As Brother Cerullo and I travel throughout the world, we have discovered one tactic that the enemy uses universally. He tries to convince saints who have stumbled that they have backslidden beyond hope.

Unfortunately, this tactic often works. In each country we find people who think that God would never take them back! They say, "After what I've done, it's all over for me. I've got no future with God."

This simply is not true. If you are in this state tonight, don't be deceived. God has put this email in your hands for a purpose...the purpose of bringing you back to Him. He is pleading with you to return to Him. He longs to give you rest from your wanderings. Hear His call:

"Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you" (Jeremiah 3:14, NKJV). "I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely, for My anger has turned away from him" (Hosea 14:4, NKJV).

If you recognize your backsliding, repent of it, and return to God. God is holding His hand out to you! If this describes you tonight, turn back to the Lord and grasp His forgiving hand and be led into His everlasting embrace.

Heavenly Father, I want to come back to You. Like the prodigal son, I recognize that I have not been faithful to You. I acknowledge and repent of all my sins and wrongdoings, and ask You to forgive me. I also receive and thank You for complete forgiveness. I know my sins have been blotted out through the blood of Jesus, and that I am now restored to You. Help me to live a new life in Your perfect will. From now on, my life will give You great glory, for he who is forgiven much, loves much! In Jesus' Name, Amen.