E. Stanley Jones - Abundant Living: 364 Daily Devotions

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abundant Living

Copyright 1942 by Whitmore & Stone

Copyright renewed 1970 by E. Stanley Jones

This edition published in 2014 by Abingdon Press

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Contents

Contents

: So Much the Better by Leonard Sweet

: We Begin the Quest; Monday: Is There a Cosmic Presence?; Tuesday: God Fading Out; Wednesday: We Cannot Live by a No; Thursday: Could the Universe Have Happened by Chance?; Friday: The Intelligent Out of the Nonintelligent?; Saturday: God in the Unexplained Gaps?

: Our Pegs Come Down; Monday: Science and Religion; Tuesday: The Five Steps of Science; Wednesday: The Kingdom of God Is within You; Thursday: Working with or against the Kingdom; Friday: The Laws of the Kingdom Are Self-acting; Saturday: Walking with the Lights

: The Kingdom of God Is Among You; Monday: The Kingdom Works as Self-frustration; Tuesday: Picking Out a Hypothesis; Wednesday: Our Freedom Complicates Gods Game; Thursday: How God Reveals God; Friday: God Is My Adventure; Saturday: Fastening on Dead Branches

: The First Step Upward; Monday: The Second Step; Tuesday: The Third Step; Wednesday: The Fourth Step; Thursday: The Fifth Step; Friday: The Sixth Step; Saturday: The Seventh Step

: Review Your Life and Reverse; Monday: Return to God; Tuesday: Renounce, Restore, and Receive; Wednesday: Relating the New Life; Thursday: Released and Releasing; Friday: The Four Stages of Life; Saturday: Swallowing Sunshine

: Cultivation; Monday: Segregating Our Enemies; Tuesday: You Are Made for Loyalty to God; Wednesday: Substitutes for God; Thursday: Beginning the Practice of the Presence of God; Friday: Get the Center Right; Saturday: Having Our Being in God

: When We Become God; Monday: The Self-centered and the Self-disrupted; Tuesday: Living in a State of Self-reference; Wednesday: Punishment of Egocentricity Is Inherent; Thursday: Out of Sorts with Ourselves and Others; Friday: The Steps Down; Saturday: Egocentricity in Religion

: The Third Enemy: Anger, Resentments; Monday: A Good Anger; Tuesday: The Disruptive Effects of Anger; Wednesday: Anger Is Poison; Thursday: Subconscious Resentments; Friday: Anger Dims the Vision; Saturday: Resentments Resulting in Self-pity

: How Not to Deal with Resentments; Monday: Further Suggestions for How Not to Deal with Resentments; Tuesday: Forgiving for Christs Sake; Wednesday: The Basis of Resentments: An Unsurrendered Self; Thursday: Dissolve Resentments through Prayer and Appreciation; Friday: Loving People for What They May Become; Saturday: Final Steps for Overcoming Resentments

: The Fourth Enemy: Fear; Monday: Anxiety as Asset and Liability; Tuesday: Fear and Disease; Wednesday: Fear Is Costly; Thursday: Homegrown Fears; Friday: Physical Effects of Fear; Saturday: The Effect of Fear on Animals and Children

: First Step in Deliverance: Complete Honesty; Monday: The Will to Be Well; Tuesday: Every Foe You Face Is a Defeated Foe; Wednesday: Worry Is Atheism; Thursday: Fear Is the Fifth Columnist; Friday: Relax in Gods Presence; Saturday: One Day at a Time

: In Quietness and Confidence; Monday: Faith in Gods Faith; Tuesday: Surrendering Our Fears; Wednesday: Getting Rid of Fears by Tasks; Thursday: The Fear of Failure; Friday: Further Fears to Be Conquered; Saturday: The Fear of Deat

: Fashioned for Faith and Not for Fear; Monday: Without Faith You Cannot Meet Lifes Emergencies; Tuesday: Fear and Anxieties Keep Us from Being at Our Best; Wednesday: Resolve to Act on No Fear; Thursday: Creating Faith in Other People; Friday: Cultivating Faith; Saturday: Facing Life Cheerfully and with Anticipation

: A Sense of Unresolved Guilt; Monday: Psychiatry Can Be Disruptive; Tuesday: What Are You, My Brother? Wednesday: Relaxing in the Presence of God; Thursday: Bringing Up Anything Touchy; Friday: Back to Normal with the Help of God; Saturday: Turn from Yourself to Christ

: Negativism and Inferiority Attitudes; Monday: Touchy People and Unsure People; Tuesday: Made for Positive Achievement; Wednesday: Do Not Dress Up Negativism as a Friend; Thursday: Frustrating Myself; Friday: Shut Your Mind against All Negative Thoughts; Saturday: No Illusions of Grandeur!

: Your Possibilities in God; Monday: Doing What You Cant! Tuesday: The Man Jesus Saw; Wednesday: Look Beyond Self to God; Thursday: A Problem-centered Gaze Is Unhealthy; Friday: The Kingdom Belongs to You! Saturday: The Kingdom Speaks When You Speak

: Receptivity: The First Law of Life; Monday: Response: The Second Law of Life; Tuesday: Never Alone! Wednesday: Your Handicaps Your Handles! Thursday: Flee Forward! Friday: Nobodies Become Somebodies! Saturday: Plan for Creative Achievement

: Undisciplined Desires; Monday: The Urges Redeemed; Tuesday: The Kingdom Our Real Environment; Wednesday: The Christians Survival Value; Thursday: The Undisciplined Self; Friday: Attention, Meekness, Power; Saturday: The Meek Inherit the Earth!

: A Disciplined Self Is a Self of Power; Monday: A Disciplined Sex Life; Tuesday: The Law of Decreasing Returns in Sex; Wednesday: Steps to Sex Victory; Thursday: The Primary End of Sex; Friday: Sex Can Be Sublimated; Saturday: Further Steps in Sex Victory

: Disciplined Bodily Desires; Monday: The Taking of Narcotics Is a Failure of Nerve; Tuesday: Undisciplined Desire: Tobacco; Wednesday: Undisciplined Desire: Tobacco (continued); Thursday: Undisciplined Desires: Expert Opinion; Friday: Disciplining Our Time; Saturday: A Ladder for Discipline

: Insincerities: Conscious and Unconscious; Monday: Insincerities: Are Your Ears Red?; Tuesday: Insincerities: Dualisms in Ourselves?; Wednesday: Insincerities: The Mask; Thursday: Insincerities: Rationalizations; Friday: A Ladder to Overcome Insincerities; Saturday: The Ladder on Insincerities (continued)