Prodigal: There is a lot of lip flapping.
Me: The spirit of truth always stands out!
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 9:9
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: What are you doing over yonder’?
Prodigal: Thinking about my prayers to God from the past.
Me: Great reflection
This is from J. Oswald Sanders in Robust in Faith
I asked of God that He should give success
To the high task I sought for Him to do;
I asked that every hindrance might grow less
And that my hours of weakness might be few;
I asked that far and lofty heights be scaled—
And now I humbly thank Him that I failed.
For with the pain and sorrow came to me
A dower of tenderness in act and thought;
And with the failure came a sympathy,
An insight which success had never brought.
Father, I had been foolish and unblest
If Thou hadst granted me my blind request.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: He’s so stupid he couldn’t roll rocks down a hill.
Me: I don’t know if that is the nicest thing to say to someone.
Prodigal: Probably not.
This is from the book The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
Whoever will listen will hear the speaking Heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. But we may take heart. To a people caught in the tempest of the last great conflict, God says, “Be still, and know that I am God,” and still He says it, as if He means to tell us that our strength and safety lie not in noise but in silence.
Today is a day to listen. Just listen.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah 38:19
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: So Many books…..so little time!
Me: Tell like it is…
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: I have to do chores while we chat.
Prodigal: I understand, sometimes things cannot wait.
This is from the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan
LUKEWARM people probably drink and swear less than average, but besides that, they really aren’t very different from your typical unbeliever. They equate their partially sanitized lives with holiness, but they couldn’t be more wrong.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness (Matt 23:25-28).
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I reckon we can just sit a spell.
Me: I like that idea!
This is from Samuel Rutherford
If God had told me some time ago that He was about to make me as happy as I could be in this world, and then had told me that He should begin by crippling me in arm or limb, and removing me from all my usual sources of enjoyment, I should have thought it very strange mode of accomplishing His purpose. And yet, how is His wisdom manifest even in this! For if you should see a man shut up in a closed room, idolizing a set of lamps and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps; and then throw open the shutters to let in the light of heaven.
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Today’s sunrise is not defined by yesterday’s sunset.
Me: Amen!
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 9:7 Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. (ESV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Good place to pray.
Me: Yes, it is.
This is from the book Out Live Your Life by Max Lucado
Heavenly Father, every breath is a gift from your hand. Even so, I confess that sometimes my own hand remains tightly closed when I encounter the needs of others. Please open my hand and my heart that I might learn to open my doors to others. As you help me open my heart and hand, O Lord, I ask that you also prompt me to open my life to those who need a taste of your love and bounty. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodialpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: What is all this howlin’ and yowlin’ I’m hearing.
Prodigal: Sorry, I fell into this plant.
Me: I don’t mind helping.
This is from the book Let the Journey Begin by Max Lucado
We ask for food, only to find provision already made. (How did you know I would be hungry?)
We ask for guidance, only to find answers in God’s ancient story. (How did you know what I would ask?)
God dwells in a different realm….
God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are they even like ours. We aren’t even in the same neighborhood. We’re thinking, Preserve the body; he’s thinking, Save the soul. We dream of a pay raise. He dreams of raising the dead. We avoid pain and seek peace. God uses pain to bring peace. “I’m going to live before I die,” we resolve. “Die, so you can live,” he instructs. We love what rusts. He loves what endures. We rejoice at our successes. He rejoices at our confessions. We show our children the Nike star with the million-dollar smile and say, “Be like Mike.” God points to the crucified carpenter with bloody lips and a torn side and says, “Be like Christ.”
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: God’s voice is as loud as your willingness to listen.
Me: That is speaking the truth.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
