Thanksgiving & Gratitude

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday & Update

Dear Friends in Christ,

As we enter this season of thanksgiving, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude for you—our readers—who share with us in daily worship of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

We continue to prayerfully offer our best in Christian thought through these brief “seeds for the day,” meant to inspire and encourage you in your walk with God.

This coming January marks our 27th year together. As we have traditionally done each November, we invite those who feel led to support this ministry financially. Your gifts and pledges are a true blessing, enabling us to plan for another year of sharing God’s truth and encouragement around the world.

Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and faithful support. It is a joy and privilege to serve you.

In His Love,
Greg for This Day’s Thought

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This Day's Thought

Have you wept for your sin so that you were indeed sorrowful in your spirit? Are you so sorrowful that you hate it? Do you so hate it that you have left it?

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John 1:17
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

God doesn’t call people who are qualified. He calls people who are willing, and then He qualifies them.

Richard Parker

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

If the spirit rule and the body be humbled, man will seek nothing beyond the necessary. He will be satisfied with little and will disdain superfluity.

Maimonides

This Day's Verse

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.

Thomas Goodwin

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The secret of perpetual revival is the constant offering of thanksgiving in every circumstance.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

“‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’”

Jeremiah 33:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

It is not years that make souls grow old, but having nothing to love, nothing to hope for.

George Congreve

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I did not go through the Book, The Book went through me.

A. W. Tozer

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

All men commend patience, although few be willing to practice it.

Thomas à Kempis

This Day's Verse

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Colossians 2:6-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Go Godward: thou wilt find a road.

Russian proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Psalm 7:17
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.

Samuel Rutherford

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

Oswald Chambers

This Day's Verse

The Lord says to the people of Israel, “Seek me—and live.”

Amos 5:4
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.

Nicolas Caussin

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

God deserves far more praise than any of us could ever give Him. And God receives little thanks, even for his greatest gifts.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”

Luke 11:33-36
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

I do not seek to understand so that I may believe, but I believe so that I may understand.

Anselm of Canterbury

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, “I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou hast died for me.” Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.

Ole Hallesby

This Day's Verse

Let your unfailing love surround us, LORD, for our hope is in you alone.

Psalm 33:22
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Many favors which God gives us ravel out for want of hemming through our unthankfulness; for, though prayer purchases blessings, giving praise keeps the quiet possession of them.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

“The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”

Psalm 50:23
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Rest and be thankful.

Inscription on stone seat in the Scottish Highlands

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