Sunday December 1, 2013 thought for the day

HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

1-An angry person is seldom reasonable and a reasonable person is seldom angry-

2-Try and fail, but don't fail to try-

3-No smile is as beautiful as one which struggles through tears-

4-You may face many defeats in life but don't let yourself be defeated-

5-What a person laughs at reveals their character-

STRANGE THOUGHT-You'll never be old and wise if you weren't once young and crazy-

I'VE LEARNED-Happiness is where we find it but rarely where we seek it-

DID YOU KNOW-Seals can withstand pressure of up to 850 pounds per square inch-

5 THINGS I WANT TO KNOW

1-Do animals have such a thing as non human souls?

2-Why did God save animals from the great flood?

3-What did the meat eating animals eat on the ark?

4-Why did God have to kill all but two of the living animals per species?

5-Psalm 150 says "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord".  Does that include animals, birds, fish, etc.

BIBLE TRIVIA-What church saw the martyrdom of faithful Antipas?

Answer for today    Pergamum     Revelation 2:13

SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY    acts 26:19-23

¹⁹ “King Agrippa, after I had this vision from heaven, I obeyed it. ²⁰ I began telling people that they should change their hearts and lives and turn to God and do things to show they really had changed. I told this first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem, and in every part of Judea, and also to the other people. ²¹ This is why the Jews took me and were trying to kill me in the Temple. ²² But God has helped me, and so I stand here today, telling all people, small and great, what I have seen. But I am saying only what Moses and the prophets said would happen— ²³ that the Christ would die, and as the first to rise from the dead, he would bring light to all people.”

PRAYER FOR TODAY

 

Father, Your amazing grace provides for us Your undeserved favor, forgiveness of sins, treasures of eternal worth, and blessed redemptive fear. Just as parents teach their children a healthy fear of the dangers present in their daily surroundings, so also Your grace teaches us to fear that which brings danger to our spirit in our daily battle with the enemy of our soul. We thank You for Your redemptive grace that sounds the alarm when we’re entering enemy territory. It comes to us through the Holy Spirit speaking to our hearts, through the Scriptures that convict us, through a concerned Christian brother or sister who prayerfully approaches us when they see us headed in the wrong direction, and it comes in the consequences we experience following the good or bad choices we make or the consequences we view in others’ lives who’ve made bad choices. Above all, it is Your loving grace that teaches us a healthy and reverential fear toward You, that we might walk in obedience to You and say no to ungodliness, worldly passions and live a self-controlled, upright and godly life in this present age. Thank You for the grace that becomes a personal reality the hour we first believe. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.

I WISH YOU LOVE IN YOUR HEART.....PEACE IN YOUR SOUL.....AND JOY IN YOUR LIFE.....ALWAYS!!!