Faith, Trust & Belief

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Though faith may act more easily when it has some help from sense, yet it acts most nobly when it acts in opposition to sense.  Then it is pure faith when it stands upon its own legs—the power and Word of God.

Thomas Boston

This Day's Verse

“He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.”

Luke 16:10
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Struggle diligently against your impatience, and strive to be amiable and gentle, in season and out of season, towards every one, however much they may vex and annoy you—and be sure that God will bless your efforts.

Francis de Sales

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is faith’s work to claim and challenge loving kindness out of all the roughest strokes of God.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:12
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God loved us enough to save us from sin’s past penalty.
God loves us enough to save us from sin’s present power.
God loves us enough to save us from sin’s future presence.

Josh Weidmann

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

This solid faith doth empty the believer of himself.  The native work of faith is to make the soul rest in Christ alone.  True faith lays the burden of all duties and difficulties upon Him.

Blaise Pascal

This Day's Verse

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.  Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

1 Thessalonians 5:14-15
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

How shall we become lovely?  By loving Him who is ever lovely.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Our faith is never perfect; we are partly unbelievers.  Faith is a humble, self-denying grace; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

“Judge not, that you be not judged.”

Matthew 7:1
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Whatever God tells us to do, He also helps us to do.

Dora Greenwell

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Faith is a living and unshakeable confidence, a belief in the grace of God, so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.  This makes us joyful, high-spirited and eager in our relations with God and with all mankind.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

An American tourist in India stood by in awe as he watched Mother Teresa lovingly clean the infected wounds of a horribly disfigured leper, “Sister,” he commented, “I wouldn’t do that for a million dollars!”  Her response, “Neither would I, brother.  Neither would I.”

Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It can be easy for us to get discouraged with a no, but if we trust that God is directing our path, then we won’t receive it as a rejection but as a redirection.

Deb Hopper

This Day's Verse

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Ephesians 5:20
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

I rest beneath the Almighty’s shade,
My griefs expire, my troubles cease;
Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed,
Wilt keep me still in perfect peace.

Charles Wesley

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Guide me, O Lord, in all the changes and varieties of the world; that in all things that shall happen, I may have an evenness and tranquility of spirit; that my soul may be wholly resigned to Thy divine will and pleasure, never murmuring at Thy gentle chastisements and fatherly correction.  Amen.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:15
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

John Climacus

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The crosses which we make for ourselves by a restless anxiety as to the future, are not crosses which come from God.  We show want of faith in Him by our false wisdom, wishing to forestall His arrangements, and struggling to supplement His Providence by our own providence.  The future is not yet ours; perhaps it never will be.  If it comes, it may come wholly different from what we have foreseen.  Let us shut our eyes, then, to that which God hides from us, and keeps in reserve in the treasures of His deep counsels.  Let us worship without seeing; let us be silent; let us abide in peace.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

Deuteronomy 33:12
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Corrie ten Boom

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Give up yourself to God without reserve; in singleness of heart, meeting everything that every day brings forth, as something that comes from God, and is to be received and gone through by you, in such an heavenly use of it, as you would suppose the holy Jesus would have done, in such occurrences.  This is an attainable degree of perfection.

William Law

This Day's Verse

Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

Psalm 116:7
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Faith is simply taking God at His word.

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