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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

How could we be filled with hatred, if we live night and day in God who is love?

Helder Câmara

This Day's Verse

The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:29
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Sometimes we are helped by being hurt. A skilled physician about to perform a delicate operation upon the ear said reassuringly, “I may hurt you, but I will not injure you.” How often the Great Physician speaks to us the same message if we would only listen! Richer life, more abundant health for every child of His—that is His only purpose. Why defeat that purpose?

The Sunday School Times

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God’s seed will come to God’s harvest.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

James 1:5-6
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Happiness is the practice of the virtues.

Clement of Alexandria

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If education can fit youth to face what the world calls failure, it will help them to find what God calls success.

Ralph W. Sockman

This Day's Verse

“And everything you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.”

Matthew 21:22
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

A mother was asked: “Which of your children do you love the most?” She replied, “The one who is sick until it gets well, and the one who is away until it gets home.”

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

None knows the weight of another’s burden.

George Herbert

This Day's Verse

“This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself,”

Isaiah 44:24
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

The elements of prayer…
Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.
Its use: to turn our will to His will.
Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

Julian of Norwich

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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

Ministry Reminder…

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Favorite Thoughts for Your Christian Walk
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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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