July 3, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
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And me? I’m singing your prowess,
shouting at cockcrow your largesse,
For you’ve been a safe place for me,
a good place to hide.
Strong God, I’m watching you do it,
I can always count on you—
God, my dependable love.
Psalm 59:16-17, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Death is not the final crescendo. It is the last note of the overture to the opera of life to be played out in heaven.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
A prayer to strengthen your day
Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
Corrie ten Boom
July 4, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
We pondered your love-in-action, God,
waiting in your temple:
Your name, God, evokes a train
of Hallelujahs wherever
It is spoken, near and far;
your arms are heaped with goodness-in-action.
Psalm 48:9-10, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Entire sanctification is primarily the final settlement of the sin question.
P. F. Bresee
A prayer to strengthen your day
Take from us, O God, all pride and vanity . . . give us the true courage that shows itself by gentleness; the true wisdom that shows itself by simplicity; and the true power that shows itself by modesty; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Charles Kingsley
July 5, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Give me your lantern and compass,
give me a map,
So I can find my way to the sacred mountain,
to the place of your presence,
To enter the place of worship,
meet my exuberant God,
Sing my thanks with a harp,
magnificent God, my God.
Psalm 43:3-4, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Regarding giving . . . Either we are seeking the praise of people, or we preserve our anonymity but are quietly congratulating ourselves, or we are desirous of the approval of our divine Father alone.
John R. W. Stott
A prayer to strengthen your day
I’m thanking you, God, out in the streets,
singing your praises in town and country.
The deeper your love, the higher it goes;
every cloud’s a flag to your faithfulness.
Psalm 108:3-4, TM
July 6, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
The true religion, or a heart right toward God and man, implies happiness as well as holiness.
John Wesley
A prayer to strengthen your day
Father, grant that Your Word will be a living
word for me that will give my life direction,
hope, and purpose. Amen.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
July 7, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
For I will pour water on the thirsty ground
and send streams coursing through the parched earth.
I will pour my Spirit into your descendants
and my blessing on your children.
Isaiah 44:3, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
If the church marries itself to the spirit of the times, it will be a widow in the next generation.
E. Stanley Jones
A prayer to strengthen your day
Lead us not into imitation.
Author unknown
July 10, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
You can do more than praying after you have prayed. You can never do more than praying before you have prayed.
Corrie ten Boom
A prayer to strengthen your day
Father, You who believed in me enough to call me, grant me the faith to trust Your decision, and believe enough in Your power to see the wisdom of your choice.
Dan E. Whitney
July 11, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
For the LORD gives wisdom,
and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He holds victory in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Proverbs 2:6-8, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Our God is a specialist in holiness. The objective of every blessing and of every commandment, and of every promise pertaining to redemption, is our deliverance from sin, and restoration to holiness.
C. W. Ruth
A prayer to strengthen your day
Give me the drive and commitment to keep myself in continual training for the perpetual fulfillment of your holy will in the details of my ministry. Amen.
adapted from John Baillie
July 12, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
I’m proud to praise God,
proud to praise God.
Fearless now, I trust in God;
what can mere mortals do to me?
Psalm 56:10, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
In the beginning God . . . in the end God.
Desmond Tutu
A prayer to strengthen your day
Thank you for giving me
so many things to enjoy;
so many things to learn;
so many things to do;
so many people to love. . .
Help me always to add something to the world’s beauty and to the world’s joy: through Jesus Christ my Lord.
William Barclay
July 13, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
God’s my strong champion;
I flick off my enemies like flies.
Psalm 118:7, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
The Bible is God’s gift to the world through His church, not to the scholars. It comes through the life of his people and nourishes that life.
Dallas Willard
A prayer to strengthen your day
Eternal Father, it is amazing love, that You have sent Your Son to suffer in my stead, that You have added the Spirit to teach, comfort, guide, that You have allowed the ministry of angels to wall me round.
A Puritan Prayer
July 14, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
You’re all I want in heaven!
You’re all I want on earth!
When my skin sags and my bones get brittle,
God is rock-firm and faithful.
Psalm 73:25-26, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
The grand word of religion is holiness. Holiness is wholeness, holiness is health, holiness brings balance.
Edmund Robb
A prayer to strengthen your day
Lord, I lay my weak hand in your strong hand. Together with you, I can be more than conqueror. Amen.
Corrie ten Boom
July 17, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Take the side of your servant, good God;
don’t let the godless take advantage of me.
Psalm 119:122, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Christian Perfection is putting God’s love in action.
Stoner Smith
A prayer to strengthen your day
Holy Lord, give me a sense of your nearness in every relationship of this day.
adapted from Jowett
July 18, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Energize the limp hands,
strengthen the rubbery knees.
Tell fearful souls,
“Courage! Take heart!
God is here, right here,
on his way to put things right
And redress all wrongs.
He’s on his way! He’ll save you!”
Isaiah 35:3-4, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Will the modern age listen to the appeal for conversion? It will if those who proclaim it have it. And it will flock to the churches that illustrate it as a converted society.
E. Stanley Jones
A prayer to strengthen your day
O Spirit of the Living God, who has filled this place in times past, fill it now again that the people who come here may be strengthened and renewed to do your will.
Theodore Parker Ferris
July 19, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Far better to take refuge in God
than trust in people;
Far better to take refuge in God
than trust in celebrities.
Psalm 118:8-9, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
The world desperately needs established, stable Christians who know who they are, Whose they are, and what they are to be and do.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
A prayer to strengthen your day
How could I be so close to your presence yet so far from your power?
Ken Gire
July 20, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Take a good look at God’s work.
Who could simplify and reduce Creation’s curves and angles
To a plain straight line?
On a good day, enjoy yourself;
On a bad day, examine your conscience.
God arranges for both kinds of days
So that we won’t take anything for granted.
Ecclesiastes 7:13-14, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Sooner or later there arises in every human heart the desire for holiness, spirituality, God, call it what you will.
Anthony De Mello
A prayer to strengthen your day
My answer is yes, Lord Jesus, I mean it.
Corrie ten Boom
July 21, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
God doesn’t come and go. God lasts.
He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine.
He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath.
And he knows everything, inside and out.
Isaiah 40:28b, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
When we have passed into the twilight of light, and our sun seems to be setting, let us call back, “I live!”
Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
A prayer to strengthen your day
We know, Lord, that at the last all the lost chords of earth will be found in heaven; all the broken melodies of our lives will be blended in the harmony and beauty of your glory. By this hope we are upheld and sustained; in this hope we live. In the strong name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Peter Marshall
July 24, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Pushed to the wall, I called to God;
from the wide open spaces, he answered.
Psalm 118:5, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
Watchman Nee
A prayer to strengthen your day
Let me now go forth, O Lord my God, to the work of another day, still surrounded by thy wonderful lovingkindnesses, still pledged to thy loyal service, still standing in thy strength and not my own.
John Baillie
July 25, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Get out the message—God Rules!
He put the world on a firm foundation;
He treats everyone fair and square.
Psalm 96:10, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist—Christian leaders with prophetic vision.
A. W. Tozer
A prayer to strengthen your day
Almighty God, may the duplicity, falsehood and vain show of the world not seduce us. Amen.
Martin Luther
July 26, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
Philippians 2:12-13, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
In Christ’s teaching, it is not simply works of charity and deeds of mercy upon which He insists, but inward spiritual character. This much is demanded, and nothing short of it, will suffice.
E. M. Bounds
A prayer to strengthen your day
Dearest Lord, though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say, “Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.”
Mother Teresa
July 27, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
I, God, want to reassure you.
The God who buys you back, The Holy of Israel.
I’m transforming you from worm to harrow,
from insect to iron.
Isaiah 41:15, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
Any spiritual view which focuses attention on ourselves, and puts the human creature with its small ideas and adventures in the centre foreground is dangerous till we recognize its absurdity.
Evelyn Underhill
A prayer to strengthen your day
Give me the grace which St. Paul prayed for,
that I may be acceptable to the saints;
Fill me with Your Holy Spirit,
and make my soul and life beautiful.
Thomas Traherne
July 28, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
It’s best to stay in touch with both sides of an issue. A person who fears God deals responsibly with all of reality, not just a piece of it.
Ecclesiastes 7:18, TM
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
We need to be converted from the bad news to the good news, from expecting nothing to expecting something!
Brennan Manning
A prayer to strengthen your day
Teach us to know you more truly
and to trust you more firmly.
Donald Coggan
July 31, 2006
Good morning, ministry partner...
Be encouraged from the Word
We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
1 Corinthians 2:12, NIV
Wisdom from fellow pilgrims
In Michelangelo’s famous painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, God is reaching out to Adam. Their hands never quite touch. The Holy Spirit is this missing touch of God.
James Bryan Smith
A prayer to strengthen your day
O Lord God of hosts, fill, we beg of you, all those whom you have set as pastors over your sheep, with righteousness and true holiness, that by their faith and piety they may overcome the wicked one, and save the Lord’s flock from the danger of his assaults; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Gothic missal
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