This Day’s Thought-Tuesday


This Day's Thought

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God’s most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Charles Stanley


This Day's Verse

But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.

Psalm 94:22
The Revised Standard Version


This Day's Reprise

You can’t tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Will Rogers


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This Day's Thought

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This Day’s Thought-Monday


This Day's Thought

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

Oswald Chambers


This Day's Verse

The Lord says to the people of Israel, “Seek me—and live.”

Amos 5:4
The Living Bible


This Day's Smile

We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.

Nicolas Caussin


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This Day’s Thought-Friday


This Day's Thought

Is my heart more aligned with Jesus’ mission or my own?

Meredith Houston


This Day's Verse

“Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight. Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of sin.”

Romans 4:7-8
The New Living Translation


This Day's Smile

Julie Galbraith, age 6, had on her headstone one of the loveliest inscriptions I know: “She came, she smiled, she left.”

Christopher Buckley


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This Day’s Thought-Thursday


This Day's Thought

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer


This Day's Verse

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.

Matthew 9:35
The New International Version


This Day's Reprise

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

John Shedd


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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday


This Day's Thought

The grace of God is sufficient for all our needs, for every problem and for every difficulty, for every broken heart, and for every human sorrow.

Peter Marshall


This Day's Verse

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.  Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Ecclesiastes 9:17-18
The King James Version


This Day's Smile

The best things in life are free, are they not? The air we breathe is not sold by the cubic foot. The water that flows crystal clear from the mountain stream is free for the taking. Love is free, faith is free, hope is free.

Billy Graham


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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday


This Day's Thought

Often we know the lonely and fail to reach out in love. We may be shy or find it hard to show love. We may feel that we are being insincere if we try. Then let us accept ourselves as we are—God’s imperfect instruments—and pray that he will use us despite our shortcomings.

Mother Teresa


This Day's Verse

O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee; for thou, O God, art my fortress.

Psalm 59:9
The Revised Standard Version


This Day's Reprise

People who wrestle with their consciences usually go for two falls out of three.

Los Angeles Times Syndicate


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This Day’s Thought-Friday


This Day's Thought

Lord, take my lips and speak through them; take my mind and think through it; take my heart and set it on fire.

William Hay Aitken


This Day's Verse

For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

1 Corinthians 10:26
The English Standard Version


This Day's Smile

The greatest science in the world, in heaven and on earth, is love.

Mother Teresa


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This Day’s Thought-Thursday


This Day's Thought

God’s silence is in no way indicative of His activity or involvement in our lives. He may be silent, but He is not still.

Charles Swindoll


This Day's Verse

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Psalm 127:1-2
The King James Version


This Day's Reprise

Benjamin West tells how he actually became a successful and important painter. When he was young, his mother went out and left him in charge of his sister Sally. In the meantime, little Benjamin discovered bottles of colored ink and began to do Sally’s portrait. What a mess soon developed. Finally, when Ben’s mother came home and saw the tragic mess, she said nothing. She merely picked up the paper with the portrait and said, “Why it’s Sally!” and she kissed Ben. Ever since that day, West has said, “My mother’s kiss made me a painter.”

Raymond T. Moreland


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