of us!!! Bruce it is evident how much you love your Dad and miss him…I imagine your Dad being so closely loved by our Heavenly Father and your Dad lovingly looking down at you, praying for you and the ministry, to miraculously keep going further and… Read more »
Thank you for your honest and heartfelt story. Your father taught you God’s love so beautifully.
Thanks for this beautiful message on God’s love. Touched my heart deeply.
Pray that it also touches the heart of my children and grandchildren.
God bless.
I did not even begin to understand this until this moment. My single mom was that with three of her sons. In my heart I know I held this against her. I did not ever let her know that but I needed her too. My heart had not matured to the understanding of what was going on..until today.. I now know. Of course she loved me but they needed her more. They are all together now and I feel the love that was always there. PS I have cried more tears so far this Lent than in my entire life.… Read more »
Thank you for your emotional, heartfelt message about your Dad and brother. I will always think of them when I read about the prodigal son. ❤️
A beautiful, heartfelt message of Gods love. Thy will be done.
Such beauty and insight…thank you so very much for sharing from your heart as that makes all the difference. May your earthly father look over from the balcony in Heaven and smile with pride in who you have become and may Our Heavenly Father continue to use you to bring a new level of awareness of His great love of each of us! I give thanks to God for His leadership in your ministry so needed to bring about revival in every family and every church!🕊
This story of the protocol son and the way you explained it really touched my heart thank you I will hate this with my husband because we too are witnessing this with our son God Bless you Bruce
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Thanks for sharing so deeply today 🙏❤️👣
What a beautiful heartfelt message. Thank you Bruce for helping me understand that God’s love is unconditional…..I haven’t realized that during these 76 years. Thank you.
My son to call me and show me love and help. For him to come back to CC his wife needs help
Heal my arm without surgery. I am alone and need h egg lol
Most of all for direction for my life.
Amen
Good Job 👏🏻 Bruce&Rosemary ❤️ and Team ❤️for being Good Godly People ❤️. We Appreciate 🙏 You All for helping Us ❤️ with Lent ✨. Have a Blessed Day and where ever You are God ❤️ is with You 😊.
Great message Bruce. God Bless you. Powerful.
Thanks Bruce for your beautiful story you shared with us today. So what I heard today was God Loves all of us the same; however, those who are not following God’s commandments, lessons, and those who hunger, need shelter,need help; God is going to reach out to them first because they do not see the Glory of God. If they knew God he would not have to teach to them about his Glory; they would be praying and trying to reach him deeper. Thank you for your great understanding of the Bible and God’s Love for us. You are truly… Read more »
Bruce, You touched my heart and got very emotional because in my family I paid so much attention to my oldest child and my youngest. My two middle children were independent so I didn’t worry about them. But I realized that I repeated history because when I was a girl my dad always paid more attention to the youngest boy . He couldn’t do no wrong and me and my sister were at times overwhelmed. God is love and he has an infinite love for us for me and family no matter what we do. God I pray for a… Read more »
Bless you Bruce. That touched me today.
Thank you for today’s reading as a parent I need to look to the example of God’s love to do what is right for my children
Thank you Bruce for sharing in such a personal and moving way, to show us a glimpse of the beauty and totality of God the Father’s love
It’s interesting how God uses a message to correct our thinking and path. I have a son that is dealing with addiction, a theft tendency, and mental health. It was enough, because of my health and schedule that I put him out of my house. Bruce, the story of your brother/you/dad and the prodigal son hit me hard. Sometimes as parents we forget that our kids aren’t the same or need the same thing. This message, so far has hit me the hardest since Lent started.
You are not alone. Please do not beat yourself up. GOD knows us through and through. We had a similar circumstance, not quite the same and we could have been more understanding.
Forgiving ourselves for things we regret is really hard. With the love and forgiveness of our Lord and GOD anything is possible
Love
Val
My Prodigal son passed away on April,12th, 2020. It was Easter Sunday. He had suffered from drugs and alcohol, but was clean and sober the last 5 yrs if his life. My older son, vwhom I call Servant of the Lord, couldn’t understand why I helped him so much. Many people feel tough love is best, but in this case, as Bruce has made me realize, Xavier needed more love, and I’m glad that I gave him more love. At the end of his journey, Xavier, was good with the Lord, having turned his life around. 🙏 Thankyou Bruce, for… Read more »
Thank you so much for being so personal with this story of the prodigal son. I have seen this from the perspective of the sibling and of the parent – two very different views. My parent view was more loving and forgiving.
We had a very worrying time with our 16 year old daughter, she went off the rails when her 19 year old brother died of cancer. She was angry with God, angry with the doctors. She dropped out of school, left home and moved into a flat with some other young people. She was doing all the things we don’t want our teenage children to be doing but all we could do was to be there for her and hope she will come back home. She got a job as a waitress in a pub, then a job cleaning in… Read more »