April 30, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Christ never founded any church, never created any state, never passed any law, never established any government or other authority. He wanted to put the law of God into the hearts of people, to make them self-governed.

Herbert Newton

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Ephesians 1:7-10
The English Standard Version

April 29, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Each of us has a capacity for God and an ability to relate to him in a personal way. When we do, he brings to us pardon for the past, peace for the present, and a promise for the future.

Ralph S. Bell

But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Habakkuk 2:20
The King James Version

Words are but the body, the garment, the outside of prayer; sighs are nearer the heart work.

Samuel Rutherford

April 26, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday

After I received him, Jesus restored my identity, filled my longing, erased my guilt and shame, and washed me from my sins.

Justine Kovar

Quick, Lord, answer me—for I have prayed. Listen when I cry to you for help! Regard my prayer as my evening sacrifice and as incense wafting up to you.

Psalm 141:1-2
The Living Bible

Revival is God’s finger pointed right at me.

Wilbert L. McLeod

April 25, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

As the morning is to you the beginning of a new life; as God has then given you a new enjoyment of yourself and a fresh entrance into the world, it is highly proper that your first devotions should be a praise and thanksgiving to God, as for a new creation; and that you should offer and devote body and soul, all that you are, and all that you have, to his service and glory.

William Law

Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

Isaiah 26:19
The English Standard Version

April 24, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

It is one thing to testify in a church service surrounded by people who agree and appreciate the testimony; but it is an entirely different matter to testify to the person outside Christ who is ignorant of the Gospel or in opposition to its truth.

Lora Lee Parrott

And I am the foremost of sinners; but I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

1 Timothy 1:15-16
The Revised Standard Version

A half truth is a whole lie.

Unknown

April 23, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Peace with God brings the peace of God. It is a peace that settles our nerves, fills our mind, floods our spirit, and in the midst of the uproar around us, give us the assurance that everything is all right.

Bob Mumford

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 11:14
The King James Version

April 22, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace. It is so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

“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

You must feel a prayer before God can hear it.

Unknown

April 19, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday

May your celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, our Lord and Savior, be blessed and meaningful, and may your hearts be filed with His joy.

The miracle of Christ’s resurrection: out of the grave into my heart.

David J. Netz

But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ” Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.

John 20:11-18
The New King James Version

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.

Clarence W. Hall

April 18, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

For forty centuries, in one unbroken column, the race of man had been marching into the shadows. And of all the millions who had descended into the shadowed valley, not one had every returned. No dead human form through all the centuries had risen up into a post-mortem life. There was in all Earth’s area not one empty grave. No human heart believed, no human voice declared that there was such a grave—a grave robbed by the power of a victor stronger than man’s great enemy, death. It was therefore a new and wonderful message which the Apostle communicated, when unto the dying race of man he lifted up his voice in the words: “One human form has risen from the dead; one grave of earth is empty; the man Christ Jesus who was dead, is alive again.”

S. S. Mitchell

At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.” Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down,” he said. With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.

Mark 15:33-37
The New International Version

April 17, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ’s rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.

Charles Spurgeon

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.

Matthew 27:27-31
The English Standard Version

Jesus was crucified not in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves.

George F. MacLeod