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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Edmund P. Clowney

This Day's Verse

O God, my heart is ready to praise you! I will sing and rejoice before you.

Psalm 108:1
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Take heed, O poor man, that if your flesh is mortal, your soul is precious and everlasting. If you lack money, you do not lack grace; and if you have no spacious house nor wide acres, the heavens spread above you, the earth is free.

Ambrose of Milan

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This Day’s Thought-Special Note

This Day's Thought

Dear Ministry Members,

This month of November is a special time of thanksgiving, and first and foremost, we would like to express our deep gratitude for you—our readers—who allow us to share in daily worship of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

We continue to prayerfully strive to bring you our very best in Christian thought. These brief “seeds for the day” are meant to offer inspiration and encouragement for your walk with God.

Thank you for allowing us to serve you and to share the blessings of these messages drawn from the wisdom of Christian leaders, theologians, preachers, and mentors of our faith. We hope and pray that we may continue to provide these devotionals for many years to come.

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In His Love,
Greg, for This Day’s Thought

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

Oswald Chambers

This Day's Verse

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.

Edmund Spenser

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

If the spirit rule and the body be humbled, man will seek nothing beyond the necessary. He will be satisfied with little and will disdain superfluity.

Maimonides

This Day's Verse

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.

Thomas Goodwin

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Surely that preaching which comes from the soul most works on the soul.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

Psalm 81:1-3
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Since Penelope Noakes of Duppas Hill is gone, there is no one who will ever call me Nellie again.

An old lady

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

What an immense workman is God in miniature as well as in the great! With the one hand, perhaps, He is making a ring of one hundred thousand miles in diameter, to revolve round a planet like Saturn, and with the other is forming a tooth in the ray of the feather of a hummingbird, or a point in the claw of the foot of a microscopic insect. When He works in miniature, everything is gilded, polished, and perfect; but whatever is made by human art, as a needle, etc., when viewed by a microscope appears rough, and coarse, and bungling.

William Law

This Day's Verse

For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.

Isaiah 33:22
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

My weight is my love.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Let us always bear about us such impressions of reverence, and fear of God, that we may humble ourselves before his almightiness, and express that infinite distance between his infiniteness and our weaknesses.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith.”

Habakkuk 2:4
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

This Day's Verse

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

1 John 2:15-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find him.

Blaise Pascal

This Day's Verse

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret for long ages but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

Romans 16:25-27
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it’s a decision.

Randall Worley

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

God takes men’s hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, when they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

Richard Baxter

This Day's Verse

Who is like a wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, And the sternness of his face is changed.

Ecclesiastes 8:1
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The London Times asked various writers for essays on the topic “What’s Wrong with the World?” G. K. Chesterton replied (in perhaps the shortest essay in history),

Dear Sirs:
I am.
Sincerely yours, G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

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