Me: You need to keep your saddle oiled and your gun greased.
Prodigal: We will be prepared.
This is a quick video devotion on proverbs.
Proverbs 6:18
A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil,
Jennifer Van Allen
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Me: It will be a beautiful day!
Prodigal: Yes, and I am waiting to see what God will do today.
This is from the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis
Therefore we must watch and pray, lest our time pass away idly. If it be lawful and expedient for you to speak, speak those things that may edify. An evil custom and neglect of our own good often makes us to set no watch before our mouth. Yet, devout discourses of spiritual things do greatly further our spiritual growth, especially when persons of one mind and spirit be gathered together in God.
John 6:27
Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.
Jennifer Van Allen
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www.faithincounseling.org
Me: Your garden looks good!
Prodigal: I am prouder than a prize heifer over my garden.
Me: Make sure you enjoy the garden.
This is from the book The Soul Winner by C.H. Spurgeon
May we be altogether alive from the crowns of our heads to the soles of our feet! I know such Christians. You cannot come into contact with them without feeling the power of the spiritual life that is in them. It is not merely while they are talking about religious topics, but even in the commonplace things of the world, that you are conscious there is something about them that tells you that they are altogether alive to God. Such Christians will be used by God for the quickening of others.
You are a christian that is alive with the light of the Lord. Allow yourself to be used by God today. Allow yourself to follow in His leading. Allow yourself to put aside your plans today. The Lord’s work needs the Lord’s workers.
God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
wwwfaithincounseling.org
Me: I’m starting a new project.
Prodigal: I think it will turn out great!
This is a short video devotion on proverbs
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Proverbs 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
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www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I’m waiting on the train.
Me: This can help the time fly.
This is from Doris C. Crandall
Chris Dowell had finished a long weekend of intensive training for volunteering at a crisis hot line for students at Oklahoma University. It is called Number Nyne, and when students feel angry, upset, frustrated, depressed or lonely, they can call and talk to the volunteers. He was going home from work at about 10:00 p.m. the day after he’d finished the course.
Going over some railroad tracks, Chris saw a wheelchair out of the corner of his eye. He drove on to the stop sign on the other side of the tracks thinking, “I wonder what that guy is doing there? He’s sitting way too close to be waiting to cross the tracks. Oh, well, it’s not my problem.”
Suddenly something inside him made Chris change his mind. Putting the truck into reverse, he backed up to the man in the wheelchair. Rolling down the passenger side window, Chris called out, “Hey what’s going on ? Do you need any help?”
The man did not answer, so Chris parked, walked over to him and sat on the ground next to his wheelchair. “I’m just waiting,” the man mumbled.
“What for?”
“A train. Old Jess is going to kiss this world good-bye. Man, I’m paralyzed. I can’t walk and can’t hardly use my arms.”
“You sound really down. What has gotten you so upset?” Chris didn’t try to talk him out of his plans or push him off the track. He knew the next train wouldn’t come until 12:35. He just listened as he told him his troubles. They talked about two hours.
Finally, Jess said he’d changed his mind. “Chris, man, ” he said, “I don’t know if you believe in God, but I do. Before I came to these tracks tonight I prayed, “Look, God, I’m going to the railroad tracks and kiss the first train that comes by. I don’t know if that’s what You want but if it’s not, then send somebody to stop me, and He did. He sent you.”
Chris was astounded. He could see how God had prepared him to respond to Jess. God has done something for someone else using Chris as a tool. “I thank God that I listened when that voice inside my heart said, “Back up and talk to that man.”
Colossians 3:9-10
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
