Faith, Trust & Belief

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me.”

Galatians 2:20
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

A church is God between four walls.

Victor Hugo

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Thou hast commanded that an ill-regulated mind should be its own punishment.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word. Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes. My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness. Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts. I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight. Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Psalm 119:169-176
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Faith in God—life can never take you by surprise again.

James Dobson

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Edmund P. Clowney

This Day's Verse

O God, my heart is ready to praise you! I will sing and rejoice before you.

Psalm 108:1
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Take heed, O poor man, that if your flesh is mortal, your soul is precious and everlasting. If you lack money, you do not lack grace; and if you have no spacious house nor wide acres, the heavens spread above you, the earth is free.

Ambrose of Milan

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

This Day's Verse

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

1 John 2:15-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Unto them that love him, God causeth all things to work for the best. So that with Him, by the heavenly light of steadfast faith, they see lite even in death; with Him, even in heaviness and sorrow, they fail not of joy and comfort; with Him, even in poverty, affliction, and trouble, they neither perish nor are forsaken.

Myles Coverdale

This Day's Verse

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

Psalm 68:3
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Christianity came into the world with the greatest simplicity of thought and language, as well as life and manners, holding forth nothing but piety, charity, and humility, with the belief of the Messiah and of his kingdom.

William Temple

This Day's Verse

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And do not lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.

Dutch proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man’s moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God’s unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.

R. J. Campbell

This Day's Verse

One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

Luke 8:22-25
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Yiddish proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

John Quincy Adams

This Day's Verse

I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people.

Philemon 1:4-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

This world is God’s world, after all.

Charles Kingsley

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God’s removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace—the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

Charles H. Brent

This Day's Verse

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139:23-24
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.

Ramona Carroll

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

An offense against your neighbor is a fence between you and God.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The difference between rising at five and seven d’clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man’s life.

Philip Doddridge

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