Faith, Trust & Belief

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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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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

You can’t pump up faith out of your own heart. Whenever faith is starved in your soul, it is because you are not in contact with Jesus; get in contact with him, and lack of faith will go in two seconds.

Oswald Chambers

This Day's Verse

I thought it good to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me. How great are His signs, And how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation.

Daniel 4:2-3
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The easiest place in which to be spiritual is in public; the most difficult is at home.

Charles Ryrie

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

At the root of the Christian life lies belief in the invisible. The object of the Christian’s faith is unseen reality.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

Job 37:5
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Religion is of two kinds—deeds and creeds.

Hobo News

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The kind of faith God values seems to develop best when everything fuzzes over, when God stays silent, when the fog rolls in.

Philip Yancey

This Day's Verse

He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 145:19
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!

Washington Irving

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The difference between faith and works is just this: In the case of faith, God does it; in the case of works, we try to do it ourselves; and the difference is measured simply by the distance between the infinite and the finite, the Almighty God and a helpless worm.

Albert Benjamin Simpson

This Day's Verse

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Proverbs 2:11
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

When the Master of earth, sea, and skies calls the shots, things happen.

Charles R. Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

There are three kinds of faith in Christ:
1. Struggling faith, like a man in deep water desperately swimming.
2. Clinging faith, like a man hanging to the side of a boat.
3. Resting faith, like a man safely within the boat (and able to reach out with a hand to help someone else get in).

Dwight Lyman Moody

This Day's Verse

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.

John Tillotson

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the “real” world and the unseen world as the “unreal” world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite. Through faith, the unseen world increasingly takes shape as the real world and sets the course for how we live in the seen world.

Philip Yancey

This Day's Verse

But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

Job 32:8
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Every house a temple, every heart an altar, every human being a priest.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but his goodness encourages us not to be afraid of him. To fear and not be afraid—that is the paradox of faith.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Job 12:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The man who claims to be a self-made man has relieved God of an embarrassing responsibility. He usually is a horrible example of unskilled labor.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

I only have one life and one chance to use it for something…I am free to choose what that something is, and that something I have chosen is my faith. Now my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands—and this is not optional—that I do all I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as possible and with whatever I have at my disposal to try to make a difference.

Jimmy Carter

This Day's Verse

The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.

Psalm 85:12
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We don’t have to worry about how wise or clever we are—God chose the foolish. We don’t have to worry about how powerful we are—God chose the weak. We don’t have to worry about how popular we are, or even whether we’ll amount to anything much—God chose the despised and the ones who were nothing. None of those human measurements counts when it comes to performing great acts in life—great acts as defined by God, acts of humility, obedience, and love.

Jimmy Carter

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment, but there is no such a word in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the way of God.

John Newton

This Day's Verse

And Jesus said to them, “Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men.”

Mark 1:17
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Billy Sunday

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