Prayer

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The principal cause of my leanness and unfruitfulness is owing to an unaccountable backwardness to pray.  I can write or read or converse or hear with a ready heart; but prayer is more spiritual and inward than any of these, and the more spiritual any duty is the more my carnal heart is apt to start from it.  Prayer and patience and faith are never disappointed.  When I can find my heart in frame and liberty for prayer, everything else is comparatively easy.

Richard Newton

This Day's Verse

He gives His beloved sleep.

Psalm 127:2
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Don’t fight with God over who is in control.

Charles Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The very helplessness of the world today is in itself a repudiation of that self-sufficient and self-confident view of life that the world in its progressive development has outgrown the need of Christ.  It is following Christ that gives the world what it most needs—a standard of right living, a cause to maintain and defend, a Leader to follow, and a law to obey.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

I am not worthy of the least of all your loving kindnesses shown me again and again just as you promised me.

Genesis 32:10
The Living Bible

This Day's Reprise

People who are in the habit of praying—and they include the mystics of the Christian tradition—know that when a prayer is answered, it is never answered in a way that you expect.

Kathleen Norris

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God answers prayer in the best way, not sometimes, but every time, although the immediate manifestation of the answer in the domain in which we want it may not always follow.

Oswald Chambers

This Day's Verse

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

Matthew 5:8
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

He is truly happy who has all that he wishes to have, and wishes to have nothing which he ought not to wish.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

What air is to a man’s physical nature, the Holy Spirit is to man’s spiritual nature.  Without air there is death in our bodies; without the Holy Spirit there is death in our souls.

Abraham Kuyper

This Day's Verse

The Lord will fulfil his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures for ever.  Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Psalm 138:8
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Let the day have a blessed baptism by giving your first waking hours and thoughts into the bosom of God.  The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

He does not need to transplant us into a different field, but we should grow right where we are, with just the circumstances that surround us.  He makes His sun to shine and His dew to fall upon us, and transforms the very things that before were our greatest hindrances, into the chiefest and most blessed means of our growth.  No difficulties in your case can baffle Him.  No dwarfing of your growth in years that are past, no apparent dryness of your inward springs of life, no crookedness or deformity in any of your past development, can in the least mar the perfect work that He will accomplish.  Put yourselves absolutely into His hands, and let Him have His own way with you.

Hannah Whitall Smith

This Day's Verse

Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,

Ephesians 6:7
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Prayer is the sum of our relationship with God. We are what we pray. The degree of our faith is the degree of our prayer. Our ability to love is our ability to pray.

Carlo Carretto

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Be patient with every one, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall.  I am glad that you make a daily new beginning.  There is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.

Francis de Sales

This Day's Verse

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.  Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever!  Amen.

Ephesians 3:20-21
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well guarded with prayer.  It is one end of the thread on which the day’s actions are strung, and should be well knotted with devotion.  If we felt more the majesty of life we should be more careful of its mornings.  He who rushes from his bed to his business and without worship is as foolish as though he had not put on his clothes, or washed his face, and as unwise as though he dashed into battle without arms or armor.

C. H. Spurgeon

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

In the early years of Christian experience he often meets our needs in striking ways in order to strengthen and confirm our new and weak faith.  But the more experience of his goodness and faithfulness we have, the more he is able to test and develop our faith by teaching us long-suffering and the assurance to wait patiently.

Hannah Hurnard

This Day's Verse

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Deuteronomy 10:12
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

His mercies are new every morning.

Charles Swindoll

This Day's Verse

“‘Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.’”

Job 34:32
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Little Timmy was saying his prayers one night.  His mother heard this plea: “And please make Tommy stop throwing things at me.  By the way, I’ve mentioned this before.”

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The will of God is never defeated, though much is done that is contrary to His will…Even what is done in opposition to His will does not defeat His will.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?  And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.

1 John 4:20-21
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.

John Keble

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