October 22, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Some of us can only hear God in the thunder of revivals or in public worship; we have to learn to listen to God’s voice in the ordinary circumstances of life.

Oswald Chambers

“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”

Malachi 3:10
The New International Version

This moment contains all moments.

C. S. Lewis

October 21, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

O Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you. Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry!

Psalm 88:1-2
The English Standard Version

October 20, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

One of American Christianity’s most serious evils may be the sin of sermon listening. We hear, but we do not act. God is not basically interested in our listening to sermons. He wants us to be living sermons. The church is intended to be a vibrant, redeeming community of compassion, service, love, and worship. It is not a fraternity of fans of the faith.

Unknown

“For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.”

Mark 8:35
The New International Version

There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways of holding a baby, and they are all right.

Heywood Broun

October 19, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

The other evening I found myself staggering alone under a load that was heavy enough to crush half a dozen strong men. Out of sheer exhaustion I put it down and had a good look at it. I found that it was all borrowed: part of it belonged to the following day; part of it belonged to the following week—and here was I borrowing it that it might crush me now! It is a very stupid, but a very ancient blunder.

F. W. Boreham

Fools vent their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back.

Proverbs 29:11
The New Living Translation

October 18, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

The noblest souls are the most tempted. The devil is a sportsman and likes big game. He makes the deadliest assaults on the richest natures, the finest minds, the noblest spirits.

John L. Lawrence

And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead.

Acts 10:42
The New King James Version

A long life may not be good enough but a good life is long enough.

Benjamin Franklin

October 15, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

My mother was not a sentimental parent. In many ways she was a Spartan. But one of my strongest childhood experiences is of Mother going to a room she kept for the purpose on the third floor to pray. She spent hours in prayer, often beginning before dawn. When we asked her advice about anything, she would say, “I must ask God first.”

Madame Chiang Kai-shek

I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

Psalm 116:1-2
The King James Version

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

October 14, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

“Where is the church at 11:25 on Monday morning?” The church then is in the dentist’s office, in the automobile sales room and repair shop, and out in the truck. It is in the hospital, in the classroom, and in the home. It is in the offices, insurance, law, real estate, whatever it is. That is where the church is, wherever God’s people are. They are doing what they ought to be doing. They are honoring God, not just while they worship in a building but out there.

Arthur H. DeKruyter

God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may rule my people over whom I have made you king, wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”

2 Chronicles 1:11-12
The Revised Standard Version

October 13, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

We need not set out in search for a friend…rather, we must simply set out to be the friend Christ modeled—anticipating the needs of others, wearing ourselves out at giving. Jesus died doing it.

Joy MacKenzie

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; it is he who will save us.

Isaiah 33:22
The New International Version

We don’t have to be supersaints, just thirsty sinners.

Erwin W. Lutzer

October 12, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Drink has
Drained more blood
Hung more crepe
Sold more houses
Plunged more people into bankruptcy
Armed more villains
Slain more children
Snapped more wedding rings
Defiled more innocence
Blinded more eyes
Twisted more limbs
Dethroned more reason
Wrecked more manhood
Dishonored more womanhood
Broken more hearts
Blasted more lives
Driven more to suicide, and
Dug more graves than any other poisoned scourge that ever swept its death-dealing waves across the world.

Evangeline Cory Booth

Then Jeremiah replied, “Lord, you know it is for your sake that I am suffering. They are persecuting me because I have proclaimed your word to them. Don’t let them kill me! Rescue me from their clutches, and give them what they deserve! Your words are what sustain me; they are food to my hungry soul. They bring joy to my sorrowing heart and delight me. How proud I am to bear your name, O Lord.

Jeremiah 15:15-16
The Living Bible

October 11, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

John 15:5
The New King James Version

Children know the grace of God better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them. New and born and fresh and wonderful.

Archibald MacLeish

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