A Thought for Today 31-05-2012

Luke 1:39-56 (NIV)

And Mary said:
“My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindfulof the humble state of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed,for the Mighty One has done great things for me — holy is his name.
His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation.
He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.
He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.”

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
(Mother Teresa)

 

A Thought for Today 29-05-2012

1 Peter 1:13-16

Free your minds, then, of encumbrances; control them, and put your trust in nothing but the grace that will be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Do not behave in the way that you liked to before you learnt the truth; make a habit of obedience: be holy in all you do, since it is the Holy One who has called you, and scripture says: Be holy, for I am holy.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
(David Livingstone)

 

A Thought for Today 25-05-2012

John 21:17 (NIV)

The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep."

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
(Charles Maurice de Talleyrand)

A Thought for Today 24-05-2012

John 17:20-23 (NIV)

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
(C. S. Lewis)

 

A Thought for Today 23-05-2012

John 17:11-15 (NIV)

I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
(Hans Urs von Balthasar)

 

 

A Thought for Today 22-05-2012

1 John 4:11-15

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
(Mother Teresa)

A Thought for Today 18-05-2012

Acts 2:32,36

God raised this man Jesus to life, and all of us are witnesses to that. For this reason the whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.

“Have you ever wondered what you would do to frighten Lazarus after he’d been raised from the dead? What would you do to threaten him? Lazarus, I’m gonna’ kill you?"
(Ravi Zacharias)

 

 

A Thought for Today 14-05-2012

Apocalypse 1:17-18

I saw the Son of Man, and he said to me, ‘Have no fear! I am the First and the Last. I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld.’

"...Death is dead!’ How do you frighten somebody who has already been there and knows the one who’s going to let him out? …"

(Ravi Zacharias)

 

 

A Thought for Today 16-05-2012

Romans 4:24-25

We believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, Jesus who was put to death for our sins and raised to life to justify us.

 

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
(C. S. Lewis)

 

 

A Thought for Today 15-05-2012

Acts 4:11-12

This Jesus is ‘the stone rejected by you the builders, but which has proved to be the keystone.’ For of all the names in the world given to men, this is the only one by which we can be saved.

 

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
(Phaedrus)

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 11-05-2012

John 15:12-14

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘This is my commandment:

love one another,

as I have loved you.

A man can have no greater love

than to lay down his life for his friends.

You are my friends,

if you do what I command you.

 

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
(Malcolm Muggeridge)

 

 

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A Thought for Today 10-05-2012

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.

 

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
(Malcolm Muggeridge)

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 08-05-2012

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.

 

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
(Malcolm Muggeridge) 

 

Boasting - Lecrae (feat. Anthony Evans)

 

 

A Thought for Today 04-05-2012

Jeremiah 14:9

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

 

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
(Malcolm Muggeridge)

 

Hillsong United - Age to Age (His Glory Appears) 

 

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Weekly Blessing 5/3/12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 02-05-2012

1 John 5:5-6

Who can overcome the world? Only the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus Christ came by water and blood: not with water only, but with water and blood.

 

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
(Carl Jung)

 

RED - Death of Me