May 16, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

It is not the outward storms and stresses of life that defeat and disrupt personality, but its inner conflicts and miseries. If a man is happy and stable at heart, he can normally cope, even with zest, with difficulties that lie outside his personality.

J. B. Phillips

but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8
The English Standard Version

God is our middle C. A still point in a turning world.

Max Lucado

May 13, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

In divine things there is no prudence which is not bold. It must live and work in the dark as briskly as in the light. It must be gay, playing blithely with difficulties; for difficulties are the stone out of which all God’s houses are built.

Frederick William Faber

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Ephesians 1:19
The King James Version

The door to happiness opens outwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

May 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

Frank Bianco

“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.”

John 14:27
The New Living Translation

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.

Corrie Ten Boom

May 11, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Wouldn’t it make astounding difference, not only in the quality of the work we do, but also in the satisfaction, even our joy, if we recognized God’s gracious gift in every single task?

Elisabeth Elliot

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

Psalm 138:7
The King James Version

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was once reminded of an especially cruel thing that had been done to her years before. But Miss Barton, seemed not to recall it. “Don’t you remember it?” her friend asked. “No,” came the reply, “I distinctly remember forgetting the incident.”

Sunshine Magazine

May 10, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the moment…The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Oswald Chambers

Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Fear not; be not dismayed.

1 Chronicles 22:13
The Revised Standard Version

We know people who have been “converted” many times. Every time there is a church revival they go to the altar and get “saved.” One minister told of a man in his congregation who had been “saved” seventeen times. During a revival meeting the evangelist made an altar call for all who wanted to be filled with the Spirit. The man who had been converted so often made his way toward the altar again. A woman from the congregation shouted, “Don’t fill him, Lord. He leaks!” Those who become “unconverted” were never converted in the first place.

R. C. Sproul

May 9, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

Thomas Kempis

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:1-2
The New King James Version

A person’s flaws are largely what make him or her likable.

Anne Lamott

May 6, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Have some of your carefully created castles been washed away? Mine have. Several times along my life’s journey, I had nowhere to turn except into my heavenly Father’s arms. There I remained quiet, soaking up his love for as long as I needed. Then I saw his hand begin a new creation for my life, a new direction, a new service for him and his kingdom. Waves need not always destroy. We must allow our heavenly Father to use them to redirect our lives.

Jean Otto

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Romans 8:25
The English Standard Version

We have done away with the devil these days because man can now be trusted to carry on the work himself.

Unknown

May 5, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

God does not do what false Christianity makes out—keep a man immune from trouble. God says, “I will be with him in trouble.”

Oswald Chambers

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

Romans 6:22
The New King James Version

A story is told about a little boy with a big heart. His next-door neighbor was an older gentleman whose wife had recently died. When the youngster saw the elderly man crying, he climbed up onto his lap and simply sat there. Later, his mother asked the boy what he had said to their saddened neighbor. “Nothing,” the child replied. “I just helped him cry.” Sometimes that is the best thing we can do for people who are facing profound sorrow. Often, our attempts to say something wise and helpful are far less valuable than just sitting next to the bereaved ones, holding their hand, and crying with them.

Unknown

May 4, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The devil cannot lord it over those who are servants of God with their whole heart and who place their hope in him. The devil can wrestle with but not overcome them.

Shepherd of Hermas

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14:13
The King James Version

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.

Samuel Rutherford

May 3, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Jonathan Swift

Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

Colossians 3:16
The New Living Translation

High up in the North, in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is 100 miles high and 100 miles wide. Once every 1000 years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.

Hendrick Willem Van Loon

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