Pastor Cecil A. Thompson DailyEvotional

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL     BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson July 1, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK:   https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE  IN ONE YEAR , CLICK ON THIS LINK: https:// pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear. blogspot.com “THE  SWEET BY AND BY!” Matthew  6:27 “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?   Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” True Christian character is certainly seen in our biblical heroes, but it may often be seen in those of more recent times.  Hope  is a character quality that looks beyond our immediate circumstances and shows what we as believers have waiting for us. In the Sweet By and By  is one of the most enduring songs written after the Civil War. It was

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL     BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 30, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK:   https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE  IN ONE YEAR , CLICK ON THIS LINK: https:// pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear. blogspot.com   “THE REST OF THE STORY!”     Psalm 118:24 " This is the day the  Lord  has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. " Today’s scripture is familiar to many people. It calls us to rejoice instead of gripe or complain. I know you never do anything of that sort, but there are people who do. Cough! Cough! You may look around you and only see strife, contention, and failure. You may have a debilitating physical condition that prevents you from doing things that other people do with no difficulty. You may be the victim of any number of things that you feel prevent you from rejoicing. So ... do you have

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL     BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 29, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK:   https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE  IN ONE YEAR , CLICK ON THIS LINK: https:// pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear. blogspot.com   “CHOOSE!”     Joshua 24:15 " And if it seems evil to you to serve the  Lord , choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the  Lord . " There was once a restaurant our family visited where the menu was so complicated that even the wait staff had difficulty understanding it. That confusing menu slowed service down and before long the place went out of business. Sometimes we can make things so spiritually confusing t

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL     BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 28, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK:   https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE  IN ONE YEAR , CLICK ON THIS LINK: https:// pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear. blogspot.com   “RETIRED!”     Philippians 1:6 " B eing confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. " I want to tell you right up front that I am 82. I know that some people think I still act like a kid, but I am a genuinely certified  senior citizen , whatever that means. Many others often refer to the fact that I am  retired . Let me see: I pastor a small congregation, write the Daily-E-Votional five days a week, record audio versions of the Daily-E-Votional, as well as audio recordings that take us through the Bible  in one year , have p

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL     BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 27, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK:   https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE  IN ONE YEAR , CLICK ON THIS LINK: https:// pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear. blogspot.com “MY ALL!” Matthew  22:37 “Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the  Lord  your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’   This is the first and great commandment.’” Mankind's natural tendency seems inclined towards always trying to gain something by investing as little as possible. It is like that old story of the young man who was writing a love letter to his sweetheart vowing he would climb the highest mountain for her. He would swim the widest river for her. He would fight a ferocious tiger for her. He closed his letter to the love of his life by promising he would drop by her ho

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL     BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 24, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK:   https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE  IN ONE YEAR , CLICK ON THIS LINK: https:// pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear. blogspot.com “SOFTLY AND TENDERLY!” Revelation  3:20 “ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. ” This beautiful hymn was composed by Will Thompson who lived from 1847 to 1909. The words seem to capture the heart of the listener and draw us to come to Jesus. You can almost picture Jesus Himself standing patiently urging us to come to Him. He not only pleads for us to come, but he offers complete pardon to anyone and everyone who will come to Him. He offers, He has paid the price, and He has the authority to extend pardon to

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL     BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 23, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK:   https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE  IN ONE YEAR , CLICK ON THIS LINK: https:// pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear. blogspot.com   “JUST A GRAIN!”     John  12:24 " Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. " I have a jar of barley grain in my storage cupboard. If I remove one grain from the jar it hardly makes a difference. Now multiply the amount of grain in my jar several times over and look inside the hopper of a grain harvester -- that one grain now seems even less significant. Look into the hold of a cargo ship with millions of bushels of grains. How much is only one? I fear that we often discount the value of our one li

CECIL A. PASTOR THOMPSON: READING THROUGH THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR! June 22nd: 2 Kings 3:1-4:17, Acts 14:8-28, Psalm 140:1-13, Proverbs 17:22

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 22, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK: pastorcecilathompsondailye-votional.blogspot.com TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR, CLICK ON THIS LINK: pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear.blogspot.com “ALMOST!” Acts 26:28 "Then Agrippa said to Paul, ‘You almost persuade me to become a Christian.’" Last Saturday I was on my way to conduct a graveside service in a small community in our area. My daughter Lori was riding along to keep me company and as part of honoring me for Father’s Day. We were less than a mile from the cemetery when an oncoming car swerved across into my lane. I immediately jogged to the shoulder of the road and he missed me by a fraction. I told Lori that the graveside service might easily have been for us. We laughed about it and Lori profoundly commented that it would not have been all that bad to enter Paradise together

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL     BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 21, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK:   https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE  IN ONE YEAR , CLICK ON THIS LINK: https:// pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear. blogspot.com   “WONDERFUL GRACE!”     Philippians 3:13-14 " Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,   I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. " Certain Bible characters stand out in my mind as brilliant examples of God’s amazing grace. One of these characters is a woman named Rahab who lived on the other side of the Jordan in the city of Jericho. It was the first city that Israel would besiege when they began to possess the Promised Land. Not onl

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson June 20, 2016 TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THIS LINK: pastorcecilathompsondailye-votional.blogspot.com TO HEAR PASTOR CECIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR, CLICK ON THIS LINK: pastorcecilthebibleinoneyear.blogspot.com “ENJOY YOUR SALVATION!” Psalm 51:12 “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit.” As a boy, I recall a woman in our church who loved to testify. It seemed that every time she gave her testimony she looked and sounded like she had just been baptized in lemon juice! It became a joke for the kids in the church. We kids who were eight or nine years of age would make faces and imitate this lady. I am sure her heart was pure and her devotion to the Lord was pure, but her face lacked the appearance of joy. At times we Christians seem to have a short circuit when it comes to having the joy of our salvation. We talk of t