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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what keeps things running right.

Anne Lamott

This Day's Verse

Make the most of your chances to tell others the Good News. Be wise in all your contacts with them. Let your conversation be gracious as well as sensible, for then you will have the right answer for everyone.

Colossians 4:5-6
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Bishop Festo Kivengere told the story of how he was going off to preach after a row with his wife. The Holy Spirit said to him, “Go back and pray with your wife!” He argued, “I’m due to preach in twenty minutes. I’ll do it afterwards.” “OK,” said the Holy Spirit. “You go and preach; I’ll stay with your wife.”

Festo Kivengere

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Alas! that idol myself is the master-idol we all bow to.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 18:15
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Give us Lord, a bit o’sun,
A bit o’work, and a bit o’fun;
Give us all, in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o’butter.

On an old inn, Lancaster, England

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

No learning is commendable which is not dipped in the love of God.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42:10
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.

Jonathan Edwards

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

We Christians look to the future even more than to the present; it is part of our new nature to do so.

Henry Liddon

This Day's Verse

And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Luke 10:2
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans’ home who had an incurable stutter.  One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead.  He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter.  Later he explained, “I don’t stutter when I talk to God.  He loves me.”

Bennett Cerf 

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Above all knowledge, know Christ.

John Wesley

This Day's Verse

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

Psalm 17:6
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead.  Fill their lives with sweetness.  Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If Christ had paid 99.9% of the debt of sin, not one of us would have a chance at heaven.

Charles Swindoll

This Day's Verse

The world ignores us, but we are known to God; we live close to death, but here we are, still very much alive.  We have been injured but kept from death.  Our hearts ache, but at the same time we have the joy of the Lord.  We are poor, but we give rich spiritual gifts to others.  We own nothing, and yet we enjoy everything.

2 Corinthians 6:9-10
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Once I sought a time and place for solitude and prayer; but now where’er I find thy face I find a closet there.

Unknown

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