Prodigal: What season is it?
Me: Pecan pie, sweet potatoe pie, pumpkin pie season!
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 14:4 Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; but much increase comes by the strength of an ox. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Still waitin’
Me: Yep, till the cows come home.
This is from Oswald J. Smith
Waiting on Jesus when I am weak,
Claiming His promises to those who seek;
Waiting on Jesus when I am strong,
Trusting Him only all the day long.
Waiting on Jesus when I’m opprest,
Finding in Him sweet comfort and rest;
Trusting Him fully, whatever befall,
Jesus my Savior, Jesus my all.
Waiting on Jesus lest I despair,
Knowing He ever heareth my prayer;
How can I doubt Him when He is near?
No one so loving, no one so dear.
Waiting on Jesus, rapture divine!
Wonder of wonders, Jesus is mine;
Trusting and praying, whatever betide,
Walking each moment close by His side.
Thou wilt keep in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee. Trust in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: Your being more stubborn than a two-headed mule.
Prodigal: Maybe, I am, but I believe in what I am doing.
This is from the book God’s Generals by Roberts Liardon
The lesson here is this: Do what God says to do, nothing more and nothing less. There is no game here. There is one move, and it belongs to God. Your job is to follow it.
In this generation, heaven must determine the timing of your life and your church as a whole. You are either in the will of God, or out of it. Your call must stay with the timing of heaven.
Why is God’s timing important? It is because you are not the only player in this game. He is moving several pieces together and at times we are waiting on other pieces to move. We have to stay tuned to the chess master as He figures out the board in front of him. We may not understand or be able to see all He sees. We can trust His plan. Stretch the faith muscles today and trust Him to guide you.
Psalms 18:1-2
I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliver, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: That story will bring a tear to a glass eye.
Me: It was good.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.
Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Keep moving toward the Lord.
Me: Yes, that I am doing!
This is from Calvin Coolidge
Press on. Nothing the word can take the place of persistence. Talen will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. Genesis 48:4 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: We just missed a close one.
Me: Praise God!
This is from Knight’s Master Book of New Illustrations by Walter Knight
Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl,
One was an optimistic soul;
But the other took the gloomy view,
“We shall drown,” he cried, without more ado.
So with a last despairing cry,
He flung up his legs and said, “Good-bye.”
Quoth the other frog with a merry grim,
“I can’t get out, but I won’t give in.
I’ll just swim round till my strength is spent,
Then will I die the more content.”
Bravely he swam till it would seem
His struggles began to churn the cream.
On the top of the butter at last he stopped,
And out of the bowl eh gaily hopped.
What of the moral? Tis easily found:
If you can’t hop out, keep swimming round.
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. Psalm 84:7 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Protection from the coldness of the outside world is a good thing.
Me: Yes, the warmth of the sun is life giving.
This is a short video devotion
Proverbs 14:2
Whoever walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. (ESV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: The crops are growing!
Me: Thank you Lord!
This is from Charles R. Hembree
There are years in South Africa when locust swarm the land and eat the crops. They come in hordes, blocking out the sun. The crops are lost and a hard winter follows. The “years that the locusts eat” are feared and dreaded. But the year after the locusts, South Africa reaps it greatest crops, for the dead bodies of the locust serve as fertilizer for the new seed. And the locust year is restored as great crops swell the land.
This is a parable of our lives. There are seasons of deep distress and afflictions that sometimes eat all the usefulness of our lives away. Yet, the promise is that God will restore those locust years if we endure. We will reap if we faint not. Although now we do not know all the “whys,” we can be assured our times are in His hands.
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. John 5:4 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Let’s just sit a spell.
Me: That quilt would be good to sit with!
This is from Anon
Not so in haste, my heart;
Have faith in God, and wait;
Although He linger long,
He never comes too late.
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. John 5:3 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: This is a beautiful day!
Me: Yes, and the Lord made it.
This is a video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 14:1 The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish pulls it down with her hands. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
