{"id":9853,"date":"2025-12-01T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9853"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:51:08","slug":"lord-help-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9853","title":{"rendered":"Lord Help Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211224_113124-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211224_113124-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9314\" width=\"572\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211224_113124-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211224_113124-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211224_113124-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211224_113124-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211224_113124-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  TGIF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  What&#8217;s that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  Thank God I&#8217;m Forgiven<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from the book The Soul Winner by C.H. Spurgeon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The genuine soulwinner knows what this means.  For my part, when the Lord helps me to preach, after I have delivered all my matter and have fired off my shot so fast that my gun has grown hot, I have often rammed my soul into the gun and fired my heart at the congregation.  This discharge has, under God, won the victory.  God will bless by His Spirit our hearty sympathy with His own truth, and make it do that which the truth alone, coldly spoken, would not accomplish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children; so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 1 Thessalonians 2:7-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: TGIF Prodigal: What&#8217;s that? Me: Thank God I&#8217;m Forgiven This is from the book The Soul Winner by C.H. Spurgeon The genuine soulwinner knows what this means. 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