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Prodigal: Once in a blue moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: That is right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes from Walking In The Spirit by A.B. Simpson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not necessary that we should always know. Indeed, perhaps we should never fully know what any of our prayers wholly mean. God’s answer is always larger than our petition, and even when our prayer is most definite and intelligent there is a wide margin which only the Holy Ghost can interpret, and God will fill it up in His infinite wisdom and love. That is what is meant by the significant language of the text, “He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, becasue He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (Roma 8:27) The father is always searching our hearts and listening, not to our wild and often mistaken outcries, but to the mind of the Holy Spirit in us, whom He recognizes as our true guardian and monitor, and He grants us according to His petitions and not merely our words. But if we walk in the Spirit and are trained to know and obey His voice, we shall not send up the wild and vain outcrites of our mistaken impulses, but shall echo His will and His prayer, and thus shall every pay in according with the will of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the last day, that great\u00a0day<\/em>\u00a0of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. John 7:37 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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