October 2015 – Thought of the Day

October 30, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Friday

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Stewardship is more than setting up soup kitchens and overnight shelters. It is good and right that we reach into the river of despair and rescue people who are drowning. But it is time to move upstream and see who’s throwing them in.
Edmond Browning

“I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible.”
Jeremiah 15:21
The New King James Version

A 19th-century country preacher was once asked to explain the doctrine of election. He said: “Well, brethren, it is this way: The Lord He is always voting for a man, and the devil he is always voting against him; then the man himself votes, and that breaks the tie.”
Arthur Tonne

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October 29, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Thursday

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Christian men are but men. They may have a bad liver or an attack of bile, or some trial, and then they get depressed if they have ever so much grace. But what then? Well, then you can get joy and peace through believing. I am the subject of depressions of spirit so fearful that I hope none of you ever gets to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I alway get back again by this: I know I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and my downcast soul and get the victory through it. So may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it. In your most depressed seasons, you are to get joy and peace through believing.
Charles Spurgeon

How wonderful to be wise, to analyze and interpret things. Wisdom lights up a person’s face, softening its harshness.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
The New Living Translation

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October 28, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Wednesday

If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy father know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy 8:3
The King James Version

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

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October 27, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Tuesday

When you are hurting, your head says that God is far away, but Jesus says, in fact, that God is closer than ever.
Angela Thomas

I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Philemon 1:4-7
The English Standard Version

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October 26, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Monday

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We are excited to now offer our new app for receiving our daily devotionals! Details are provided at the bottom of today’s message. Please note that we will also continue to share via email, just as before, as this new app is just an additional way our readers may now enjoy each and every day’s send!
Sincerely, Greg and Eric for This Day’s Thought from The Ranch.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
John Henry Jowett

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Psalm 4:1
The King James Version

“I want to tithe,” a man told his pastor. “I want to give 10 percent of my income to my church. When my income was $50 a week, I gave $5 to the church every Sunday. When I was successful in business and my weekly income rose to $500 a week, I gave $50 to my church every Sunday. But now my income has gone to $5,000 a week, and I just can’t bring myself to give $500 to the church every week.” The pastor said, “Why don’t we pray over this?” The pastor began to pray, “Dear God, please make this man’s weekly income $500 a week so that he can tithe…”
John L. Mand

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October 26, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Announcing Our New App!

Special Announcement! You can now get our daily thoughts on our new app for iPhone, iPod, iPad and Android phones! I’ve just posted a short video tour of the app, which includes not only our daily thoughts, but much more, including music, videos and devotional books to give you a boost in your faith anytime, anywhere.
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October 25, 2015

This Day’s Thought From The Ranch- Many Will See!

MANY WILL SEE!
(And A Video Tour Of “The Ranch App”)
Psalm 40:3
by Eric Elder

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Do you ever wonder if the work you do for the Lord will ever make any difference? I want to encourage you today: IT WILL! DON’T GIVE UP! The seeds you plant today WILL YIELD a harvest one day! Keep sowing the Word of God, and God will use it for good. As God said to Isaiah:
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My Word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:11).
Twenty years ago, I quit my job to go into full-time ministry. I felt clearly called to ministry by God, but I wasn’t sure exactly what He wanted me to do. Was I supposed to go to seminary? Become a pastor at a church? Wait and pray and see what happened?
Since I wasn’t sure what to do, I did the one thing I knew how to do: I created a website. I had just finished creating a website for a Fortune 10 corporation. It was their very first website as the Internet was just in its infancy, but I could see the potential so clearly. So I created a website of my own as a place to share my faith in Christ with others, offering to talk and pray with anyone who was interested.
A friend of mine was praying for me at the time and she said: “Eric, many will see, many will hear, many will put their trust in the Lord.” Her words were based on a verse in the Bible from Psalm 40, which says:

“He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD” (Psalm 40:3).
Within the first few days of launching my website, I heard from from people in places like Athens, Cairo and Seattle, all asking for prayer for something in their lives. They had found my website and wondered if I would pray with them for the things they were going through. I was happy to do just that.
Within a year, the site was reaching over 800 visitors a month from 72 countries. Soon after that, I created a non-profit ministry to dedicate my full-time to doing this work. Now twenty years later, we’re now reaching tens of thousands of subscribers every day from over 160 countries! The words of my friend have come true: Many have seen, many have heard, and many have put their trust in the Lord.
Today marks the beginning of another new step of faith for me: the launch of our new app for smart phones and tablets. I’ve been working on the app for over a year, not because it takes that long to create an app… it doesn’t. We could have put one together that was up and running within a month. But I wanted to create an app that people would use on a regular basis for years to come, returning to the app again and again for a boost in their faith, no matter where they were or what they were going through.
So I’ve packed the app full of resources that we’ve created over the past twenty years: books, music, and the daily Christian quotes and Bible verses and “smiles” that you’ve come to enjoy. The entire collection is available to you anytime, anywhere with the tap of a button. You can listen to more than a dozen CDs of music for inspiration and meditation. You can read more than a dozen books, many containing short devotionals to give you a quick boost in your faith. You can scroll through thousands of quotes that we’ve collected and categorized over the years, making them easily accessible at a moment’s notice. And it’s all free and ready to download today!
I’ve created a short video tour of the app that you can watch and get a feel for just how rich and useful this app can be for you. I’ll include a link at the end of today’s message, too, so you can watch it when you’re done reading.
But for now, I want to encourage you to keep doing whatever God has called you to do for Him. As I was praying this morning about our app, wondering how God might use it in the future, God reminded me of the words of my friend from twenty years ago: “Many will see, many will hear, many will put their trust in the Lord.” Then God spoke to my heart:
“Know that your labor for Me, any time you labor for Me, will never be in vain. Ever. Your labor for me will never, ever be in vain. You WILL reap a harvest, if you do not give up.”
Those last words reminded me of a verse from the Bible that says:
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” (Galatians 6:9).
Our job is to keep planting seeds, keep watering them to help them grow, and keep working in the field that He’s given us. God’s job is to bring the harvest. I’ve seen Him do it before, and I can trust Him to keep right on doing it.
What has God called you to do? Where has He called you to plant His seeds, to water them and to help them grow? Which fields has He given you to work? I want to encourage you today, keep planting, keep watering, keep working those fields. You WILL reap a harvest, if you don’t give up.
In the end, my prayer for you is the same as my friend’s prayer for me, that “many will see, many will hear, many will put their trust in the Lord.” Let it be, Lord! LET IT BE! In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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October 23, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Friday

The vision of the angels works softly and peaceably, awakening joy and exultation in opposition to the turmoil into which demons throw the soul.
Athanasius

“We believe that we are all saved the same way, by the undeserved grace of the Lord Jesus.”
Acts 15:11
The New Living Translation

If you want to keep happy and healthy, try being an “inverse paranoid,” An inverse paranoid is someone who thinks everyone is out to make him happy. Try it. It works. Just imagine everyone you meet is trying to bring happiness and joy to your life. And then try to do the same for them.
Rich Biller

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October 22, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Thursday

The best evangelism in the world is laughter, a church laughing-not naive tittering, not sarcastic boisterousness, not angry irony, but deep, joyful laughter from the pit of our being…laughter which has suffered from the consequences of evil choices and found redemption and newness of life through the cross of Jesus Christ, laughter which remembers tears, yet knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are not to fear, for Jesus, God’s good-humored Christ, has overcome the world before us.
Sylvia C. Guinn-Ammons

Blessed is the man who fears the LORD always; but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
Proverbs 28:14
The Revised Standard Version

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October 21, 2015

This Day’s Thought from The Ranch- Wednesday

If you, O Servant of God, are upset, for any reason whatever, you should immediately rise up to prayer, and you should remain in the presence of the Most High Father for as long as it takes for Him to restore you to the joy of your salvation.
Francis of Assisi

“For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.”
Isaiah 41:13
The New International Version

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney

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