Prodigal: This is the day the Lord has made.
Me: Yes, it is
This is by R.C. Trench
When thou hast thanked thy God
For every blessing sent,
What time will then remain
For murmurs or lament?
At that very time the Son rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I praise You, O Father.” Luke 10:21 NASB
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Mighty fine head covering you got there.
Me: I agree!
This is from the book God’s Psychiatry by Charles L. Allen
I will never forget what the coach said to us the first day I went out for football practice. He told us that football is a rough game and that if we expected to play it, we must also expect sometimes to get hurt.
So with life. If you expect to live it, you must also expect some bruises and hurt. That is just the way it is. And David, thinking of that fact, said in the Twenty third Psalm, “Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”
Sometimes, as the sheep grazed. its head would be cut by the sharp edge of a stone buried in the grass. There were briars to scratch and thorns to stick.
Then, some days the sheep had to walk steep paths under a hot, merciless sun. At the end of the day it would be tired and spent.
So the shepherd would stand at the door of the fold and examine each sheep as it came in. If there were hurt places the shepherd would apply soothing and healing oil. Instead of becoming infected, the hurt would soon heal.
Also, the shepherd had a large earthen jug of water, the kind of jar which kept the water refreshingly cool through evaporation. As the sheep came in, the shepherd would dip down into the water with is big cup and bring it up brimful. The tired sheep drank deeply of the life-quickening draught.
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. 1 Kings 8:34 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: This is a cozy quilt.
Me: Yes, it is and takes the chill off.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 14:21 He who despises his neighbor sins; But he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I’ll be doggon’. If I didn’t forget.
Me: You are still someone
This is from the book The Great House of God by Max Lucado
You are someone of God’s kingdom. You have access to God’s furnace. Your prayers move God to change the world. You may not understand the mystery of prayer. You don’t need to. But this much is clear: Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!
When you speak, Jesus hears.
And when Jesus hears, thunder falls.
And when thunder falls, the world is changed.
All because someone prayed.
After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even unto the corner. Nehemiah 3:24 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: This looks like a safe place.
Prodigal: Yes, we all need a safe place.
This is from the book Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey
When I read the Psalms and Job and Jeremiah, I sense something of the same pattern at work. Notice the angry outbursts, the complaints, the wild accusations against God contained in those books. God offers a “safe place” to express ourselves, even the worst parts of ourselves. I hear little of that blunt honesty in church growing up, which I now see as a spiritual defect, not a strength. Christians, I have noticed, are not immune from the kinds of circumstances that provoked the outburst in Job and Psalms. Why attempt to hide deep emotions from a God who dwells within, a Spirit who has promised to express on our behalf “groans” for which words fail us?
We do not have to hide who we are or what we feel. There is no shame in our emotions. There is no shame in who we are on the outside or the inside. We are loved. We are cherished. We are uniquely made. God can handle those emotions and those truths. The love will stay the same after.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
REVELATION 22 : 13
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Good game?
Me: Yeah, he could shoot the wings off a fly.
Today we have a short video devotion.
Proverbs 14:19
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
