Faith, Trust & Belief

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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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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

One result of the unbelief of our day is the tragedy of trying to live a maximum life on a minimum faith.

Rufus Matthew Jones

This Day's Verse

The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.

Psalm 116:6
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The defects in a preacher are soon spied: let a preacher be endued with ten virtues, and but one fault, yet this one will eclipse and darken all his virtues and gifts, so evil is the world in these times. Dr. Justus Jonas has all the good virtues and qualities a man may have; yet merely because he hums and spits, the people cannot bear that good and honest man.

Martin Luther

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The Christian faith engages the profoundest problems the human mind can entertain and solves them completely and simply by pointing to the Lamb of God.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant.

Psalm 119:76
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Following Jesus starts with the house next door.  A belief in longer tables, not higher fences.

Clement Sprout

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart. There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God. Our insistence upon seeing ahead is natural enough, but it is a real hindrance to our spiritual progress. God has charged himself with full responsibility for our eternal happiness and stands ready to take over the management of our lives the moment we turn in faith to him.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

Psalm 27:4
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

When someone tells me that he has never had a moment of probing religious doubt I find myself wondering whether he had ever known a moment of vital religious conviction.

Harold A. Bosley

This Day's Verse

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Proverbs 15:32
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Knowing the Bible is one thing. Knowing the author another.

Unknown

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