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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

How God rejoices over a soul, which, surrounded on all sides by suffering and misery, does that upon earth which the angels do in heaven—namely, loves, adores, and praises God!

Gerhardt Tersteegen

This Day's Verse

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.  And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 4:31-32
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Disregard the study of God and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life, blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.

J. I. Packer

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Neither go back in fear and misgiving to the past, nor in anxiety and forecasting to the future. Instead, lie quiet under His hand, having no will but His.

Henry E. Manning

This Day's Verse

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Luke 12:15
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

The light of faith confers upon us undreamed-of enhancement of our vision, an extension of our understanding, an enrichment of our natural powers beyond the powers of words to convey.

Rosalind Murray

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in accepted sorrow!

Jeanne Guyon

This Day's Verse

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Isaiah 57:15
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

To come to God there is a straight line for every man everywhere.

John Donne

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

When therefore the smallest instinct or desire of thy heart calleth thee towards God and a newness of life, give it time and allow it to speak.  Take care thou refuse not Him that speaketh.  Be retired, silent, passive, and humbly attentive to this new risen light within thee.

William Law

This Day's Verse

He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid?  Do you still have no faith?”

Mark 4:40
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk.

Francis of Assisi

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

That piety which sanctifies us, and which is a true devotion to God, consists in doing all His will precisely at the time, in the situation, and under the circumstances, in which He has placed us.  Perfect devotedness requires not only that we do the will of God, but that we do it with love.  God would have us serve Him with delight; it is our hearts that He asks of us.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

Even if we believe that it makes no difference to the Lord whether we do these things, still we cannot just go ahead and do them to please ourselves; for we must bear the “burden” of being considerate of the doubts and fears of others—of those who feel these things are wrong.  Let’s please the other fellow, not ourselves, and do what is for his good and thus build him up in the Lord.  Christ didn’t please himself.  As the Psalmist said, “He came for the very purpose of suffering under the insults of those who were against the Lord.”  These things that were written in the Scriptures so long ago are to teach us patience and to encourage us so that we will look forward expectantly to the time when God will conquer sin and death.

Romans 15:1-4
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Prayer is the soul getting into contact with the God in whom it believes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

I must practice unlimited forgiveness because, if I did not, I should be wanting in veracity to myself, for it would be acting as if I myself were not guilty in the same way as the other has been guilty towards me.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.  I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

Psalm 9:1-2
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

God is stripping me of everything to give me Everything.

E. Stanley Jones

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Though faith may act more easily when it has some help from sense, yet it acts most nobly when it acts in opposition to sense.  Then it is pure faith when it stands upon its own legs—the power and Word of God.

Thomas Boston

This Day's Verse

“He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.”

Luke 16:10
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Struggle diligently against your impatience, and strive to be amiable and gentle, in season and out of season, towards every one, however much they may vex and annoy you—and be sure that God will bless your efforts.

Francis de Sales

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

We cannot say that this or that trouble shall not befall us.  Yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say that nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.

Richard Sibbes

This Day's Verse

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Philippians 4:11
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If God is here for us and not elsewhere, then in fact this place is holy and this moment is sacred.

Isabel Anders

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

That which is often asked of God is not so much His will and way, as His approval of our way.

Sarah F. Smiley

This Day's Verse

So we can plainly see that God’s method changed, for Christ, the new High Priest who came with the rank of Melchizedek, did not become a priest by meeting the old requirement of belonging to the tribe of Levi, but on the basis of power flowing from a life that cannot end.

Hebrews 7:15-16
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

When obstacles and trials seem
Like prison-walls to be,
I do the little I can do,
And leave the rest to Thee.

Frederick W. Faber

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