Prayer

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

Robert McAfee Brown

This Day's Verse

So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech. Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.

1 Peter 2:1-3
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

How rarely we weigh our neighbour in the same balance in which we weigh ourselves.

Thomas à Kempis

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Prayer is the most perfect and most divine action that a rational soul is capable of. It is of all actions and duties the most indispensably necessary.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

And He shall be the stability of your times, A wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; The fear of the LORD is his treasure.

Isaiah 33:6
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility.

Armin Gesswein

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

Oswald Chambers

This Day's Verse

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.

Edmund Spenser

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Unto them that love him, God causeth all things to work for the best. So that with Him, by the heavenly light of steadfast faith, they see lite even in death; with Him, even in heaviness and sorrow, they fail not of joy and comfort; with Him, even in poverty, affliction, and trouble, they neither perish nor are forsaken.

Myles Coverdale

This Day's Verse

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

Psalm 68:3
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Thomas Chalmers

This Day's Verse

Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!

Psalm 112:1
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Francis de Sales

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk observed a villager praying most fervently during Yom Kippur services. Knowing that this man was uneducated and could barely read Hebrew, the Rabbi’s curiosity was aroused. After services, he questioned the villager. The man confessed: “Rabbi, since I can’t read too well, I recited the letters of the alphabet over and over, and beseeched the Almighty to arrange them into the appropriate words of the prayers.” Rabbi Mendel said: “Your prayer was more acceptable than mine because you uttered it with the entire devotion of your heart.”

Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

This Day's Verse

A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.

Proverbs 25:28
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Nothing great ought to be ventured on without preparation; but, above all, how sottish is it to engage extempore where the concern is eternity!

Robert South

This Day's Verse

The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

Psalm 126:3
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Since you are tempted without ceasing, pray without ceasing.

C. H. Spurgeon

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled; tomorrow cannot be assured; today only is thine, which, if thou procrastinatest, thou losest; which loss is lost forever.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

1 Peter 2:24
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Life is fragile, handle with prayer.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’”

Isaiah 58:9
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

Abraham Isaac Kook

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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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