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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice.  Abide in peace in the presence of God, who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and who permits them.  Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Galatians 6:10
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

If a man wins God’s race, it doesn’t matter where else he loses.  If a man loses God’s race, it matters not where else he may win.

Steven Lawson

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If you trusted God with your soul, why would you not trust Him with your worries?

Josh Weidmann

This Day's Verse

Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.  That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

2 Timothy 1:13-14
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Let the weakest, let the humblest remember, that in his daily course he can, if he will, shed around him almost a heaven.  Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men’s sensitiveness,—these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.  Are they not almost the staple of our daily happiness?  From hour to hour, from moment to moment, we are supported, blest, by small kindnesses.

Frederick W. Robertson

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

You are never to complain of your birth, your training, your employments, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you.  God understands His own plan, and He knows what you need a great deal better than you do.  The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most need.  What you call hindrances, obstacles, or discouragements, are probably God’s opportunities.  Bring down your soul, of, rather, bring it up to receive God’s will and do His work, in your lot, in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptations—and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it.

Horace Bushnell

This Day's Verse

I am determined not to sin in what I say.

Psalm 17:3
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy.  For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

C. S. Lewis

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Our faith is never perfect; we are partly unbelievers.  Faith is a humble, self-denying grace; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

“Judge not, that you be not judged.”

Matthew 7:1
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Whatever God tells us to do, He also helps us to do.

Dora Greenwell

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

God does not demand impossibilities.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Sink into the sweet and blessed littleness, where thou livest by grace alone.  Contemplate with delight the holiness and goodness in God, which thou dost not find in thyself.  How lovely it is to be nothing when God is all!

Gerhardt Tersteegen

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Faith is a living and unshakeable confidence, a belief in the grace of God, so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.  This makes us joyful, high-spirited and eager in our relations with God and with all mankind.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

An American tourist in India stood by in awe as he watched Mother Teresa lovingly clean the infected wounds of a horribly disfigured leper, “Sister,” he commented, “I wouldn’t do that for a million dollars!”  Her response, “Neither would I, brother.  Neither would I.”

Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The best prayer I can imagine is simple: God, help me see things as they really are.

Kate Bowler

This Day's Verse

“For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

Luke 17:21
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Lord, we have wandered forth through doubt and sorrow,
And Thou hast made each step an onward one;
And we will ever trust each unknown morrow,—
Thou wilt sustain us till its work is done.

Samuel Johnson

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The fact is there is nothing that we are doing that God could not raise up a stone in the field to do for him.  The realization of this puts us in our true place.  Though, lest we get too knocked down by such a realization of our insignificance, let me hasten to add that there is one thing that we alone can give God…and that is our personal love.  No one else can give God our personal love.  This is our great significance.

M. Basil Pennington

This Day's Verse

Now I say that each believer should confess his sins to God when he is aware of them, while there is time to be forgiven.  Judgment will not touch him if he does.

Psalm 32:6
The Living Bible

This Day's Reprise

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy—whether he knows it or not.

O. A. Battista

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Discernment in its fullness takes a practiced heart, fine-tuned to hear the word of God and the single-mindedness to follow that word in love.  It is truly a gift from God, but not one dropped from the skies fully formed.  It is a gift cultivated by a prayerful life and the search for self-knowledge.

Ernest Larkin

This Day's Verse

“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”  For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 58:13-14
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It can be easy for us to get discouraged with a no, but if we trust that God is directing our path, then we won’t receive it as a rejection but as a redirection.

Deb Hopper

This Day's Verse

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Ephesians 5:20
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

I rest beneath the Almighty’s shade,
My griefs expire, my troubles cease;
Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed,
Wilt keep me still in perfect peace.

Charles Wesley

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