January 9, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

The one who would bring others to Christ must offer them Christ with the reality of utter conviction, with the urgency of one who insists that they should choose between life and death, and with the joy of one who has made the greatest discovery in the world.

William Barclay

If you make the Lord your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home. For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go.

Psalm 91:9-11
The New Living Translation

“Forgiveness,” says one youngster, “Is when you leave your Dad’s saw out in the rain, and he says it was rusty anyway.”

Norman Vincent Peale

January 6, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Once a man is united to God how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die?

C. S. Lewis

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.”

Matthew 18:21-22
The Revised Standard Version

The story is told of a farmer who had lived on the same farm all his life. It was a good farm, but with the passing years the farmer began to tire of it. He longed for a change—for something “better.” Every day he found a new reason for criticizing some feature of the old place. Finally, he decided to sell, and listed the farm with a real estate broker who promptly prepared a sales advertisement. As one might expect, it emphasized all the farm’s advantages: ideal location, modern equipment, healthy stock, acres of fertile ground, and on and on. Before placing the ad in the newspaper, the realtor called the farmer on the phone and read the copy to him for his approval. When he had finished, the farmer cried out, “Hold everything! I’ve changed my mind. I am not going to sell. I’ve been looking for a place like that all my life!” If you’re dissatisfied with something in your life, take time to analyze it, and see what you really have.

Unknown

January 5, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

I will not glory because I am religious,
but I will glory because I am redeemed.
I will not glory because I am free from sin,
but because my sins are forgiven.

Ambrose of Milan

He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, But he who is impulsive exalts folly.

Proverbs 14:29
The New King James Version

It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.

Warren Wiersbe

January 4, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

He who never meditates, is like a person who never looks in the mirror; therefore, not knowing that he is untidy, he goes out looking disorderly. The person who meditates and directs his thoughts to God, Who is the mirror of his soul, tries to know his faults, attempts to correct them, moderates his impulses, and puts his conscience in order.

Padre Pio

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

1 Peter 4:12-13
The English Standard Version

There had been a shortage of beef and the butcher placed his last roast on the scale. “That’ll be $3.95,” he told the waiting customer. “That one’s too small; don’t you have anything larger?” the woman asked. The canny butcher returned the roast to the refrigerator, paused a moment, then took it out again. “This one,” he announced, “will be $4.80.” “Fine,” the customer said. “I’ll take them both.”

Sunshine Magazine

January 3, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

The strength for our conquering and our victory is drawn continually from Christ. The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you. The strength and power of sin have been broken. The Christian now has resources available to live above and beyond this world. The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin. It is like the little girl who said that when the devil came knocking with a temptation, she just sent Jesus to the door.

Billy Graham

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

Psalm 56:11
The King James Version

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

G. K. Chesterton

January 2, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Starting afresh patiently and in good cheer and hope is the mark of the Christian. One of the helpful definitions of Christianity is this: the Christian life is a series of new beginnings.

John B. Coburn

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:8-9
The New International Version

Learn to pray the work.

Mother Teresa

December 30, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

A Good New Year’s Resolution:
During the coming year I will go nowhere I can’t take Jesus Christ.
I will say nothing I would not want Him to hear.
I will do nothing I would not want Him to know about.
I will be the best example to others that I possibly can, for His sake.

Unknown

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Jeremiah 29:11
The King James Version

The year is closed, the record made,
The last deed done, the last word said,
The memory alone remains
Of all its joys, its griefs, its gains,
And now with purpose full and clear,
We turn to meet another year.

Robert Browning

December 29, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Entire conformity and resignation to the divine will is truly a road on which we cannot go wrong, and it is the only road that leads us to taste and enjoy that peace which sensual and earthly men know nothing of.

Philip Neri

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

John 3:17
The New International Version

God has two dwellings-one in heaven and the other in a thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

December 29, 2022 by Greg

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December 28, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The virtue of a man ought to be measured, not by his extra-ordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.

Blaise Pascal

The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Psalm 34:17
The King James Version

Pray that God uses you without consulting you.

Mother Teresa

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