Prodigal: If I’m in for a penny, might as well be in for a pound.
Me: Well, don’t be luke warm.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: I got the perfect story for your friend that you brought today.
Prodigal: We are ready.
This is from Charles Swindoll
In a cartoon some years ago a little guy was taking heat from his sister and friends for a newly found “calling–patting little birds on the head. The distressed birds would approach, lower their little feathered pates to be patted, sigh deeply, and walk away satisfied. It brought him no end of fulfillment–in spite of the teasing he took from others. “What’s wrong with patting birds on the head?” he wanted to know. “What’s wrong with it?” his embarrassed friends replied. “No one else does it!”
If your niche is encouraging, please don’t stop. If it is embracing, demonstrating warmth, compassion, and mercy to feathers that have been ruffled by offense and bruised by adversity, for goodness’ sake, keep stroking. Don’t quit, whatever you do. If God made you a “patter,” then keep on patting to the glory of God.
For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:13
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodiglapig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Your brain ain’t hooked up to your mouth.
Me: Might be so , sometimes, but this is good for the spirit.
Author unknown
The Bible teaches us the best way of living…
the noblest way of suffering….
the most comfortable way of dying.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:1 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Sheepnose pimento pepper, Yummy!
Me: I agree!
This is a short video devotion Proverbs.
Proverbs 13:19 A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools. (ESV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: I think you are blind as a bat, this is not a whale.
Me: No, but I think a dolphin can understand this story also.
This is from the book, The Strong Willed Child by James Dobson
Whenever I’m tempted to become self-important and authoritative, I’m reminded of what the mother whale said to her baby: “When you get to the top and start to “blow,” that’s when you get harpooned!”
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved:
he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Psalm 121:3
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: That turned out well!
Me: Thank you!
This is from The Insanity of Obedience by Nik Ripken
We desire that the persecutors be punished. Once again, this is a response that most people would barely question. We assume that, since persecution is evil, it deserves to be punished. We have been in numerous meetings led by well-known Western Christians that have focused on a call for military intervention on behalf of believers in persecution. Our commitment to stop persecution and punish “the bad guys” likely says more about the condition of our own hearts than about the needs of believers in settings of suffering.
I am sending you out like sheep among wolves Matthew 10:16
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Made the bed!
Me: Speaking about making the bed.
This is a short video devotion on Proverbs
Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame will come to him who disdains correction, But he who regards a rebuke will be honored. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Trying to kill 2 birds with one stone.
Me: I get it.
This is from C.S. Lewis
Among the Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God….Among Patheists anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of god. God, in their language, meant the Being outside the world Who made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips.
To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 1:2 (KJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Me: I sure know that we can always turn to the Lord.
Prodigal: Yes, we can.
This is from the book The Finishing Touch by Charles Swindoll
Cancer is limited….
It cannot cripple love,
It cannot corrode faith,
It cannot eat away peace,
It cannot destroy confidence,
It cannot kill a friendship,
It cannot shut out memories,
It cannot silence courage,
It cannot invade the soul,
It cannot reduce eternal life,
It cannot quench the spirit,
It cannot lessen the power of the resurrection.
Psalms 42:11
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
Prodigal: Thank you God for all you do for me!
Me: Amen!
This is a short video devotion on proverbs
Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble, But a faithful ambassador brings health. (NKJV)
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
