Friday July 6, 2012 thought for the day

HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

1-As time passes, conflicts have a way of getting more complicated instead of simplified.  If you don't deal with them they take over your life-

2-If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all-

3-Information is not the same as communication, information is giving out, communication is getting through-

4-Even in conversing face to face, your hearts can be a thousand miles apart-

5-It is unfair to see someone as guilty because others around them have failed-

 

STRANGE THOUGHT-Stressed spelled backwards is desserts-

 

I'VE LEARNED-I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday-

 

DID YOU KNOW-The average loss for a bank cashier is $310 a year-

 

5 THINGS I WANT TO KNOW

1-Is there any reason the Jordon river was chosen for Jesus' baptism?

2-Why did Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness immediately follow his baptism?

3-Why did Jesus need to be tested in the wilderness?

4-Why did Jesus' wilderness experience last 40 days?

5-Is there something biblically significant with the number 40?

 

BIBLE TRIVIA-Who was the only animal that lied?

Yesterday's answer-Rebecca, mother of Jacob and Esau    Genesis 27

 

SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY     Matthew 21:12-13

¹² Jesus went into the Temple and threw out all the people who were buying and selling there. He turned over the tables of those who were exchanging different kinds of money, and he upset the benches of those who were selling doves. ¹³ Jesus said to all the people there, "It is written in the Scriptures, 'My Temple will be called a house for prayer.'^[a] But you are changing it into a 'hideout for robbers.' "^[b]

 

^{PRAYER FOR TODAY}

Father, we desire to remain faithful to You all the days of our life. We join with others of the Christian faith who hold unswervingly to the hope we profess even as we spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Disappointments, seemingly unanswered prayers, loved ones who oppose us, spiritual lethargy, temptations and trials pull at our hearts and tempt us to look back just like the Israelites who were freed from slavery. They who greatly rejoiced at their new found freedom found themselves longing to return after the going got tough. Give us strength and firm resolve to plow through the hard soil and bumpy rocks of life all the while fixing our eyes on our eternal dwelling place as we hold unswervingly to the hope we profess in Christ Jesus our Lord. It is in His name that we pray. Amen.

 

SMILE, LAUGH, FORGIVE, BELIEVE AND LOVE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN!