Prodigal: How did it go?
Me: I was sopping wet from my head to my toe.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
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www.faithincounseling.org
Me: I hope this is good. I tried to make it look good.
Prodigal: At least you attempted it.
This is from Theodore Roosevelt, speech “Citizenship in a Republic,” delivered in Paris, April 23, 1910
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and shortcoming; but who does actually try to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Psalm 121:1
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: More fabric is needed.
Me: Yes, I am going to add more and share more about something we may need today.
This is from the book Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver
I cannot do everything, but I can do “one thing.”
I cannot meet every need, but I can respond in obedience to the need the Spirit lays on my heart.
I cannot carry every load, but I can carry the load God has for me.
For his yoke, indeed, is easy, and his burden is truly light.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice an opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: What kinda of party?
Prodigal: Birthday!
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Are you havin’ a fuss.
Me: Yes, I am not happy with how I did this.
Prodigal: Maybe you need to see the good.
Pray to see the good in bad things that happen. None us likes pain, uncertainty, strife, or frustration. We want things the way we want them. But the challenging and miserable times are not without their aspect of good. There are things that happen to us in those times that are as precious as diamonds. It’s during difficult times that we have the opportunity to experience the Lord’s presence in a deeper way. When we cling to Him, He will reveal the good things that are right in front of us. God often allows hard things to happen in our lives in order to bless us in some way. If we are willing to allow for that possibility in everything that happens, it keeps us from being devastated by people and situations that are ultimately going to be used for God’s glory. When we ask Him to show us the good in our difficult situations, He will.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer. (1 Peter 3:12)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodgialpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: She’s so sweet sugar wouldn’t even melt in her mouth.
Prodigal: I agree
This is from Charles Swindoll
We’ll miss contentment if keeping rather than releasing becomes our objective. We too often love things and use people, when we should be using things and loving people. We are most content when we’re grateful for what we own, satisfied with what we make, and generous to those in need.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodialpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: It’s been a long road in this.
Me: Yes, but you have that protection.
Prodigal: Amen.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 13:10
By Pride comes nothing but strife, But with the well advised is wisdom. ( NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: I just started.
Prodigal: I think it will look great!
This is from the book The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not by this degrade himself as a man; rather he finds his right place of high honor as one made in the image of his Creator. His deep disgrace lay in his moral derangement, his unnatural usurpation of the place of God. His honor will be proved by restoring again that stolen throne. In exalting God over all he finds his own highest honor upheld.
Romans 8:38-39
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: Tough day?
Prodigal: I’d sooner dive into a bed of poison ivy than do that again.
Me: There is hope still.
This is from the book All of Grace by C.H. Spurgeon
Christ died for the ungodly when they were yet without strength. Maybe you have heard these words hundreds of times, and yet you have never before perceived their meaning. There is a wonderful thing about them. Jesus did not die for our righteousness, but He died for our sins. He did not come to save us because we were worth saving, but because we were utterly worthless, ruined, and undone. He did not come to earth out of any reason that was in us, but solely and only because of reasons that He took from the depths of His own divine love.
The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
Luke 17:5
Jennifer Van Allen
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www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I reckon it is time.
Me: Yes, and I am ready.
This comes from the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis
Thou camest to serve, not to rule. Know that thou wast called to suffer and to labour, not to be idle, and spend thy time in talk. Here therefore men are proved as gold in the furnace. Here no man can stand, unless he be willing to humble himself with his whole heart for the love of God.
1 Peter 2:2
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
