Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 1
Continue in prayer. —Colossians 4:2
Dost thou want nothing? Then I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast thou no mercy to ask of God? Then may the Lord's mercy show thee thy misery. A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. —Charles H. Spurgeon
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 31
Christ is all, and in all. —Colossians 3:11
The service of Christ is the business of my life.
The will of Christ is the law of my life.
The presence of Christ is the joy of my life.
The glory of Christ is the crown of my life. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 30
Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. —Romans 6:4
That is the life we are called upon to live, and that is the life it is our privilege to lead; for God never gives us a call without its being a privilege, and He never gives us the privilege to come up higher without stretching out to us His hand to lift us …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 29
The living God. —Daniel 6:20
How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of! We know it is written “the living God;” but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is The Living God; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 28
Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. —Matthew 26:39
There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God. —Faber
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 27
Are there not twelve hours in the day? —John 11:9
The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him. —William Arnot
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 26
Despising the shame. —Hebrews 12:2
And how is that to be done? In two ways. Go up the mountain, and the things in the plain will look very small; the higher you rise the more insignificant they will seem. Hold fellowship with God, and the threatening foes here will seem very, very unformidable. Another way is, pull up the curtain and gaze on what is behind it. The low foot-hills that lie at the base of some Alpine country may look high when seen from the plain, as long as the snowy …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 25
My God shall be my strength. —Isaiah 49:5
Oh, do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come in you by the grace of God. —Phillips Brooks
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 24
He made as though He would have gone further. —Luke 24:28
Is not God always acting thus? He comes to us by His Holy Spirit as He did to these two disciples. He speaks to us through the preaching of the Gospel, through the Word of God, through the various means of grace and the providential circumstances of life; and having thus spoken, He makes as though He would go further. If the ear be opened to His voice and the heart to His Spirit, the prayer will then go up, “Lord, abide …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 23
Under His shadow. —Song of Solomon 2:3
Frances Ridley Havergal says: I seem to see four pictures suggested by that: under the shadow of a rock in a weary plain; under the shadow of a tree; closer still, under the shadow of His wing; nearest and closest, in the shadow of His hand. Surely that hand must be the pierced hand, that may oftentimes press us sorely, and yet evermore encircling, upholding and shadowing!