Grace Livingston Hill - For Each New Day DiCarta

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2001 by R.L. Munce Publishing, Inc.

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All scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

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Grace Livingston Hill has been called Americas most beloved inspirational authorand with good reason. During her long life she wrote scores of short stories, novellas, and novels, all brimming with her vital Christian faithand those works, so popular in her own time, continue to bless readers more than a half-century after her death.

This unique devotional contains a years worth of encouraging thoughts compiled by Grace Livingston Hill. Some are quite shortperhaps only a single sentencewhile others may be a paragraph in length. All of them offer a thought-provoking perspective on a Bible verse or inspirational quote that follows.

Make plans this year to join Grace Livingston Hill each morning. These words promise a heavenward focus For Each New Day.

The Lord knows the end from the beginning, and nothing is surer than that He uses His children to carry out His plans.

He knoweth thy walking through

this great wilderness.

D EUTERONOMY 2:7

This is my verse when I am discouraged: Wait on the L ORD : be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the L ORD (Psalm 27:14).

No word He hath spoken,

Was ever yet broken.

Pitys sake! if you werent going to be a better woman by ten thousand times when you get to heaven than you are here, why, heaven would be an out and out disappointment, thats all, said Priscilla Hunter.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy,

we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

1 C ORINTHIANS 15:49

Conscience, working all alone, is a very uncomfortable and disagreeable companion, and often accomplishes for the time being nothing beyond making his victim disagreeable.

Their conscience also bearing witness,

and their thoughts the mean while accusing

or else excusing one another.

R OMANS 2:15

You take a diamond and throw it down in the dirt and filth and put your foot on it and grind it and leave it there, sinking and soiling, day after day, year after year, and when somebody comes along and picks it out, how much will it gleam for Him at first? Yet the diamond is there.

Thou shalt also be a crown of glory

in the hand of the L ORD,

and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

I SAIAH 62:3

Peace with God! It expresses so much! Peace is greater than joy, or comfort, or rest.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,

to the which also ye are called in one body.

C OLOSSIANS 3: 15

Mine is the doing when He says the word, but His is the bringing to pass. And that, you see, is the end of all worrying and planning and doubt. There is no rest nor comfort outside of that conclusion.

Then saith he to the man,

Stretch forth thine hand.

And he stretched it forth;

and it was restored whole,

like as the other.

M ATTHEW 12:13

A sweet-faced cooing baby, arrayed in fine white-broidered garments, with bright eyes and dimpled chin, and mouth that breaks into radiant smiles whenever one looks that way, is an exquisite bit of enjoyment for anybody.

And when she saw him that he was a goodly child,

she hid him three months.

E XODUS 2:2

What a fearful world it would be if things just happened, with nobody to manage or control!

For the eyes of the L ORD run

to and fro throughout the whole earth,

to shew himself strong in the behalf

of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

2 C HRONICLES 16:9

We grieve sometimes that we cannot know peoples hearts and foresee what would please, and what would irritate. Hearts calm down wonderfully sometimes; what need then to know of their depths while at the boiling point? But what sights must the all-seeing God look down upon! Sights in tenderness shut away from the gaze of His weak children.

For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

P SALM 44:21

Diligent in business, serving the Lord. There is no period dividing these. I long ago discovered that I could make a bed and sweep a room for His sake, as surely as I could speak a word for Him.

Faith is the golden thread

On which we string our offering,

Our feeble deeds of poor self-sacrifice;

Unworthy gifts, yet in His grace, the King

Accounts them pearls of price.

I know people who suppose it would be almost irreverent to take their domestic bewilderments to Christ. I cannot think what kind of a friend they imagine Him to be, if they are afraid to go to Him with everything.

Commit thy way unto the L ORD;

trust also in him;

and he shall bring it to pass.

P SALM 37:5

Although the Lord is gracious and forbearing, and kindly gives me the work to do here and there for Him, He can, when He chooses, get along entirely without any help.

For of him,

and through him, and to him,

are all things: to whom be glory for ever.

R OMANS 11:36

You may often speak words which spring up and bear fruit that reaches up to God; though you do not know it, and will not, until in heaven you take your crown and question why there are so many stars.

Be thou faithful unto death