July 13, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny.

C. S. Lewis

He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Isaiah 57:2
The King James Version

The word “IF” is often highly significant. Think how different it would have been:
If you had only kept silent.
If you had listened to good advice.
If you had been more patient.
If you had frankly apologized.
If you had acted with prudence.
If you had shunned that bad investment.
If you had shown more sympathy.
If you had taken daily exercise.
If you had avoided that accident.
If you had started early.
If you had not run into debt.
If you had always been on time.
If you had promptly declined.
If you had controlled your temper.
If you had put it into writing.
If you had said the right word.
If you had eaten in moderation.
If you had stayed at home.
If you had not blundered.
If you had been industrious.
If you had guarded your health.
If you had recognized your fault.
If you had simply agreed.
If you had daily prayed.
If you had persevered.
If you had given more generously.
If you had not been stubborn.

Alfred A. Montapert

July 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Faith is the one area in our lives where growing up means we must grow to be more like a child, trusting simply in the goodness and complete knowledge of a Father who has our best interests at heart.

Colleen Townsend Evans

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 1:3
The Revised Standard Version

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

D. L. Moody

July 11, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists, but that he is actively present in our lives—healing, teaching, and guiding—we need to set aside a time and space to give him our undivided attention.

Henri Nouwen

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 16:32
The English Standard Version

Perhaps those who say they didn’t get a thing out of the sermon didn’t bring anything in which to take it home.

N. A. Prichard

July 8, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

If you completely give of yourself physically, you become exhausted. But when you give of yourself spiritually, you get more strength.

Oswald Chambers

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:1-2
The King James Version

It is not your obligation to complete your work, but you are not at liberty to quit.

The Talmud

July 7, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

We cannot pray and remain the same. We cannot pray and have our homes remain the same. We cannot pray and have the world about us remain the same. God has decreed to act in response to prayer. “Ask,” he commands us. And Satan trembles in fear we will.

Ruth Bell Graham

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1
The English Standard Version

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Thomas Merton

July 6, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices as the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

Leo Tolstoy

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Proverbs 16:3
The Revised Standard Version

Fight the good fight with all thy might!
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right.
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.

John Samuel Bewley Monsell

July 5, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Fatih is a living thing. It is like a plant that needs constant feeding. If we take daily and active steps to nourish our faith we shall find ourselves kept in God’s peace and love, whatever storms may be raging around us. It is only as we spend time worshipping God, concentrating on the nature of his Person, especially his greatness and love, that our faith begins to rise.

David Watson

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Romans 3:23-24
The English Standard Version

If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you do not like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourselves.

Augustine

July 4, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

George Washington

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.

Psalm 33:12
The New King James Version

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

Bruce Wilkinson

July 1, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

God does not want to be at the top of our list of important people and things. He wants to be at the center of them all, since they all revolve around him anyway.

Ron DiCianni

For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.

Psalm 30:5
The New King James Version

The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself as to how it is to cross rivers.

Unknown

June 30, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

If you are a Christian, you are now the sworn foe of the legions of hell. Have no delusions about their reality or their hostility. But do not fear them. The God inside you terrifies them. They cannot touch you, let alone hurt you. But they can still seduce and they will try. They will also oppose you as you obey Christ. If you are serious about Christ being your Lord and God, you can expect opposition. But life with Jesus can be an exhilarating and reassuring experience of constant triumph over evil forces.

John White

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9
The King James Version

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick along side it.

D. L. Moody

This Day's Thought

A Christian-inspired seed for the day!

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day’s Thought-Thursday