Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
Interpretation
Seek daily comfort and guidance through your faith.
This quote emphasizes the importance of regularly engaging with one's spirituality to find solace and inspiration in the teachings of God. It suggests that every day should include a moment of reflection or connection that brings comfort to the soul, underscoring the notion that spiritual nourishment is essential for a fulfilling life.
In practice
In a sermon about finding peace in God's words, the pastor quoted John Knox to inspire the congregation.
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
A man with God is always in the majority.
Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain and renew by its touch. Every time I recognize the glory of God in me and give it space to manifest itself to me, all that is human can be brought there and nothing will be the same again.
If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.
The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell that beautiful perfume; they follow that smell. That perfume creates a yearning in their hearts for their Lord, and as a result the sincere believers increase their pace, efforts and devotions.
Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
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