Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts

Tuesday 26 November 2019

Concerning prayer and thought for the day

In our life we encounter enough worries and lots of difficulties of which we wonder how we can cope with them. In life, we are often so busy with ourself that we do not make much time to think about our own Maker.

Lots of people who believe in God think about Him as a boo man or think He is to Grand or Special so that they as just an ordinary small being cannot come unto Him. But they are mistaken. Just by daring to come close to Him we show our will to be under Him and to be a child of Him.

God doesn't call the qualified but He is more interested to touch first those who are humble or who have lots of worries and questions. He is eager to come closer to those who do not yet know Him but who are willing to get to know Him.

Sometimes we pray and pray and it seems like nothing happens. but then we should ask: Why?
There might be a good reason that what we asked not to be answered like we wanted it to be answered. We should always wonder if that what we ask is in line with God His Wishes or with His Plan.
Look at all those who are at war, and both camps praying for them to win the war. But first of all war is something God does not want. He does not want people to fight against each other. So any plea for help in that fight would be useless.

When rightly placed and done with the right attitude "Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways."

We have to make time for having just some time between us and God plus for contemplation and meditation. Creating some moment we can talk to our Divine Most High God.
Each day we should take some time to think about life and about the Sustainer of life. Every day we should take time to meditate on God's Word.

The Christadelphians provide some help to go through the Bible day by day in a year. They also provide next to the Bible Reading Plan or chart. That Bible Companion is just a practical aid, encouraging people to continue their Bible reading in a way that they do not skip the same chapters, but go from one book to the other, chapter after chapter, each year.

May we advise you to come to read those Thoughts for the day and to find some further articles on Bible study and reading, Praying and prayers?

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Find also to read:
  1. A Living Faith #7 Prayer
  2. If you think you're too small to be effective
  3. Give your worries to God
  4. God doesn't call the qualified
  5. Does God hear prayer?
  6. Does God answer prayer?
  7. Sometimes we pray and pray and it seems like nothing happens.
  8. Prayer, important aspect in our life
  9. Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways
  10. Prayer for the day
  11. Praise Jehovah
  12. Prayer has comforted us in sorrow
  13. He who kneels before God can stand before anyone! 
  14. If you do pray you shall not be disappointed 
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  16. The express train of the speeding time
  17. Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #3 as a Christian
  18. 2019 A New Year of Prayer
  19. Altitude begins with an attitude of gratitude
  20. Pray that we will make the time to listen: listen to God and listen to each other
  21. Today’s thought “Blessed the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly” (January 01)

Sunday 2 June 2013

His Life for the Sheep

  “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
 John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me
- just as the Father knows me and I know the Father
- and I lay down my life for the sheep.”  (John 10:14-15)

"In service to his sheep, Jesus went to the limit and laid down his life for them. We, too, must serve our brethren; yes, and if necessary (although it rarely comes to that) lay down our lives for them. Let us ever remember that there is great joy in service.
Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Then, at close of day, in our case when our Lord returns, is the examination of his sheep, one by one, and if approved 'the rod is lifted' and we go forward into the sheep-fold, in our case, into the Kingdom of God.

It is all a privileged position we cannot appreciate too highly. In all our cases we can say, 'My cup runneth over' and we are confident with hope. 'Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.'"

- James Carter

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Monday 7 November 2011

Think hard before you act today

Think hard before you act today,
because the way you act will determine multiple outcomes
for you and others.

Friday 14 October 2011

Don't let anyone move you off the foundation of your faith

"I see no business in life but the work of Christ."
- Henry Martyn

"... don't let anyone move you off the foundation [of your faith].
Always excel in the work you do for the Lord. You know that
the hard work you do for the Lord is not pointless."
1 Corinthians 15:58

Unity

Unity is when you share fellowship with...
Chuck Runge

Unity is when you share fellowship with brethren in Christ,
and excuses are no longer necessary.

Saturday 8 October 2011

Not all ability to preach

"It is the duty of every Christian man to preach the gospel.
But all have not the ability.
Those who know so little about the cause they profess to love that they cannot open their mouths to plead for it, and who from natural incompetency are incapable of doing so, are bound by Christian virtue to minister of their substance to those who can."
John Thomas

Friday 30 September 2011

Light within





The Light Within

is the presence of God in our hearts
which illuminates truth
and strengthens and guides us.





Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Innerlijk licht 

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Saturday 17 September 2011

Wondering


Wondering


There draweth near the day of God,
When messengers are sent abroad,
To gather from the world’s bye-ways,
All who these dark evil days
Holding Yahweh’s word supreme,
Make it their daily active theme
That they may judg’d  be;
And I am wondering always,
What will the manner of that day be,
And its time of coming be?

Will it be  the early morning hours,
Before  the day has gained its powers
(So strong to draw our thoughts away
From  things of God to things of clay)
That in its duties lurk?
Or will the angel’s quiet hand
Stay the imperious demand
Of the swift noonday work;
And a grave voice tell me I must be gone,
And let the dead with the dead work on?
Or when the evening morning sweet,
And rest is pleasant and musing meet,
Or when the darkness covers me,
Will the light shine round me suddenly,
And at midnight come the cry?

Ah! The time is little; the thought for me

Is, what will the manner of that day be?
If the angel should meet me on the way,
Or come to me in the house, and say
“The Master is come and calleth for thee,”
What will the summons be to me,
What will my heart reply?
Shall I hear it as a longed-for-word?
And rise up quickly to meet the Lord?
Or will my spirit quail,
And my heart sink down ,with a dread dismay,

A speechless fear, that the Judgment Day

I had not watched for, can only be
One of  contempt and shame for me?
While tremblingly and pale,
I follow the angel forth to stand
Rejected, at the Lord’s left hand?    

Forbid it Lord! Oh grant  to me

Grace to follow hard after Thee,
Studying daily Thy written word
With purpose of heart to serve Thee Lord,
And walk with Thee always.
To let my eyelids look straight on
Unto the prize that must be won,
Yea, fought for, agonized for (Ah me!
How the flesh strives for the mastery
How heavy this weight of clay).

Lord help me that flesh to crucify,

Cut off  the hand, pluck out the eye,
And having entered the straight gate
To lay away each heavy weight.
And the sins that besets so easily,
Still looking, looking unto thee
And gathering strength thereby;
To meet  temptation steadfastly,
As thy hast met the same,

Watching and praying, day by day,

That when the angel comes, I may
Meet him with joy (though tremblingly),
Daring to hope that even I
May have the white stone given to me,
May join the acclaim,
And with the twelve twelve thousand be
Clothed with Immortality
Part of “the Yahweh Name”

Christadelphian  1882
 

Friday 9 September 2011

Forgiveness always possible

English: Graphic on forgiveness
English: Graphic on forgiveness (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now matter how obstinate the obstacle or horrific the hurt, forgiveness is always possible.



'For if you forgive others their trespasses,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you.'
Matthew 6:14


My Lord and my God,
give me the courage and the will to be humbly
and to look over the limitednesses of others
and to forgive their mistakes. 




Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Vergeving altijd mogelijk

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Monday 6 June 2011

Church is a Hospital for sinners

Rosemary Hard has seen on a church notice board

 " Church is not a museum for saints, its a hospital for sinners!"

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Keep positive

Keep your thoughts positive, Because your thoughts become your word
Keep your words positive, Because your words become your actions.
Keep your actions positive, Because your actions become your habits
Keep your habits positive, Because your habits become your value
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Keep your values positive, Because your values become your destiny

A Philosophy for Life
by Phil White

Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie: Blijf positief

Monday 25 April 2011

A cheerful heart filled of hope good medicine


A Jewish proverb observes,

"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."

Paul, a first-Century follower of Jesus, emphasized hope:

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope. . ."


Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Een vrolijk hart vol van hoop goed medicijn
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Tuesday 22 March 2011

Christadelphians children of God

1 John 3:1-10 (New International Version, ©2011)

1 John 3

 1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
 4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
 7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
Footnotes:
  1. 1 John 3:2 Or when it is made known
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Christadelphians kinderen van God

Saturday 25 December 2010

Love envieth not

Songs in the Night
Love envieth not. I Corinthians 13:4

HAVE I the love that "envieth not," the love that is generous, so that I can see others prosper and rejoice in their prosperity, even if, for a time, my own affairs be not so prosperous? This is true generosity, the very reverse of jealousy and envy, which spring from a perverted nature. The root of envy is selfishness; envy will not grow upon the root of love. Love rejoices with them that rejoice, in prosperity of every good word and work, and in the advancement in Christian grace and in the divine service of all who are actuated by the divine Spirit. Z'11-422 R4918:2 (Hymn 112)

Friday 24 December 2010

Exceeding Great and Precious Promise


Exceeding Great and Precious Promise

"For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matt. 6:32,33

Let us seek the Kingdom as the preeminent matter of our lives. . . . If seeking the Kingdom seems to hinder some of our earthy prospects, so much the better. The Master said it must cost us our all. R5048:c2,p5 If the Kingdom was made first, all their earthly needs would be supplied. R5917:c2,p4




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Thursday 23 December 2010

Invitation to all who believe

Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contain...
Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit Liber generationis of the Gospel of Matthew. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In the gospel there is an invitation to all who believe what God has  promised, to share with Christ in his kingdom, glory, and joy, which invitation is given on certain conditions well defined (1 Thess. 2:12; ; Matt. 25:21) faith in the things covenanted to Abraham and David, and in those taught concerning Jesus, in the Old and New Testaments; immersion into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and thenceforth a life of without which no one will be approved and promoted to the honour and glory of the kingdom ().

John Thomas. (1990; 2002). Comments from Brother Thomas (Pagina 2). Logos Publications.


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Hope as long as you live


Let the past behind you but consider today the following...  


Hope that you live so long as you want,
but more important:
that you just hope as long as you live!

"And Yahweh,
Jehovah your God,
shall make you plenteous in goods,
in the fruit of your body,
and in the fruit of your cattle,
and in the fruit of your ground,
in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give you.

 


Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Hopen zolang je leeft

Wednesday 1 December 2010

You God hold the future

All About the Future
All About the Future (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"I don't know what the future holds;
but I do know who holds the future."
- Unknown

"And all these, having gained approval through their faith,
did not receive what was promised, because God had provided something better for us,
so that apart from us they would not be made perfect."
Hebrews 11:39-40


Today's suffering has nothing in comparison with
the magnificence that
will become revealed in us.
Let me be able to
carry this
and let me full
hope look at the magnificence
that will become
reality for forever,
Your Kingdom.
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: U God houdt de toekomst in handen


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Saturday 20 November 2010

Christ’s ethical teaching


“Christ’s ethical teaching shines most brightly in those points where other systems fail,
namely, the truthfulness of inward cleansing, the majesty of lowliness, and the glory of love.”
  — T. D. Bernard.

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Christus' ethische leerstelling

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