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Me:\u00a0 Prodigal are you watching the lightning play tonight?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Yep, we need to win this to tie up the series.\u00a0 It will be a tough fight without Bishop.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Yeah, I know about the injury during the first game that he had.\u00a0 Before the game starts though how about I share with you about handicaps?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal: That would be great!<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Rothschild in her book Lessons I Learned in the Dark Steps to Walking by Faith, Not by Sight<\/p>\n

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The greatest handicap you can have is for it not to be well with your soul.\u00a0 To allow your circumstances to blind you to the infinite goodness of God is far more debilitating than physical darkness.\u00a0 To silence the voice of God who longs to tell you of His love and forgiveness is far worse than physical deafness.\u00a0 To be paralyzed by fear is far more confining than physical immobility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I am laughing right now.\u00a0 You want to know why?\u00a0\u00a0 Because I remember when I thought the christian life was going to be boring if I followed God and was obedient to Him.\u00a0 See God always calls us at some point in our walk to Walk by Faith and Not By Sight!\u00a0 This will always battle with our need to control and plan!<\/p>\n

As you walk your faith out, others will see this in you, that you choose to walk by faith and not by sight.\u00a0 You will start getting two reactions.\u00a0 There are ones that are encourage themselves when they see your walk.\u00a0 The second one might happen though.\u00a0 These group of people try to stop your walk of faith.\u00a0 So then life quickly becomes interesting with all these groups that seem to take a different stance.\u00a0 So where do you go when the groups fight?\u00a0 You look to the beginner of your faith!\u00a0 You look to the Lord.\u00a0 Don’t look at the crowds of people.\u00a0 Don’t look to the circumstances.\u00a0 Look down at your bible, and remember God’s love for you and his forgiveness.<\/p>\n

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Matthew 13:14-15<\/p>\n

You will be ever hearing but never understanding:\u00a0 you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.\u00a0 For this people’s heart has become calloused;\u00a0 they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.\u00a0 Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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

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

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