Quote from Forum Archives on July 30, 2002, 4:48 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

Today I'd like to share another fairly short message with you from
Karen Weber's Christian Thought For the Day, which you may also find
in its more complete form at her Website
www.sperience.com/ft/tcthought.html

Have you had your own private appointment with your Savior today?

Lord,

I desire to express my deep love to You, not only in the privacy of my
thoughts, but also in the public actions that I take. Please assist
me in my desire to constantly cultivate and work out my intimate
relationship with You. I choose to love You today because You are
most worthy of my love and affection. Forgive me for the ways I turn
away and cut short our time together, Lord, and lead me continually
back into Your Presence, that I may experience the joy of living in
Your Spirit.

I also continue to pray that You would help me to be a genuine
encouragement to others, and that I may also be encouraged by others.
May we be one in the common hope that we find complete in Christ. I
ask each of these things humbly in Christ's Name. Amen.

Your Brother in Christ,
Brian

Quote: Love always begins with the person closest to you. It does not
begin with nameless and faceless people. It begins with those you
sweat and struggle with--those who frequently disagree with you and
put you down. That is why it is so hard. It is easier to love the
world than your closest relative. The world is general. Your relative
is specific. The world is vague. Your relative has character... Whom
will you love today? Can you love him or her in the way Christ loves
you? It won't be easy. Love is never an option.

Jim Smoke is a Christian writer on the experience of being single and
on divorce.
Source: Every Single Day by Jim Smoke UK

Verse: I pray that Christ will live in your hearts by faith and that
your life will be strong in love and be built on love. 18 And I pray
that you and all God's holy people will have the power to understand
the greatness of Christ's love--how wide and how long and how high and
how deep that love is. 19 Christ's love is greater than anyone can
ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then
you can be filled with the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:17-19 (New Century)

Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for the way you loved me, as undeserving
as I am. Help me to give the gift of that same kind of love to someone
who needs it today. Amen.

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Brian Masinick, mailto:masinick@yahoo.com
Home page: www.geocities.com/masinick/

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