{"id":10097,"date":"2026-06-10T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=10097"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:12:00","slug":"prayer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=10097","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210710_110039-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210710_110039-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9144\" style=\"width:522px;height:696px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210710_110039-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210710_110039-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210710_110039-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210710_110039-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210710_110039-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  Sometimes the way forward looks difficult to manage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  Yes, but we don&#8217;t walk the path alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from P. Melancthon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer driveth away trouble and perplexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;s life and your own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. Acts 4:20 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: Sometimes the way forward looks difficult to manage. Prodigal: Yes, but we don&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=10097\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prayer - The Prodigal Pig<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today we have words from P. Melancthon. 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