February 20, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

John 6:51
The King James Version

No one knocks at my door who is not sent by God.

Unknown

February 17, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

God our Father, you who exhort us to pray to you and give us what has been asked of you, listen to me, who am shivering in this darkness, and stretch out your hand to me. Let me see your light. Bring me back from errors and bring it about that under your guidance I may return again to myself and to you.

Augustine

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 6:47
The English Standard Version

Here is a rule for everyday life: Do not do anything which you cannot offer to God.

John Vianney

February 16, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Of all work done under the sun religious work should be the most open to examination. There is positively no place in the church for sleight of hand or double talk. Everything done by the churches should be completely above suspicion. The true church will have nothing to hide.

A. W. Tozer

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

Deuteronomy 18:18
The Revised Standard Version

In the name of God, stop a moment, close your work, and look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

February 15, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Evil is a test for greater love.

Mother Teresa

For those who find me find life and receive favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 8:35
The New International Version

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

Therese of Lisieux

February 14, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

At the Last Super, as the Master dipped the bread into the wine, and revealed that one of the disciples would betray him, the disciples did not begin by accusing one another or by saying, “Is it Judas?” Rather, they began with themselves, saying, “Is it I?”

Per Hassing

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

Psalm 40:1
The King James Version

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C. S. Lewis

February 13, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, everyone ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone gives Him his life, I will give Him mine.

Jonathan Edwards

So also the Lord can rescue you and me from the temptations that surround us, and continue to punish the ungodly until the day of final judgment comes.

2 Peter 2:9
The Living Bible

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Vance Havner

February 10, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

The purpose of life is not to find your freedom, but your master.

P. T. Forsyth

Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and the late rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

James 5:7-8
The Revised Standard Version

I do not wish you joy without a sorrow,
— Nor endless day without the healing dark,
Nor brilliant sun without the restful shadow,
— Nor tides that never turn against your bark.
I wish you love, and strength, and faith, and wisdom,
— Goods, gold enough to help some needy one.
I wish you songs, but also blessed silence,
— And God’s sweet peace when every day is done.

Dorothy Nell McDonald

February 9, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Religious have no reason to be sad. Being moody is being proud, thinking only of yourself.

Mother Teresa

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:5-8
The King James Version

Have your heart right with Christ, and He will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples and earth into heaven.

C. H. Spurgeon

February 8, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

As Thou wilt; what Thou wilt; when Thou wilt.

Thomas a Kempis

So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.

Romans 10:17
The New Living Translation

In Budapest, a man goes to the rabbi and complains, “Life is unbearable. There are nine of us living in one room. What can I do?” The rabbi answers, “Take your goat into the room with you.” The man is incredulous, but the rabbi insists. “Do as I say and come back in a week.” A week later the man comes back looking more distraught than before. “We cannot stand it,” he tells the rabbi. “The goat is filthy.” The rabbi then tells him, “Go home and let the goat out. And come back in a week.” A radiant man returns to the rabbi a week later, exclaiming, “Life is beautiful. We enjoy every minute of it now that there’s no goat—only the nine of us.”

George Mikes

February 7, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Minimum Discipline

As one who seeks to submit his will to the will of Christ, I humbly undertake to wear His Yoke in the following ways:
The Discipline of Prayer. To pray every day, preferably at the beginning of the day.
The Discipline of Scripture. To read reverently and thoughtfully, every day, a portion of Scripture, following a definite plan.
The Discipline of Worship. To share, a least once a week, in the public worship of God.
The Discipline of Money. To give a definite portion of my annual income to the promotion of the Christian Cause.
The Discipline of Time. To devote a specific portion of my time to ministering to the needs of others.
The Discipline of Work. To strive to make my daily work a Christian vocation.
The Discipline of Study. To develop my metal powers by careful reading and study.

J. A. Leatherman

In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”

Isaiah 25:9
The New International Version

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

A. W. Tozer

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