March 12, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

In order to arrive at having pleasure in everything,
Desire to have pleasure in nothing.
In order to arrive at possessing everything,
Desire to possess nothing.
In order to arrive at being everything,
Desire to be nothing.
In order to arrive at knowing everything,
Desire to know nothing.

John of the Cross

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 59:21
The New International Version

March 11, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He is our life.

Beth Moore

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

Matthew 6:14-15
The New King James Version

Kids can never be hugged too much.

Lee Ann, age 8

March 10, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Jesus has many who love his kingdom in heaven, but few who bear his cross. He has many who desire comfort, but few who desire suffering. He finds many to share his feast, but few his fasting. All desire to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for his sake. Many follow Jesus to the breaking of bread, but few to the drinking of the cup of his passion. Many admire the miracles but few follow him to the humiliation of his cross. Many love Jesus as long as no hardship touches them.

Thomas a Kempis

Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.

Psalm 99:9
The New International Version

March 9, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Taking us through suffering, not out of it, is one of the primary means that the Spirit uses today in bringing us to God.

Daniel Wallace

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

Proverbs 28:27
The King James Version

The world is new to us every morning—this is God’s gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day.

Baal Shem Tov

March 6, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

This spiritual prayer is more interior than the tongue, more deeply interiorized than anything on the lips, more interiorized than any words or vocal song. When someone prays this kind of prayer he has sunk deeper than all speech, and he stands where spiritual beings and angels are to be found; like them, he utters “holy” without any words.

John the Solitary

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12
The Revised Standard Version

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

C. S. Lewis

March 5, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

You no more need a day off from spiritual concentration in matters of your life than your heart needs a day off from beating. As you cannot take a day off morally and remain moral, you cannot take a day off spiritually and remain spiritual.

Oswald Chambers

Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

John 20:29
The New King James Version

March 4, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

We want quick change; cheap grace; inspirational platitudes; bumper sticker theology; easy faith. We want Christianity Lite. We want the Nice News not necessarily the Good News.

George Grant

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:14
The King James Version

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Meister Eckhart

March 3, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Look at the lives of those men and the time they gave to Scripture reading and prayer and various other forms of self-examination and spiritual exercises. They believed in the culture and the discipline of the spiritual life and it was because they did so that God rewarded them by giving them these gracious manifestations of himself and these mighty experiences which warmed their hearts.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.

Psalm 146:5-7
The Revised Standard Version

March 2, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

We deem it a sacred responsibility and genuine opportunity to be faithful stewards of all God has entrusted to us; our time, our talents, and our financial resources. We view all of life as a sacred trust to be used wisely.

Moravian Covenant for Christian living

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 10:23
The New King James Version

Sometimes God will put a Goliath in your life for you to find a David within you.

Unknown

February 28, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred.

C. S. Lewis

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

Colossians 1:5-6
The King James Version

Life isn’t spinning out of control…you’re just on God’s potter’s wheel.

Unknown

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