This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Friday

True prayer is a spontaneous outpouring of honesty and need from the soul’s foundation.  In calm times, we say a prayer.  In desperate times, we truly pray.
David Jeremiah

But I will continue doing what I have always done.  This will undercut those who are looking for an opportunity to boast that their work is just like ours.  These people are false apostles.  They are deceitful workers who disguise themselves as apostles of Christ.  But I am not surprised!  Even Satan disguises himself as an angle of light.  So it is no wonder that his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.  In the end they will get the punishment their wicked deeds deserve.
2 Corinthians 11:12-15
The New Living Translation

Good example is half a sermon.
Unknown

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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Thursday

As you think about the future…give thanks and trust God…Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us- which we do not deserve.
Billy Graham

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.  O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Psalm 30:11-12
The English Standard Version

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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Wednesday

In the triangle of love between ourselves, God, and other people, is found the secret of existence, and the best foretaste I suspect, that we can have on earth of what heaven will probably be like.
Samuel M. Shoemaker

For You are my hope, O Lord GOD; You are my trust from my youth.  By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.  My praise shall be continually of You.
Psalm 71:5-6
The New King James Version

Understand that your words weigh 1,000 pounds.  Choose them carefully!
Unknown

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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Tuesday

Lord, help me to accomplish great things for Thee by doing the little things that lie at hand.
James Keller

Reverence for God gives a man deep strength; his children have a place of refuge and security.
Proverbs 14:26
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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Monday

His safest haven was prayer; not of a single moment or idle, but prayer of long devotion…walking, sitting, eating or drinking, he was always intent upon prayer.
Thomas of Celano on Francis of Assisi

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.  For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord.  So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.  For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Romans 14:7-9
The English Standard Version

Go an entire day without saying one negative comment about anything or anyone!  To really test your resolve, pick a day when you’re going to be talking to a lot of people- at a party, for example.
Bret Nicholaus

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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Friday

Live near to God and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
Robert M. McCheyne

After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken.  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Acts 4:31
The New International Version

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.
Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Thursday

Happiness and calmness are neither inside us nor outside us.  They are in God, who is both inside and outside us.
Blaise Pascal

And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
Luke 13:30
The King James Version

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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Special Update

 

I’d like to say a special thank you to our monthly donors who, through God’s prompting, have helped keep our ministry running year after year so we can get these messages out to you day after day!
Our monthly donors form the core of our support, sending 80% of what we need each month to reach nearly 40,000 of you in 160 countries with a daily dose of encouragement in your faith.
Some people think it must be hard to live on a “missionary’s salary,” trusting God to provide for you through people who donate to support your work.  But I’ve been so humbled and thankful that people would believe in our work so much that they’re willing to send their hard-earned money to support what we do!  And they not only send it faithfully each month, but they send it voluntarily and cheerfully!
It warms my heart to know that people care enough about what we do that they would send us help in practical ways.  As Jesus said,
“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” (Matthew 6:21).
So every time I get a gift in the mail or online, I am so thankful not only for the gift, but for the heart of the giver, knowing that their heart is truly with us.
So I’d like to say a special “thank you” to our monthly donors, for joining their hearts with ours as we continue to reach out to people with the message of Jesus Christ.
Perhaps you’d like to say a “thank you” to them as well?  If you’ve been blessed by these daily messages and would like to send a note of thanks to them, just reply to this note with your message and I’ll be sure to pass it on to them.
And if you’d like to join your heart with ours and become one of our monthly donors, we’d love to have you!  Your gifts will not only bless our hearts, but will bless the hearts of tens of thousands of people around the world just like you who are encouraged by these daily messages.
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To our current monthly donors, again I’d like to say a huge “THANK YOU!”  And if you’d like to join me in saying “Thanks!”  to them as well, just reply to this note and I’ll pass your message along.
Sincerely,
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of The Ranch and This Day’s Thought from The Ranch
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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Wednesday

I say, if everybody in this house lives where it is God first, friends and family second and you third, we won’t ever have an argument.
Jeff Foxworthy

For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
Psalm 91:11
The English Standard Version

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective.
Rob Bell

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This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Tuesday

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness.  Even in you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
Henri Amiel

Is anyone among you suffering?  He should keep on praying about it.  And those who have reason to be thankful should continually be singing praises to the Lord.
James 5:13
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