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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Most Christians understand that salvation comes by faith, apart from feelings. But they think that the Spirit-controlled life requires some type of mystical experience—a feeling, a surge of power, or being overcome by waves of love. Those experiences are usually not around when you need them. What you need is spiritual power, independent of feelings, experiences, or circumstances. That comes when we give each day to God and anticipate his blessing.

Erwin W. Lutzer

This Day's Verse

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.

Psalm 1:1-3
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for him.

Oswald Chambers

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:8
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Hope can be ignited by a spark of encouragement.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

Fulton J. Sheen

This Day's Verse

But they delight in doing everything God wants them to, and day and night are always meditating on his laws and thinking about ways to follow him more closely.

Psalm 1:2
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

God’s never missed the runway through all the centuries of fearful fog.

Charles R. Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I did not go through the Book, The Book went through me.

A. W. Tozer

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Fear. His modus operandi is to manipulate you with the mysterious, to taunt you with the unknown. Fear of death, fear of failure, fear of God, fear of tomorrow—his arsenal is vast. His goal? To create cowardly, joyless souls. He doesn’t want you to make the journey to the mountain. He figures if he can rattle you enough, you will take your eyes off the peaks and settle for a dull existence in the flatlands.

Max Lucado

This Day's Verse

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:4
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Be thankful that God’s answers are wiser than your answers.

William Culbertson III

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The Christian has a deep, silent, hidden peace, which the world sees not, like some well in a retired and shady place. What he is when left to himself and to his God, that is his true life.

John Henry Newman

This Day's Verse

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11:28
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Authentic religion is not a theology test.  It’s a love test.

Oliver Thomas

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the sister of meekness.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.

Psalm 121:7-8
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

John Wesley

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

An old theologian once said, “Who chides a servant for taking away the first course of a feast when the second consists of far greater delicacies?” Who then can regret that this present world passes away when he sees that an eternal world of joy is coming? The first course is grace, but the second is glory, and that is as much better as the fruit is better than the blossom.

Charles Spurgeon

This Day's Verse

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:19
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

My Bible didn’t come with a bottle of Wite-Out. I’ve looked for those Bible ‘kits’—I’ve seen others using them—but I still haven’t figured out where they’re getting them.

R. R. Ball

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

No passion or affection, with which we are born, can be in itself sinful; it becomes so, only by wilful or careless indulgence.

Jonathan Mayhew

This Day's Verse

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I find my Lord going and coming seven times a day.  His visits are short; but they are frequent and sweet.

Samuel Rutherford

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Phillips Brooks

This Day's Verse

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:6-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself, there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking…

Augustine

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