Prayer

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Teresa of Avila

This Day's Verse

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Psalm 46:10
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

For the early Christians, koinonia was not the frilly “fellowship” of church-sponsored, biweekly bowling parties. It was not tea, cookies, and sophisticated small talk in Fellowship Hall after the sermon. It was an almost unconditional sharing of their lives with the other members of Christ’s body.

Ronald J. Sider

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

It is God’s will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

Ole Hallesby

This Day's Verse

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

We master fear through faith—faith in the worthwhileness of life and the trustworthiness of God; faith in the meaning of our pain and our striving, and confidence that God will not cast us aside but will use each one of us as a piece of priceless mosaic in the design of his universe.

Joshua Loth Liebman

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the sister of meekness.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.

Psalm 121:7-8
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

John Wesley

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

So much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in the exercise of prayer.

Richard Hooker

This Day's Verse

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 1:9
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

Can you hear the sighing in the wind? Can you feel the heavy silence in the mountains? Can you sense the restless longing in the sea? Can you see it in the woeful eyes of an animal? Something’s coming… something better.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God is to be worshipped by faith, hope, and love.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.

Proverbs 3:27
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Our prayers run along one road and God’s answers by another, and by and by they meet.

Adoniram Judson

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

They that worship God merely from fear,
Would worship the devil too, if he appear.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 10:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

T. L. Cuyler

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beecher

This Day's Verse

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

Psalm 115:1
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don’t pray more.

Oswald Chambers

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

As white snow flakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

Ole Hallesby

This Day's Verse

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Job 5:2
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

Samuel Rutherford

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Charles Kingsley

This Day's Verse

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You. Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry.

Psalm 88:1-2
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do.

A. W. Tozer

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

“But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

Acts 6:4
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Time is infinite movement without one moment of rest.

Leo Tolstoy

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