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Take Courage

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Me: Jesus built us a bridge with two boards and three nails.

Prodigal: Amen!

This is from St. Francis De Sales

Take courage, and turn your troubles, which are without remedy, into material for spiritual progress. Often turn to our Lord, who is watching you, poor frail little being as you are, amid your labors and distractions. He sends you help, and blesses your affliction. This thought should enable you to bear your troubles patiently and gently, for love of Him who only allows you to be tried for your own good. Raise our heart continually to God, seek His aid, and let the foundation stone of your consolation be your happiness in being His. All vexations and annoyances will be comparatively unimportant while you know that you have such a Friend, such a Stay, such a Refuge. May God be ever in your heart.

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Isaiah 56:11 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Women Lovin’ Jesus

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Prodigal: God has been so good!

Me: Yes, He has, I praise His HOLY name!

This is a short video devotion on proverbs

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Proverbs 16:1

The preparations of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. (NKJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.or

Redeemer

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Prodigal: Trust me, I am not lost.

Me: Amen!

This is from Choose Love by Stormie Omartian

Jesus is called Redeemer because He “gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people” (Titus 2:14). He redeemed us from our place of being lost and took us to a place of being His special people. He is continuously preparing us for the good things He has for us to do and be.

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation Psalm 13:5 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Accustom Yourself

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Me: Thank you Lord for this day.

Prodigal: Amen!

This is from Francois De La Mothe Fenelon

Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice. Abide in peace in the presence of God, who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and who permits them. Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way. Matthew 22:22 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Preach With This Object

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Me: Well wishes and also some wisdom.

Prodigal: Thank you and you too.

Me: Prayer is the key of the day and the lock of the night.

This is from the book The Soul Winner by C.H. Spurgeon

Preach with this object: that men may renounce their sins and run to Christ for pardon, that by His blessed Spirit they may be renovated and become as much in love with everything that is holy as they are now in love with everything that is sinful. Aim at a radical cure. Lay the ax at the root of the tree. Amendment of the old nature would not content you; you seek the imparting, by a divine power, of a new nature, that those who gather around you in the streets may live for God.

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. Mark 13:36 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Women Lovin’ Jesus

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Prodigal: Let’s have a chin wag.

Me: Sounds good.

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility. (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Denied

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Me: Now don’t get all worked up. We will figure it out.

Prodigal: Yes, I should have some faith.

This is from H.E. Manning

Whatsoever we ask which is not for our good, He will keep it back from us. And surely in this there is no less of love than in the granting what we desire as we ought. Will not the same love which prompts you to give a good, prompt you to keep back an evil, thing? If, in our blindness, not knowing what to ask, we pray for things which would turn in our hands to sorrow and death, will not our Father, out of His very love, deny us? How awful would be our lot, if our wishes should straightway pass into realities; if we were endowed with a power to bring about all that we desire; if the inclinations of our will were followed by fulfilment of our hasty wishes, and sudden longings were always granted. One day we shall bless Him, not more for what He has granted than for what He has denied.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. Psalms 141:4 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Preaching

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Me: Butter my buns and call me a biscuit, but that ain’t the prettiest mantle.

Prodigal: I agree.

This is from the book The Soul Winner by C.H. Spurgeon

It may happen that some of you preach very earnestly and well, giving messages that are likely to be blessed. Yet you do not see sinners saved. Well, do not quit preaching, but say to yourself, “I must try to gather around me a number of people who will be praying with me and for me; who will talk to their friends about the things of God; who will live and labor in grace because all the surroundings are suitable; and who will help to make the blessing come.”

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. Proverbs 2:22 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Women Lovin’ Jesus

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Prodigal: It is good to focus on the Lord.

Me: Amen!

This is a video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 15:32

Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Walk With God

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Me: Look mighty fine tonight.

Prodigal: Well do tell!

This is from the book The Great House of God by Max Lucado

The same happens in our walk with God. Confession does not create a relationship with God, it simply nourishes it. If you are a believer, admission of sins does not alter your position before God, but it does enhance your peace with God. When you confess, you agree; you quit arguing with God and agree with Him about your sin. Unconfessed sin leads to a state of disagreement. You may be God’s child, but you don’t want to talk to him. He still loves you, but until you admit what you’ve done, there’s going to be tension in the house.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 1 John 2:1 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org