July 26, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday

The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies/work/Christian activity. He laughs at our toil, mocks our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Samuel Chadwick

If you want to know what God wants you to do, ask him, and he will gladly tell you, for he is always ready to give a bountiful supply of wisdom to all who ask him; he will not resent it.

James 1:5
The Living Bible

You get to the very top of the ladder, and then you find it has not been leaning against the right wall.

Adrian Raine

July 25, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Beware of anxiety. Next to sin, there is nothing that so troubles the mind, strains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

William Ullathorne

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 51:11
The English Standard Version

July 24, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

C. S. Lewis

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Titus 2:1-3
The King James Version

In Happy moments, praise God. Difficult moments, seek God. Quiet moments, worship God. Painful moments, trust God. Every moment, thank God!

Unknown

July 23, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

The better a person knows himself, the smaller and less significant he seems to himself, and the higher he elevates himself toward God.

Thomas Kempis

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.

Psalm 40:3
The Revised Standard Version

July 22, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Prayer is not merely expressing our present desires. Its purpose is to exercise and train our desires, so that we want what he is getting ready to give us. His gift is very great, and we are small vessels for receiving it. So prayer involves widening our hearts to God.

Augustine of Hippo

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:9
The New International Version

Wisdom has two parts; 1) having a lot to say. 2) not saying it.

Unknown

July 19, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospel.

Will Durant

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2:13
The New King James Version

Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:
To see thee more clearly,
Love thee more dearly,
Follow thee more nearly,
Day by day.

Richard of Chichester

July 18, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Give us grace and strength to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.”

Daniel 10:12
The English Standard Version

July 17, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

One belongs to the world as long as one is more ashamed of faux pas, a display of ignorance, a wrong turn of phrase, than of an unloving action.

Theodor Haecker

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:16
The Revised Standard Version

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

C. S. Lewis

July 16, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Bibles read without prayer, sermons heard without prayer, engagements to marriage without prayer, travel undertaken without prayer, homes chosen without prayer, friendships formed without prayer, the daily act of private prayer itself hurried over or gone through without heart—these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual paralysis, or reaches the point where God allows him to have a tremendous fall.

J. C. Ryle

Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all sins.

Proverbs 10:12
The King James Version

July 15, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified; mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life, and peace; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.

Book of Common Prayer

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

1 John 5:2
The King James Version

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Unknown

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