Prodigal: No use letting yourself stew over it.
Me: Amen!
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
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www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: It is wise to be humble.
Me: Yes, it is but it can be a struggle for me.
Prodigal: Maybe we need to be reminded.
This is from the book Filled with the Spirit…Then What? by R. Mabel Francis
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted, vexed, irritated, sore or disappointed. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed and despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret. I am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness when all around is trouble.
I need this word today. I had a great morning with the Lord. Then I met with some people and why do I suddenly feel my spirit with pride. I starting believing I am better than them. How false, how not of the Spirit. You have life because of the Lord. You have the Lord because of His grace. Remember who you are in Christ and how He has loved you. He loves those people the same no matter where they are in life. Get your spirit straight and humble and do not let pride continue. Ask God for forgiveness and pray that He gives mercy.
Mark 2:8
And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Jennifer Van Allen
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Prodigal: Well, this is as welcome as a dust storm on a trail drive.
Me: Maybe so, but we are part of it and we can do something about it.
This is from the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis
If all men were perfect, what should we then have to suffer of others for God’s sake? But now God hath thus ordered it, that we many learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another; help, instruct, and admonish one another.
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they shew of what sort he is.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: We are idle as jackdaws.
Me: It is ok for now to take a break.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 12:27 The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, But diligence is man’s precious possession. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I like how that goes together.
Me: Sometimes things just come together.
This is from Lloyd John Ogilvie
Peace is the result of grace. It literally means, “to bind together.” In other words, the peace which comes from unmerited, unearned love can weave and bind our fragmented lives into wholeness. And the civil war of divergent drives, which makes us feel like rubber bands stretched in all directions, is ended. The Lord is in control. He has forgiven the past, He is in charge of now, and shows the way for each new day.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. Psalm 42:8 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Just praying.
Me: That is a good thing.
This is Gelasian Sacramentary, A.D. 490
O God, the Life of the Faithful, the Bliss of the righteous, mercifully receive the prayers of Thy suppliants, that the souls which thirst for Thy promises may evermore be filled from Thy abundance. Amen.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:
When shall I come and appear before God? Psalm 42:2 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: Watcha doing?
Prodigal: Idle as jackdaws. Sometimes we need that.
Me: Amen
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 12:26 The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: What a beautiful sky!
Me: Yes, it is.
This is from G. Macdonald
When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awful loving-kindness.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
So panteth my soul after thee, O God. Psalm 42:1 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.come
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: You’re as pert as a cricket.
Me: It’s the new fabric with the design. I am excited about it.
Prodigal: I think it will be beautiful.
This is from the book How Can I find You, God by Marjorie Holms
I try to remember this when I question why you didn’t lead me to it long before….For everything there is a time and a season…..I probably would have resisted, shrugged, tossed it aside, or thrown up blocks that kept me from comprehending.
No, back of everything is a cause is a cause is a cause, all in a complex yet logical web of wisdom that I recognize finally as the hand of my personal God.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that , when we shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: That fits you like bee to a clover.
Prodigal: Thank you!
This is a short video devotion.
Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
