Prayer

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This Day's Verse

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.

Matthew 9:35
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

John Shedd

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

So often we pray and then fret anxiously, waiting for God to hurry up and do something. All the while God is waiting for us to calm down, so He can do something through us.

Corrie ten Boom

This Day's Verse

Then Peter and  the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Acts 5:29
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God forgets the past. Imitate him.

Max Lucado

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The Christian teacher should pray before preaching—He will succeed more by piety in prayer than by gifts of oratory.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

For God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us. Christ died for us so that, whether we are dead or alive when he returns, we can live with him forever. So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

1 Thessalonians 5:9-11
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Christ looks not to the work of praying but to the heart of the prayer.

Hugh Latimer

This Day's Verse

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 29:19
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

We never test the resources of God until we attempt the impossible.

F. B. Meyer

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

If you would have easy and sweet access to God in prayer: seek a holy heart, seek a broken heart, seek a humble heart.

Robert Leighton

This Day's Verse

Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,

1 Timothy 6:6
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

Albert Schweitzer

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

In prayer two things are necessary, faith and humility; by faith we rise up to God, and by humility we lie prostrate on the ground.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.

Psalm 145:16
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Without Christ, not one step; with him, anywhere!

David Livingstone

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

No one can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, except those who have learned it by experience. It is a great matter when in extreme need, to take hold on prayer. I know that whenever I have earnestly prayed, I have been amply heard, and have obtained more than I prayed for. God, indeed, sometimes delayed, but at last He came.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Revelation 14:12
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Augustine

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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-Friday

This Day's Thought

We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Oswald Chambers

This Day's Verse

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah  Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

Psalm 68:19-20
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The woods are made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped.  In that case, we are asking God to do it our way.

Bill W.

This Day's Verse

I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

Psalm 52:8
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

God’s simple formula is truth or consequences.

Charles Swindoll

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