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Me:\u00a0 Howdy, Prodigal!\u00a0 You look stuck and all the sand seems to be closing in on you.<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 That may what it appears to you to be going on but there is something else.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 So you are not in a bad position?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 No not at all, You see me in a hole that I cannot get our of.\u00a0 Really I was buried underneath and I have just broke through to the top.\u00a0 So it is not the end but just the beginning.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Wow, how we can focus to much on what we perceive and not what is going on spiritually.<\/p>\n

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Philip Yancey talks about faith when all around us seems to be in ruin in his book Disappointment With God.<\/p>\n

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For many of the heroes listed in Hebrews 11, they have one thing in common:\u00a0 a dread time of testing like Job’s, a time when the fog descends and everything goes blank.\u00a0 Torture, jeers, floggings, chains, stonings, sawings in two-Hebrews records in grim detail the trials that may befall faith-full people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saints become saints by somehow hanging on to the stubborn conviction that things are not as they appear, and that the unseen world is as solid and trustworthy as the visible world around them.\u00a0 God deserves trust, even when it looks like the world is caving in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The fog has descended.\u00a0 Your time of testing is here.\u00a0 You look with your eyes around you and there is nothing that will point you to encouragement.\u00a0 You go to God.\u00a0 You spiritual ears hear nothing but encouragement and telling you that it will all be turned around.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to be blind.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to hear.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to show God your trust.<\/p>\n

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John 10:27\u00a0 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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

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

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