January 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

Seneca

Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed.

Proverbs 28:27
The New Living Translation

Epitaph written by himself for his own tomb: “The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, Like the Cover of an Old Book, Its Contents Torn Out and Stripped of Its Lettering and Gilding, Lies Here, Food for Worms. Yet the Work Itself shall not be Lost; for it will, as He Believed, Appear once More in a New and More Beautiful Edition, Corrected and Amended by The Author.”

Benjamin Franklin

January 11, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

If you want to know about God, there is only one way to do it: Get down on your knees. The man who thinks only of himself says prayers of petition; he who thinks of his neighbor says prayers of intercession; he who thinks only of loving and serving God says prayers of abandonment to God’s will, and that is the prayer of the saints.

Fulton J. Sheen

How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Isaiah 52:7
The New King James Version

January 10, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

God’s plans for His children all fit into the fact of their immortality.

Unknown

And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”

Luke 4:5-8
The English Standard Version

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Francis Quarles

January 7, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Francis of Assisi spent 75 percent of his time in prayer and 25 percent in preaching and apostolic service. Yet we think of him primarily as a preacher. He was so energized by the Spirit of God that he made a significant mark on his world in a small amount of time each day or week.

Unknown

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Titus 2:11-14
The English Standard Version

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Bovee

January 6, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror, but that as an experience it does not exist at all. To “sleep in Christ,” “depart and be with Christ,” “fall asleep,”—these are the expressions the New Testament uses. It is high time the “icy river,” “the gloomy portal,” “the bitter pains,” and all the rest of the melancholy images were brought face to face with the fact: Jesus Christ has abolished death.

J. B. Phillips

“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed. Of a foreigner you may exact it; but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.”

Deuteronomy 15:1-3
The Revised Standard Version

January 5, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

C. S. Lewis

The poor shall eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him will praise the Lord. Let your heart live forever!

Psalm 22:26
The New King James Version

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

January 4, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

There is no escaping the cross. You will feel either pain in your body or tribulation in your spirit. Sometimes you will feel deserted by God. Sometimes your neighbor will trouble you. Quite frankly, you will sometimes be a burden to yourself. As long as God wants you to bear it, there can be no remedy for your suffering because there are some vital lessons you need to learn.

Thomas a Kempis

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Proverbs 22:24-25
The English Standard Version

January 3, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Is not prayer precisely of itself peace, silence, strength, since it is a way of being with God?

Jacques Ellul

He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 18:2-4
The New International Version

With trials, we grow stronger in faith.
With faith, we move closer to God.
With God, we can do all things.

Unknown

December 31, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Tonight we celebrate that we have lived yet another year wrapped in Thy warm embrace. Throughout this past year, Thy love has sustained us. We ask that, in the year to come, Thou guide us along the straight and narrow path to Thy love. Amen.

Unknown

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.”

Isaiah 2:3
The English Standard Version

As I enter the New Year, I take God to be my Father; Jesus Christ to be my Saviour; the Holy Spirit to be my Guide; the Bible to be the rule of my life; Christian people to be my associates; Christian work my duty and privilege.

Unknown

December 30, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

No man can bring another closer to Christ than he is himself.

Dwight L. Moody

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.

Psalm 118:1
The New Living Translation

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