Christ's Notes and More for December

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Monday, December 1, 2014

"Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name."

Psalm 91:14 (Read all of Psalm 91)
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Teach me Lord!

“Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and
with firm conviction that You will govern all. Amen

-Elisabeth Elliot

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

"Comfort, comfort my people," says your God.

Isaiah 40:1 (Read all of Isaiah 40)
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He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. - Oliver Goldsmith

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13 (Read all of Romans 15)
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I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. - Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

Proverbs 18:2 (Read all of Proverbs 18)
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Friday, December 5, 2014

But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. ... If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

Matthew 5:44,46-47 (Read all of Matthew 5)
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.

Psalm 143:6 (Read all of Psalm 143)
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Opportunities

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come,

but small ones surround us every day."

- Sally Koch

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Sunday, December 7, 2014

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

1 John 1:5-7 (Read all of 1 John 1)
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As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets

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Monday, December 8, 2014


No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1 John 4:12 (Read all of 1 John 4)
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Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest -- and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.

Proverbs 24:30-34 (Read all of Proverbs 24)
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Whatever be the depth of woe
Along the path that I must go,
I'll sing my song—
My song of joy for all the love
That's lavished on us from above,
And count no loss of treasure-trove
When things go wrong.
I'll sing the sunlight, and the bright
Soft smiling stars that gem the night;
For gifts of good
That God hath spread along my way,
The lilt of birds in tuneful play,
The harvests full and flowers gay,
The whole day long
I'll sing my song
Of gratitude!
~John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), "My Song" (October Twenty-sixth), The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse For Every Day, 1920

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:14 (Read all of Isaiah 7)
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Glimpses of Heaven

I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.
-Randy Alcorn

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

-Randy Alcorn

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Thursday, December 11, 2014


Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

Isaiah 40:28 (Read all of Isaiah 40)
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WAIT

When I cannot understand my Father’s leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful—Only wait.

–A.B. Simpson

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Friday, December 12, 2014

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.

1 Peter 4:12-13 (Read all of 1 Peter 4)
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" -- which means, "God with us."

Matthew 1:23 (Read all of Matthew 1)
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"Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin."

- Anonymous

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (Read all of 2 Corinthians 1)
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Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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Monday, December 15, 2014

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

1 John 4:15 (Read all of 1 John 4)
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you."

John 15:12 (Read all of John 15)
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014


Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

Psalm 37:5-6 (Read all of Psalm 37)
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Silent Love

"Look into the depths of another's soul and listen,
not only with our ears,
but with our hearts and imagination,
and our silent love."

- Joyce Kanelakos

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

James 1:22 (Read all of James 1)
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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. - Basil S. Walsh

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Friday, December 19, 2014

Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Romans 12:11 (Read all of Romans 12)
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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. - Eva Young

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. - Henry Ford

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Saturday, December 20, 2014

But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:29 (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)
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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. - Winston Churchill

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

Psalm 105:1 (Read all of Psalm 105)
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"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have."
- John D. Rockefeller III

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

Romans 10:4 (Read all of Romans 10)
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Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

1 Timothy 6:6-10 (Read all of 1 Timothy 6)
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Ease Off

“If our perfect Lord is gracious
enough to take our worst, and ugliest,
our most boring, our least successful,
and forgive them, burying them in the
depths of the sea, then it’s high time we
give each other a break.”

- Chuck Swindoll

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

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 (Read all of Galatians 6)
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Beauty

"Some people,
no matter how old they get,
never lose their beauty.
They merely move it from their
faces into their heart."

- Martin Buxbaum

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Galatians 5:16-17 (Read all of Galatians 5)
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The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. - John Maxwell

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Friday, December 26, 2014

Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced.

1 Chronicles 16:11-12 (Read all of 1 Chronicles 16)
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. - Ursula K. LeGuin

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?

Psalm 56:3-4 (Read all of Psalm 56)
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WAIT

When I cannot understand my Father’s leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful—Only wait.

–A.B. Simpson

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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."


-Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865)

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."

Jeremiah 2:13 (Read all of Jeremiah 2)
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Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. - James Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

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Monday, December 29, 2014

What a man desires is unfailing love.

Proverbs 19:22a (Read all of Proverbs 19)
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God loves you and wants to show you His Love

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"If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'."

- Elisabeth Elliot

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.

Proverbs 23:4 (Read all of Proverbs 23)
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The Persian Proverb

He who knows not,
And knows not that he knows not,
Is a fool, shun him.

He who knows not,
And knows that he knows not,
Is a child, teach him.

He who knows,
And knows not that he knows,
Is asleep, wake him.

He who knows,
And knows that he knows,
Is wise, follow him.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Romans 1:20 (Read all of Romans 1)
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. - Victor Hugo

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds