Thoughts of the day
September 22nd, 2006 by RespiteMatch.comTo view this message as a picture and music presentation, click on the link below http://greatday.com/v.html?1459405HY6qb
THE DAILY MOTIVATOR
Friday, September 22, 2006
Choose today
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Choose today to face the challenges, and you’ll come away stronger. Decide that you will find a way to do what you know must be done, and the value you create will endure long after this day is over.
Rediscover the sense of real, honest and irreplaceable fulfillment that comes from moving in the direction you know is right. Experience the satisfaction of knowing that you are truly making a positive difference.
Plant seeds of hope and encouragement with those you encounter. Keep your heart filled with gratitude for the beauty and the possibilities that flow through your world at all times.
Enjoy the reality of being alive and aware at this moment in this place. Look for the positive in every situation and you will find it.
This day is your opportunity to put your dreams, your values, your hopes and goals and desires into action. This day is your opportunity to allow the best that is inside you to flow out into the world.
Jump enthusiastically into this day and live it as if everything you become depends on the path you choose to follow. For on this day, it does.
Ralph Marston
Quick Thought:
“For such a High Priest (Jesus) was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens…” Hebrews 7:26 (NKJ)
Luke 17:20-32
“Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He (Jesus) answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is! or, ‘There it is! For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
“And He said to the disciples, “The days shall come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them. For just as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.”
“But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it shall be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.”
“It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, let not the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house go down to take them away; and likewise let not the one who is in the field turn back. Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:20-32 (NAS)
John 15:9-14
“Just as the Father has loved Me (Jesus), I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.”
“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.”
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
“You are My friends, if you do what I command you.” John 15:9-14 (NAS)
Today’s Suggested Bible Reading
Read the Bible in a Year:
New Testament — 2 Corinthians 7:1 - 7:16.
Old Testament — Proverbs 20-21.
