A Thought for Today 30-03-2012

Isaiah 53:4-5

And yet ours were the sufferings he bore, ours the sorrows he carried. But we, we thought of him as someone punished, struck by God, and brought low. Yet he was pierced through for our faults, crushed for our sins. On him lies a punishment that brings us peace, and through his wounds we are healed.

 

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
(David Wilkerson)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ec7ofMOqVM 

 

Weekly Blessing:

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6VHnPSJRcaU

 

 

A Thought for Today 29-03-2012

Hebrews 7:26-27

The ideal high priest would have to be holy, innocent and uncontaminated, beyond the influence of sinners, and raised up above the heavens; one who would not need to offer sacrifices every day, as the other high priests do for their own sins and then for those of the people, because Jesus Christ our Lord has done this once and for all by offering himself.

 

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
(Luis Palau) 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etwFf3ZrABs&feature=related 

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 28-03-2012

Hebrews 9:28

Christ offers himself only once to take the faults of many on himself, and when he appears a second time, it will not be to deal with sin but to reward with salvation those who are waiting for him.

 

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
(John Henry Newman)

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 27-03-2012

1 Peter 5:8-9

Be calm and vigilant, because your enemy the devil is prowling round like a roaring lion, looking for someone to eat. Stand up to him, strong in faith.

 

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
(Dwight L. Moody)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF9AJm0RFc

A Thought for Today 26-03-2012

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10

God chose us to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that, alive or dead, we should still live united to him.

 

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
(Dwight L. Moody)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesUcW-bQSk&feature=related

A Thought for Today 23-03-2012

Jeremiah 14:9

Lord, you are in our midst, we are called by your name. Do not desert us, O Lord our God!

 

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
(Dwight L. Moody)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbkO5o7C8jc&feature=related

Weekly Blessing:

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6VHnPSJRcaU

 

A Thought for Today 22-03-2012

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace make you perfect and holy; and may you all be kept safe and blameless, spirit, soul and body, for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
(Dwight L. Moody)

 

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

 

 

A Thought for Today 21-03-2012

Ephesians 4:26-27

Even if you are angry, you must not sin: never let the sun set on your anger, or else you will give the devil a foothold.

 

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
(Francis Bacon)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRzg6LoouEc

A Thought for Today 20-03-2012

Isaiah 58:1-2

Shout for all you are worth, raise your voice like a trumpet. Proclaim their faults to my people, their sins to the House of Jacob. They seek me day after day, they long to know my ways, like a nation that wants to act with integrity and not ignore the law of its God.

 

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
(Rudy Giuliani)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zbx2x0Imh8

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 16-03-2012

James 1:27

In the eyes of God our Father, pure unspoilt religion is this: coming to the help of orphans and widows when they need it, and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world.

 

Images contaminate us like viruses.
(Paul Virilio)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92QFcpy0XC4

Weekly Blessing:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8ZFvULwQvzU

A Thought for Today 15-03-2012

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.

 

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
(Martin Luther)

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

 

 

A Thought for Today 14-03-2012

Ephesians 4:26-27

Even if you are angry, you must not sin: never let the sun set on your anger, or else you will give the devil a foothold.

 

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
(Mark Twain)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehr4MnAWd30&feature=related

A Thought for Today 13-03-2012

Joel 2:17

Between vestibule and altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, lament. Let them say, ‘Spare your people, O Lord! Do not make your heritage a thing of shame, a byword for the nations.’

 

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
(Corrie Ten Boom)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5oY2oYKHFY 

 

 

A Thought for Today 12-03-2012

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.

 

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
(Saint Augustine)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6dL9y1wT8 

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 09-03-2012

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention, come to me; listen, and your soul will live.

 

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
(Epictetus)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zBcXKVaFg8 

 

Weekly Blessing:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f_2iklDe1xQ

 

 

A Thought for Today 08-03-2012

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.

 

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
(Vince Lombardi)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0OJ8S3AfvM

A Thought for Today 07-03-2012

Daniel 4:24

By virtuous actions break with your sins, break with your crimes by showing mercy to the poor, and so live long and peacefully.

 

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
(C. S. Lewis)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkM-gDcmJeM

A Thought for Today 06-03-2012

Isaiah 58:1-2

Shout for all you are worth, raise your voice like a trumpet. Proclaim their faults to my people, their sins to the House of Jacob. They seek me day after day, they long to know my ways, like a nation that wants to act with integrity and not ignore the law of its God.

 

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv8etGuapK8

A Thought for Today 05-03-2012

Isaiah 58:6,7

Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me – it is the Lord who speaks – to share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor, to clothe the man you see to be naked and not turn from your own kin?

 

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
(Edwin Louis Cole)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snzDUALaexg&feature=watch_response 

A Thought for Today 02-03-2012

Jeremiah 3:12,14

Come back, says the Lord, and I will frown on you no more, since I am merciful and I shall not keep my resentment for ever. Come back, disloyal children, says the Lord.

 

Comeback is a good word, man.
(Mickey Rourke)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ykm1v9xbU

 

Weekly Blessing:

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wzhT1GJTPUQ