Monthly Archives: June 2026

Prayer

Posted on by Jennifer Van Allen

Me: Sometimes the way forward looks difficult to manage.

Prodigal: Yes, but we don’t walk the path alone.

This is from P. Melancthon

Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer driveth away trouble and perplexity.

The road you see, make you very uncertain what is going on around you. You want to focus on why it does not make sense, but that is not the point. The point is to take you along a journey that will show you how God works in people’s life and your own.

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. Acts 4:20 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

And Just So

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Prodigal; I’ll be darn, I’m in a tight spot.

Me: Yes, it looks like it.

This is from Andrew Murray

And just so God gives Christians the Holy Spirit with this intention, that everyday all their life should be lived in the power of the Spirit. A man cannot live one hour a godly life unless by the power of the Holy Spirit. He may live a proper, consistent life, as people call it, and irreproachable life, a life of virtue and diligent service; but to live a life acceptable to God, in the enjoyment of God’s salvation and God’s love, to live and walk in the power of the new life–he cannot do it unless he be guided by the Holy Spirit every day and every hour.

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. Galatians 4:12 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

Be Reasonable

Posted on by Jennifer Van Allen

Prodigal: Goin’ over yander.

Me: I will be there too!

This is from The Strong Family by Charles Swindoll

In it all you must be reasonable.

Perfect children do not live in your home or mine. Neither do perfect parents. Understand, there will be times when you will break your own rules. To live under the assault of constant guilt will do neither you nor your family any good. For lack of a better way to put it, leave a little “wobble room.” Try very hard not to demand perfection or to bring up past-and-forgiven wrongs or to set your expectation level to high. A family must remain a team. That means you must pull together..flex, adjust, give, take. When children grow up in a “reasonable” environment, they feel the freedom to fail without a ton of guilt falling all over them. They also grow up with better memories of how things were in their younger years.

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief. Proverbs 14:13 (NIV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

External Testimony

Posted on by Jennifer Van Allen

Prodigal: That is pretty as a picture!

Me: It took a minute to finish.

This is from M.A. Schimmelpenninck

I believe that no Divine truth can truly dwell in any heart, without an external testimony in manner, bearing, and appearance, that must reach the witness within the heart of the beholder, and bear an unmistakable, though silent, evidence to the eternal principle from which it emanates.

And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 2 Thessalonians 1:7 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

A Clear Perception

Posted on by Jennifer Van Allen

Me: God wanted me to tell you something.

Prodigal: What?

Me: God forgives you–yes, even for that.

This is from Samuel D. Robbins

There is a faith in God, and clear perception of His will and designs, and providence, and glory, which gives to its possessor a confidence and patience and sweet composure, under every varied and troubling aspect of events, such as to man can realize who has not felt its influences in his own heart. There is a communion with God, in which the soul feels the presence of the unseen One, in the profound depths of its being, with a vivid distinctness and a holy reverence, such as no words can describe. There is a state of union with God. I do not say often reached, yet it has been attained in this world, in which all the past and present and future seem reconciled, and eternity is won and enjoyed; and God and man, earth and heaven, with all their mysteries, are apprehended in truth as they lie in the mind of the infinite.

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27:1 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org