Prayer

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself “into the wilderness to pray.” He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him..Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.

G. H. Knight

This Day's Verse

Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 128:1-2
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The whole universe is but the footprint of the divine goodness.

Dante Alighieri

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This Day's Verse

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

Luke 6:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.

Georges Bernanos

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The divine test of a man’s worth is not his theology but his life.

Morris Joseph

This Day's Verse

And now the Lord says, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—

Isaiah 49:5
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

All thinking is not prayer. But thinking can be prayer, just as walking and talking and washing the floor can be prayer.

Vincent McNabb

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This Day’s Thought-Monday & Note

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This Day's Thought

God delights in our temptations, and yet hates them; He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; He hates them when they drive us to despair.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

2 Peter 3:18
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

You have been once more warned today, while the door of the ark yet stands open. You have, as it were, once again heard the knocks of the hammer and axe in the building of the ark, to put you in mind that a flood is approaching.

Jonathan Edwards

This Day's Verse

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Philippians 4:23
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The essential truth is that discernment is a function of a loving, personal relationship to the Lord. It can normally be only as deep and as solid as that relationship itself. The true discerner must be a praying, loving person.

Thomas H. Green

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Ask the earth and the sea, the plains and the mountains, the sky and the clouds, the stars and the sun, the fish and the animals, and all of them will say, “We are beautiful because God made us…” This beauty is their testimony to God.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty; listen to me, God of Jacob. Look on our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one.

Psalm 84:8-9
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

G. K. Chesterton

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

John Bunyan

This Day's Verse

And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

Luke 11:1-4
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Martin Luther

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, movement, and understanding.

Thomas Aquinas

This Day's Verse

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:3
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

Francois Mauriac

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Let grace be the beginning, grace the consummation, grace the crown.

Bede

This Day's Verse

Listen to my prayer, O God. Do not ignore my cry for help! Please listen and answer me, for I am overwhelmed by my troubles. My enemies shout at me, making loud and wicked threats. They bring trouble on me and angrily hunt me down.

Psalm 55:1-3
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

The most comprehensive formula for human culture which I know was given by the old peasant who, on his death bed, obtained from his son this one promise: to sit every day for half an hour alone in the best room.

Johannes Anker Larsen

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

To be gone from the kingdom of God, to be an exile from God’s city, to be cut off from the divine life, to be without the manifold sweetness of God—is so mighty a punishment that no torments that we know can be compared with it.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

Acts 5:29-32
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

Oswald Chambers

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