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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in number, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.  But we have forgotten God!  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us.

Abraham Lincoln

This Day's Verse

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:12
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

Bill Bright

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God answers prayer in the best way, not sometimes, but every time, although the immediate manifestation of the answer in the domain in which we want it may not always follow.

Oswald Chambers

This Day's Verse

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

Matthew 5:8
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

He is truly happy who has all that he wishes to have, and wishes to have nothing which he ought not to wish.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

This Day's Verse

As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:4-5
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

We should be more interested in what we are going to become than in what we have been.

Charles Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Little things come daily, hourly, within our reach, and they are not less calculated to set forward our growth in holiness, than are the greater occasions which occur but rarely.  Moreover, fidelity in trifles, and an earnest seeking to please God in little matters, is a test of real devotion and love.  Let your aim be to please our dear Lord perfectly in little things, and to attain a spirit of childlike simplicity and dependence.  In proportion as self-love and self-confidence are weakened, and our will bowed to that of God, so will hindrances disappear, the internal troubles and contests which harassed the soul vanish, and it will be filled with peace and tranquility.

Jean Nicolas Grou

This Day's Verse

And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today.”

Exodus 14:13
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Witnessing for Christ is not something we turn on and off, like a TV set.  Every believer is a witness at all times–either a good one or a bad one.

Warren Wiersbe

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

No matter how good your life is at any moment, there’s always something bad you need to work on.  And no matter how bad your life may appear to be, there is always something to be grateful for.  Behind every public success, you will find some kind of private pain.  There is no such thing as a painless life.  But pain can build and deepen your character if you respond in the right way.

Rick Warren

This Day's Verse

“And don’t be afraid of the people, for I, the Lord, will be with you and see you through.”

Jeremiah 1:8
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

John Ruskin

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

What air is to a man’s physical nature, the Holy Spirit is to man’s spiritual nature.  Without air there is death in our bodies; without the Holy Spirit there is death in our souls.

Abraham Kuyper

This Day's Verse

The Lord will fulfil his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures for ever.  Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Psalm 138:8
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Let the day have a blessed baptism by giving your first waking hours and thoughts into the bosom of God.  The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The happy life is to rejoice in God and for God.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

By your patience possess your souls.

Luke 21:19
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Sometimes you change people’s lives just by saying “good morning.”  I always say to myself, “I’ll never see this person again on the elevator, on the stairwell, in the grocery store.  This is the only chance, the two of us.”

Courtney B. Vance

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

People like to say that time heals all wounds, and I think that is very nice but not entirely true: time does heal most things to some extent, and love gently tends the parts that still hurt.

Anne Lamott

This Day's Verse

The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God.

Revelation 3:12
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

If being a team player requires doing what is wrong, you’re on the wrong team.

Charles Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

He does not need to transplant us into a different field, but we should grow right where we are, with just the circumstances that surround us.  He makes His sun to shine and His dew to fall upon us, and transforms the very things that before were our greatest hindrances, into the chiefest and most blessed means of our growth.  No difficulties in your case can baffle Him.  No dwarfing of your growth in years that are past, no apparent dryness of your inward springs of life, no crookedness or deformity in any of your past development, can in the least mar the perfect work that He will accomplish.  Put yourselves absolutely into His hands, and let Him have His own way with you.

Hannah Whitall Smith

This Day's Verse

Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,

Ephesians 6:7
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Prayer is the sum of our relationship with God. We are what we pray. The degree of our faith is the degree of our prayer. Our ability to love is our ability to pray.

Carlo Carretto

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can even prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Frederick Buechner

This Day's Verse

Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 12:18
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

We are permitted to pour into God’s bosom the difficulties which torment us, in order that He may loosen the knots we cannot untie.

John Calvin

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