Grace & Mercy

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

We ought to struggle earnestly to increase our beliefs. Every addition to them is an extension of life, both in breath and depth.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:10
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

George Herbert

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

You know better than I know myself that I am growing older, and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me from craving to straighten out everybody’s affairs. Make me thoughtful but not moody, helpful but not bossy. Keep my mind from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. Seal my lips on my aches and pains. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places, and talents in unexpected people. And give me, O God, the grace to tell them.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:1-2
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

Billy Graham

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

We are born homesick, every one of us. We who live in this fractured world have eternity written on our hearts; we are longing to be home and are digging the tent pegs of our lives in as deep as we can get them until we arrive on eternity’s shores.

Lore Wilbert

This Day's Verse

“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.”

Matthew 6:1-4
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Have confidence in God’s mercy, for when you think He is a long way from you, He is often quite near.

Thomas à Kempis

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knows not that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; and that Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for the promotion of evangelical truth.

Richard Mant

This Day's Verse

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 16:31
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The best way to influence people for God is to intercede with God for people.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

Here thou art but a stranger traveling to thy country; it is therefore a huge folly to be afflicted because thou hast a less convenient inn to lodge in by the way.

Jeremy Taylor

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:8
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Hope can be ignited by a spark of encouragement.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The problems that vex us here will be fully solved hereafter; eternity will explain this brief life. This is the wondrous music which we wring from the jarring notes of the world’s pain and sin.

Morris Joseph

This Day's Verse

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

Ephesians 6:24
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Remember that no time spent with children is ever wasted.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Unless we learn the meaning of mercy by exercising it towards others, we will never have any real knowledge of what it means to love Christ.

Thomas Merton

This Day's Verse

“With God are wisdom and strength; he has counsel and understanding.”

Job 12:13
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The greatest gift you possess is being who God has created you to be.

Michael Todd

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Mercy imitates God, and disappoints Satan.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

Psalm 111:10
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Be not afraid of saying too much in the praises of God; all the danger is of saying too little.

Matthew Henry

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

To repent is to alter one’s way of looking at life; it is to take God’s point of view instead of one’s own.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:28
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

It’s not only God’s mercies that are new every morning. It’s his miracles! Every day, without exception, we experience miracles big and small, visible and invisible, tangible and intangible.

Mark Batterson

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