Prayer

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of his providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together.

François de Fénelon

This Day's Verse

Many peoples shall come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.”

Isaiah 2:3
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

There are four ways God answers prayer: No, not yet; No, I love you too much; Yes, I thought you’d never ask; Yes, and here’s more.

Ann Lewis

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor’s door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

E. M. Bounds

This Day's Verse

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Nahum 1:3
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

In Jesus the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Thomas Brooks

This Day's Verse

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Never walk away from prayer without asking God to join you for the rest of the day.

DiAnn Mills

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

While a man rests on his own merits for acceptance with God, it is of little consequence whether he be a pagan idolator, or a proud, ignorant Pharisee. I know not which of the two is most distant from the kingdom of God.

James Milner

This Day's Verse

I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.

Psalm 120:1
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

God has an exasperating habit of laying his hands on the wrong man.

Joseph Blinco

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The great freedom Jesus gives us is to be ourselves, defined by His love and our inner qualities and gifts rather than by any kind of show we put on for the world.

Leslie Williams

This Day's Verse

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Luke 12:48
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I need the opportunity to free my mind of sorrow, personal concerns; to see my world through the mirrored reflection of holiness.  I need a time of prayer to leap beyond what is limiting in me as a person, to rediscover what is important and what is trivial, to take counsel with what my tradition stresses as the living faith.  I need prayer.

Albert Silverman

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

When David Livingstone was asked if he was afraid that going into Africa would be too difficult and too dangerous, he answered, “I am immortal until the will of God for me is accomplished.”

David Livingstone

This Day's Verse

But now, thus says the LORD, your creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!”

Isaiah 43:1
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of Omnipotence.

J. Edwin Hartill

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God’s purposes and man’s praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

E. M. Bounds

This Day's Verse

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 26:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

We are anxious to win our friends to our political beliefs or new diet fads, but our religion we keep strictly to ourselves.

The Upper Room

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is meditation that leads us in spirit into the hallowed solitudes wherein we find God alone—in peace, in calm, in silence, in recollection.

Jean Crasset

This Day's Verse

As a father has compassion for his children, so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him. For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 103:13-14
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Sometimes, we need a housecleaning of the heart.

Catherine Marshall

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.

Ole Hallesby

This Day's Verse

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Romans 8:31-32
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

Philo of Alexandria

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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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