Prodigal: It’s getting warmer out there.
Me: Yep, nice days to be outside.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many, But fools die for lack of wisdom. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I think this will be a beautiful quilt!
Me: Me too!
This is from Norman J. Clayton
We shall see His lovely face some bright, golden morning,
When the clouds have rifted, and the shades have flown;
Sorrow will be turned to joy, heartaches gone forever;
No more night, only light, When we see His face.
Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself…
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Just me today.
Me: That is ok.
This is from James C. Hefley
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the Child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself. He had nothing to do with this world except the naked power of His Divine manhood. While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a Cross between two thieves. His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth while He was dying–and that was His coat. When He was dead He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Such was His human life–He rises from the dead. Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today He is the Centerpiece of the human race and the Leader of the column of progress. I am within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that One Solitary Life.
Look on my misery and rescue me,
for I do not forget your law.
Plead my cause and redeem me;
give me life according to your promise.
Psalm 119: 153-154
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Be with me today Lord.
Me: Yes, He always is with us!
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; The heart of the wicked is worth little. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Well, they are finally, popping up after we planted them last year.
Me: Darn pretty too!
This is from the book A Spiritual Clinic by J. Oswald Sanders
The expression “work out” carries the idea of working out to an ultimate goal, to a finish, as in a scientific or mathematical problem. The question of the believer’s standing before God is never in view in the passage, nor is there room for the idea that our sanctification is something completed in a high moment of surrender to Christ. It is true that full surrender to Christ is necessary to full sanctification, but the crisis of surrender is only the initiation of the process. We have a life job on our hands. “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after” (Phil. 3:12), Paul protested. Sanctification is not automatic, the result of mere fluxion of time. The free agency of man in cooperating with God is involved. God sends sun and rain, provides soil and seed, but there would no crop if the farmer did not plow and fertilize, sow and reap.
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not. Job 27:19 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Beautiful plant!
Me: Yes, I love the colors.
This is from C. Wesley
Plant in us a humble mind,
Patient, pitiful, and kind;
Meek and lowly let us be,
Full of goodness, full of Thee.
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. Daniel 9:19 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: anno Domini.
Me: What is that?
Prodigal: Latin for “in the year of the Lord.”
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I reckon it is going to be a busy day.
Me: Yes, but that is not always bad.
This is from Reverend Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
The devil has so many tactics. What is true with Godly people is that they surrender all to the Lord. With that surrender the devil cannot come into to tempt. All is from God, all is for God and all we give to God.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Psalms 37:7 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I’m just reading about this battle that took place awhile ago.
Me: I have another story from the past.
This is from Keith Miller in Edge of Adventure
The Bible can change not only a life, but an entire lifestyle. Most of us have heard the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, but few of us have heard how the Bible played a very vital part in that historical event. The Bounty was a British ship which set sail from England in 1787, bound for the South Seas. The idea was that those on board would spend some time among the islands, transplanting fruit-bearing and food-bearing trees, and doing other things to make some of the islands more habitable. After ten months of voyage, the Bounty arrived safely at its destination, and for six months the officers and the crew gave themselves to the duties placed upon them by their government.
When the special task was completed, however, and the order came to embark again, the sailors rebelled. They had formed strong attachments for the native girls, and the climate and the ease of the South sea island life was much to their liking. The result was mutiny on the Bounty, and the sailors placed Captain Bligh and a few loyal men adrift in an open boat. Captain Bligh, in an almost miraculous fashion, survived the ordeal, was rescued, and eventually arrived home in London to tell his story. An expedition was launched to punish the mutineers, and in due time fourteen of them were captured and paid the penalty under British law.
But nine of the men had gone to another distant island. There they formed a colony. Perhaps there has never been a more degraded and debauched social life than that of that colony. They learned to distill whiskey from a native plant, and the whiskey, as usual, along with other habits, led to their ruin. Disease and murder took the lives of all the native men and all but one of the white men named Alexander Smith. He found himself the only man on an island, surrounded by a crowd of women and half-breed children. Alexander Smith found a Bible among the possessions of a dead sailor. The Book was new to him. He had never read it before. He sat down and read it through. He believed it and he began to appropriate it. He wanted others to share in the benefits of this book, so he taught classes to the women and the children, as he read to them and taught them the Scriptures.
It was twenty years before a ship ever found that island, and when it did, a miniature Utopia was discovered. The people were living in decency, prosperity, harmony, and peace. There was nothing of crime, disease, immorality, insanity, or illiteracy. How was it accomplished? By the reading, the believing, and the appropriating of the truth of God!
1 John 3:11
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: This turned out nice.
Me: Yes, better than I thought.
This is a short video devotion.
Proverbs 10:18 Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
