April 3, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper. It is not God away off up yonder; it is God away down here, close up—so close up that when you pray to him, it is more a whisper than a kiss.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

1 John 5:4
The Revised Standard Version

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, “Who lives here?” I should reply, “Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Martin Luther

April 2, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott

Trust in the Lord God always, for in the Lord Jehovah is your everlasting strength.

Isaiah 26:4
The Living Bible

April 1, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

From strength to strength go on, wrestle and fight and pray,
Tread all the powers of darkness down and win the well-fought day.

Charles Wesley

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

2 Samuel 22:7
The King James Version

Lord, I called across the barrenness to you with my empty cup…If only I had known you better, I’d have come running with a bucket.

Nancy Spiegelberg

March 31, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

I am quite happy to be called an optimist, but my optimism is not of the utopian variety. It is based on hope. What is an optimist? I can answer for myself in a very simple fashion: He or she is a person who has the conviction that God knows, can do, and will do what is best for mankind.

Pedro Arrupe

A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 16:9
The New King James Version

March 30, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

They say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

C. S. Lewis

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11:28
The Revised Standard Version

May we not keep our blessings, but give them away.

Thom M. Shuman

March 27, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day. For each of us the time is coming when we shall have nothing but God. Health and wealth and friends and hiding places will be swept away, and we shall have only God. To the man of pseudo faith that is a terrifying thought, but to real faith it is one of the most comforting thoughts the heart can entertain.

A. W. Tozer

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

1 Corinthians 16:13
The New King James Version

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed.
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.

Isaac Watts

March 26, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Your one care should be that faith may increase, whether it be trained by works or by sufferings. Give your gifts freely and for nothing, that others may profit by them and fare well because of you and your goodness. In this way you shall be truly good and Christian.

Martin Luther

The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,

Nahum 1:7
The New International Version

March 25, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Despair comes from not knowing this is not our home.

Unknown

But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

Micah 7:7
The New International Version

Tears have a tongue, and grammar, and language, that our Father knoweth.

Samuel Rutherford

March 24, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Spirit-filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.

Samuel Chadwick

Trust in the Lord, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

Psalm 37:3-5
The Revised Standard Version

March 23, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

God our Father, I believe that out of Your infinite love You have created me. In a thousand ways I have shunned Your love. I repent of each and every one of my sins. Please forgive me. Thank You for sending Your Son to die for me, to save me from eternal death. I choose this day to enter into (renew my) covenant with You and to place Jesus at the center of my heart. I surrender to Him as Lord over my whole life. I ask You now to flood my soul with the gift of the Holy Spirit so that my life may be transformed. Give me the grace and courage to live as a disciple in Your Church for the rest of my days. In Jesus name I pray Amen.

St. Paul Street Evangelization

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 5:10-11
The New International Version

If you would be happy…have an indifference for more than what is sufficient

William Penn

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