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Me:\u00a0 Howdy Prodigal, Where are you going?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Life is difficult at the moment and I think I am just going to escape for a while.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Prodigal, before you leave let me try to encourage you with something I read in the book called Lessons I Learned in the Dark Steps To Walking By Faith, not by Sight by Jennifer Rothschild<\/p>\n

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We often think that faith is a recipe for getting what we want from God.\u00a0 If that were true, it would mean that if I could just muster enough faith, I would no longer be blind.\u00a0 But faith is not meant to offer an escape from life’s difficulties; its purpose is to give us strength to endure them.\u00a0 God allows hardship because of His great mercy and love for us, and He often removes it for the same reason.\u00a0 However, we should not thank Him more fervently on the day our difficult gift is removed than we do on the days we carry it.\u00a0 It takes just as much faith to bear a burden as it does to believe that it can be removed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your faith shows itself in a response of thankfulness in all circumstances.\u00a0 Bitterness never kneels at God’s throne; it just shakes an angry fist.\u00a0 Gratitude, however, like the lone leper, throws itself before Christ.\u00a0\u00a0 When you smash the last brick of your wall of bitterness with the hammer of gratitude, you will hear the echo of the words Jesus spoke to the leper:\u00a0 Your faith has made you well” (Luke 17:19)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I am walking in faith beside you.\u00a0 God is walking with you too!<\/p>\n

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You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.<\/p>\n

Revelation 4:11<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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