A Thought for Today 31-03-2011

Hebrews 10:35-36

Continue to have confidence, since the reward is so great. You will need endurance to do God’s will and gain what he has promised.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
(Japanese Proverb)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4qPceadBMU&feature=related

A Thought for Today 30-03-2011

Ezekiel 18:30-32

Repent, renounce all your sins, avoid all occasions of sin! Shake off all the sins you have committed against me, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why are you so anxious to die, House of Israel? I take no pleasure in the death of anyone – it is the Lord who speaks. Repent and live!

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
(Oswald Chambers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fki04dpFD-0

A Thought for Today 29-03-2011

Jeremiah 3:25

We have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors from our youth until today, and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses...
(Ignatius)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSVBs82_h44

A Thought for Today 28-03-2011

Wisdom 11:23-24

Lord, you are merciful to all, because you can do all things and overlook men’s sins so that they can repent. Yes, you love all that exists, you hold in abhorrence nothing of what you have made.

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
(S.D. Gordon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqlgrDpdLx8&feature=related

A Thought for Today 25-03-2011

Philippians 2:6-7

Jesus Christ’s state was divine, yet he did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave and the form of a man; and he became as men are.

God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man-- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death--and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched. (J.B. Phillips, "Your God Is Too Small")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0llc20Q4Gg&feature=related

Weekly Blessing:

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A Thought for Today 24-03-2011

1 Kings 8:51-53

Lord, we are your people and your heritage. Be always watchful for the entreaty of your servant and of your people Israel, and listen to us whenever we call to you. For it was you who set us apart from all the peoples of the earth to be your own heritage.

“Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God”
(Unknown)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xKNkkjieK8&feature=related

A Thought for Today 23-03-2011

Ezekiel 18:30-32

Repent, renounce all your sins, avoid all occasions of sin! Shake off all the sins you have committed against me, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why are you so anxious to die, House of Israel? I take no pleasure in the death of anyone – it is the Lord who speaks. Repent and live!

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good
(Brennan Manning)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtBZ-MOZJs&feature=related

A Thought for Today 22 -03-2011

Joel 2:12-13

Come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning. Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn, turn to the Lord your God again, for he is all tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in graciousness, and ready to relent.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
(Leonard Ravenhill)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjf5PaS7-SQ

A Thought for Today 14-03-2011

Wisdom 11:23-24

Lord, you are merciful to all, because you can do all things and overlook men’s sins so that they can repent. Yes, you love all that exists, you hold in abhorrence nothing of what you have made.

Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.
(John G. Lake)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvr4O9FiK9A&feature=related

A Thought for Today 10-03-2011

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek the Lord while he is still to be found, call to him while he is still near. Let the wicked man abandon his way, the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn back to the Lord who will take pity on him, to our God who is rich in forgiving.

The invitation is not, “Give Me thine head.” The invitation is, “My Son, give Me thine heart.”
(John G. Lake)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3spvQYlB-I

A Thought for Today 09-03-2011

2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2

We are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God. As his fellow workers, we beg you once again not to neglect the grace of God that you have received. For he says: At the favourable time, I have listened to you; on the day of salvation I came to your help. Well, now is the favourable time; this is the day of salvation.

To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.
(Graham Kendrick)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x2IpLSfqp8&feature=related

A Thought for Today 02-03-2011

1 Corinthians 10:24,31

Nobody should be looking for his own advantage, but everybody for the other man’s. Whatever you eat, whatever you drink, whatever you do at all, do it for the glory of God.

Plant a word in the mind, and you will reap an act. Plant the act and you will reap a habit. Plant a habit and you will reap a character. Plant a character and you will reap a nature. Plant a nature and you will reap a destiny.
(Unknown)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bheXTsvHEJ4

A Thought for Today 01-03-2011

Mark 10:28-31

‘What about us?’ Peter asked Jesus. ‘We have left everything and followed you.’ Jesus said, ‘I tell you solemnly, there is no one who has left house, brothers, sisters, father, children or land for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not be repaid a hundred times over, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and land – not without persecutions – now in this present time and, in the world to come, eternal life.

‘Many who are first will be last, and the last first.’

Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self
(C.S. Lewis)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6CiHKX3874&feature=related