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Me:\u00a0 I love the sound of that running water!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Me too!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Probably good spot to share.<\/p>\n

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This is from the book Beyond Our Selves by Catherine Marshall<\/p>\n

In my own case, it was precisely while my prayer was still unanswered that I received the most vivid assurances of God’s reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What this comes down to is the simple but powerful truth that God can be trusted in this regard as in all others.\u00a0 Hope is always of God; hopelessness is always of evil.\u00a0 Faith is always right; fear and despair are always wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We can rest on the love of God, knowing that His love for us boundlessly surpasses our own.\u00a0 Nothing can ever separate us from that love except out own blind unwillingness to receive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Truth be told, I am caught in feelings of hopelessness from long years of prayers that have yet to be answered.\u00a0 It started last night.\u00a0 The despair was driven away from not my own prayers ,but from the prayers of friends that dearly love me and knew that it was what I needed the most.<\/p>\n

Since then I am fully unwilling to receive God’s love at the moment and His joy.\u00a0 Years of counseling others, I know where I am.\u00a0 I am looking entirely too much on those gifts I want God to bless me with instead of looking mostly at God.\u00a0 I guess I just need to confess that with all my love of the Lord, with all His blessings in my life, I too get distracted at times.\u00a0 So what now?\u00a0 I think it has been confessed and now, I am going to release them.\u00a0 The blessings and all that I am focused on.<\/p>\n

Instead I focus on my LORD!\u00a0 You stayed with me during all this.\u00a0 You in soft loving ways kept pointing me back to you.\u00a0 I am back my LORD.\u00a0 I am sorry my LORD.\u00a0 \u00a0 I am yours my LORD.<\/p>\n

LORD, how you never said goodbye, you just waited for me to receive again.<\/p>\n

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Matthew 10:27<\/p>\n

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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