FEBRUARY 2007
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February 1, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
To become Christlike is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
Henry Drummond
A prayer to strengthen your day
Dear Jesus . . . Keep me from letting you stand out in the cold or from ever sending you away to some stable.
Ken Gire
February 2, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Galatians 6:9-10, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Anxiety is what happens when the worry machine is working without anything to work on.
John Cowan
A prayer to strengthen your day
Holy Father, forgive us of our pride of grace or face or place. Help us rejoice in remembering all we have and all we are and all we hope to be are generous free gifts from you. Amen.
Neil B. Wiseman
February 5, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.
1 Peter 4:16, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when feeling it not.
I believe in God even when He is silent.
Inscription on walls where Jews hid from Nazis
A prayer to strengthen your day
Forgive us, Lord, that as we grow to maturity, our faith is blighted with doubts, withered with worry, tainted with sophistication.
Peter Marshall
February 6, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:3, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Prayer is the most important thing in my life. If I should neglect prayer for a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.
Martin Luther
A prayer to strengthen your day
O Lord of Light. May I see clearly through this shadow that has fallen across my life. Remind me that just as the darkness of night only hides the day for a few hours, your light shines on behind the darkness of my difficulties and disappointments. Amen.
Author Unknown
February 7, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
“For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Our treasure is elsewhere and we are not seriously upset by the price our stuff brings in modern markets.
Vance Havner
A prayer to strengthen your day
Father, tune our ears to your voice, so that we may always hear your commands and comfort.
Corrie ten Boom
February 8, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 3:16, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Each morning I awaken to the face of an older man and I pray for his wisdom for the coming day.
Justin Matott
A prayer to strengthen your day
Lord, love me passionately, Love me often, Love me long.
The more passionately you love me, the more beautiful I become.
The more often you love me, the purer I become.
The longer you love me, the holier I become.
Mechthild of Magdeburg, 12th century
February 9, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Though ascended to the right hand of the Majesty on high, He is the same loving, tender Savior as when the children flocked around His knees, and His tears brimmed over at the grave of His friend.
F. B. Meyer
A prayer to strengthen your day
Help us, O Lover of the souls of men, to love our fellow men as you love them.
William Barclay
February 12, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
The Father encircles me with the invulnerable army of His own love.
John Henry Jowett
A prayer to strengthen your day
Scatter every excuse of frailty and unworthiness: consecrate us all with a heavenly mission: open to us a clearer prospect of our work.
Brooke Foss Westcott
February 13, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
James 1:19-21, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Never mind whether you sleep or not, just be still. It is in quiet and darkness you hear those still, small voices your life misses in the hurly-burly. It is there you find God.
Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
A prayer to strengthen your day
Oh Christ of the loving heart. Smile through my face, speak through my voice, use me to help the sick and suffering, the discouraged and lonely. I want to carry on your work. Amen
Author Unknown
February 14, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
The lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the lord your God and walk in his ways. Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the lord, and they will fear you.
Deuteronomy 28:9-10, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
A stately building, a noble liturgy, do not make a church. It must always be remembered that in the New Testament itself the word “church” never means a building, but always means a company of men and women who have given their hearts and lives to Jesus Christ.
William Barclay
A prayer to strengthen your day
O God, give me grace today to think, not of what I can get, but of what I can give.
John Baillie
February 15, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
1 Peter 4:14, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
The saints in Rome did not have the blues because attendance would be cut by a gladiatorial contest in the Coliseum. They had a robust, world-shaking power of their own that eventually put the Coliseum out of business.
Vance Havner
A prayer to strengthen your day
O my God, you have surpassed all I have hoped for, and I want to sing of your mercies.
St. Therese of Lisieux
February 16, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
1 John 3:2, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
There can be nothing more terrible or more wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
A. W. Tozer
A prayer to strengthen your day
I implore you so to purify the intention of my heart with the gift of your grace that I may love you perfectly and praise you worthily. Amen.
Anonymous
February 19, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Hebrews 4:16, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Prayer is never simply a matter of talking to God. It is trusting Him with our concerns.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A prayer to strengthen your day
God of mercy and forgiveness, for the times when our love of indulgence and ease have weakened our hold on spiritual things, pardon us.
Kenneth Slack
February 20, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
Is anything too hard for the lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.
Genesis 18:14, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins—in adoration.
George A. Buttrick
A prayer to strengthen your day
We pray that thou wilt make us like children again in faith—not childish, but childlike in the simplicity of a faith that is willing to trust thee even though we cannot see what tomorrow will bring.
Peter Marshall
February 21, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
Ash Wednesday--Lent Begins
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
1 Peter 5:5b-6, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Jesus is gentle. Even though he speaks with great fervor and biting criticism against all forms of hypocrisy and is not afraid to attack deception, vanity, manipulation, and oppression, his heart is a gentle heart.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
A prayer to strengthen your day
Light eternal, shine in my heart:
Power eternal, deliver me from evil:
Wisdom eternal, scatter the darkness of my ignorance:
Might eternal, pity me.
Alcuin
February 22, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
When we cease to be evangelistic, we cease to carry out our divine commission, and that moment we begin to decay. Every pastor, every evangelist, every missionary, every worker must be a soul winner. . . . The dominant note of our movement should and must be Evangelism.
R. T. Williams
A prayer to strengthen your day
Help me to empty my hands of the trifling and the temporal in order to take hold of the eternal.
Selwyn Hughes
February 23, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
God’s love is trustworthy and His face is always turned our way.
George Duncan
A prayer to strengthen your day
Let me never envy any man’s good, nor deserve to be despised myself: and if I be, teach me to bear it with meekness and charity.
Jeremy Taylor
February 26, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
The lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him.
Nahum 1:7, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A prayer to strengthen your day
Dear God, be good to me. The sea is so wide, and my boat is so small.
Breton Fisherman’s Prayer
February 27, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Entire consecration is our willingness and our resolution to accept and to do the whole will of God insofar as it is made known to us.
A. F. Harper
A prayer to strengthen your day
O God, you are our strength.
When our tasks are beyond our powers;
When our temptations are too strong for us;
When duty calls for more than we have to give to it:
We come for strength to you. Amen.
William Barclay
February 28, 2007
Good morning, ministry partner . . .
Be encouraged from the Word
I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."
Lamentations 3:24, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the depths of our hearts.
Mother Teresa
A prayer to strengthen your day
O Lord, we beseech thee to deliver us from the fear of the unknown future; from fear of failure; from fear of poverty; from fear of bereavement; from fear of loneliness; from fear of sickness and pain; from fear of age; and from fear of death.
Akanu Ibaim
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