Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 4
Created in Christ Jesus unto good works. —Ephesians 2:10
Let us ask Him to work in us to will those good works, so that our will, without being impaired in its free operation, may be permeated and moulded by His will, just as light suffuses the atmosphere without displacing it. And let us also expect that He will infuse into us sufficient strength that we may be able to do His will unto all pleasing. Thus, day by day, our life will be a manifestation of those holy volitions and lovely …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 3
Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. —Ephesians 5:8
We do not realize the importance of the unconscious part of our life ministry. It goes on continually. In every greeting we give to another on the street, in every moment's conversation, in every letter we write, in every contact with other lives, there is a subtle influence that goes from us that often reaches further, and leaves a deep impression than the things themselves that we are doing at the time. It is not so much what …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 2
He entered into one of the ships . . . and . . . sat down. —Luke 5:3
When Jesus sits in the ship everything is in its right place. The cargo is in the hold, not in the heart. Cares and gains, fears and losses, yesterday’s failure and today's success do not thrust themselves in between us and His presence. The heart cleaves to Him. “Goodness and mercy shall follow me,” sang the psalmist. Alas, when the goodness and mercy come before us, and our blessings shut Jesus from view! Here is the …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 1
Continue in prayer. —Colossians 4:2
The greatest and the best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer. And the best usury that any man or woman brings back to God when He comes to reckon with them at the end of this world is a life of prayer. And those servants best put their Lord’s money to the exchangers who rise early and sit late, as long as they are in this world, ever finding out, and ever following after better and better …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 31
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. —1 Corinthians 10:12
Angels fell in heaven, Adam in paradise, Peter in Christ's presence. —Theophilus Polwheile
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 30
The mother of Jesus saith unto Him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it. —John 2:3-5
In asking for temporal blessings, true wisdom lies in putting the matter into the Lord’s hand, and leaving it there. He knows our sorrows, and, if He sees it is good for us that the water should be turned into wine, He will do it. It is not …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 29
Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. —Colossians 3:3
It is neither talent, nor power, nor gifts that do the work of God, but it is that which lies within the power of the humblest; it is the simple, earnest life hid with Christ in God. —F. W. Robertson
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 28
Your heavenly Father knoweth. —Matthew 6:32
The Master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure. Your Father! Think how great store His love sets by the poor beginnings of the little ones, clumsy and unmeaning as they may be to others. All this lies in this blessed relationship, and infinitely more. Do not fear to take it all as your own. —Mark Guy Pearse
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 27
Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived, and by it slew me. —Romans 7:11
Christian, beware how thou thinkest lightly of sin. Take heed lest thou fall by little and little. Sin, a little thing? Is it not a poison? Who knows its deadliness? Sin, a little thing? Do not the little foxes spoil the grapes? Doth not the tiny coral insect build a rock which wrecks a navy? Do not little strokes fell lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings wear away stones? Sin, a little thing? It girded the Redeemer's head …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 26
Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. —2 Peter 3:18
Grace has its dawn as well as day; grace has its green blade, and afterwards its ripe corn in the ear; grace has its babes and its men in Christ. With God’s work there, as with all His works, “in all places of His dominion,” progress is both the prelude and the path to perfection. Therefore we are exhorted to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to …
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