The Anointed Prodigals: Legitimate But Dangerous Inheritance - 2

A Prophetic Cry to the Church

I write with trembling, for I sense the urgency of the Spirit. This word is not light, nor is it casual. It is a trumpet blast to both leaders and disciples. For the Spirit says, “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light” (Ephesians 5:14).

The parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15 is not merely a story about a wayward boy. It is a prophetic mirror held up to the end-time Church. What befell the prodigal is a pattern that repeats in ministries, pulpits, and even among individual believers today. Unless we discern the hour, we will stumble into the same ruin.

The Inheritance: Legitimate but Dangerous

The prodigal’s request, “Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me” (Luke 15:12), was not unlawful. Inheritance was his by right. Yet inheritance before its time becomes a curse.

• Legally his: Yes.

• Rightly requested? Perhaps.

• Spiritually aligned? No.

The Greek word for “goods” here is ousia, meaning substance, essence, or livelihood. He was not asking for pocket money. He was demanding the very essence of what the father had preserved for him.

So it is today. Many leaders and believers clamor for the substance of God’s gifts: power, anointing, platforms, recognition. These things are promised to the sons of God. Yet when taken out of divine timing, they become stolen treasures.

Key truth: The fact that something is legally yours does not mean it is God’s time for you to possess it.

The Fateful Day: When Strange Urges Seize

Scripture says, “And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together” (Luke 15:13). This was his fateful day.

Every life, every ministry faces such a day. The day when a strange urge, like a sudden wind, seizes the heart:

• Adam and Eve’s fateful day was when they listened to the serpent.

• Judas’ fateful day was when Satan entered his heart to betray the Lord.

• Saul’s fateful day was when he offered an unlawful sacrifice in impatience (1 Samuel 13:8–14).

• Lucifer’s fateful day was when pride whispered, “I will ascend, I will exalt, I will be like the Most High” (Isaiah 14:13–14).

  
  

The prodigal’s fateful day came when a spirit of independence, ambition, and self-sufficiency overpowered him. The text describes it almost as if it were intoxication. He was driven to do what he had never thought of before.

Beloved, the fateful day is subtle. It does not announce itself. It feels like inspiration. It feels like empowerment. It feels like a new season. Yet beneath its glamour lies rebellion.

The Spirit of Premature Independence

What drove the prodigal? Several impulses familiar to us today:

• The urge for independence: “I can make it on my own.”

• The sense of maturity: “I am ready now, I know enough.”

• The desire to display wealth: “I want to show off what my Father gave me.”

• The need to control destiny: “It is my life, my ministry, my calling.”

This is the spirit of many leaders today. They boast in “my church, my anointing, my ministry.” They rush to establish platforms before the Father’s express consent. They wield gifts without submission.

But the true Son said, “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do” (John 5:19). To step out without the Father’s word is not maturity; it is rebellion.

The Appointed Time vs. The Premature Time

One of the deepest lessons here is timing. The Father was not withholding inheritance. He was preserving it for the right time. Ecclesiastes 3:1 declares: “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.”

• David was anointed king but waited years before sitting on the throne.

• Jesus carried divine power, but He did not begin His ministry until He was 30.

• Paul had a revelation of Christ but spent years in Arabia before public ministry (Galatians 1:17–18).

Premature inheritance is destructive because it exposes untested vessels to power they cannot carry. This is why so many crash. They demanded anointing but lacked brokenness. They demanded platforms but lacked foundations. They demanded inheritance but missed the Father’s timing.

🔥 Prophetic Word: The Spirit says, “Many are running whom I have not sent. Many are speaking whom I have not taught. Many are operating in gifts that I gave, but outside My timing. They have become like the prodigal, squandering what was meant to be holy.”