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‘\"01-01-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Howdy, I found this wonderful short poem about the south.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I love it!\u00a0 It is so very true<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 I was just reading\u00a0 a poem about God<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I would love to hear it!<\/p>\n

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This poem is from an anonymous poet<\/p>\n

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My name is I AM.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you live in the past,<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will be very hard,<\/strong><\/p>\n

for I am not there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is not I WAS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And if you live in the future,<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will be very hard,<\/strong><\/p>\n

For my name is not I WILL BE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But if you live in the present,<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not hard,<\/strong><\/p>\n

For my name is I AM.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How tough of a lesson this is to learn.\u00a0 Before I was refined a lot by God, I loved to live in the future.\u00a0 I had so many different plans.\u00a0 I had a five year plan, one year plan, three month plan.\u00a0 I had my whole life planned out and it was going to be great.\u00a0\u00a0You might ask\u00a0if I\u00a0have those plans now.\u00a0 No I do not.<\/p>\n

God has taught me over the past couple of years to live in the present.\u00a0 To have God guide me.\u00a0 See if I am focused on this five year plan or one year plan then\u00a0I will push Gods plan aside.\u00a0 I will try to make Gods plan work with mine and put my\u00a0ideas in front\u00a0of Gods.\u00a0 Then we never really get see Gods glory in our lives.\u00a0 When our plan is first it is about us and our glory.\u00a0\u00a0 When we release today and tomorrow then it gives God a chance to change things.\u00a0 We see God work.\u00a0 We see God use us and take us places that we did not imagine.\u00a0 This doesn’t mean that I don’t work.\u00a0 This doesn’t mean\u00a0 not to save money.\u00a0 This just means we give God the right to change our plans and our timing.\u00a0 Look at your schedule today.\u00a0 Is the focus on what you think should be number one today or is God trying to tell you to put something else first.<\/p>\n

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Proverbs 19:21<\/p>\n

Many are the plans in the mind of man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen,<\/p>\n

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

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

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