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\"05-03-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Prodigal, who are you with today?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 This is Morky and Minnie and they are brother and sister.\u00a0 We are spending time together.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Family is made up of more then just blood.\u00a0 In fact there is such a\u00a0thing as God’s family.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Tell me a little bit about God’s family please.<\/p>\n

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Bill Hybels talks about God’s family in his book; Who You Are When No One’s Looking.<\/p>\n

What does it take to do the will of the Father?\u00a0 It takes courage to join a family that is misunderstood by the world.\u00a0 It takes discipline to accomplish the tasks God has set out for his children.\u00a0 It takes vision to overcome inevitable problems and to see what God is doing in the lives of his children.\u00a0 It takes endurance to stick with your brothers and sisters when it would be so much easier to go your own way.\u00a0 Above all, it takes love to hold God’s family together and to reach out and invite others to join it–tender, tough, sacrificial, radical love.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our Church family and our Christian friends.\u00a0\u00a0 What a source of joy they are, but you know sometimes there is that struggle.\u00a0 We start to fight with each other and view each other as enemies.\u00a0 How sad our Father must be when he sees this.\u00a0 I know that person might look at you as an enemy.\u00a0 God looks at them with love.\u00a0 So with that tender, tough, sacrificial, radical love, look at them with the eyes of our Father.\u00a0 Take away that judgment in your heart today.\u00a0 Really pray that God blesses that person and ask God if you are the person that should help bless them.<\/p>\n

Romans 8:29<\/p>\n

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.<\/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

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