September 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.

John Ruskin

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

1 Peter 2:9
The New King James Version

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Charlie Shedd

September 9, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him.

Coventry Patmore

The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.

Proverbs 23:24
The New International Version

God whispers in pleasure and shouts in pain.

Unknown

September 8, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made it.

Francis de Sales

“No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

Jeremiah 31:34
The New King James Version

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and have patience for the small ones. Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

September 7, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

Samuel Rutherford

From the west, people will fear the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the Lord drives along.

Isaiah 59:19
The New International Version

The secret of a governable tongue is not self-control but Christ-control.

George Sweeting

September 6, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for Sundays is no message for this age.

Douglas Rhymes

What good fellowship we once enjoyed as we walked together to the house of God.

Psalm 55:14
The New Living Translation

Many a fellow is praying for rain with his tub the wrong side up.

Sam Jones

September 5, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Give some time, if it is only half an hour in every day, to devotional reading, which is as necessary to the well ordering of the mind as the hand of the gardener is to prevent weeds destroying your favorite flowers.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Job 36:11-12
The King James Version

The little child digs his well in the seashore sand, and the great Atlantic, miles deep, miles wide, is stirred all through and through to fill it for him.

Phillips Brooks

September 2, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

A. W. Tozer

And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Isaiah 65:24
The King James Version

God raises the level of the impossible.

Corrie ten Boom

September 1, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Try interrupting the mediations of someone who is very attached to her spiritual exercises and you will see her upset, flustered, taken aback. A person who has this true freedom will leave her prayer, unruffled, gracious toward the person who has unexpectedly disturbed her, for to her it’s all the same—serving God by meditating or serving Him by responding to her neighbor. Both are the will of God, but helping the neighbor is necessary at that particular moment.

Francis de Sales

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.

2 Corinthians 4:7-12
The English Standard Version

You are a Christian today because somebody cared. Now it’s your turn.

Warren Wiersbe

August 31, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.

Glenn Olds

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 13:10
The Revised Standard Version

A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; third, he should be eloquent; fourth, he should have a good voice; fifth, a good memory; sixth, he should know when to make an end; seventh, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighth, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honor, in the world; ninth, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of everyone.

Martin Luther

August 30, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities—their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.

John Owen

I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.

Psalm 34:1
The New International Version

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.

Richard Halverson

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