If you try and work for God, you will experience tremendous satanic backlash. Satan doesn’t want anybody to get saved or healed or blessed, etc. In this story the older brother gets upset. He is used by Satan to try and destroy the good thing God has done.

All my life I have had people come against me when I have been trying to work for God. Sometimes it has been family members, or best friends. Sometimes it is the pastor or the evangelist. Sometimes the car will break down for no reason. Sometimes the car will be stolen or the windscreen smashed. Sometime robbers will steal all your master recordings. Sometimes the police will break into your house and steal your things. Sometimes your old girlfriends will turn against you. Sometimes the leader of the church will turn against you. Many times you will be forced to work overtime and never get paid for it. I am talking from experience. Sometimes your guitar will break. Sometimes your amplifier will break. Sometimes the police will stop you from singing. The copyright people will threaten to take you to court. Sometimes you will be kicked out of the house you are staying in. Sometimes people will slash your car tires. Sometimes you will get an eviction notice. Sometimes you will get very sick. Sometimes the devil will try to kill you.

Satan hates you will try to destroy you in any way that he can. He will try to discourage you and cause you to quit working for God. It is normal. Don’t give up. Some people end up in jail or in big lawsuits. Keep the faith. Most of the disciples of Jesus were murdered for their faith. He that endures to the end shall be saved. They overcame the devil by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, and loved not their lives unto the death.

I wrote a song once about the prodigal son, but it is in the Afrikaans language: Vader maak U arms oop.