Prodigal: I still have a ways to go.

Me: One step at a time.

This is from the book God’s Psychiatry by Charles L. Allen

There is a good story of four men who climbed a mountain. The first complained that his feet hurt. The second had a greedy eye and kept wishing for each house and farm he could see. The third saw clouds and was worried for fear that it might rain. But the fourth fixed his eyes on the marvelous view. In looking away from himself and from the valley below, the little worries which made the others so unhappy were unnoticed.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! Isaiah 31:1 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: That one has a keen mind.

Me: Yes, Mam, she does.

This is from Imagine Heaven by John Burke

The intimacy of love God has for us is hard to comprehend. The only comparison comes by analogy-the connection we feel with a best friend, the oneness we want with a spouse, our tender love and desire for our children–and yet there’s an intimacy that we seek with each other that always eludes us. We can never be as close, as intimate, or as one with another person as our souls crave. That’s because the oneness we crave will only be found when we are united by God with God.

And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. Acts 9:19 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: That’s fine as frog hair.

Me: I agree!

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 16:11 Honest weights and scales are the LORD’s, All the weights in the bag are His work. (NKJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: Mighty big of you to come with me.

Me: I wouldn’t have it any other way.

This is from the book The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience by Jeremy Pierre

Faith is the means by which the gospel is received; thus, faith is at the center of heart transformation. God designed people from the very beginning to base their entire experience on what he says about them and their world. People ought to interpret the world as God interprets it, value the objects he values, commit to what he says is worthy of commitment. But because sin has corrupted people’s hearts, they are unable to believe God’s words on their own. Only the Holy Spirit can give the gift of faith and thus the power to change, and he does so through Scripture as the Word of God. Faith is how God restores his design for the human heart so that people can commune with him and reflect his character. This is true both for initial conversion as well as ongoing union with Christ.

And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. Joshua 24:8 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Me: Look at what I did today!

Prodigal: Your as smart as a whip!

This is from Antoinette Goetschius

When I am sore beset, I seek some quiet place,

Some lonely room or barren windswept hill,

And there in silence wait apart until

I see again the smile upon God’s face,

Until His presence floods me like the dawn,

And I can hear His whispered, “Peace be still,”

And know again the strength to His will.

I turn to take my load and find it gone.

Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. Isaiah 7:11 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: Who is gonna win?

Me: God!

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: This truck has some power.

Me: I know of some other type of power.

This is from Walking in the Spirit by A.B. Simpson

Of course, the prime condition ever is that we ourselves are walking in holiness and obedience, and pleasing the Holy Spirit for our own life. We cannot expect to impart to others what we do not possess ourselves. There is nothing tells on human souls like reality, and men instinctively know whether we have experienced what we teach.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. (Isa 40:31) KJV.

Jennifer Van Allen

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Me: Aye, aye Captain!

Prodigal: Well, I see things this way.

This is from Dorothea Day

Out of the light that dazzles me,

Bright as the sun from pole to pole,

I thank the God I know to be

For Christ the conqueror of my soul.

Since His the sway of circumstance,

I would not wince nor cry aloud.

Under that rule which men call chance

My head with joy is humbly bowed.

Beyond this place of sin and tears

That life with Him! And His the aid,

Despite the menace of the years,

Keeps and shall keep me, unafraid.

I have no fear, though strait the gate,

He cleared from punishment the scroll.

Christ is the Master of my fate,

Christ is the Captain of my soul.

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. John 19:25 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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www.faithincounseling.org

Prodigal: Today we have the joy of the Lord.

Me: Amen!

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 16:9 (KJV)

A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: Very beautiful! I can see this one is liked.

Me: May it be a blessing!

Author unknown

There is so much good in the worst of us,

And so much bad in the best of us,

That it ill behooves the best of us,

To talk about the rest of us.

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Romans 5:11 (KJV) Jennifer Van Allen www.theprodigalpig.com www.faithincounseling.org