Fear & Worry

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

Fulton J. Sheen

This Day's Verse

But they delight in doing everything God wants them to, and day and night are always meditating on his laws and thinking about ways to follow him more closely.

Psalm 1:2
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

God’s never missed the runway through all the centuries of fearful fog.

Charles R. Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Fear. His modus operandi is to manipulate you with the mysterious, to taunt you with the unknown. Fear of death, fear of failure, fear of God, fear of tomorrow—his arsenal is vast. His goal? To create cowardly, joyless souls. He doesn’t want you to make the journey to the mountain. He figures if he can rattle you enough, you will take your eyes off the peaks and settle for a dull existence in the flatlands.

Max Lucado

This Day's Verse

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:4
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Be thankful that God’s answers are wiser than your answers.

William Culbertson III

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Phillips Brooks

This Day's Verse

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:6-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself, there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking…

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Charles Kingsley

This Day's Verse

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You. Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry.

Psalm 88:1-2
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do.

A. W. Tozer

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Anxiety springs from the desire that things should happen as we wish rather than as God wills.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 4:13
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Perfect blessedness, which consists in a vision of God.

Thomas Aquinas

This Day's Verse

“The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.”

John 6:63
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Leave tomorrow’s trouble to tomorrow’s strength; tomorrow’s work to tomorrow’s time; tomorrow’s trial to tomorrow’s grace and to tomorrow’s God.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Celebration is possible only through the deep realization that life and death are never found completely separate. Celebration can really come about only where fear and love, joy and sorrow, tear and smiles can exist together.

Henri Nouwen

This Day's Verse

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

Proverbs 26:4
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Don’t tell me that worry doesn’t do any good.  I know better.  The things I worry about don’t happen.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

When David Livingstone was asked if he was afraid that going into Africa would be too difficult and too dangerous, he answered, “I am immortal until the will of God for me is accomplished.”

David Livingstone

This Day's Verse

But now, thus says the LORD, your creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!”

Isaiah 43:1
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of Omnipotence.

J. Edwin Hartill

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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-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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