Author Archives: Jennifer Van Allen

Out of Obedience

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Prodigal: What can we focus on today.

Me: I have something

This is from H. E. Manning

Out of obedience and devotion arises an habitual faith, which makes Him, though unseen, a part of all our life. He will guide us in a sure path, though it be a rough one: though shadows hang upon it, yet He will be with us. He will bring us home at last. Through much trial it may be, and weariness, in much fear and fainting of heart, in much sadness and loneliness, in griefs that the world never knows, and under burdens that the nearest never suspect. Yet He will suffice for all. By His eye or by His voice He will guide us, if we be docile and gentle; by His staff and by His rod, if we wander or are wilful: any how, and by all means, He will bring up to His rest.

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. Mark 6:3 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Women Lovin’ Jesus

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Prodigals: That’s a bunch of hogwash.

Me: That is what I thought.

Today’s devotion is a video devotion.

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Proverbs 15:20 A wise man makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother. (NKJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

The Battle

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Prodigal: With Christ is better.

Me: With Christ is better than anything else without Christ.

This is from Intimacy with the Beloved by Pat Chen

Those who give themselves completely to Christ are often despised, mocked and looked upon as weird. The crowd demands that we prove who He is in us. They told Jesus to prove who He was. The world demands that we be just like everybody else. If we are not, they think something is wrong with us. We are constantly challenged to be like the crowd and to prove ourselves. But we don’t have to prove anything. Jesus has already proved who He is on the cross. We must battle against those same mocking spirits that Jesus battled on the cross. The evil spirits are intruders into our private lives with Christ. Our passion for Jesus is despised by the enemy. He hates our passion, and he hates us.

Present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Romans 12:1

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

His Feet

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Prodigal: What now.

Me: I just read this. Silence is never misquoted.

This is from George Eliot

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier, who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command which he must himself obey.

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. Genesis 24:1 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Women Lovin’ Jesus

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Prodigal: Go Pirates!

Me: Yeah!

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 15:19 The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, But the way of the upright is a highway. (NKJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Light Shining Out of Darkness

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Prodigal: Where did they go?

Me: They wouldn’t mind me, so they up and left.

Prodigal: Well, here is something to help you.

This is from William Cowper

God moves in a mysterious way,

His wonders to perform;

He plants His footsteps in the sea,

And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines

Of never failing skill,

He treasures up his bright designs,

And works his sovereign will.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;

The clouds ye so much dread

Are big with mercy, and shall break

In blessings on your head.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. Psalms 38:16 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Exceptional Women

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Prodigal: That is an exceptional carrot.

Me: Speaking of exceptional.

This is from Theodore Roosevelt.

There are exceptional women, there are exceptional men, who have other tasks to perform in addition to , not in substitution for, the task of motherhood and fatherhood, the task of providing for the home and of keeping it. But it is the tasks connected with the home that are the fundamental tasks of humanity. After all, we can get along for the time being with an inferior quality of success in other lines, political or business or of any kind; because if there are failings in such matters we can make them good in the next generation; but if the mother does not do her duty, there will either be no next generation, or a next generation that is worse than none at all. In other words, we cannot as a Nation get along at all if we haven’t the right kind of home life. Such a life is not only the supreme duty, but also the supreme reward of duty. Every rightly constituted woman or man, if she or he is worth his or her salt, must feel that there is no such ample reward to be found anywhere in life as the reward of children, the reward of a happy family life.

The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; Psalms 20:1 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Women Lovin’ Jesus

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Prodigal: I’m real down in the mouth that my cucumber is not ready yet.

Me: Well, just wait a couple of days.

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 15:18 A hot-tempered man stirs upstrife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention. (ESV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Save Us

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Prodigal: I’m jus’ hangin’ on by a thread.

Me: Maybe this will help

Save us from the evil tongue,

From the heart that thinketh wrong,

From the sin, whatev’er they be,

That divide the soul from Thee.

by Anon

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. Psalms 147:8 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Grace is Costly

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Me: I’m plum worn out after that quilt.

Prodigal: It looks beautiful though.

This is from the book The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: “ye were bought at a price,” and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us.

But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; Matthew 12:3 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org