Christ's Notes and More for December

[MajestyJo]

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)
New International Version

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)
New International Version

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)
New International Version

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)
King James Version

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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)
New International Version

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)
New International Version

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)
New International Version

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)
New International Version

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)
New International Version

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)
New International Version

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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)
New International Version

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)
New International Version

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