Prodigal: Beach time!
Me: No Clouds today!
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Proverbs 11:12 Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent. (ESV)
Jennifer Van Allen
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www.faithincounseling.org
Me: The grass looks freshly mowed.
Prodigal: Yes, I wanted it to look good.
Me: I have a story about grass today.
This is from C.S. Lewis
The almost impossible hard thing is to hand over your whole self to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what are we trying to do is remain what we call “ourselves”–our personal happiness centered on money or pleasure or ambition–and hoping, despite this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly. And that is exactly what Christ warned us you cannot do. If I am a grass field–all the cutting will keep the grass less but won’t produce wheat. If I want wheat….I must be plowed up and re-sown.
Ephesians 6:6
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Jennifer Van Allen
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www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: This project is going to hell in a hand basket.
Me: You might have to start some things over.
Prodigal: That is going to take some time.
Me: Sometimes we have to be patient.
This is from the book When God Says Wait by Elizabeth Laing Thompson
When God says, “Wait,” He doesn’t tell us for how long
When God says, “Wait,” We face one of life’s greatest tests.
When God says, “Wait,” We have decisions to make.
When God says, “Wait,” We can control only two things: how we wait, and who we become along the way.
Wait on God, and you will not be disappointed.
Exodus 15:1
I will sing to the Lord, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: The smell of summer.
Me: Yes, very refreshing.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 11:11
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: That bell pepper looks good!
Me: The last one was good!
This is from Anna Shipton
Say not, “Twas all in vain,
The anguish and the darkness and the strife;
Love thrown upon the waters comes again
In quenchless yearnings for a nobler life.
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 1 Timothy 6:3 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodialpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I’m just sittin’ a spell.
Me: I’m with you.
This is from I. Williams
The heart that trusts forever sings,
and feels as light as it had wings,
A well of peace within in springs–
Come good or ill,
Whatever to-day, to-morrow brings,
It is His will.
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matthew 9:12 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
Prodigal: About to eat.
Me: Let’s watch this first.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 11:10
When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; And when the wicked perish, there is jubilation. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Just thinking today.
Me: What about?
This is from the book The Soul Winner by C.H. Spurgeon
I ask you what was there in Paul, by the grace of God, that may not be in you? What did Jesus do for Paul more than He has done for you? He was divinely changed; so have you been changed if you have passed from darkness into marvelous light. He had much forgiven him; so have you also been freely pardoned. He was redeemed by the blood of the Son of God; so have you been–at least so you profess. He was filled with the Spirit of God; so are you, if you are truly such as your profession of Christianity makes you out to be.
Owing your salvation to Christ, being debtors to the precious blood of Jesus, and being quickened by the Holy Spirit, why should you not bear the same fruit from the same sowing? Why not the same effect from the same cause? Do not tell me that the apostle was an exception and cannot be set up as a rule or model for more common folk, for I will have to tell you that we must be as Paul was if we hope to be where Paul is.
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Acts 13:34 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Now if that don’t beat all.
Me: What?
Prodigal: Just what I heard.
This is from God’s Psychiatry by Charles L. Allen
Just suppose that here was only one real believer on earth and that during an entire year this one believer made one convert. Then there would be two. Suppose that during the next year these two made one convert a piece, then there would be four. Suppose that the next year these four made one convert a piece, then there would be eight. Suppose that they kept that pace of each winning one every year, how long would it take to convert every person in the entire world?
It has now been two thousand years since our Lord was on earth, Has that been enough time? Actually, there has been time enough, with just one wining one other per year, to convert sixty-five worlds like this. Starting with just one and doubling each year, at end of just thirty-one years there would be 2,147,483,648 souls filled with God’s righteousness. The next year they could convert another world the size of this one.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes 6:1 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodialpig.com
www.faithincounsleling.org
Prodigal: Time for a peach!
Me: Sounds yummy.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 11:9
The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, But through knowledge the righteous will be delivered. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
