{"id":1744,"date":"2016-01-02T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2016-09-01T00:29:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:29:47","slug":"what-we-cherish-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"What We Cherish Most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-30-15-172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-30-15-172-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"12-30-15 172\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-30-15-172-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-30-15-172-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:\u00a0 You want to help me feed the ducks?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Sure, that would be fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:\u00a0 What have you been reading lately?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book Beyond OurSelves by Catherine Marshall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For I have always felt that God is not half so concerned about our having a few negative thoughts as He is concerned with what we do.\u00a0 And the act of placing what we cherish most in His hands is to Him the sweet music of the essence of faith.\u00a0 This kind of faith can be used to solve any type of problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When we hold on tight to anything of this world then we lose our joy and our focus.\u00a0 Our thoughts and behaviors become obsessed with that object.\u00a0 We forget the joy of just being alive and knowing Jesus.\u00a0 We are so scared then to release that to God.\u00a0 Yet after we do release this to God then he has a way of changing everything and we then are able to see how MUCH God really does love us!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2 Chronicles 7:14<\/p>\n<p>If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Prodigal:\u00a0 You want to help me feed the ducks? &nbsp; Me:\u00a0 Sure, that would be fun! &nbsp; Prodigal:\u00a0 What have you been reading lately? &nbsp; The book Beyond OurSelves by Catherine Marshall &nbsp; For I have always felt that God is not half so concerned about our having a few negative thoughts as He &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=1744\">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-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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