October 15, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

My mother was not a sentimental parent. In many ways she was a Spartan. But one of my strongest childhood experiences is of Mother going to a room she kept for the purpose on the third floor to pray. She spent hours in prayer, often beginning before dawn. When we asked her advice about anything, she would say, “I must ask God first.”

Madame Chiang Kai-shek

I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

Psalm 116:1-2
The King James Version

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

October 14, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

“Where is the church at 11:25 on Monday morning?” The church then is in the dentist’s office, in the automobile sales room and repair shop, and out in the truck. It is in the hospital, in the classroom, and in the home. It is in the offices, insurance, law, real estate, whatever it is. That is where the church is, wherever God’s people are. They are doing what they ought to be doing. They are honoring God, not just while they worship in a building but out there.

Arthur H. DeKruyter

God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may rule my people over whom I have made you king, wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”

2 Chronicles 1:11-12
The Revised Standard Version

October 13, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

We need not set out in search for a friend…rather, we must simply set out to be the friend Christ modeled—anticipating the needs of others, wearing ourselves out at giving. Jesus died doing it.

Joy MacKenzie

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; it is he who will save us.

Isaiah 33:22
The New International Version

We don’t have to be supersaints, just thirsty sinners.

Erwin W. Lutzer

October 12, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Drink has
Drained more blood
Hung more crepe
Sold more houses
Plunged more people into bankruptcy
Armed more villains
Slain more children
Snapped more wedding rings
Defiled more innocence
Blinded more eyes
Twisted more limbs
Dethroned more reason
Wrecked more manhood
Dishonored more womanhood
Broken more hearts
Blasted more lives
Driven more to suicide, and
Dug more graves than any other poisoned scourge that ever swept its death-dealing waves across the world.

Evangeline Cory Booth

Then Jeremiah replied, “Lord, you know it is for your sake that I am suffering. They are persecuting me because I have proclaimed your word to them. Don’t let them kill me! Rescue me from their clutches, and give them what they deserve! Your words are what sustain me; they are food to my hungry soul. They bring joy to my sorrowing heart and delight me. How proud I am to bear your name, O Lord.

Jeremiah 15:15-16
The Living Bible

October 11, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

John 15:5
The New King James Version

Children know the grace of God better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them. New and born and fresh and wonderful.

Archibald MacLeish

October 8, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

A large measure of disappointment with God stems from disillusionment with other Christians.

Philip Yancey

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

John 4:25-26
The English Standard Version

There are many who agree with God in principle but not in practice.

Richard Owen Roberts

October 7, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

We often find that we were better persons just after our conversion than we are after many years of being a Christian. Every day that passes should make us more like Christ, but we tend to grow cooler rather than warmer.

Thomas a Kempis

Steady plodding brings prosperity; hasty speculation brings poverty.

Proverbs 21:5
The Living Bible

October 6, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Christians don’t work in order to go to heaven; they work because they are going to heaven. Arrogance and fear are replaced with gratitude and joy.

Max Lucado

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:16
The New International Version

You are the light of the world, but the switch must be turned on.

Austin Alexander Lewis

October 5, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

The well-defined spiritual life is not only the highest life, but it is also the most easily lived. The whole cross is more easily carried than the half. It is the man who tries to make the best of both worlds who makes nothing of either. And he who seeks to serve two masters misses the benediction of both. But he who has taken his stand, who has drawn a boundary-line sharp and deep about his religious life, who has marked off all beyond as forever forbidden ground to him, finds the yoke easy and the burden light. For this forbidden environment comes to be as if it were not. And the balm of death numbing his lower nature releases him for the scarce disturbed communion of a higher life. So even here to die is gain.

Henry Drummond

For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

Isaiah 41:13
The New King James Version

October 4, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

It may be all right for angels to spend their time in visions and meditation, but if I am a Christian, I find God in the ordinary occurrences of my life.

Oswald Chambers

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 1:1-2
The King James Version

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

George MacDonald

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