{"id":5277,"date":"2021-01-06T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2020-12-27T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T14:57:19","slug":"encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=5277","title":{"rendered":"Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190113_145010-e1552426941299-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5244\" width=\"287\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190113_145010-e1552426941299-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190113_145010-e1552426941299-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prodigal:  Sometimes we have to be there for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me:  Yes, we all need encouragement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is from Encouragement:  The Key to Caring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a mistake to think of encouragement as a set of specific words or phrases.  Encouragement depends less on which words we use than the motivation behind them.  Words that encourage are inspired by love and directed toward fear.  These two conditions must be met for words to encourage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord, help us today.  Help us to stop the focus on fear today.  Help us to look to You.  Lord we need to give support and we need to receive support.  We can only do that with a spirit of love.  Love is God.  God is love.  So we are calling on You Lord right now to Help us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hebrews 9:2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal: Sometimes we have to be there for others. Me: Yes, we all need encouragement. 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