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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Forgive me, most gracious Lord and Father, if this day I have done or said anything to increase the pain of the world. Pardon the unkind word, the impatient gesture, the hard and selfish deed, the failure to show sympathy and kindly help where I had the opportunity, but missed it; and enable me so to live that I may daily do something to lessen the tide of human sorrow, and add to the sum of human happiness.

F. B. Meyer

This Day's Verse

“This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. Tomorrow march down against them. They will be climbing up by the Pass of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the gorge in the Desert of Jeruel. You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you.’”

2 Chronicles 20:15-17
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

For every step you take toward God, God takes two steps toward you; and if you come to God walking, God comes to you running.

James Martin

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute.

Dag Hammarskjöld

This Day's Verse

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 14:27
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

The study of God’s Word for the purpose of discovering God’s will is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest characters.

James W. Alexander

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself because you never know when the world will need you.

Hillel the Elder

This Day's Verse

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

Proverbs 9:10
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

Anne Lamott

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Thomas Chalmers

This Day's Verse

Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!

Psalm 112:1
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Francis de Sales

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

It is God’s will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

Ole Hallesby

This Day's Verse

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

We master fear through faith—faith in the worthwhileness of life and the trustworthiness of God; faith in the meaning of our pain and our striving, and confidence that God will not cast us aside but will use each one of us as a piece of priceless mosaic in the design of his universe.

Joshua Loth Liebman

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

They that worship God merely from fear,
Would worship the devil too, if he appear.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 10:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

T. L. Cuyler

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Thomas Brooks

This Day's Verse

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Never walk away from prayer without asking God to join you for the rest of the day.

DiAnn Mills

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

A man can be as truly a saint in a factory as in a monastery, and there is as much need of him in the one as in the other.

Robert J. McCracken

This Day's Verse

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Proverbs 23:17-18
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Will Rogers

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Mercy imitates God, and disappoints Satan.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

Psalm 111:10
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Be not afraid of saying too much in the praises of God; all the danger is of saying too little.

Matthew Henry

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Religion is the fear and love of God; its demonstration is good works; and faith is the root of both, for without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear and love what we do not believe.

William Penn

This Day's Verse

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.’

Zechariah 1:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Keep your lamp burning, and let God place it where He will.

Unknown

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