DAILY LIGHT ON THE DAILY PATH
Daily Light on the Daily Path:
A Devotional Textbook for Every Day of the Year,
In the Very Words of Scripture.
Prepared by Jonathan Bagster [1813-1872]
and Other Members of His Family.
First published in New York by the American Tract Society,
ca. 1875.
DAILY LIGHT ON THE DAILY PATH consists of thematic Scripture
readings for the morning and evening hours, for each day of the
year.
Bagster's conventions for separating verses have followed
generally, with some modifications for the sake of consistency.
The dash (--) separates verses drawn from different books of
the Bible and non-continguous verses within a chapter; the
ellipsis (. . .) indicates omissions within a verse or an
entire verse. While Bagster does not always use ellipses to
indicate omissions, I have. A handful of reference errors found
in the printed version have been corrected in this electronic
edition.
Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.
Ernie Stefanik
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(412) 694-8602
01.01
Morning:
[This] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which
are behind, . . . I press toward the mark for the
prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Father, I will that they . . . whom thou hast given to me, be
with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou
hast given to me.-- I know whom I have believed, and am
persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to
him until that day.-- He who hath begun a good work in you will
perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ.
Know ye not that they who run in a race all run, but one
receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man
that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now
they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an
incorruptible. Wherefore seeing we also are surrounded with so
great a cloud of witnesses.--Let us lay aside every weight, and
the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with
patience the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus.
Php 3:13,14 Joh 17:24 2Ti 1:12 Php 1:6 1Co 9:24,25 He 12:1,2
Evening:
The LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee;
he will be with thee, he will not fail thee.
If thy presence shall not attend [me], conduct us not from
here.--O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself:
[it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way. Though he should fall, he shall not be
utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.
I [am] continually with thee: thou hast held [me] by my right
hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward
receive me [to] glory.--I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
De 31:8 Ex 33:15 Jer 10:23 Ps 37:23,24 73:23,24 Ro 8:38,39
01.02
Morning:
Sing to the LORD a new song.
Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God
of Jacob. Take a psalm, and strike the timbrel, the pleasant
harp with the psaltery.--He hath put a new song in my mouth,
[even] praise to our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and
shall trust in the LORD.
Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be
thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee wherever thou
goest.--The joy of the LORD is your strength.--Paul . . .
thanked God, and took courage.
Knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of
sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of
light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in revellings
and drunkenness, not in immorality and wantonness, not in strife
and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not
provision for the lusts of flesh.
Isa 42:10 Ps 81:1,2 40:3 Jos 1:9 Ne 8:10 Ac 28:15 Ro 13:11-14
Evening:
Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense;
[and] the lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.
Thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: . . . and thou
shalt put it before the veil that [is] by the ark of the
testimony, before the mercy seat that [is] over the testimony,
where I will meet with thee. And Aaron shall burn upon it sweet
incense every morning: . . . and when Aaron lighteth the lamps
at the evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual
incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
[Jesus] is able also to save them to the uttermost that come
to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for
them.--The smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers
of the saints, ascended before God out of the angel's hand.
Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an
holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to
God by Jesus Christ.
Pray without ceasing.
Ps 141:2 Ex 30:1,6-8 Heb 7:25 Re 8:4 1Pe 2:5 1Th 5:17
01.03
Morning:
He led them forth by the right way.
He found [Jacob] in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as
the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh
them, beareth them on her wings: [So] the LORD alone did lead
him.--[Even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to gray
hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I
will carry, and will deliver [you].
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou
[art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
The LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul
in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a
watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail
not.--For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be
our guide [even] to death.--Who teacheth like him?
Ps 107:7 De 32:10-12 Isa 46:4 Ps 23:3,4 Isa 58:11 Ps 48:14
Job 36:22
Evening:
What wilt thou that I shall do to thee?
. . . Lord, that I may receive my sight.
Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
thy law.
Then he opened their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures.--The Comforter, [who is] the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, . . . shall teach
you all things.--Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.
The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, . . .
give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that
ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches
of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what [is] the
exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe,
according to the working of his mighty power.
Lu 18:41 Ps 119:18 Lu 24:45 Joh 14:26 Jas 1:17 Eph 1:17-19
01.04
Morning:
Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the
inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
This [is] not [your] rest.--There remaineth therefore a rest
to the people of God.--Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the
soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that
Within the veil; where the forerunner hath for us entered,
[even] Jesus.
In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not
[so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you to myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
--With Christ; which is far better.
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed
away.--There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the
weary are at rest.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. For where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also.--Set your affection
on things above, not on things on the earth.
De 12:9 Mic 2:10 Heb 4:9 6:19,20 Joh 14:2,3 Php 1:23 Re 21:4
Job 3:17 Mt 6:20,21 Col 3:2
Evening:
O death, where [is] thy sting?
O grave, where [is] thy victory?
The sting of death [is] sin.--But now once in the end of the
world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after
this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins
of many; and to them that look for him he shall appear the
second time without sin to salvation.
Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he
also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death
he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the
devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage.
I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is
at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my]
course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for
me a crown of righteousness.
1Co 15:55,56 Heb 9:26-28 2:14,15 2Ti 4:6-8
01.05
Morning:
We who have believed do enter into rest.
They . . . weary themselves to commit iniquity.--I see
another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the
body of this death?
Come to me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest.--Being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have
access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice
in hope of the glory of God.
He that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from
his own works.--Not having my own righteousness, which is from
the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is from God by faith.--This [is] the rest
[with which] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the
refreshing.
Heb 4:3 Jer 9:5 Ro 7:23,24 Mt 11:28 Ro 5:1,2 Heb 4:10 Php 3:9
Isa 28:12
Evening:
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth;
keep the door of my lips.
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
stand?--They provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly
with his lips.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that
which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
A whisperer separateth chief friends.--There is that speaketh
like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is]
health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a
lying tongue [is] but for a moment.--The tongue can no man tame;
[it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. . . . Out of the
same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these
things ought not so to be.
Put off . . . anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing
ye have put off the old man with his deeds.--This is the will of
God, [even] your sanctification.--In their mouth was found no
guile.
Ps 141:3 130:3 106:33 Mt 15:11 Pr 16:28 12:18,19 Jas 3:8,10
Col 3:8,9 1Th 4:3 Re 14:5
01.06
Morning:
Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:
and establish thou the work of our hands.
Thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for
it [was] perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon
thee, saith the Lord GOD.--We all, with unveiled face beholding
as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the
Lord.--The spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.
Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in
his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands: happy
[shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.--Commit thy
works to the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it
is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good
pleasure.--Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our
Father, who hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting
consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts,
and establish you in every good word and work.
Ps 90:17 Eze 16:14 2Co 3:18 1Pe 4:14 Ps 128:1,2 Pr 16:3
Php 2:12,13 2Th 2:16,17
Evening:
The apostles assembled themselves to Jesus, and told him all
things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
There is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.--The
LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his
friend.--Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not
what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to
you.
When ye shall have done all the things which are commanded
you, say, We are unprofitable servants.
Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but
ye have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba,
Father.
By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known to God.--The prayer of the upright [is]
his delight.
Mr 6:30 Pr 18:24 Ex 33:11 Joh 15:14,15 Lu 17:10 Ro 8:15
Php 4:6 Pr 15:8
01.07
Morning:
Think upon me, my God, for good.
Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy
youth, the love of thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in
the wilderness.--I will remember my covenant with thee in the
days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting
covenant.--I will visit you, and perform my good word toward
you.--For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the
LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
expected end.
[As] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.--I
would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause: who doeth
great things and unsearchable; wonderful things without
number.--Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which]
thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] toward us: they
cannot be reckoned up in order to thee: [if] I would declare and
speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.
Ne 5:19 Jer 2:2 Eze 16:60 Jer 29:10,11 Isa 55:9 Job 5:8,9
Ps 40:5
Evening:
I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
There failed nothing of any good thing which the LORD had
spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.--God [is] not a
man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should
repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he
spoke, and shall he not make it good?
The LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, who keepeth
covenant and mercy with them that love him.--He will ever be
mindful of his covenant.
Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not
have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget,
yet I will not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the
palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will
save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his
love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Jos 1:5 21:45 Nu 23:19 De 7:9 Ps 111:5 Isa 49:15,16 Zep 3:17
01.08
Morning:
They that know thy name will put their trust in thee:
for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous
runneth into it, and is safe.--I will trust, and not be afraid:
for the LORD [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become
my salvation.
I have been young, and [now] am old; yet I have not seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.--For the LORD
loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are
preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
--The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's
sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.--
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in
whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us].
[Be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I
will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly
say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall
do to me.
Ps 9:10 Pr 18:10 Isa 12:2 Ps 37:25 37:28 1Sa 12:22 2Co 1:10
Heb 13:5,6
Evening:
They are without fault before the throne of God.
The iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall
be] none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found:
for I will pardon them whom I reserve.--Who [is] a God like
thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression
of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for
ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy. He will turn again, he
will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and
thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
He hath made us accepted in the beloved.--To present you holy
and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with
exceeding joy, to God the only wise, our Saviour, [be] glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Re 14:5 Jer 50:20 Mic 7:18,19 Eph 1:6 Col 1:22 Jude 1:24,25
01.09
Morning:
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee,
that it may be displayed because of the truth.
Jehovahnissi: that is, The LORD my banner.--When the enemy
shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up
a standard against him.
We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God
we will set up [our] banners.--The LORD hath brought forth our
righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the
LORD our God.--We are more than conquerors through him that
loved us.--Thanks [be] to God, who giveth us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ.--The captain of our salvation.
My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his
might.--Valiant for the truth.--Fight the LORD'S battles.--Be
strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work:
. . . fear ye not.--Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields;
for they are white already to harvest.--Yet a little while, and
he that is coming will come, and will not tarry.
Ps 60:4 Ex 17:15 Isa 59:19 Ps 20:5 Jer 51:10 Ro 8:37
1Co 15:57 Heb 2:10 Eph 6:10 Jer 9:3 1Sa 18:17 Hag 2:4,5
Joh 4:35 Heb 10:37
Evening:
One thing is needful.
[There are] many that say, Who will show us [any] good? LORD,
lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance. Thou hast put
gladness in my heart, more than in the time when their grain and
their wine increased.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul
panteth after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the
living God.--O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee:
my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry
and thirsty land, where no water is.
I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never
hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.--Lord,
evermore give us this bread.--Mary . . . sat at Jesus' feet, and
heard his word.--One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that
will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all
the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to
enquire in his temple.
Lu 10:42 Ps 4:6,7 Ps 42:1,2 63:1 Joh 6:35,34 Lu 10:39 Ps 27:4
01.10
Morning:
[I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body may be
preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.--That
he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy
and without blemish.--Whom we preach, warning every man, and
teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man
perfect in Christ Jesus.
The peace of God . . . passeth all understanding.--Let the
peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye are called in
one body.
Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father,
who hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation
and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and establish
you in every good word and work.--Who shall also confirm you to
the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
1Th 5:23 Eph 5:25,27 Col 1:28 Php 4:7 Col 3:15 2Th 2:16,17
1Co 1:8
Evening:
Will God indeed dwell with men on the earth?
Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.--
I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the tabernacle]
shall be sanctified by my glory. . . . And I will dwell among
the children of Israel, and will be their God.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:
thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also,
that the LORD God might dwell [among them].
Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will
dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.--Your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit [which is] in you.--Ye . . . are built together for an
habitation of God through the Spirit.
The nations shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel,
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.
2Ch 6:18 Ex 25:8 29:43,45 Ps 68:18 2Co 6:16 1Co 6:19 Eph 2:22
Eze 37:28
01.11
Morning:
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion.
To us [there is but] one God, the Father, from whom [are] all
things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are]
all things, and we by him.--All [men] should honour the Son,
even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son
honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.--By him therefore
let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that
is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.--Whoever
offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his]
conduct [aright] will I show the salvation of God.
I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could
number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and languages,
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white
robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice,
saying, Salvation to our God who sitteth upon the throne, and to
the Lamb.--Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and
thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, [be] to our God
for ever and ever. Amen.
Ps 65:1 1Co 8:6 Joh 5:23 Heb 13:15 Ps 50:23 Re 7:9,10,12
Evening:
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction.
Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name.
--I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will
be thy destruction.
Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he
also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death
he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the
devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage.
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he
that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of
God abideth on him.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with him in glory.--When he shall come to be glorified in
his saints, and to be admired by all them that believe (because
our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Ps 103:4 Jer 50:34 Ho 13:14 Heb 2:14,15 Joh 3:36 Col 3:3,4
2Th 1:10
01.12
Morning:
God the only wise, our Saviour.
Christ Jesus, who from God is made to us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.--Canst thou
by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to
perfection? [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do?
deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden
[wisdom], which God ordained before the world to our glory.--The
mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in
God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that
now to the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might
be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth
to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be
given to him.--The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be entreated, full of mercy and
good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Jude 1:25 1Co 1:30 Job 11:7,8 1Co 2:7 Eph 3:9,10 Jas 1:5 3:17
Evening:
When shall I arise, and the night be gone?
Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning
cometh.
Yet a little while, and he that is coming will come, and will
not tarry.--[He shall be] as the light of the morning, [when]
the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds.
I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself;
that where I am, [there] ye may be also.--Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard that I said to
you, I go away, and come [again] to you.
Let all thy enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love
him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.--Ye are
all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of
the night, nor of darkness.
There shall be no night there.
Job 7:4 Isa 21:11,12 Heb 10:37 2Sa 23:4 Joh 14:2,3,27,28
Jud 5:31 1Th 5:5 Re 21:25
01.13
Morning:
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace,
[whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee].
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
shall never allow the righteous to be moved.--I will trust, and
not be afraid: for the LORD [is] my strength and [my] song; he
also is become my salvation.
Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?--Be anxious for
nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the
peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.--In quietness and in
confidence shall be your strength.
The righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.--Peace I
leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world giveth,
give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid.--Peace, from him who is, and who was, and who is to
come.
Isa 26:3 Ps 55:22 Isa 12:2 Mt 8:26 Php 4:6,7 Isa 30:15 32:17
Joh 14:27 Re 1:4
Evening:
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him
his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee,
thou hast gained thy brother. . . . Lord, how often shall my
brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith to him, I say not to thee, Until seven times: but,
Until seventy times seven.--When ye stand praying, forgive, if
ye have any thing against any: that your Father also who is in
heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,
tender mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one
another, if any man hath a quarrel against any: even as Christ
forgave you, so also [do] ye.--Be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's
sake hath forgiven you.
The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.
Eph 4:26 Mt 18:15,21,22 Mr 11:25 Col 3:12,13 Eph 4:32 Lu 17:5
01.14
Morning:
My Father is greater than I.
When ye pray, say, Our Father who art in heaven.-- My Father,
and your Father; . . . my God, and your God.
As the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.--The words
that I speak to you I speak not from myself: but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his
hand.--Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should
give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith to
him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not
known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and
how sayest thou [then], Show us the Father? Believest thou not
that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?--I and [my]
Father are one.--As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved
you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye
shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's
commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 14:28 Lu 11:2 Joh 20:17 14:31 14:10 3:35 17:2 14:8-10
Joh 10:30 15:9,10
Evening:
[The woman's seed] shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.
His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more
than the sons of men.--He [was] wounded for our transgressions,
[he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our
peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
This is your hour, and the power of darkness.--Thou couldest
have no power against me, except it were given thee from above.
The Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works
of the devil.--He . . . cast out many demons; and permitted not
the demons to speak, because they knew him.
All authority is given to me in heaven and upon earth.--In my
name shall they cast out demons.
The God of peace shall soon bruise Satan under your feet.
Ge 3:15 Isa 52:14 53:5 Lu 22:53 Joh 19:11 1Jo 3:8 Mr 1:34
Mt 28:18 Mr 16:17 Ro 16:20
01.15
Morning:
My soul cleaveth to the dust:
revive thou me according to thy word.
If ye then be raised with Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your
affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For . . .
your life is hid with Christ in God.--Our citizenship is in
heaven; from which also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus
Christ: who shall change our lowly body, that it may be
fashioned like his glorious body, according to the working by
which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.
The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that
ye cannot do the things that ye would.--Brethren, we are
debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For
if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye
through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
--Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as sojourners and pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
Ps 119:25 Col 3:1-3 Php 3:20,21 Ga 5:17 Ro 8:12,13 1Pe 2:11
Evening:
The measure of faith.
Him that is weak in the faith.--Strong in faith, giving glory
to God.
O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? Great [is] thy
faith: be it to thee even as thou wilt.
Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yea,
Lord. . . . According to your faith be it to you.
Lord, Increase our faith.--Building up yourselves on your
most holy faith.--Rooted and built up in him, and established in
the faith.--He who establisheth us with you in Christ, . . .
[is] God.--The God of all grace . . . after ye have suffered a
while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you].
We . . . that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the
weak, and not to please ourselves.--Let us not . . . judge one
another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a
stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.
Ro 12:3 14:1 4:20 Mt 14:31 15:28 9:28,29 Lu 17:5 Jude 1:20
Col 2:7 2Co 1:21 1Pe 5:10 Ro 15:1 14:13
01.16
Morning:
It pleased [the Father]
that in him should all fulness dwell.
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his
hand.--God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name
which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] on earth, and
[things] under the earth; and [that] every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.--Far above all principality, and power, and might, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world,
but also in that which is to come.--By him were all things
created, that are in heaven, and that are upon earth, visible
and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities,
or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.
Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be
Lord both of the dead and the living.--And ye are complete in
him, who is the head of all principality and power.--Of his
fulness have we all received, and grace for grace.
Col 1:19 Joh 3:35 Php 2:9-11 Eph 1:21 Col 1:16 Ro 14:9
Col 2:10 Joh 1:16
Evening:
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things
which are, and the things which shall be after this.
Holy men of God spoke [as they were] moved by the Holy
Spirit.--That which we have seen and heard we declare to you,
that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our
fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me,
and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them [his] hands
and [his] feet.--He that saw [it] testified, and his testimony
is true: and he knoweth that he speaketh truth, that ye may
believe.
We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made
known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but
were eyewitnesses of his majesty.--That your faith should not
stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Re 1:19 2Pe 1:21 1Jo 1:3 Lu 24:39,40 Joh 19:35 2Pe 1:16
1Co 2:5
01.17
Morning:
Thou hast in love to my soul
[delivered it] from the pit of corruption.
God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might
live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but
that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for
our sins.
Who [is] a God like thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and
passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he
retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in]
mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he
will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins
into the depths of the sea.--O LORD my God, I cried to thee, and
thou hast healed me. O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from
the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to
the pit.--When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD:
and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.--I waited
patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
He brought me up . . . out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
clay, and set my feet upon a rock.
Isa 38:17 1Jo 4:9,10 Mic 7:18,19 Ps 30:2,3 Jon 2:7 Ps 40:1,2
Evening:
The things which are.
Now we see in a mirror, darkly.--Now we see not yet all
things subjected to him.
We have . . . a more sure word of prophecy; to which ye do
well that ye take heed, as to a light that shineth in a dark
place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your
hearts.--Thy word [is] a lamp to my feet, and a light to my
path.
Beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before by
the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; that they told you there
would be mockers in the last time, who would walk after their
own ungodly lusts.--The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons.
Little children, it is the last time.--The night is far
spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works
of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Re 1:19 1Co 13:12 Heb 2:8 2Pe 1:19 Ps 119:105 Jude 1:17,18
1Ti 4:1 1Jo 2:18 Ro 13:12
01.18
Morning:
Him that was to come.
Jesus . . . made a little lower than the angels for the
suffering of death, . . . that he by the grace of God should
taste death for every man.--One died for all.--As by one man's
disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one
shall many be made righteous.
The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was
made] a living spirit.--That [was] not first which is spiritual,
but that which is natural; and afterward that which is
spiritual.--God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness. . . . So God created man in his [own] image, in the
image of God created he him.--God hath in these last days spoken
to us by [his] Son, the brightness of [his] glory, and the
express image of his person.--Thou hast given him power over all
flesh.
The first man [is] from the earth, earthy: the second man
[is] the Lord from heaven. As [is] the earthy, such [are] they
also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they
also that are heavenly.
Ro 5:14 Heb 2:9 2Co 5:14 Ro 5:19 1Co 15:45,46 Ge 1:26,27
Heb 1:1-3 Joh 17:2 1Co 15:47,48
Evening:
The things which shall be after this.
It is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed [them] to
us by his Spirit.--The Spirit of truth . . . will show you
things to come.
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him,
and they [also] who pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth
shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have
no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even
so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. . . .
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we who are alive
[and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.
Re 1:19 1Co 2:9,10 Joh 16:13 Re 1:7 1Th 4:13,14,16,17
01.19
Morning:
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.
Whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
and whoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is
nothing, he deceiveth himself.--I say, to every man that is
among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought
to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to
every man the measure of faith.--When ye shall have done all the
things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable
servants: we have done that which it was our duty to do.
Our rejoicing is this, . . . that in simplicity and godly
sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we
have behaved ourselves in the world We have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God,
and not from us.
Ac 20:19 Mt 20:26-28 Ga 6:3 Ro 12:3 Lu 17:10 2Co 1:12 2Co 4:7
Evening:
We have turned every one to his own way.
Noah . . . planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and
was drunk.--[Abram] said to Sarai his wife, . . . Say, I pray
thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be well with me for thy
sake.--Isaac said to Jacob, . . . [Art] thou my very son Esau?
And he said, I [am].--Moses . . . spoke unadvisedly with his
lips.--The men took of their provisions, and asked not [counsel]
at the mouth of the LORD. And Joshua made peace with them.--
David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and
turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the
days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the
Hittite.
These all . . . obtained a good report through faith.-- Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Jesus Christ.--The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Not for your sakes do I [this], saith the Lord GOD, be it
known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways.
Isa 53:6 Ge 9:20,21 12:11,13 27:21,24 Ps 106:32,33 Jos 9:14,15
1Ki 15:5 Heb 11:39 Ro 3:24 Isa 53:6 Eze 36:32
01.20
Morning:
His name shall be called Wonderful.
The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.--Thou hast magnified thy word above all
thy name.
They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted
is, God with us.--JESUS: for he shall save his people from their
sins.--That all [men] should honour the Son, even as they honour
the Father. God . . . hath highly exalted him, and given him a
name which is above every name.--Far above all principality, and
power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named,
not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and
put all [things] under his feet.-- He had a name written, that
no man knew, but he himself . . . KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF
LORDS.
[As for] the Almighty, we cannot find him out.--What [is] his
name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Isa 9:6 Joh 1:14 Ps 138:2 Mt 1:23,21 Joh 5:23 Php 2:9
Eph 1:21,22 Re 19:12,16 Job 37:23 Pr 30:4
Evening:
For the LORD'S portion [is] his people.
And ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.--I [am] my
beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.--I [am] his. The Son
of God . . . loved me, and gave himself for me.
Ye are not your own. . . . Ye are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which
are God's.--The LORD hath taken you, and brought you out of the
iron furnace, [even] from Egypt, to be to him a people of
inheritance, as [ye are] this day.
Ye are God's field, [ye are] God's building.--Christ as a son
over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the
confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.--A
spiritual house, an holy priesthood.
They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when
I make up my jewels.--All mine are thine, and thine are mine;
and I am glorified in them.--The glory of his inheritance in the
saints.
De 32:9 1Co 3:23 So 7:10 2:16 Ga 2:20 1Co 6:19,20 De 4:20
1Co 3:9 Heb 3:6 1Pe 2:5 Mal 3:17 Joh 17:10 Eph 1:18
01.21
Morning:
Every [branch] that beareth fruit, he trimmeth it.
He [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: and he
shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall
purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that
they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.
We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation
worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience,
hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to
us.--If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons;
for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye are
without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons. Now no chastening for the present
seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are
exercised by it. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down,
and the feeble knees.
Joh 15:2 Mal 3:2,3 Ro 5:3-5 Heb 12:7,8,11,12
Evening:
Now we call the proud happy.
Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with
him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive
the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the
contrite ones.
Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than
to divide the spoil with the proud.--Blessed [are] the poor in
spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an
abomination to him: a proud look, etc.--Every one [that is]
proud in heart [is] an abomination to the LORD.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
thoughts: and see if [there is any] wicked way in me, and lead
me in the way everlasting.
Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from]
the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of
you.--Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mal 3:15 Isa 57:15 Pr 16:19 Mt 5:3 Pr 6:16,17 16:5
Ps 139:23,24 Php 1:2,3 Mt 5:5
01.22
Morning:
This God [is] our God for ever and ever:
he will be our guide [even] to death.
O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise
thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of
old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.--The LORD [is] the portion
of my inheritance and of my cup.
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's
sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and
thy staff they comfort me.--Thou hast held [me] by my right
hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward
receive me [to] glory. Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and
[there is] none upon earth [that] I desire besides thee. My
flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my
heart, and my portion for ever.--Our heart shall rejoice in him,
because we have trusted in his holy name.--The LORD will perfect
[that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for
ever: forsake not the works of thy own hands.
Ps 48:14 Isa 25:1 Ps 16:5 23:3,4 73:23-26 33:21 138:8
Evening:
In the multitude of my thoughts within me
thy comforts delight my soul.
When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is
higher than I.
O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.--Cast thy burden
upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee.
I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to go out or come
in.--If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, . . .
and it shall be given to him.
Who [is] sufficient for these things?--I know that in me
(that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.--My grace is
sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in
weakness.
Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven
thee.--Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee
well.
My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness;
. . . when I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee
in the [night] watches.
Ps 94:19 61:2 Isa 38:14 Ps 55:22 1Ki 3:7 Jas 1:5 2Co 2:16
Ro 7:18 2Co 12:9 Mt 9:2,22 Ps 63:5,6
01.23
Morning:
Hope maketh not ashamed.
I [am] the LORD: . . . they shall not be ashamed that wait
for me.--Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and
whose hope the LORD is.--Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace,
[whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD GOD [is]
everlasting strength.--My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my
expectation [is] from him. He only [is] my rock and my
salvation: [he is] my defence; I shall not be moved.-- I am not
ashamed: for I know whom I have believed.
God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise
the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: that
by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to
lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for
refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which [hope] we
have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and
which entereth into that within the veil where the forerunner
hath for us entered, [even] Jesus.
Ro 5:5 Isa 49:23 Jer 17:7 Isa 26:3,4 Ps 62:5,6 2Ti 1:12
Heb 6:17-20
Evening:
The offence of the cross ceased.
If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me.
Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God.--We must through much tribulation enter into the
kingdom of God.
Whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.--To you
therefore who believe [he is] precious: but to them who are
disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is
made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a
rock of offence.
May it never be that I should glory, except in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and
I to the world.--I am crucified with Christ.--They that are
Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny
[him], he also will deny us.
Ga 5:11 Mt 16:24 Jas 4:4 Ac 14:22 Ro 9:33 1Pe 2:7,8
Ga 6:14 2:20 5:24 2Ti 2:12
01.24
Morning:
The Lord [is] at hand.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first: then we who are alive [and]
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.--He who
testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be found by him in peace, without spot, and
blameless.--Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very
God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole
spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless to the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful [is] he that calleth
you, who also will do [it].
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of
the Lord draweth near.
Php 4:5 1Th 4:16-18 Re 22:20 2Pe 3:14 1Th 5:22-24 Jas 5:8
Evening:
The choice vine.
My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and
he dug it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the
choicest vine, . . . and he expected that it should bring forth
grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.--Yet I had planted
thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned
into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?
Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are [these];
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: . . . but the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every
[branch] that beareth fruit, he trimmeth it, that it may bring
forth more fruit. Abide in me, and I in you. . . . In this is my
Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my
disciples.
Ge 49:11 Isa 5:1,2 Jer 2:21 Ga 5:19,21-23 Joh 15:1,2,4,8
01.25
Morning:
The righteousness of God [which is] by faith of
Jesus Christ to all and upon all them that believe.
He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him.--Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us.--Who from God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and
sanctification, and redemption.--Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by
the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;
which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
I count all things [to be] loss for the excellence of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the
loss of all things, and do count them [to be] dung, that I may
win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own
righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through
the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by
faith.
Ro 3:22 2Co 5:21 Ga 3:13 1Co 1:30 Tit 3:5,6 Php 3:8,9
Evening:
The Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.
Jesus . . . lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father.--Holy Father. . . . O righteous Father.--He said, Abba,
Father.--Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of
his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.--For through him
we both have an access by one Spirit to the Father. Now
therefore ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Doubtless thou [art] our father, . . . thou, O LORD, [art]
our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.
I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no
more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired
servants. And he arose, and came to his father.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children.
Ro 8:15 Joh 17:1,11,25 Mr 14:36 Ga 4:6 Eph 2:18,19 Isa 63:16
Lu 15:18-20 Eph 5:1
01.26
Morning:
Let us go forth therefore to him outside the camp,
bearing his reproach. For here we have no
continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to
you: but rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be
glad also with exceeding joy.--As ye are partakers of the
sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation.
If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye];
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their
part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
They departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing
that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.--
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God,
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the
reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt:
for he had respect to the recompence of the reward.
Heb 13:13,14 1Pe 4:12,13 2Co 1:7 1Pe 4:14 Ac 5:41 Heb 11:25,26
Evening:
The Lord Jesus Christ . . . shall change our lowly body,
that it may be fashioned like his glorious body.
Upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the
appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of
amber, as the appearance of fire around within it, from the
appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of
his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of
fire, and it had brightness on all sides. As the appearance of
the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the
appearance of the brightness around. This [was] the appearance
of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.
We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the
glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--It doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more.--They
sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the
Lamb.
Php 3:20,21 Eze 1:26-28 2Co 3:18 1Jo 3:2 Re 7:16 15:3
01.27
Morning:
Ye know that he was revealed to take away
our sins; and in him is no sin.
God, . . . hath in these last days spoken to us by [his] Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds; who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the
express image of his person, and upholding all things by the
word of his power, when he had by himself made purification of
our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.--
He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear: forasmuch as
ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as]
silver and gold, from your vain manner of life [received] by
tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who
verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but
was revealed in these last times for you.--The love of Christ
constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for
all, then were all dead: and [that] he died for all, that
they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to
him who died for them, and rose again.
1Jo 3:5 Heb 1:1-3 2Co 5:21 1Pe 1:17-20 2Co 5:14,15
Evening:
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life.
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith
the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [ye], and live.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin:
but now they have no cloke for their sin.
That servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not
[himself], neither did according to his will, shall be beaten
with many [stripes].
The wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.--He that believeth on the
Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son
shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.--Know
ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience,
his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of
obedience to righteousness?
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am,
there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will
[my] Father honour.
De 30:19 Eze 18:32 Joh 15:22 Lu 12:47 Ro 6:23 Joh 3:36 Ro 6:16
Joh 12:26
01.28
Morning:
As thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be].
When they shall lead [you], and deliver you up, be not
anxious beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye
premeditate: but whatever shall be given you in that hour, that
speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.--Be
not anxious for to morrow: for to morrow will be anxious for the
things of itself. Sufficient to the day [is] its own evil.
The God of Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power to
[his] people. Blessed [be] God.--He giveth power to the faint;
and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.
My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made
perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory
in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in
necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake:
for when I am weak, then am I strong.--I can do all things
through Christ who strengtheneth me.--O my soul, thou hast
trodden down strength.
De 33:25 Mr 13:11 Mt 6:34 Ps 68:35 Isa 40:29 2Co 12:9,10
Php 4:13 Jud 5:21
Evening:
Awake, O north wind; and . . . blow upon my garden,
[that] its spices may flow out.
No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit
of righteousness to them who are exercised by it.--The
fruit of the Spirit.
He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD
pitieth them that fear him.
Though our outward man is wasted, yet the inward [man] is
renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for
a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal
weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen.
Though [Jesus] was a Son, yet he learned obedience by the
things which he suffered.--In all points tempted as [we are,
yet] without sin.
So 4:16 Heb 12:11 Ga 5:22 Isa 27:8 Ps 103:13 2Co 4:16-18
Heb 5:8 4:15
01.29
Morning:
Thou God seest me.
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. Thou knowest
my down sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought
afar off. Thou comprehend my path and my lying down, and art
acquainted [with] all my ways. For [there is] not a word on my
tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. . . .
[Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot
[attain] to it.
The eyes of the LORD [are] in every place, beholding the evil
and the good.--The ways of man [are] before the eyes of the
LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.--God knoweth your hearts:
for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in
the sight of God.--For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro
throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf
of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him.
Jesus . . . knew all [men], and needed not that any should
testify concerning man: for he knew what was in man.--Lord, thou
knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.
Ge 16:13 Ps 139:1-4,6 Pr 15:3 Pr 5:21 Lu 16:15 2Ch 16:9
Joh 2:24,25 21:17
Evening:
I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart:
and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me.--[It is a] good
[thing] to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to thy
name, O Most High: To show forth thy loving kindness in the
morning, and thy faithfulness every night.
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.
I beseech you, . . . brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
[which is] your reasonable service.--Jesus also, that he might
sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the
gate.--By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to
God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks
to his name.--Giving thanks always for all things to God and the
Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and
riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and
blessing.
Ps 86:12 50:23 92:1,2 150:6 Ro 12:1 Heb 13:12,15 Eph 5:20
Re 5:12
01.30
Morning:
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
looking to Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith.
If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross daily, and follow me.--Whoever he is of you
that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.--
Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness.
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we
an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I
fight, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my
body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest by any means, when I
have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.--
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one
thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forward to those things which are before, I press
toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in
Christ Jesus. Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the
LORD.
Heb 12:1,2 Lu 9:23 14:33 Ro 13:12 1Co 9:25-27 Php 3:13,14
Ho 6:3
Evening:
[It is] good for a man that he should
bear the yoke in his youth.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.
We have had fathers of our flesh who corrected [us], and we
gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection
to the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few
days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our]
profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
word. . . . [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that
I might learn thy statutes.
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
--Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,
that he may exalt you in due time.
La 3:27 Pr 22:6 Heb 12:9,10 Ps 119:67,71 Jer 29:11 1Pe 5:6
01.31
Morning:
If ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from
before you; . . . those which ye let remain of them [shall
be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and
shall trouble you in the land in which ye dwell.
Fight the good fight of faith.--The weapons of our warfare
[are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds; casting down imaginations, . . . and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according
to the flesh. For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body,
ye shall live.
The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that
ye cannot do the things that ye would.--I see another law in my
members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.--We are
more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Nu 33:55 1Ti 6:12 2Co 10:4,5 Ro 8:12,13 Ga 5:17 Ro 7:23 8:37
Evening:
If a man shall sin against the LORD,
who shall plead for him?
If any man sinneth, we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our
sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the
whole world.--Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
to declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he may
be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus.
He is gracious to him, and saith, Deliver him from going down
to the pit: I have found a ransom.
What shall we then say to these things? If God [is] for us,
who [can be] against us? . . . Who shall lay any thing to the
charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he
that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, or rather, that is
risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us.
1Sa 2:25 1Jo 2:1,2 Ro 3:25,26 Job 33:24 Ro 8:31,33,34
02.01
Morning:
Whom having not seen, ye love.
We walk by faith, not by sight.--We love him, because he
first loved us.--We have known and believed the love that God
hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth
in God, and God in him.--In whom ye also [trusted], after ye
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom
also after ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of
promise.--God would make known what [is] the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory.
If a man saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a
liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how
can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Jesus saith to him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou
hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet]
have believed.--Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in
him.
1Pe 1:8 2Co 5:7 1Jo 4:19,16 Eph 1:13 Col 1:27 1Jo 4:20
Joh 20:29 Ps 2:12
Evening:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
We are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses
[are] as filthy rags.
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make
mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.--I will
greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath
covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
decketh [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth
[herself] with her jewels.
Bring forth the best robe, and put [it] on him.--To her was
granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and
white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
I count all things [to be] loss for the excellence of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord . . . that I may win Christ,
and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is
from the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is from God by faith.
Jer 23:6 Isa 64:6 Ps 71:16 Isa 61:10 Lu 15:22 Re 19:8
Php 3:8,9
02.02
Morning:
Oh that thou wouldest keep [me] from evil.
Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.--
The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.
Two [things] have I required of thee; deny [them] not to me
before I die: remove far from me vanity and lies: give me
neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or
lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in
vain].
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
thy soul.--I will deliver thee from the hand of the wicked, and
I will redeem thee from the hand of the terrible.--He that is
begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth
him not.
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will
keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all
the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.--The Lord
knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations.
1Ch 4:10 Lu 22:46 Mt 26:41 Pr 30:7-9 Ps 121:7 Jer 15:21
1Jo 5:18 Re 3:10 2Pe 2:9
Evening:
[One] star differeth from [another] star in glory.
By the way they had disputed among themselves, who [should
be] the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and
saith to them, If any man desireth to be first, [the same] shall
be last of all, and servant of all.--Be clothed with humility:
for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that
he may exalt you in due time.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who
. . . made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form
of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.--Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is
above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow.
They that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars
for ever and ever.
1Co 15:41 Mr 9:34,35 1Pe 5:5,6 Php 2:5-7,9,10 Da 12:3
02.03
Morning:
Be strong, . . . and work: for I [am] with you,
saith the LORD of hosts.
I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me,
and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me
ye can do nothing.--I can do all things through Christ who
strengtheneth me.--Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his
might.--The joy of the LORD is your strength.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye
that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the
prophets.--Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble
knees. Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong,
fear not.--Go in this thy might.
If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?--Therefore
seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we
faint not.
Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall
reap, if we faint not.--Thanks [be] to God, who giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hag 2:4 Joh 15:5 Php 4:13 Eph 6:10 Ne 8:10 Zec 8:9 Isa 35:3,4
Jud 6:14 Ro 8:31 2Co 4:1 Ga 6:9 1Co 15:57
Evening:
The darkness hideth not from thee.
His eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his
goings. [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the
workers of iniquity may hide themselves.--Can any hide himself
in secret places that I shall not see him? . . . Do not I fill
heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for
the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness. . . . Because thou
hast made the LORD, [who is] my refuge, [even] the Most High,
thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall
any plague come near thy dwelling.--He that keepeth thee will
not slumber.--The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade
upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor
the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me.
Ps 139:12 Job 34:21,22 Jer 23:24 Ps 91:5,6,9,10 121:3,5-7
Ps 23:4
02.04
Morning:
Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from which
they came, they might have had opportunity to return. But now
they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore
God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared
for them a city.--Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the
treasures of Egypt.--The just shall live by faith: but if [any
man] shall draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them
that believe to the saving of the soul.--No man, having put his
hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of
God.
May it never be that I should glory, except in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and
I to the world.--Come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will
receive you.
He who hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until
the day of Jesus Christ:
De 17:16 Heb 11:15,16,25,26 10:38,39 Lu 9:62 Ga 6:14 2Co 6:17
Php 1:6
Evening:
They talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the
affliction.
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are
spiritual, restore such one in the spirit of meekness;
considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
He who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall
save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.--
Encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward
all [men].
Let us not . . . judge one another any more: but judge this
rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall
in [his] brother's way.--We . . . that are strong ought to bear
the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Charity . . . rejoiceth not in iniquity. Let him that
thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Ps 69:26 Zec 1:15 Ga 6:1 Jas 5:20 1Th 5:14 Ro 14:13 15:1
1Co 13:4,6 10:12
02.05
Morning:
I am come that they may have life,
and that they may have [it] more abundantly.
In the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt surely die.--She
took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with
her; and he ate.
The wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.--If by one man's offence
death reigned by one; much more they who receive abundance of
grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by
one, Jesus Christ.--Since by man [came] death, by man [came]
also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even
so in Christ shall all be made alive.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality
to light through the gospel.
God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. He that hath the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not the
Son of God hath not life.--For God sent not his Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through him may
be saved.
Joh 10:10 Ge 2:17 3:6 Ro 6:23 5:17 1Co 15:21,22 2Ti 1:10
1Jo 5:11,12 Joh 3:17
Evening:
The judgment seat.
We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth.--
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy
angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall
separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth [his]
sheep from the goats.
Then shall the righteous shine as the sun in the kingdom of
their Father.--Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's
elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he that condemneth?
[It is] Christ that died, or rather, that is risen again, who is
even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for
us.--[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them who are in
Christ Jesus.
We are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned
with the world.
2Co 5:10 Ro 2:2 Mt 25:31,32 13:43 Ro 8:33,34 8:1 1Co 11:32
02.06
Morning:
The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant
with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he
was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his
poverty might be rich.--Where sin abounded, grace did much more
abound.
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches
of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Not by works, lest any man
should boast.--Knowing that a man is not justified by the works
of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have
believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by the faith
of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of
the law shall no flesh be justified.--According to his mercy he
saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the
Holy Spirit; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ
our Saviour.
1Ti 1:14 2Co 8:9 Ro 5:20 Eph 2:7,9 Ga 2:16 Tit 3:5,6
Evening:
I am . . . the bright and morning star.
There shall come a Star out of Jacob.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of
light.--Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away,
turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon
the mountains of Bether.
Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The
watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye
will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
I am the light of the world.--I will give him the morning
star.
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time
is. [For the Son of man is] as a man taking a long journey, who
left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every
man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye
therefore. . . . Lest coming suddenly he should find you
sleeping. And what I say to you I say to all, Watch.
Re 22:16 Nu 24:17 Ro 13:12 So 2:17 Isa 21:11,12 Joh 8:12
Re 2:28 Mr 13:33-37
02.07
Morning:
When thou hast eaten and art full, . . . thou shalt bless
the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God.--One of them,
when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud
voice glorified God, And fell down on [his] face at his feet,
giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering
said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where [are] the nine?
There are not found returning to give glory to God, except this
stranger.
For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be
refused, if received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by
the word of God and prayer.--He that eateth, eateth to the Lord,
for he giveth God thanks.--The blessing of the LORD, it maketh
rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless]
his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, . . . who forgiveth
all thy iniquities; . . . who crowneth thee with loving kindness
and tender mercies.
De 8:10,11 Lu 17:15-18 1Ti 4:4,5 Ro 14:6 Pr 10:22 Ps 103:1-4
Evening:
Jesus . . . was moved with compassion toward them.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.--
We have not an high priest who cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities; but who was in all points tempted as
[we are, yet] without sin.--Who can have compassion on the
ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he
himself also is beset with infirmity.--He cometh, and findeth
them sleeping, and saith to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou?
couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye
enter into temptation. The spirit truly [is] ready, but the
flesh [is] weak.
Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD
pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he
remembereth that we [are] dust.
Thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious,
long suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth. O turn to me,
and have mercy upon me; give thy strength to thy servant, and
save the son of thy handmaid.
Mt 14:14 Heb 13:8 4:15 5:2 Mr 14:37,38 Ps 103:13,14 86:15,16
02.08
Morning:
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends.
The LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I
do?--It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven.--God hath revealed [them] to us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, even, the deep things of God.--
[Even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world
to our glory.
Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to
approach [to thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be
satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy
temple.--The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him;
and he will show them his covenant.--I have given to them the
words which thou gavest me; and they have received [them], and
have known surely that I came from thee, and they have believed
that thou didst send me.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you.
Joh 15:15 Ge 18:17 Mt 13:11 1Co 2:10,7 Ps 65:4 25:14
Joh 17:8 15:14
Evening:
Thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the
names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but fellowcitizens
with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon
the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the chief corner [stone]; in whom all the building
fitly framed together groweth to an holy temple in the Lord: in
whom ye also are built together for an habitation of God through
the Spirit.--If indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is]
gracious. To whom coming, [as to] a living stone, rejected
indeed by men, but chosen by God, [and] precious, ye also, as
living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God
by Jesus Christ.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion.
Isa 60:18 Re 21:14 Eph 2:19-22 1Pe 2:3-5 Ps 65:1
02.09
Morning:
Now he is comforted.
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thy everlasting light,
and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.--He will swallow up
death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off
all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he remove from all
the earth.--These are they who came out of the great
tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb. Therefore they are before the throne of
God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that
sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger
no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on
them, nor any heat. For the Lamb who is in the midst of the
throne shall feed them, and shall lead them to living fountains
of waters.--God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have
passed away.
Lu 16:25 Isa 60:20 25:8 Re 7:14-17 21:4
Evening:
The night cometh, when no man can work.
Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth:
Verily, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours;
and their works follow them.--There the wicked cease [from]
troubling; and there the weary are at rest.--Samuel said to
Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?
Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for
[there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in
the grave, where thou goest.--The dead praise not the LORD,
neither any that go down into silence.
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my
departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have
finished [my] course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is
laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous judge, shall give me at that day.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he
that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his
own works, as God [did] from his.
Joh 9:4 Re 14:13 Job 3:17 1Sa 28:15 Ec 9:10 Ps 115:17
2Ti 4:6-8 Heb 4:9,10
02.10
Morning:
The lamp of the body is the eye: therefore when thy
eye is sound, thy whole body also is full of light.
The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know
[them], because they are spiritually discerned.--Open thou my
eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.--We all,
with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image . . . [even] as by the
Spirit of the Lord.--God, who commanded the light to shine out
of darkness, hath shone into our hearts, to [give] the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, . . .
give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
of him: . . . that ye may know what is the hope of his calling,
and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints.
Lu 11:34 1Co 2:14 Ps 119:18 Joh 8:12 2Co 3:18 4:6 Eph 1:17,18
Evening:
He smote the rock, that the waters gushed out,
and the streams overflowed.
All our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through
the sea; and were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the
sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same
spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that
followed them: and that Rock was Christ.--One of the soldiers
with a spear pierced his side, and immediately came out blood
and water.--He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was]
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace [was]
upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.--My people
have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of
living waters, [and] hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.
If any man thirsteth, let him come to me, and drink.--Whoever
will, let him take the water of life freely.
Ps 78:20 1Co 10:1-4 Joh 19:34 Isa 53:5 Joh 5:40 Jer 2:13
Joh 7:37 Re 22:17
02.11
Morning:
They that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the
LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was
written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that
thought upon his name.
It came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and
reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.--Where
two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst
of them.--My fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of
life.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
--Exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any
of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be
justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.--Behold,
[it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will
recompense, even recompense into their bosom.
Mal 3:16 Lu 24:15 Mt 18:20 Php 4:3 Col 3:16 Heb 3:13
Mt 12:36,37 Isa 65:6
Evening:
The trees of the LORD are full [of sap].
I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily,
and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread,
and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his fragrance
like Lebanon.--Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD,
and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by
the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and
shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and
shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease
from yielding fruit.
I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the
low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry
tree to flourish.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall
grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that are planted in the
house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They
shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and
flourishing.
Ps 104:16 Ho 14:5,6 Jer 17:7,8 Eze 17:24 Ps 92:12-14
02.12
Morning:
They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts,
in that day when I make up my jewels.
I have revealed thy name to the men whom thou gavest to me
out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me;
and they have kept thy word.--I pray for them: I pray not for
the world, but for them whom thou hast given to me; for they are
thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am
glorified in them.--Father, I will that they also, whom thou
hast given to me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my
glory, which thou hast given to me: for thou didst love me
before the foundation of the world.
I will come again, and receive you to myself.--He shall come
to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired by all them
that believe . . . in that day.--We who are alive [and] remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the
Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.--Thou
shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a
royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Mal 3:17 Joh 17:6,9,10,24 14:3 2Th 1:10 1Th 4:17 Isa 62:3
Evening:
I beseech thee, show me thy glory.
God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath
shone into our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.--The Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
. . . No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,
who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I
come and appear before God?--[When thou saidst], Seek ye my
face; my heart said to thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory
of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--Father, I will that
they also, whom thou hast given to me, be with me where I am;
that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given to me: for
thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.
Ex 33:18 2Co 4:6 Joh 1:14,18 Ps 42:2 27:8 2Co 3:18 Joh 17:24
02.13
Morning:
Upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness
as the appearance of a man above upon it.
The man Christ Jesus.--Made in the likeness of men. . . .
found in fashion as a man.--Since then the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part
of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had
the power of death.
I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive
for evermore.--Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he
died to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.--
[What] if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was
before?--He raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own
right hand in the heavenly [places].--In him dwelleth all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by
the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live
with him by the power of God.
Eze 1:26 1Ti 2:5 Php 2:7,8 Heb 2:14 Re 1:18 Ro 6:9,10 Joh 6:62
Eph 1:20 Col 2:9 2Co 13:4
Evening:
Thy word hath revived me.
The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was
made] a living spirit.
As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
Son to have life in himself.--I am the resurrection, and the
life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live: and whoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. . . . As
many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons
of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: who were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God.
It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak to you, [they] are spirit, and
[they] are life.--The word of God [is] living, and powerful, and
sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and
[is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Ps 119:50 1Co 15:45 Joh 5:26 11:25,26 1:4,12,13 6:63 Heb 4:12
02.14
Morning:
Permit [it to be so] now: for thus it is
fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness.
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within
my heart.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say to
you, Till heaven and earth shall pass away, one jot or one
tittle shall by no means pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.--The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness'
sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.--Except
your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the
scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no way enter into the kingdom
of heaven.
What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness
of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the
flesh, but according to the Spirit.--Christ [is] the end of the
law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Mt 3:15 Ps 40:8 Mt 5:17,18 Isa 42:21 Mt 5:20 Ro 8:3,4 10:4
Evening:
I [am] thy part and thy inheritance.
Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon
earth [that] I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart
faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion
for ever.--The LORD [is] the portion of my inheritance and of my
cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines have fallen to me in
pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I
hope in him.
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for
they [are] the rejoicing of my heart.
O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul
thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is. . . . Because thou hast been my
help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his.
Nu 18:20 Ps 73:25,26 16:5,6 La 3:24 Ps 119:111 63:1,7 So 2:16
02.15
Morning:
Who can say, I have made my heart clean?
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God. They
are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy:
[there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.--Then they that
are in the flesh cannot please God.
To will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which
is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the
evil which I would not, that I do.--We are all as an unclean
[thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and
we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise
by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
--That God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not
imputing their trespasses to them.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
Pr 20:9 Ps 14:2,3 Ro 8:8 7:18,19 Isa 64:6 Ga 3:22 2Co 5:19
1Jo 1:8,9
Evening:
The floods lift their waves.
The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters,
[yea, than] the mighty waves of the sea.--O LORD God of hosts,
who [is] a strong LORD like thee? or to thy faithfulness around
thee? Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when its waves arise,
thou stillest them.
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
presence, who have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by
a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it?
When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.
Peter . . . walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he
saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink,
he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched
forth [his] hand, and caught him, and said to him, O thou of
little faith, why didst thou doubt?
When I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Ps 93:3,4 89:8,9 Jer 5:22 Isa 43:2 Mt 14:29-31 Ps 56:3
02.16
Morning:
Thy name [is as] ointment poured forth.
Christ . . . hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.-- To
you therefore who believe [he is] precious.--God also hath
highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every
name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.--In him
dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.--The love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.--
The house was filled with the odour of the ointment.--They took
knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the
earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.--Emmanuel . . .
God with us.--His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.--
The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth
into it, and is safe.
So 1:3 Eph 5:2 1Pe 2:7 Php 2:9,10 Col 2:9 Joh 14:15 Ro 5:5
Joh 12:3 Ac 4:13 Ps 8:1 Mt 1:23 Isa 9:6 Pr 18:10
Evening:
We that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened.
Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not
hid from thee. . . . My iniquities have gone over my head: as an
heavy burden they are too heavy for me.--O wretched man that I
am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now. And not only [they], but ourselves . . ., who have
the firstfruits of the Spirit, . . . groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, [that is], the redemption of our body.
--Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
various temptations.
Shortly I must put off [this] my tabernacle.--For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put
on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death
is swallowed up in victory.
2Co 5:4 Ps 38:9,4 Ro 7:24 8:22,23 1Pe 1:6 2Pe 1:14
1Co 15:53,54
02.17
Morning:
The whole bull shall he carry forth outside the
camp to a clean place, where the ashes are
poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire.
They took Jesus, and led [him] away. And he bearing his cross
went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, which is
called in the Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified him.--The
bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the
sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the
camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people
with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth
therefore to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.--The
fellowship of his sufferings.
Rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings;
that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with
exceeding joy.--Our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh out for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of
glory.
Le 4:12 Joh 19:16-18 Heb 13:11-13 Php 3:10 1Pe 4:13 2Co 4:17
Evening:
God created man in his [own] image.
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that
the Godhead is like gold, or silver, or stone, formed by art and
man's device.
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he
loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive
together with Christ. . . . We are his workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus to good works, which God hath before ordained that
we should walk in them.--For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he
might be the firstborn among many brethren.
We know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for
we shall see him as he is.--I shall be satisfied, when I awake,
with thy likeness.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be
his God, and he shall be my son. . . . If children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if we suffer with
[him], that we may be glorified together.
Ge 1:27 Ac 17:29 Eph 2:4,5,10 Ro 8:29 1Jo 3:2 Ps 17:15
Re 21:7 Ro 8:17
02.18
Morning:
Thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.
[There are] many that say, Who will show us [any] good? LORD,
lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance.--I will sing of
thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning:
for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my
trouble.
In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.--I cried to
thee, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication. What profit
[is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the
dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O LORD, and
have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from
thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have
mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.--Sorrow shall be
turned into joy.--Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
[cometh] in the morning.
Jer 17:17 Ps 4:6 59:16 30:6,8-10 Isa 54:7,8 Joh 16:20 Ps 30:5
Evening:
Adam . . . begat [a son] in his own likeness.
Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean?--Behold, I
was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Dead in trespasses and sins; . . . by nature the children of
wrath, even as others.--I am carnal, sold under sin. That which
I do I understand not: for what I would, that I do not; but what
I hate, that I do.--For I know that in me (that is, in my
flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.
By one man sin entered into the world, . . . by one man's
disobedience many were made sinners.--If through the offence of
one many are dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by
grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to
many.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and death.
Thanks [be] to God, who giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Ge 5:3 Job 14:4 Ps 51:5 EPh 2:1,3 Ro 7:14,15,18 5:12,19,15 8:2
1Co 15:57
02.19
Morning:
The LORD giveth wisdom:
out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
Trust in the LORD with all thy heart; and lean not to thy own
understanding.--If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of
God, who giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and
it shall be given to him.--The foolishness of God is wiser than
men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.--God hath
chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.--
That no flesh should glory in his presence.
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth
understanding to the simple.--Thy word have I hid in my heart,
that I might not sin against thee.
All bore him testimony, and wondered at the gracious words
which proceeded out of his mouth.--Never man spoke like this
man.--Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God is made to us
wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
Pr 2:6 3:5 Jas 1:5 1Co 1:25,27,29 Ps 119:130,11 Lu 4:22
Joh 7:46 1Co 1:30
Evening:
The year of my redeemed is come.
Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout [all] the land to all its inhabitants: it shall be a
jubilee to you; and ye shall return every man to his possession,
and . . . to his family.
Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew
[is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first: then we who are alive [and]
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will
redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave,
I will be thy destruction.
Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name.
Isa 63:4 Le 25:10 Isa 26:19 1Th 4:16,17 Ho 13:14 Jer 50:34
02.20
Morning:
He shall see of the travail of his soul,
[and] shall be satisfied.
Jesus . . . said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and
gave up the ghost.--He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who
knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in
him.
This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth
my praise.--To the intent that now to the principalities and
powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the
manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which
he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.--That in the ages to come
he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in [his]
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
After ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation: in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with
that Holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our
inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to
the praise of his glory.--Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a special people; that ye should
show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvellous light.
Isa 53:11 Joh 19:30 2Co 5:21 Isa 43:21 Eph 3:10,11 2:7 1:13,14
1Pe 2:9
Evening:
The day of temptation in the wilderness.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust,
and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth
sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
[They] lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God
in the desert.
Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit . . . was led by the
Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted by the
devil. And in those days he ate nothing: and when they were
ended, he was afterward hungry. And the devil said to him, If
thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it be made
bread.
He himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to help
them that are tempted.--Simon, Simon, . . . Satan hath desired
[to have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat: but I have
prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.
Heb 3:8 Jas 1:13-15 Ps 106:14 Lu 4:1-3 Heb 2:18 Lu 22:31,32
02.21
Morning:
I [am] the LORD who sanctify you.
I [am] the LORD your God, who have separated you from [other]
people.--And ye shall be holy to me: for I the LORD [am] holy,
and have separated you from [other] people, that ye should be
mine.
Sanctified by God the Father.--Sanctify them through thy
truth: thy word is truth.--The very God of peace sanctify you
wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body may
be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 13:12
Jesus . . . that he might sanctify the people with his own
blood, suffered without the gate.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ
. . . gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
iniquity, and purify to himself [his own] special people,
zealous of good works.--Both he that sanctifieth and they who
are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he is not
ashamed to call them brethren.--For their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth. . .
.Through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and
peace, be multiplied.
Le 20:8,24,26 Jude 1:1 Joh 17:17 1Th 5:23 Heb 13:12
Tit 2:13,14 Heb 2:11 Joh 17:19 1Pe 1:2
Evening:
Light is sown for the righteous,
and gladness for the upright in heart.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth
and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless return with
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].
That which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall
be.
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a
living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
. . . In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if
need be, ye are in heaviness through various temptations: that
the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold
that perisheth, though tried with fire, might be found to praise
and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Ps 97:11 126:5,6 1Co 15:37 1Pe 1:3,6,7
02.22
Morning:
What man [is] he that feareth the LORD?
him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall choose.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thy eye be
good, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Thy word [is] a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.--Thy
ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way,
walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn
to the left.-- I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way
which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with my eye. Be ye not
as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding:
whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come
near to thee. Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he
that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall surround him. Be glad in
the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye
that are] upright in heart.
O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it
is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Ps 25:12 Mt 6:22 Ps 119:105 Isa 30:21 Ps 32:8-11 Jer 10:23
Evening:
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid:
but, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
There arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into
the boat, so that it was now full. And he was in the stern of
the boat, asleep on a pillow.
Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
to God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
I will both lie down in peace, and sleep: for thou only,
LORD, makest me dwell in safety.--He giveth his beloved sleep.
They stoned Stephen, calling upon [God], and saying, Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a
loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he
had said this, he fell asleep. Absent from the body, . . .
present with the Lord.
Pr 3:24 Mr 4:37,38 Php 4:6,7 Ps 4:8 127:2 Ac 7:59,60 2Co 5:8
02.23
Morning:
The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh
better things than [that of] Abel.
Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.
--The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.--[It is] not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away
sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou
prepared me.--By which will we are sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].
Abel . . . brought of the firstlings of his flock and of its
fat. And the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering.--
Christ . . . hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water.--Having . . . boldness to
enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
Heb 12:24 Joh 1:29 Re 13:8 Heb 10:4,5,10 Ge 4:4 Eph 5:2
Heb 10:22,19
Evening:
Who knoweth the power of thy anger?
Drom the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land to
the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?--The LORD hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all.
[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them who are in
Christ Jesus.--Being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ.--Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us.
God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might
live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but
that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for
our sins.--That he may be just, and the justifier of him who
believeth in Jesus.
Ps 90:11 Mt 27:45,46 Isa 53:6 Ro 8:1 5:1 Ga 3:13 1Jo 4:9,10
Ro 3:26
02.24
Morning:
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will yet [for] this be enquired of.
Yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and the door shall be opened to you: for every one that
asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh the door shall be opened.--This is the confidence that
we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will,
he heareth us: and if we know that he heareth us, whatever we
ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired from
him.--If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who
giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall
be given to him.--I [am] the LORD thy God, who brought thee out
of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.--
Men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears
[are open] to their cry.--[The righteous] cry, and the LORD
heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.--Ye
shall ask in my name: and I say not to you, that I will pray the
Father for you: for the Father himself loveth you, because ye
have loved me.-- Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be
full.
Eze 36:37 Jas 4:2 Mt 7:7,8 1Jo 5:14,15 Jas 1:5 Ps 81:10
Lu 18:1 Ps 34:15,17 Joh 16:26,27,24
Evening:
Shall we receive good at the hand of God,
and shall we not receive evil?
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that]
thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.--O LORD, thou [art] our
father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are]
the work of thy hand.--It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth
him good.
Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let
me speak with thee of [thy] judgments.
He shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver.--Whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth.--It is enough for the disciple that he should be as
his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called
the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more [shall they
call] them of his household?--Though he was a Son, yet he
learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
But rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings;
that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with
exceeding joy.--These are they who came out of the great
tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb.
Job 2:10 Ps 119:75 Isa 64:8 1Sa 3:18 Jer 12:1 Mal 3:3
Heb 12:6 Mt 10:25 Heb 5:8 1Pe 4:13 Re 7:14
02.25
Morning:
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the
LORD shall lift up a standard against him.--Be gone, Satan: for
it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only
shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold,
angels came and ministered to him.
Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on
the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against
the wiles of the devil.--And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].--Lest
Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of
his devices.--Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the
devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may
devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the
same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in
the world.--This is the victory that overcometh the world,
[even] our faith.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It
is] God that justifieth.
Jas 4:7 Isa 59:19 Mt 4:10,11 Eph 6:10,11 Eph 5:11 2Co 2:11
1Pe 5:8,9 1Jo 5:4 Ro 8:33
Evening:
O that I knew where I might find him!
Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no
light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his
God.
Ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me
with all your heart.--Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the
door shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh
receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh
the door shall be opened.
Truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son
Jesus Christ.--Now in Christ Jesus ye who once were far off are
made near by the blood of Christ.--For through him we both have
an access by one Spirit to the Father.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Lo, I am with you always.--I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.--The Comforter . . . dwelleth with you, and shall
be in you.
Job 23:3 Isa 50:10 Jer 29:13 Lu 11:9,10 1Joh 1:3 Eph 2:13,18
1Jo 1:6 Mt 28:20 Heb 13:5 Joh 14:16,17
02.26
Morning:
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
--Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.--I thought on
my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies. I made haste,
and delayed not to keep thy commandments.--Let a man examine
himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that]
cup.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
[our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.--We have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.--Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
and [having] an high priest over the house of God; let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed
with pure water.
La 3:40 Ps 26:2 Ps 51:6 Ps 119:59,60 1Co 11:28 1Jo 1:9 2:1
Heb 10:19-22
Evening:
[There was] a rainbow around the throne,
in sight like an emerald.
This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me
and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for
perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud . . . will
look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh that [is]
upon the earth.--An everlasting covenant, ordered in all
[things], and sure.--That by two immutable things, in which [it
was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong
consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope
set before us.
Wwe declare to you the glad tidings, that the promise which
was made to the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same to us their
children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Re 4:3 Ge 9:12,13,16 2Sa 23:5 Heb 6:18 Ac 13:32,33 Heb 13:8
02.27
Morning:
Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin,
but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but
hath passed from death to life.--I through the law am dead to
the law, that I may live to God. I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the
life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Because I live, ye shall live also.--I give to them eternal
life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them
out of my hand. My Father, who gave [them to] me, is greater
than all; and none is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's
hand. I and [my] Father are one.
If ye then be raised with Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.--For ye
are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Ro 6:11 Joh 5:24 Ga 2:19,20 Joh 14:19 10:28-30 Col 3:1,3
Evening:
God . . . giveth . . . liberally, and upbraideth not.
Woman, where are those thy accusers? hath no man condemned
thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do
I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
The grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one
man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to many. . . . The free gift
[is] of many offences to justification.
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he
loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised
[us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly
[places] in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might show
the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us
through Christ Jesus.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Jas 1:5 Joh 8:10,11 Ro 5:15,16 Eph 2:4-7 Ro 8:32
02.28
Morning:
God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God . . . hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and
hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, that
God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing
their trespasses to them; and hath committed to us the word of
reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though
God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be
ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him [to be] sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God
in him.--God is love. In this was revealed the love of God toward
us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we
loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the
propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought
also to love one another.
Joh 3:16 2Co 5:18-21 1Jo 4:8-11
Evening:
The spirit of man [is] the lamp of the LORD.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
at her. . . . And they who heard [it], being convicted by [their
own] conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest,
[even] to the last.
Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the
tree, of which I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it
is sin.--If our heart condemneth us, God is greater than our
heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart doth not
condemn us, [then] have we confidence toward God.
All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man
who eateth with offence. . . . Happy [is] he that condemneth not
himself in what he approveth.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
thoughts: and see if [there is any] wicked way in me, and lead
me in the way everlasting.
Pr 20:27 Joh 8:7,9 Ge 3:11 Jas 4:17 1Jo 3:20,21 Ro 14:20,22
Ps 139:23,24
02.29
Morning:
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou
knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day
of salvation.--Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk
while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he
that walketh in darkness knoweth not where he goeth. While ye
have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of
light.
Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for
[there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the
grave, where thou goest.
Soul, thou hast abundance of goods laid up for many years;
take thy ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry. . . . [Thou] fool,
this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall
those things be, which thou hast provided? So [is] he that
layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
What [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for
a little time, and then vanisheth away. . . . The world passeth
away, and its lust: but he that doeth the will of God abideth
for ever.
Pr 27:1 2Co 6:2 Joh 12:35,36 Ec 9:10 Lu 12:19-21 Jas 4:14
1Jo 2:17
Evening:
Thou [art] the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou [art] God.
I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are
not consumed.--The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.--The gifts and calling
of God [are] without repentance.
God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of
man, that he should repent.--[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that
we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
This [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable
priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the
uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession for them.--Fear not; I am the first and the last.
Ps 102:27 90:2 Mal 3:6 Heb 13:8 Jas 1:17 Ro 11:29 Nu 23:19
La 3:22 Heb 7:24,25 Re 1:17
03.01
Morning:
The fruit of the Spirit is love.
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,
and God in him.--The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Spirit which is given to us.--To you . . . who believe
[he is] precious.--We love him, because he first loved us.--The
love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if
one died for all, then were all dead: and [that] he died for
all, that they who live should not henceforth live to
themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.
Ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.--This is
my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.--
Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for
charity shall cover a multitude of sins.--Walk in love, as
Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Ga 5:22 1Jo 4:16 Ro 5:5 1Pe 2:7 1Jo 4:19 2Co 5:14,15 1Th 4:9
Joh 15:12 1Pe 4:8 Eph 5:2
Evening:
Jehovahnissi: The LORD my banner.
If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?--The LORD [is]
on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee.
The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be
afraid?--Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall
not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I
[be] confident.
Behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain.--The LORD
of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall
overcome them.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
--He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall
have them in derision.--Take counsel together, and it shall come
to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is]
with us.
Ex 17:15 Ro 8:31 Ps 118:6 60:4 27:1,3 2Ch 13:12 Ps 46:7
Re 17:14 Ps 2:1,4 Isa 8:10
03.02
Morning:
God hath caused me to be fruitful
in the land of my affliction.
Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation; who
comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to
comfort them who are in any trouble, by the consolation with
which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings
of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by
Christ.
Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
various temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much
more precious than of gold that perisheth, though tried with
fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ.--The Lord stood with me, and
strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known,
and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out
of the mouth of the lion.
Let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the
keeping of their souls [to him] in well doing, as to a faithful
Creator.
Ge 41:52 2Co 1:3-5 1Pe 1:6,7 2Ti 4:17 1Pe 4:19
Evening:
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary
be at rest. [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not
the voice of the oppressor.
Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:
. . . they . . . rest from their labours; and their works do
follow them.
Our friend Lazarus sleepeth. . . . Jesus spake of his death:
but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
We that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened.--
Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption,
[to wit], the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope:
but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why
doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, [then]
do we with patience wait for [it].
Heb 4:9 Job 3:17,18 Re 14:13 Joh 11:11,13 2Co 5:4 Ro 8:23-25
03.03
Morning:
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not
unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart
before him: God [is] a refuge for us.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the
horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose
mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near
unto thee. Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that
trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.--Thine ears
shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk
ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to
the left.
And he said unto him, If thy presence go not [with me], carry
us not up hence. For wherein shall it be known here that I and
thy people have found grace in thy sight? [is it] not in that
thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people,
from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
Pr 3:5,6 Ps 62:8 32:8-10 Isa 30:21 Ex 33:15,16
Evening:
The prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Thou shalt have treasure in heaven: . . . come [and] follow
me.--I [am] . . . thy exceeding great reward.
Well done, [thou] good and faithful servant: thou hast been
faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.--They shall reign
for ever and ever.
Ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.-- The
crown of life.--A crown of righteousness.-- An incorruptible
[crown].
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be
with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou
hast given me.--So shall we ever be with the Lord.
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not
worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed
in us.
Php 3:14 Mt 19:21 Ge 15:1 Mt 25:21 Re 22:5 1Pe 5:4 Jas 1:12
2Ti 4:8 1Co 9:25 Joh 17:24 1Th 4:17 Ro 8:18
03.04
Morning:
Set your affection on things above,
not on things on the earth.
Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not
in him.--Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and
steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also.
For we walk by faith, not by sight.--We faint not; but though
our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by
day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of
glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at
the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen
[are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
--To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.
Col 3:2 1Jo 2:15 Mt 6:19-21 2Co 5:7 4:16-18 1Pe 1:4
Evening:
[He] bowed his shoulder to bear.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name
of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of
patience.--Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom
the ends of the world are come.
Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not
receive evil?--Aaron held his peace.--It [is] the LORD: let him
do what seemeth him good.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee.--
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for
I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.
Ge 49:15 Jas 5:10 1Co 10:11 Job 2:10 Le 10:3 1Sa 3:18
Ps 55:22 Isa 53:4 Mt 11:28-30
03.05
Morning:
O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of
their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of
her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God.--Hear my
cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth
will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to
the rock [that] is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter
for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy
tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings.--
Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm.
Christ . . . suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye
should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found
in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when
he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him
that judgeth righteously.
Isa 38:14 Ps 123:1,2 61:1-4 Isa 25:4 1Pe 2:21-23
Evening:
Fight the good fight of faith.
We were troubled on every side; without [were] fightings,
within [were] fears.--Fear not: for they that [be] with us [are]
more than they that [be] with them.--Be strong in the Lord, and
in the power of his might.
Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a
shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the
God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.--God [is] my
strength [and] power . . . He teacheth my hands to war; so that
a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.--Our sufficiency [is] of
God.
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear
him, and delivereth them.--Behold, the mountain [was] full of
horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
The time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and [of those] who
through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained
promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of
fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made
strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of
the aliens.
1Ti 6:12 2Co 7:5 2Ki 6:16 Eph 6:10 1Sa 17:45 2Sa 22:33,35
2Co 3:5 Ps 34:7 2Ki 6:17 Heb 11:32-34
03.06
Morning:
He . . . preserveth the way of his saints.
The LORD your God . . . went in the way before you, to search
you out a place to pitch your tents [in], in fire by night, to
shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.--As an
eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: [so]
the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with
him.--The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly
cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.--Many
[are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth
him out of them all.--For the LORD knoweth the way of the
righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.--We know
that all things work together for good to them that love God, to
them who are the called according to [his] purpose.--With him
[is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD our God to help
us, and to fight our battles.
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will
save, he will rejoice over thee with joy.
Pr 2:8 De 1:32,33 32:11,12 Ps 37:23,24 34:19 1:6 Ro 8:28
2Ch 32:8 Zep 3:17
Evening:
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him;
. . . and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
. . . For the transgression of my people was he stricken. . . .
It pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief.
Jesus our Lord . . . was delivered for our offences.--Christ
. . . hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that
he might bring us to God.--Who his own self bare our sins in his
own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live
unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us.
Mt 27:46 Isa 53:5,6,8,10 Ro 4:24,25 1Pe 3:18 2:24 2Co 5:21
Ga 3:13
03.07
Morning:
Thy Maker [is] thine husband;
the LORD of hosts [is] his name.
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and
the church.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken . . . but thou shalt be
called Hephzibah, . . . for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy
land shall be married. And [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over
the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.--He hath
sent me . . . to comfort all that mourn; to
appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness.
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful
in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of
salvation, . . . as a bridegroom decketh [himself] with
ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels.
I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth
thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in
lovingkindness, and in mercies.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Isa 54:5 Eph 5:32 Isa 62:4,5 61:1-3,10 Ho 2:19 Ro 8:35
Evening:
My times [are] in thy hand.
All his saints [are] in thy hand.--The word of the LORD came
unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and
hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan. And
it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
commanded the ravens to feed thee there.--8. And the word of the
LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which
[belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded
a widow woman there to sustain thee.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.--Your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he
shall direct thy paths.--Casting all your care upon him; for he
careth for you.
Ps 31:15 De 33:3 1Ki 17:2-4,8,9 Mt 6:25,32 Pr 3:5,6 1Pe 5:7
03.08
Morning:
Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and
passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he
retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in]
mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he
will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins
into the depths of the sea.
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from
thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have
mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. I will forgive their
iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose]
sin [is] covered. Blessed [is] the man unto whom the LORD
imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.
The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Isa 38:17 Mic 7:18,19 Isa 54:7,8 Jer 31:34 Ps 32:1,2 1Jo 1:7
Evening:
I know whom I have believed,
and am persuaded that he is able.
Able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or
think.
Able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always
having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good
work.
Able to succour them that are tempted.
Able . . . to save them to the uttermost that come unto God
by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless
before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
Able to keep that which I have committed unto him against
that day.
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is
able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Believe ye that I am able to do this? . . . According to your
faith be it unto you.
2Ti 1:12 Eph 3:20 2Co 9:8 Heb 2:18 7:25 Jude 1:24 2Ti 1:12
Php 3:21 Mt 9:28,29
03.09
Morning:
The living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping
his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I
command thee this day: lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full,
and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein]; . . . then
thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God,
. . . for [it is] he that giveth thee power to get wealth.
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that
build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh
[but] in vain. [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up
late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his
beloved sleep.--They got not the land in possession by their own
sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand,
and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou
hadst a favour unto them.--[There be] many that say, Who will
shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy
countenance upon us.
1Ti 6:17 De 8:11,12,14,18 Ps 127:1,2 44:3 4:6
Evening:
They sung as it were a new song.
A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us.--Not
by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to
his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and
renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Saviour.--By grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: not
of works, lest any man should boast.
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give
glory.--Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in
his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and
his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.--Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood
out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.--I
beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number,
. . . cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God
which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Re 14:3 Heb 10:20 Tit 3:5,6 Eph 2:8,9 Ps 115:1
Re 1:5,6 5:9 7:9,10
03.10
Morning:
Jehovahjireh: The Lord will provide.
God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.--There shall
come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness
from Jacob.
Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose
hope [is] in the LORD his God.--Behold, the eye of the LORD [is]
upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; to
deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.--He hath said, I will never leave thee,
nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my
helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.--The LORD
[is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I
am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my
song will I praise him.
Ge 22:14,8 Isa 59:1 Ro 11:26 Ps 146:5 33:18,19 Php 4:19
Heb 13:5,6 Ps 28:7
Evening:
He feedeth among the lilies.
Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am
I in the midst of them.--If a man love me, he will keep my
words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him,
and make our abode with him.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even
as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant
fruits.--I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I
have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb
with my honey.--The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so
shall ye be my disciples.--Every branch in me that beareth not
fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he
purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.--Being filled
with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ,
unto the glory and praise of God.
So 2:16 Mt 18:20 Joh 14:23 15:10 So 4:16 5:1 Ga 5:22,23
Joh 15:8,2 Php 1:11
03.11
Morning:
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee.
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
sorrow with it.--Thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with
favour wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee
will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither
slumber nor sleep. The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy
shade upon thy right hand.--The LORD shall preserve thee from
all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve
thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even
for evermore.--I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every
moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast
given me, that they may be one, as we [are]. While I was with
them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou
gavest me I have kept.
The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will
preserve [me] unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] glory for
ever and ever. Amen.
Nu 6:24 Pr 10:22 Ps 5:12 121:3-5,7,8 Isa 27:3 Joh 17:11,12
2Ti 4:18
Evening:
Jesus wept.
A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--We have not an
high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities.--It became him, for whom [are] all things, and by
whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make
the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.--
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered.
I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my
back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the
hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Behold how he loved him!--He took not on [him the nature of]
angels; but he took on [him] the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in
all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his] brethren,
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things
[pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the
people.
Joh 11:35 Isa 53:3 He 4:15 2:10 5:8 Isa 50:5,6 Joh 11:36
Heb 2:16,17
03.12
Morning:
The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious
unto thee: the LORD lift up his countenance upon thee,
and give thee peace.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,
which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].--
The brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his
person.--The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy
mercies' sake. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called
upon thee.--LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to
stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.--
Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall
walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
bless his people with peace.
Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
Nu 6:25,26 Joh 1:18 Heb 1:3 2Co 4:4 Ps 31:16,17 30:7 89:15
Ps 29:11 Mt 14:27
Evening:
Things that are pleasing in his sight.
Without faith [it is] impossible to please [him].--So then
they that are in the flesh cannot please God.--The LORD taketh
pleasure in his people.
This [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God
endure grief, suffering wrongfully.--If, when ye do well, and
suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with
God.--[The ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, . . . is in the
sight of God of great price.
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
[his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.--
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him
with thanksgiving. [This] also shall please the LORD better than
an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
I beseech you, . . . brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, [which is] your reasonable service.
1Jo 3:22 Heb 11:6 Ro 8:8 Ps 149:4 1Pe 2:19,20 3:4
Ps 50:23 69:30,31 Ro 12:1
03.13
Morning:
For [there is] one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same.
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.
We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous.--In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace.--By his
own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption [for us].--And for this cause he is
the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for
the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first
testament, they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.--He is able also to save them to the
uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to
make intercession for them.
1Ti 2:5 Heb 2:14 Isa 45:22 1Jo 2:1 Eph 2:13,14
Heb 9:12,15 7:25
Evening:
O my God, my soul is cast down within me.
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is]
stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the
LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting
strength.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee.--
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he
cried unto him, he heard.--Is any among you afflicted? let him
pray.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid.--Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or
what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put
on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth
them. Are ye not much better than they?--Be not faithless, but
believing.--Lo, I am with you alway.
Ps 42:6 Isa 26:3,4 Ps 55:22 22:24 Jas 5:13 Joh 14:27
Mt 6:25,26 Joh 20:27 Mt 28:20
03.14
Morning:
Adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.
--Abstain from all appearance of evil.--If ye be reproached for
the name of Christ, happy [are ye]. . . But let none of you
suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or [as] an evildoer, or
as a busybody in other men's matters.--Be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in
the world.--Let your light so shine before men, that they may
see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy
neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou
find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
--Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever
things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever
things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if
[there be] any praise, think on these things.
Tit 2:10 Php 1:27 1Th 5:22 1Pe 4:14,15 Php 2:15 Mt 5:16
Pr 3:3,4 Php 4:8
Evening:
The words that I speak unto you,
[they] are spirit, and [they] are life.
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth.--The
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Christ . . . loved the church, and gave himself for it; that
he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by
the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
[thereto] according to thy word.--Thy word hath quickened me.--
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against
thee.--I will not forget thy word.--I trust in thy word.--The
law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and
silver.--I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou
hast quickened me.--How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea,
sweeter] than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get
understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Joh 6:63 Jas 1:18 2Co 3:6 Eph 5:25-27
Ps 119:9,50,11,16,42,72,93,103,104
03.15
Morning:
Perfect through sufferings.
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye
here, and watch with me. And he went a little further, and fell
on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as
thou [wilt].--And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly:
and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down
to the ground.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.--Reproach hath broken
my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to
take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found
none.--I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was]
no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my
soul.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from
him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Heb 2:10 Mt 26:38,39 Lu 22:44 Ps 116:3 69:20 142:4 Isa 53:3
Evening:
The LORD made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that in them [is].
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
sheweth his handywork.--By the word of the LORD were the heavens
made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.--For
he spake, and it was [done]; he commanded, and it stood fast.--
Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted
as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles
as a very little thing.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by
the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of
things which do appear.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that
thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest
him?
Ex 20:11 Ps 19:1 33:6,9 Isa 40:15 Heb 11:3 Ps 8:3,4
03.16
Morning:
For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that
appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
My days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no
good. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle
[that] hasteth to the prey.--Thou carriest them away as with a
flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like
grass [which] groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and
groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.--Man
[that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down.
The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that
doeth the will of God abideth for ever.--They shall perish, but
thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a
garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be
changed: but thou [art] the same, and thy years shall have no
end.--Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Jas 4:14 Job 9:25,26 Ps 90:5,6 Job 14:1,2 1Jo 2:17
Ps 102:26,27 Heb 13:8
Evening:
I will sing with the spirit,
and I will sing with the understanding also.
Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your
heart to the Lord.--Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts
to the Lord.
My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all
flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our
God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.--Sing unto
the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our
God.
I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and
as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of
harpers harping with their harps.
1Co 14:15 Eph 5:18,19 Col 3:16 Ps 145:21 147:1,7 Re 14:2
03.17
Morning:
He shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering;
and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
[as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by
tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.--Who his
own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.
He hath made us accepted in the beloved.
As lively stones, . . . built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God
by Jesus Christ.--I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with
exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
Le 1:4 1Pe 1:18,19 2:24 Eph 1:6 1Pe 2:5 Ro 12:1 Jude 1:24,25
Evening:
In all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food (the
lust of the flesh), and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes (the
lust of the eyes), and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise
(the pride of life), she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
When the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of
God, command that these stones be made bread (the lust of the
flesh). But he answered, . . . It is written, Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of
the mouth of God.--The devil sheweth him all the kingdoms of the
world, and the glory of them (the lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life). Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence,
Satan.
In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to
succour them that are tempted.
Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation.
Heb 4:15 Ge 3:6 1Jo 2:16 Mt 4:3,4,8,10 1Jo 2:16 Heb 2:18
Jas 1:12
03.18
Morning:
Mine eyes fail [with looking] upward.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me;
for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O
LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for
thy mercies' sake.--My heart is sore pained within me: and the
terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling
are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh
that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and
be at rest.
Ye have need of patience.
While they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up,
behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said,
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same
Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in
like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.--Our
conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.--That blessed hope, and the
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ.
Isa 38:14 Ps 6:2-4 Ps 55:4-6 Heb 10:36 Ac 1:10,11 Php 3:20
Tit 2:13
Evening:
His name [shall be] in their foreheads.
I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep].--The foundation
of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them
that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ
depart from iniquity.
The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and
he knoweth them that trust in him.--Hurt not the earth, neither
the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our
God in their foreheads.
After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit
of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance.--Now he
which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us,
[is] God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the
Spirit in our hearts.
I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the
city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out
of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name.
--This [is the name] wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
righteousness.
Re 22:4 Joh 10:14 2Ti 2:19 Na 1:7 Re 7:3 Eph 1:13,14
2Co 1:21,22 Re 3:12 Je 33:16
03.19
Morning:
God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you,
in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again
unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead.--Saved by his life.
Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . who gave himself for us, that
he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a
peculiar people, zealous of good works.--As he which hath called
you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . hath
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in
Christ.--In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in him.--Of his fulness have all we
received, and grace for grace.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Ac 3:26 1Pe 1:3 Ro 5:10 Tit 2:13,14 1Pe 1:15,16 Eph 1:3
Col 2:9,10 Joh 1:16 Ro 8:32
Evening:
Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast
caused me to hope.--O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass
away.--Ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that
not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD
your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you,
[and] not one thing hath failed thereof.
Fear not: peace [be] unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.
And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said,
Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.--Be strong, .
. . and work: for I [am] with you, saith the LORD of hosts.--
Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of
hosts.
Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Ps 119:28,49 Isa 38:14 Lu 21:33 Jos 23:14 Da 10:19 Hag 2:4
Zec 4:6 Eph 6:10
03.20
Morning:
The entrance of thy words giveth light.
This . . . is the message which we have heard of him, and
declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness
at all.--God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.--The Word was
God.--In him was life; and the life was the light of men.--If we
walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one
with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us
from all sin.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin
against thee.--Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken
unto you.
Ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the
Lord: walk as children of light.--Ye [are] a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvellous light.
Ps 119:130 1Jo 1:5 2Co 4:6 Joh 1:1,4 1Jo 1:7 Ps 119:11
Joh 15:3 Eph 5:8 1Pe 2:9
Evening:
Noah was a just man.
The just shall live by faith.--Noah builded an altar unto the
LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl,
and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a
sweet savour.--The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in
his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. But now the
righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of
God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all
them that believe: for there is no difference.
We . . . joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we
have now received the atonement.--[It is] God that justifieth.--
Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and
whom he called, them he also justified.
Ge 6:9 Ga 3:11 Ge 8:20,21 Re 13:8 Ro 5:1 3:20-22 5:11 8:33,30
03.21
Morning:
Be watchful, and strengthen the things
which remain, that are ready to die.
The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and
watch unto prayer.--Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking
whom he may devour.--Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have
seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy
life.--The just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them
who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul.
What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I
[am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
--I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand.
Re 3:2 1Pe 4:7 5:8 De 4:9 Heb 10:38,39 Mr 13:37 Isa 41:10,13
Evening:
Is his mercy clean gone for ever?
His mercy [endureth] for ever.--The LORD [is] longsuffering,
and of great mercy.--Who [is] a God like unto thee, that
pardoneth iniquity? . . . he retaineth not his anger for ever,
because he delighteth [in] mercy. He will turn again, he will
have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou
wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.--Not by
works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us.
Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who
comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to
comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith
we ourselves are comforted of God.
Merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to
God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in
that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to
succour them that are tempted.
Ps 77:8 136:23 Nu 14:18 Mi 7:18,19 Tit 3:5 2Co 1:3,4
Heb 2:17,18
03.22
Morning:
Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan,
that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the
LORD. . . . Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan.
Just Lot . . . that righteous man.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap.--Remember Lot's wife.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness?--Wherefore come out from
among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not
the unclean [thing].--Be not ye . . . partakers with them. For
ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord:
walk as children of light: proving what is acceptable unto the
Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove [them].
Ge 13:10,11 2Pe 2:7,8 Ga 6:7 Lu 17:32 2Co 6:14,17
Eph 5:7,8,10,11
Evening:
If so be the LORD [will be] with me,
then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So
that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not
fear what man shall do unto me.--I will go in the strength of
the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even]
of thine only.
The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Stand . . . having your loins girt about with truth, and
having on the breastplate of righteousness.--For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. Wherefore take
unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.--The
LORD [is] with thee, . . . Go in this thy might.
Jos 14:12 Heb 13:5,6 Ps 71:16 Isa 32:17 Eph 6:14,12,13
Jud 6:12,14
03.23
Morning:
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.
Thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of
Israel.--Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground.
. . . I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he
was afraid to look upon God.--To whom then will ye liken me, or
shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.--I [am] the LORD thy God,
the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.--I, [even] I, [am] the
LORD; and beside me [there is] no saviour.
As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all
manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I
am holy.--Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own?--Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath
said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be
their God, and they shall be my people.--Can two walk together,
except they be agreed?
Re 4:8 Ps 22:3 Ex 3:5,6 Isa 40:25 43:3,11 1Pe 1:15,16
1Co 6:19 2Co 6:16 Am 3:3
Evening:
They constrained him, saying, Abide with us.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup
with him, and he with me.--Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,
where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at
noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the
flocks of thy companions?--I found him whom my soul loveth: I
held him, and would not let him go.
Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant
fruits.--I am come into my garden.--I said not unto the seed of
Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.
Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.--I
will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.--Where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.--
The world seeth me no more; but ye see me.
Lu 24:29 Re 3:20 So 1:7 3:4 4:16 5:1 Isa 45:19 Mt 28:20
Heb 13:5 Mt 18:20 Joh 14:19
03.24
Morning:
[Araham] believed in the LORD;
and he counted it to him for righteousness.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but
was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully
persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to
perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed
to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we
believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.
The promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was]
not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
The just shall live by faith.--Let us hold fast the
profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is]
faithful that promised).--Our God [is] in the heavens: he hath
done whatsoever he hath pleased.--With God nothing shall be
impossible.--And blessed [is] she that believed: for there shall
be a performance of those things which were told her from the
Lord.
Ge 15:6 Ro 4:20-24 4:13 1:17 Heb 10:23 Ps 115:3 Lu 1:37,45
Evening:
God . . . .who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this
world, then would my servants fight, . . . but now is my kingdom
not from hence.--Expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool.
The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our
Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.--
[Thou] hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall
reign on the earth.--I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them; . . . and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years.--Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.--Fear not,
little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you
the kingdom.
I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed
unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom,
and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Thy kingdom come.
1Th 2:12 Joh 18:36 Heb 10:13 Re 11:15 5:10 20:4 Mt 13:43
Lu 12:32 22:29,30 Mt 6:10
03.25
Morning:
I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I
will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places]
whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land;
for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have
spoken to thee of.--Be strong and of a good courage, fear not,
nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that
doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world.--At
my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me:
[I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge.
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me.--
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take
me up.
Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.--
I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore.--I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
--My peace I give unto you.
Heb 13:5,6 Ge 28:15 De 31:6 2Ti 4:10,16,17 Ps 27:10 Mt 28:20
Re 1:18 Joh 14:18,27
Evening:
Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing:
nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye
therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: . . . and,
lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into
the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for
necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not
the gospel!--I am made all things to all [men], that I might by
all means save some.
Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall
reap, if we faint not.--My word . . . shall not return unto me
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.--So then
neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth;
but God that giveth the increase.
Lu 5:5 Mt 28:18-20 13:47 1Co 9:16,22 Ga 6:9 Isa 55:11 1Co 3:7
03.26
Morning:
[The kingdom of heaven is] as a man travelling
into a far country, [who] called his own
servants, and delivered unto them his goods
. . . to every man according to his several ability.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey?
All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing
to every man severally as he will.--The manifestation of the
Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.--As every man
hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to
another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.--It is
required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.--Unto
whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to
whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Who [is] sufficient for these things?--I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Mt 25:14,15 Ro 6:16 1Co 12:11,7 1Pe 4:10 1Co 4:2 Lu 12:48
2Co 2:16 Php 4:13
Evening:
Distributing to the necessity of saints.
David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of
Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungred,
and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was
a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was
sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.--
Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.--Whosoever shall give to
drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only
in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no
wise lose his reward.
To do good and to communicate forget not: for with such
sacrifices God is well pleased.--God [is] not unrighteous to
forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward
his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do
minister.
Ro 12:13 2Sa 9:1 Mt 25:34-36,40 10:42 Heb 13:16 6:10
03.27
Morning:
To him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and
reckoneth with them. And so he that had received five talents
came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou
deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside
them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done,
[thou] good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a
few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou
into the joy of thy lord.
We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according
to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I
have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall
give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also
that love his appearing.
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that
no man take thy crown.
Pr 11:18 Mt 25:19-21 2Co 5:10 2Ti 4:7,8 Re 3:11
Evening:
God [is] faithful.
God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of
man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do
[it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?--The
Lord sware and will not repent.
od, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise
the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: that
by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to
lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for
refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.--Wherefore let
them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping
of their souls [to him] in well doing, as unto a faithful
Creator.
I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.--
Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it].--All
the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the
glory of God by us.
1Co 10:13 Nu 23:19 Heb 7:21 6:17,18 1Pe 4:19 2Ti 1:12 1Th 5:24
2Co 1:20
03.28
Morning:
Be strong and of a good courage.
The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be
afraid?--He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have]
no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and
be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that
wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;
[and] they shall walk, and not faint.--My flesh and my heart
faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion
for ever.
If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?--The LORD [is]
on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?--Through
thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we
tread them under that rise up against us.--We are more than
conquerors through him that loved us.
Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
Jos 1:18 Ps 27:1 Isa 40:29-31 Ps 73:26 Ro 8:31 Ps 118:6 44:5
Ro 8:37 1Ch 22:16
Evening:
Our friend . . . sleepeth.
I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which
have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if
Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your
sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are
perished.--Now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the
firstfruits of them that slept.
It came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over
Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, . . . Take you
hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the
priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, . . . and these stones
shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.--
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.--
Witnesses chosen before of God, . . . who did eat and drink with
him after he rose from the dead.
Joh 11:11 1Th 4:13,14 1Co 15:16-18,20 Jos 4:1,3,7
Ac 2:32 10:41
03.29
Morning:
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdom.--Hath not God chosen the poor of this
world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath
promised to them that love him?--Heirs of God, and joint-heirs
with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be
also glorified together.
The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me.--God
is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for
them a city.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be
his God, and he shall be my son.--There is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge,
shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them
also that love his appearing.--He which hath begun a good work
in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ.
Mt 25:34 Lu 12:32 Jas 2:5 Ro 8:17 Joh 16:27 Heb 11:16 Re 21:7
2Ti 4:8 Php 1:6
Evening:
Riches [are] not for ever:
and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who
shall gather them.--Set your affection on things above, not on
things on the earth.--Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon
earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break
through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also.
They [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an
incorruptible.--We look not at the things which are seen, but at
the things which are not seen.--To him that soweth righteousness
[shall be] a sure reward.--There is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give
me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that
love his appearing.--A crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Pr 27:24 Ps 39:6 Col 3:2 Mt 6:19-21 1Co 9:25 2Co 4:18 Pr 11:18
2Ti 4:8 1Pe 5:4
03.30
Morning:
Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon
and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou
art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
--The works of the LORD [are] great, sought out of all them that
have pleasure therein.
Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful. But his delight [is] in the law of the
LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.--This book
of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt
meditate therein day and night.--My soul shall be satisfied as
[with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with
joyful lips: when I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on
thee in the [night] watches.
Ge 24:63 Ps 19:14 8:3,4 111:2 1:1,2 Jos 1:8 Ps 63:5,6
Evening:
How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever?
how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.--But Zion said, The
LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a
woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet
will I not forget thee.
Thou shalt not be forgotten of me. I have blotted out, as a
thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins.
Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When he had
heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the
same place where he was.--A woman . . . cried unto him, saying,
Have mercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; my daughter is
grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word.
The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of
gold that perisheth.
Ps 13:1 Jas 1:17 Isa 49:14,15 44:21,22 Joh 11:5,6 Mt 15:22,23
1Pe 1:7
03.31
Morning:
My God shall supply all your need according
to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you.--He that spared not
his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things?--For all things are
yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or
life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are
yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.--As having
nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.
The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.--The LORD God
[is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no
good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.--
The living God . . . giveth us richly all things to enjoy.--God
[is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always
having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good
work.
Php 4:19 Mt 6:33 Ro 8:32 1Co 3:21-23 2Co 6:10 Ps 23:1 84:11
1Ti 6:17 2Co 9:8
Evening:
What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds
were evil.--Ye are all the children of light, and the children
of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Darkness hath blinded his eyes.--Thy word [is] a lamp unto my
feet, and a light unto my path.
The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of
cruelty.--Love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of
God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for
God is love.
The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what
they stumble.--The path of the just [is] as the shining light,
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth
on me should not abide in darkness.
Ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the
Lord: walk as children of light.
2Co 6:14 Joh 3:19 1Th 5:5 1Jo 2:11 Ps 119:105 Ps 74:20
1Joh 4:7,8 Pr 4:19,18 Joh 12:46 Eph 5:8
04.01
Morning:
The fruit of the Spirit is . . . joy.
Joy in the Holy Ghost.--Unspeakable and full of glory.
Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing . . . exceeding joyful in all
our tribulation.--We glory in tribulations.
Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; . . . for the
joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
shame. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might
remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full.--As the
sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also
aboundeth by Christ.
Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.--The
joy of the LORD is your strength.
In thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there
are] pleasures for evermore.--For the Lamb which is in the midst
of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes.
Ga 5:22 Ro 14:17 1Pe 1:8 2Co 6:10 7:4 Ro 5:3 Heb 12:2
Joh 15:11 2Co 1:5 Php 4:4 Ne 8:10 Ps 16:11 Re 7:17
Evening:
Jehovahshalom: The LORD send peace.
Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of
rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about:
for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and
quietness unto Israel in his days.
Behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.--Unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon
his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince
of Peace.--My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and
in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; when it shall
hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a
low place.
He is our peace.--This [man] shall be the peace, when the
Assyrian shall come into our land.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall
overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.
Jud 6:24 1Ch 22:9 Mt 12:42 Isa 9:6 32:18,19 Eph 2:14 Mic 5:5
Re 17:14 Joh 14:27
04.02
Morning:
If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, [then]
put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you,
and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only.
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.--Come out from
among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not
the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, and will be a
Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith
the Lord Almighty.--Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name
[is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God.--Serve him with a perfect
heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all
hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.--Man looketh on
the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.--
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence
toward God.
1Sa 7:3 1Jo 5:21 2Co 6:17,18 Mt 6:24 Ex 34:14 1Ch 28:9 Ps 51:6
1Sa 16:7 1Jo 3:21
Evening:
When the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.--The
Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but
after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears; and they shall turn away [their] ears from
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
--Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh
shall find watching.--Looking for that blessed hope, . . . the
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ.
Lu 18:8 Joh 1:11 1Ti 4:1 2Ti 4:2-4 Mr 13:32,33 Lu 12:37
Tit 2:13
04.03
Morning:
Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one
day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.
My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways
my ways, saith the LORD. For [as] the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts
than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow
from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,
. . . so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I
sent it.
God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have
mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his
ways past finding out!
2Pe 3:8,9 Isa 55:8-11 Ro 11:32,33
Evening:
Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning.
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised
the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?--We
had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust
in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered
us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust
that he will yet deliver [us].--The wages of sin [is] death; but
the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God.--Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.
Be instant in season, out of season.--Others save with fear,
pulling [them] out of the fire.
Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD
of hosts.--Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto
the knowledge of the truth.
Am 4:11 Isa 33:14 2Co 1:9,10 Ro 6:23 Heb 10:31 2Co 5:11
2Ti 4:2 Jude 1:23 Zec 4:6 1Ti 2:4
04.04
Morning:
I am the first and the last.
Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and
that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
tempest, . . . but ye are come unto mount Sion, . . . to God the
Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and
to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.--Jesus the author and
finisher of [our] faith.--We have not an high priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was
in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. Let us
therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the
LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside
me [there is] no God.--The mighty God, The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.
[Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy
One?--Who [is] God, save the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save
our God?
Re 1:17 Heb 12:18,22-24 12:2 4:15,16 Isa 44:6 9:6 Hab 1:12
2Sa 22:32
Evening:
Lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest
my path.--He knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried
me, I shall come forth as gold.--Lord, thou hast been our
dwelling place in all generations.--Thou hast been a strength to
the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from
the storm, a shadow from the heat.
Who [is] a rock save our God?--They shall never perish,
neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.--Uphold me
according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be
ashamed of my hope.--Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the
soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that
within the veil.
Ps 61:2 Php 4:6,7 Ps 142:3 Job 23:10 Ps 90:1 Isa 25:4 Ps 18:31
Joh 10:28 Ps 119:116 Heb 6:19
04.05
Morning:
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace
with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.
O woman, great [is] thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou
wilt.--According to your faith be it unto you.--Let him ask in
faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man
think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
They drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and
[Jesus] made as though he would have gone further. But they
constrained him, saying, Abide with us: . . . he vanished out of
their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart
burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he
opened to us the scriptures?--I pray thee, if I have found grace
in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I
may find grace in thy sight.--My presence shall go [with thee],
and I will give thee rest.
Ge 32:26 Isa 27:5 Mt 15:28 9:29 Jas 1:6,7 Lu 24:28,29,31,32
Ex 33:13,14
Evening:
Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the
Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the
Almighty.--Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the
generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with
the last; I [am] he.
Sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ,
[and] called.--The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I
pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful
[is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it].--He which hath
begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of
Jesus Christ.--Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit,
are ye now made perfect by the flesh?--The LORD will perfect
[that which] concerneth me.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
[his] good pleasure.
Heb 12:2 Re 1:8 Isa 41:4 Jude 1:1 1Th 5:23,24 Php 1:6 Ga 3:3
Ps 138:8 Php 2:13
04.06
Morning:
He ever liveth to make intercession.
Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, . . .
who also maketh intercession for us.--Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the
true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of
God for us.
If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous.--[There is] one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Seeing . . . that we have a great high priest, that is passed
into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our]
profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all
points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. Let us
therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.--Through
him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Heb 7:25 Ro 8:34 Heb 9:24 1Jo 2:1 1Ti 2:5 Heb 4:14-16 Eph 2:18
Evening:
They that know thy name will put their trust in thee.
This [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.--I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I
will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.
His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor.--O LORD, I
know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man
that walketh to direct his steps.
The mighty God, The everlasting Father.--I know whom I have
believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I
have committed unto him against that day.
The Prince of Peace.--He is our peace.--Being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous
runneth into it, and is safe.--Woe to them that go down to Egypt
for help.--As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend
Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing over
he will preserve it.
Ps 9:10 Jer 23:6 Ps 71:16 Isa 9:6 Jer 10:23 Isa 9:6 2Ti 1:12
Isa 9:6 Eph 2:14 Ro 5:1 Pr 18:10 Isa 31:1,5
04.07
Morning:
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many
rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.
We . . . rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only
[so], but we glory in tribulations also. I am filled with
comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.--
Believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and
their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
--Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this
grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the
unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all [men] see what
[is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of
the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus
Christ.
Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and
heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love
him?--God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that
ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to
every good work.
2Co 6:10 Ro 5:2,3 2Co 7:4 1Pe 1:8 2Co 8:2 Eph 3:8,9 Jas 2:5
2Co 9:8
Evening:
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:
thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of
his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed
them; and he bare them, and carried them.--He whom thou lovest
is sick.--My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities,
that the power of Christ may rest upon me.--I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me.
We faint not; . . . though our outward man perish, yet the
inward [man] is renewed day by day.
In him we live, and move, and have our being.--He giveth
power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he
increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon
the LORD shall renew [their] strength.--The eternal God [is thy]
refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms.
Ps 41:3 Isa 63:9 Joh 11:3 2Co 12:9 Php 4:13 2Co 4:16 Ac 17:28
Isa 40:29-31 De 33:27
04.08
Morning:
In every thing ye are enriched by him.
When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died
for the ungodly.--He that spared not his own Son, but delivered
him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things?
In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye
are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and
power.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye
abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that
abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye can do nothing.--To will is present with me;
but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.--Unto every
one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of
Christ.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.--Let the word of
Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.
1Co 1:5 Ro 5:6 8:32 Col 2:9,10 Joh 15:4,5 Ro 7:18 Eph 4:7
Joh 15:7 Col 3:16
Evening:
They shall see his face.
I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. . . . And he said, Thou
canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
--No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].
Every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him:
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.--I
shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh.
I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand
at the latter [day] upon the earth: and [though] after my skin
[worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God.--
I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied,
when I awake, with thy likeness.--We shall be like him; for we
shall see him as he is.--The Lord himself shall descend from
heaven . . . the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which
are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in
the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.
Re 22:4 Ex 33:18,20 Joh 1:18 Re 1:7 Nu 24:17 Job 19:25,26
Ps 17:15 1Jo 3:2 1Th 4:16,17
04.09
Morning:
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee.
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou
confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt
forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker [is] thine
husband; the LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the
Holy One of Israel.--I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy
transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I
have redeemed thee.--With the precious blood of Christ, as of a
lamb without blemish and without spot.
Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name:
he shall throughly plead their cause.--My Father, which gave
[them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck
[them] out of my Father's hand.
Grace [be] to you and peace from God the Father, and [from]
our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he
might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the
will of God and our Father: to whom [be] glory for ever and
ever. Amen.
Isa 43:1 54:4,5 44:22 1Pe 1:19 Jer 50:34 Joh 10:29 Ga 1:3-5
Evening:
I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD,
[and] the praises of the LORD, according to all
that the LORD hath bestowed on us.
He brought me up . . . out of an horrible pit, out of the
miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my
goings.--The Son of God, . . . loved me, and gave himself for
me.--He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?--
God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit
in our hearts.--Which is the earnest of our inheritance until
the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of
his glory.
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he
loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised
[us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly
[places] in Christ Jesus.
Isa 63:7 Ps 40:2 Ga 2:20 Ro 8:32 5:8 2Co 1:22 Eph 1:14 2:4-6
04.10
Morning:
I [am] black, but comely.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.--Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy
beauty: for it [was] perfect through my comeliness, which I had
put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
I am a sinful man, O Lord.--Behold, thou [art] fair, my love;
behold, thou [art] fair.
I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.--Thou [art]
all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.
When I would do good, evil is present with me.--Be of good
cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
thing.--Ye are complete in him.--Perfect in Christ Jesus.
Ye are washed, . . . ye are sanctified, . . . ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of
our God.--That ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath
called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
So 1:5 Ps 51:5 Eze 16:14 Lu 5:8 So 4:1 Job 42:6 Ca 4:7 Ro 7:21
Mt 9:2 Ro 7:18 Col 2:10 1:28 1Co 6:11 1Pe 2:9
Evening:
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and
the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against
her mother in law. And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own
household.--Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is
the enemy of God.--Love not the world, neither the things [that
are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him. For all that [is] in the world, the lust
of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,
is not of the Father, but is of the world.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it
hated] you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his
own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you
out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the
word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his
lord.--I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated
them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world.
2Ti 3:12 Mt 10:35,36 Jas 4:4 1Jo 2:15,16 Joh 15:18-20 17:14
04.11
Morning:
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin:
but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.
My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to
speak, slow to wrath.--[He that is] slow to anger [is] better
than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that
taketh a city.--In many things we offend all. If any man offend
not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to
bridle the whole body.--By thy words thou shalt be justified,
and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.--Set a watch, O LORD,
before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also
suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow
his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered,
he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth
righteously.--Consider him that endured such contradiction of
sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds.
In their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault
before the throne of God.
Pr 10:19 Jas 1:19 Pr 16:32 Jas 3:2 Mt 12:37 Ps 141:3
1Pe 2:21-23 Heb 12:3 Re 14:5
Evening:
Teach me thy way, O LORD.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.--Good and upright
[is] the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The
meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his
way.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,
and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.--Having. . . boldness
to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and
living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil,
that is to say, his flesh; and [having] an high priest over the
house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith.
Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD.--All
the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep
his covenant and his testimonies.
Ps 27:11 32:8 25:8,9 Joh 10:9 14:6 Heb 10:19-22 Ho 6:3
Ps 25:10
04.12
Morning:
What the law could not do, in that it was weak through
the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.
The law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the
very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which
they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto
perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?--By
him all that believe are justified from all things, from which
ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that
through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,
that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took
not on [him the nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the seed
of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made
like unto [his] brethren.
Ro 8:3 Heb 10:1,2 Ac 13:39 Heb 2:14-17
Evening:
All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
There is none righteous, no, not one. . . . there is none
that doeth good, no, not one.--[There is] not a just man upon
earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.--How can he be clean
[that is] born of a woman?
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of
entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of
it.
I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before
me.--Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
The LORD . . . hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.--
Whom he justified, them he also glorified.--We all, with open
face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed
into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit
of the Lord.--If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled,
and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel.
Walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and
glory.
Ro 3:23,10,12 Ec 7:20 Job 25:4 Heb 4:1 Ps 51:3,5 2Sa 12:13
Ro 8:30 2Co 3:18 Col 1:23 1Th 2:12
04.13
Morning:
Honour the LORD with thy substance,
and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.
He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he
which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.--Upon the
first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in
store, as [God] hath prospered him.
God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of
love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have
ministered to the saints, and do minister.
I beseech you, . . . brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, [which is] your reasonable service.--The love of Christ
constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for
all, then were all dead: and [that] he died for all, that they
which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto
him which died for them, and rose again.--Whether therefore ye
eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Pr 3:9 2Co 9:6 1Co 16:2 Heb 6:10 Ro 12:1 2Co 5:14,15 1Co 10:31
Evening:
There shall be no night there.
The LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God
thy glory.
The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb
[is] the light thereof.--They need no candle, neither light of
the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light.
Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises
of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous
light.--Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who
hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath
translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son.--Ye were
sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as
children of light.
We are not of the night, nor of darkness.
The path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth
more and more unto the perfect day.
Re 21:25 Isa 60:19 Re 21:23 22:5 1Pe 2:9 Col 1:12,13 Eph 5:8
1Th 5:5 Pr 4:18
04.14
Morning:
My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness;
and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:
when I remember thee upon my bed,
[and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.
How precious . . . are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great
is the sum of them!--How sweet are thy words unto my taste!
[yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!--Let him kiss me with the
kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] better than wine.
Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon
earth [that] I desire beside thee.--Thou art fairer than the
children of men.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my
beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great
delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste. He brought me to
the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love.--His
countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth
[is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my
beloved, and this [is] my friend.
Ps 63:5,6 139:17 119:103 Ca 1:2 Ps 73:25 45:2 Ca 2:3,4 5:15,16
Evening:
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him
also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.--Return, ye
backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.--I
will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace
unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again
to folly.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases.--He restoreth my soul.--O LORD, I will praise thee:
though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and
thou comfortedst me.
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.
I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for
mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Ps 51:12 Isa 57:18 1:18 Jer 3:22 Ps 85:8 103:2,3 23:3
Isa 12:1 Ps 119:117 Isa 43:25
04.15
Morning:
Their Redeemer [is] strong.
I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins.--I
have laid help upon [one that is] mighty.--Thy Saviour and thy
Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.--Mighty to save.--Able to
keep you from falling.--Where sin abounded, grace did much more
abound.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God.--He is able . . .
to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? . . . I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall
be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
Jer 50:34 Am 5:12 Ps 89:19 Isa 49:26 63:1 Jude 1:24 Ro 5:20
Joh 3:18 Heb 7:25 Isa 50:2 Ro 8:35,38,39
Evening:
Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and
lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.--Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being
in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of
a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found
in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross.
He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not
worthy of me.--Christ . . . suffered for us, leaving us an
example, that ye should follow his steps:
Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought
nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry
nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith
content.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be
content.
Jer 45:5 Mt 11:29 Php 2:5-8 Mt 10:38 1Pe 2:21 1Ti 6:6-8
Php 4:11
04.16
Morning:
I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications
when I cried unto thee.
I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come
into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.--Waters flowed
over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy
name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice:
hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near
in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail
for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in
anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This [is] my
infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of
the most High. I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I
will remember thy wonders of old.--[I had fainted], unless I had
believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the
living.
Ps 31:22 69:2 Lam 3:54-57 Ps 77:7-11 27:13
Evening:
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:
I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him.
Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou
wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine
hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep [me] from
evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which
he requested.--Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said unto
God, . . . give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out
and come in before this people.--And God gave Solomon wisdom and
understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as
the sand that [is] on the sea shore.
Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is]
nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that
have no power. . . . O LORD, thou [art] our God; let not man
prevail against thee. So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before
Asa.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Ps 91:15 1Ch 4:10 2Ch 1:7,8,10 1Ki 4:29 2Ch 14:11,12 Ps 65:2
04.17
Morning:
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of
the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.--
Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises
of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous
light.--Ye, . . . as lively stones, are built up a spiritual
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.--By him . . . let us offer
the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit
of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall
hear [thereof], and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let
us exalt his name together.
Ps 50:23 Col 3:16,17 1Co 6:20 1Pe 2:9,5 Heb 13:15 Ps 34:2,3
Evening:
Draw me, we will run after thee.
I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.--I drew them with cords of a
man, with bands of love.--I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw all [men] unto me.--Behold the Lamb of God!--As Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have eternal life.
Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon
earth [that] I desire beside thee.--We love him, because he
first loved us.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair
one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is
over [and] gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of
the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is
heard in our land; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell.
Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
So 1:4 Jer 31:3 Ho 11:4 Joh 12:32 1:36 3:14,15 Ps 73:25
1Jo 4:19 So 2:10-13
04.18
Morning:
I will raise them up a Prophet from
among their brethren, like unto thee.
[Moses] stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew
you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid.--[There is] one
God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which
[were] upon the face of the earth.--Take my yoke upon you, and
learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find
rest unto your souls.--Let this mind be in you, which was also
in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men.
Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant,
for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if
we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm
unto the end.
De 18:18 5:5 1Ti 2:5 Nu 12:3 Mt 11:29 Php 2:5-7 Heb 3:5,6
Evening:
Everlasting consolation.
I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy
youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified.--He is able also to save them to the uttermost that
come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them.--I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he
is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against
that day.
The gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance.--Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ?--The Lamb which is in
the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them
unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes.--So shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
This [is] not [your] rest.--Here have we no continuing city,
but we seek one to come.
2Th 2:16 Eze 16:60 Heb 10:14 7:25 2Ti 1:12 Ro 11:29 8:35
Re 7:17 1Th 4:17,18 Mic 2:10 Heb 13:14
04.19
Morning:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the
bottom.--Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for
the unjust, that he might bring us to God.--The way into the
holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle was yet standing.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,
and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.--Through him we
both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye
are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with
the saints, and of the household of God.--Having, . . .
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated
for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.--We have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we
have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and
rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Joh 10:7 Mt 27:51 1Pe 3:18 Heb 9:8 Joh 10:9 14:6 Eph 2:18,19
Heb 10:19,20 Ro 5:1,2
Evening:
[His word] was in mine heart as a burning fire
shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing,
and I could not [stay].
Necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach
not the gospel! . . . What is my reward then? [Verily] that,
when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ
without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.--They
called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in
the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto
them, . . . We cannot but speak the things which we have seen
and heard.--The love of Christ constraineth us.
I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth. . . .
[Thou] wicked and slothful servant, . . . thou oughtest
therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at
my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Go . . . to thy friends, and tell them how great things the
Lord hath done for thee.
Jer 20:9 1Co 9:16,18 Ac 4:18-20 2Co 5:14 Mt 25:25-27 Mr 5:19
04.20
Morning:
There shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand.
Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean [thing].--Dearly beloved, I beseech
[you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts,
which war against the soul.--Hating even the garment spotted by
the flesh.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every
man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is
pure.--The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to
all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly
lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this
present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious
appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who
gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good
works.
De 13:17 2Co 6:17 1Pe 2:11 Jude 1:23 1Jo 3:2,3 Tit 2:11-14
Evening:
Who art thou, Lord? . . . I am Jesus.
It is I; be not afraid.--When thou passest through the
waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they
shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire,
thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon
thee. For I [am] the LORD thy God, . . . thy Saviour.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff
they comfort me.--Emmanuel, . . . God with us.
Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people
from their sins.--If any man sin, we have an advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.--Who [is] he that
condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Ac 26:15 Mt 14:27 Isa 43:2,3 Ps 23:4 Mt 1:23,21 1Jo 2:1
Ro 8:34,35
04.21
Morning:
Stand fast in the Lord.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not
declined.
The LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they
are preserved for ever.--The LORD shall preserve thee from all
evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who
draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving
of the soul.--If they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have
continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made
manifest that they were not all of us.
If ye continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed.
--He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.--
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
--Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.--
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;
and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life.
Php 4:1 Job 23:11 Ps 37:28 121:7 Heb 10:38,39 1Jo 2:19
Joh 8:31 Mt 24:13 1Co 16:13 Re 3:11,5
Evening:
Enoch walked with God.
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Having made peace through the blood of his cross, . . . You,
that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by
wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his
flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight.--In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes
were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the
death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved
by his life. And not only [so], but we also joy in God through
our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus
Christ.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and
the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen.
Ge 5:22 Am 3:3 Col 1:20-22 Eph 2:13 Ro 5:10,11 1Jo 1:3
2Co 13:14
04.22
Morning:
If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd,
let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer
it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the LORD. And he shall put
his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall
be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.--Behold
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.--We are
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
[for all].--A ransom for many.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have
power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.-- I
will love them freely. The Son of God . . . loved me and gave
himself for me.
He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him.--He hath made us
accepted in the beloved.
Le 1:3,4 Ge 22:8 Joh 1:29 Heb 10:10 Mt 20:28 Joh 10:18 Ho 14:4
Ga 2:20 2Co 5:21 Eph 1:6
Evening:
Great [is] thy mercy toward me:
and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by
thy name; thou [art] mine. . . . I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and
beside me [there is] no saviour. . . . I, [even] I, [am] he that
blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not
remember thy sins.--They that trust in their wealth, and boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches; none [of them] can
by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for
him: for the redemption of their soul [is] precious.--I have
found a ransom.--God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none
other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.
Ps 86:13 Mt 10:28 Isa 43:1,11,25 Ps 49:6-8 Job 33:24 Eph 2:4,5
Ac 4:12
04.23
Morning:
The LORD was my stay.
Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and
from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is]
the salvation of Israel.--The LORD [is] my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will
trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high
tower.--Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great
[is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear
him, and delivereth them.--[The righteous] cry, and the LORD
heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.--The
eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the
everlasting arms.--So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my
helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.--For who
[is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God? [It is]
God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
By the grace of God I am what I am.
Ps 18:18 Jer 3:23 Ps 18:2 Isa 12:6 Ps 34:7,17 De 33:27
Heb 13:6 Ps 18:31,32 1Co 15:10
Evening:
All we like sheep have gone astray.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us.--There is none righteous, no, not one: There
is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after
God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable.
Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.--I have gone astray like a
lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy
commandments.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name's sake.--My sheep hear my voice, and
I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal
life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck
them out of my hand.
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of
them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and
go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Isa 53:6 1Jo 1:8 Ro 3:10-12 1Pe 2:25 Ps 119:176 23:3
Joh 10:27,28 Lu 15:4
04.24
Morning:
The LORD visited Sarah as he had said,
and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart
before him: God [is] a refuge for us.--David encouraged himself
in the LORD his God.--God will surely visit you, and bring you
out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob.--I have seen, I have seen the affliction of
my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning,
and am come down to deliver them. . . . He brought them out,
after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt,
and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.--There
failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken
unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
He [is] faithful that promised.--Hath he said, and shall he
not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?--
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass
away.--The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of
our God shall stand for ever.
Ge 21:1 Ps 62:8 1Sa 30:6 Ge 50:24 Ac 7:34,36 Jos 21:45
Heb 10:23 Nu 23:19 Mt 24:35 Isa 40:8
Evening:
The eyes of all wait upon thee.
He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.--The LORD
[is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over all his
works.--Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither
do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them.
The same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh
my help.--Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand
of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of
her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God.
The LORD [is] a God of judgment.--And it shall be said in
that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he
will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we
will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.--If we hope for that
we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].
Ps 145:15 Ac 17:25 Ps 145:9 Mt 6:26 Ro 10:12 Ps 121:1 123:2
Isa 30:18 25:9 Ro 8:25
04.25
Morning:
Thou shalt call his name JESUS:
for he shall save his people from their sins.
Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins.--That
we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.--He is
able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by
him.
He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed. . . . The LORD hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all.--Thus it behoved Christ to suffer, .
. . that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in
his name among all nations.--He appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself.
Him hath God exalted with his right hand [to be] a Prince and
a Saviour, . . . to give repentance.--Through this man is
preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that
believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not
be justified by the law of Moses.--Your sins are forgiven you
for his name's sake.
Mt 1:21 1Jo 3:5 1Pe 2:24 Heb 7:25 Isa 53:5,6 Lu 24:46,47
Heb 9:26 Ac 5:31 13:38,39 1Jo 2:12
Evening:
Our Lord Jesus Christ, . . . though he was rich, . . .
became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
It pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell.
--The brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when
he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of
the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than
they.--Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to
be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air [have] nests;
but the Son of man hath not where to lay [his] head.
All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or
the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to
come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.
2Co 8:9 Col 1:19 Heb 1:3,4 Php 2:6,7 Mt 8:20 1Co 3:21-23
04.26
Morning:
His left hand [is] under my head,
and his right hand doth embrace me.
Underneath [are] the everlasting arms.--When [Peter] saw the
wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried,
saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth
[his] hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little
faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?--The steps of a [good] man
are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Though he
fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth
[him with] his hand.
The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; [and
the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell
between his shoulders.--Casting all your care upon him; for he
careth for you.--He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his
eye.
They shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them
out of my hand. My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than
all.
So 2:6 De 33:27 Mt 14:30,31 Ps 37:23,24 De 33:12 1Pe 5:7
Zec 2:8 Joh 10:28,29
Evening:
Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning,
fair as the moon, clear as the sun,
[and] terrible as [an army] with banners?
The church of God, which he hath purchased with his own
blood.
Christ . . . loved the church, and gave himself for it; that
he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by
the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish.
There appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with
the sun.--The marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath
made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is
the righteousness of saints.--The righteousness of God [which
is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe.
The glory which thou gavest me I have given them.
So 6:10 Ac 20:28 Eph 5:25-27 Re 12:1 19:7,8 Ro 3:22 Joh 17:22
04.27
Morning:
Brethren, the time [is] short.
Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of
trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he
fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.--The world passeth
away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God
abideth for ever.-As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall
all be made alive.--Death is swallowed up in victory.--Whether
we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto
the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
--To live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.
Cast not away . . . your confidence, which hath great
recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after
ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For
yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will
not tarry.--The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us
therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the
armour of light.--The end of all things is at hand: be ye
therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1Co 7:29 Job 14:1,2 1Jo 2:17 1Co 15:22,54 Ro 14:8 Php 1:21
Heb 10:35-37 Ro 13:12 1Pe 4:7
Evening:
A new name.
The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.--Let
every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.--
They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts.--Ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto
the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any
thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children; and walk in
love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for
us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling
savour. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,
let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.--Now
[are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light.
Re 2:17 Ac 11:26 2Ti 2:19 Ga 5:24 1Co 6:20 Ga 6:14,15
Eph 5:1-3,8
04.28
Morning:
Behold the Lamb of God.
[It is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats
should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world,
he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body
hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for
sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the
volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
--He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his
mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
[as] silver and gold, . . . but with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: . . .
manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in
God, . . . that your faith and hope might be in God.
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and
riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and
blessing.
Joh 1:29 Heb 10:4-7 Isa 53:7 1Pe 1:18-21 Re 5:12
Evening:
I will hope continually,
and will yet praise thee more and more.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect.--Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let
us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.--The path
of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and
more unto the perfect day.
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my
supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,
therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live.--I will
bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be]
in my mouth.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion.--They rest not day
and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.--Whoso
offereth praise glorifieth me.--Rejoice evermore. Pray without
ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you.--Rejoice in the Lord alway:
[and] again I say, Rejoice.
Ps 71:14 Php 3:12 Heb 6:1 Pr 4:18 Ps 116:1,2 34:1 65:1
Re 4:8 Ps 50:23 1Th 5:16-18 Php 4:4
04.29
Morning:
Consider how great [things] he hath done for you.
Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led
thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and]
to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou
wouldest keep his commandments, or no. . . . Thou shalt also
consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so]
the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that]
thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.--[It is] good for me
that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.--
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
word.--The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me
over unto death.--He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor
rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is
high above the earth, [so] great is his mercy toward them that
fear him.--He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are]
dust.
1Sa 12:24 De 8:2,5 Ps 119:75,71,67 118:18 103:10,11,14
Evening:
That blessed hope, . . . the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither
the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus.--Whom the heaven
must receive until the times of restitution of all things.--When
he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired
in all them that believe.
The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now. And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have
the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of
our body.--Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.--
When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with him in glory.
Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Tit 2:13 Heb 6:19,20 Ac 3:21 2Th 1:10 Ro 8:22,23 1Jo 3:2
Col 3:4 Re 22:20
04.30
Morning:
Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love
of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of
the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to
do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his
sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and
ever. Amen.
Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
commandments.--If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my
Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our
abode with him.--Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever
sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children,
let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is
righteous, even as he is righteous.--Herein is our love made
perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment:
because as he is, so are we in this world.
1Jo 2:5 Heb 13:20,21 1Jo 2:3 Joh 14:23 1Jo 3:6,7 4:17
Evening:
[He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding.
The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The
LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering.--The Lord is not
slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but
is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.
Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children; and walk in
love.--The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law.--This [is]
thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief,
suffering wrongfully. For what glory [is it], if, when ye be
buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if,
when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this
[is] acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called:
because Christ . . . suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow his steps. . . . who, when he was reviled,
reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but
committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously.
Be ye angry, and sin not.
Pr 14:29 Ex 34:6 2Pe 3:9 Eph 5:1,2 Ga 5:22,23 1Pe 2:19-21,23
Eph 4:26
05.01
Morning:
The fruit of the Spirit is . . . peace.
To be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.
God hath called us to peace.--Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.--The
God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that
ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.--
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed
[on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people
shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places.--Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall
dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Great peace have they which love thy law.
Ga 5:22 Ro 8:6 1Co 7:15 Joh 14:27 Ro 15:13 2Ti 1:12
Isa 26:3 32:17,18 Pr 1:33 Ps 119:165
Evening:
Jehovahshammah: The LORD [is] there.
Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will
dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, [and be] their God.
I saw no temple . . .: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun,
neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did
lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.--Whom
have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth
[that] I desire beside thee.
Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to
generation. For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not
cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.--Sing and rejoice, O
daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst
of thee, saith the LORD.--There shall be no more curse: but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants
shall serve him.
Eze 48:35 Re 21:3,22,23 Ps 17:15 73:25 Joe 3:20,21 Zec 2:10
Re 22:3
05.02
Morning:
Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.
Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am
I in the midst of them.--Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto
the end of the world.--My presence shall go [with thee], and I
will give thee rest.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee
from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there:
if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].--[Am] I a
God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any
hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith
the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;
how much less this house that I have builded?--Thus saith the
high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is]
Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that
is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the
humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.--Ye are
the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in
them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people.
Ge 28:16 Mt 18:20 28:20 Ex 33:14 Ps 139:7,8 Jer 23:23,24
1Ki 8:27 Isa 57:15 2Co 6:16
Evening:
Keep yourselves from idols.
My son, give me thine heart.--Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth.
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart,
and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:
should I be enquired of at all by them?--Mortify . . . your
members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness,
inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness,
which is idolatry.--They that will be rich fall into temptation
and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which
drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is
the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have
erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many
sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things.
If riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].--My fruit
[is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than
choice silver.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.--The
LORD looketh on the heart.
1Jo 5:21 Pr 23:26 Col 3:2 Eze 14:3 Col 3:5 1Ti 6:9-11
Ps 62:10 Pr 8:19 Mt 6:21 1Sa 16:7
05.03
Morning:
Be ye . . . perfect,
even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
--Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and have
severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine.
Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality
and power.--Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us
from all iniquity.--Be diligent that ye may be found of him in
peace, without spot, and blameless.
Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law
of the LORD.--Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.--Search
me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and
see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way
everlasting.
Mt 5:48 Ge 17:1 Le 20:26 1Co 6:20 Col 2:10 Tit 2:14 2Pe 3:14
Ps 119:1 Jas 1:25 Ps 139:23,24
Evening:
Perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness
of the flesh and spirit.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.--Teaching us
that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.--Let
your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.--Not as
though I had already attained, either were already perfect.
Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even
as he is pure.
Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God,
who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.--For the
perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of
the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a
perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of
Christ.
2Co 7:1 Ps 51:6 Tit 2:12 Mt 5:16 Php 3:12 1Jo 3:3 2Co 5:5
Eph 4:12,13
05.04
Morning:
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, [and]
strengthenedst me [with] strength in my soul.--Whiles I [was]
speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the
vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me
about the time of the evening oblation.
Hide not thy face [far] from me; put not thy servant away in
anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me,
O God of my salvation.--Be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my
strength, haste thee to help me.
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth
by thy great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing
too hard for thee.--Who delivered us from so great a death, and
doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us].--
Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto
him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will
avenge them speedily.
Isa 59:1 Ps 138:3 Da 9:21 Ps 27:9 22:19 Jer 32:17 2Co 1:10
Lu 18:7,8
Evening:
I have glorified thee on the earth.
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish
his work.--I must work the works of him that sent me, while it
is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? And
they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.--This
sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the
Son of God might be glorified thereby.--Said I not unto thee,
that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of
God?
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God
and man.--Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.--
All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which
proceeded out of his mouth.
Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals
thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy
blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall
reign on the earth.
Joh 17:4 4:34 9:4 Lu 2:49,50 Joh 11:4,40 Lu 2:52 3:22 4:22
Re 5:9,10
05.05
Morning:
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed? For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye
have need of all these things.
O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to
them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger:
but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].--
No good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee.
I would have you without carefulness.--Be careful for
nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them
shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very
hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye
are of more value than many sparrows.--Why are ye so fearful?
how is it that ye have no faith?--Have faith in God.
Mt 6:31,32 Ps 34:9,10 84:11,12 1Co 7:32 Php 4:6 Mt 10:29-31
Mr 4:40 11:22
Evening:
He spread a cloud for a covering;
and fire to give light in the night.
Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD
pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he
remembereth that we [are] dust.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.--
There shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the
heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and
from rain.
The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy
right hand.--The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy
coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.--The LORD
went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the
way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go
by day and night: he took not away the pillar of the cloud by
day, nor the pillar of fire by night, [from] before the people.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Ps 105:39 103:13,14 121:6 Isa 4:6 Ps 121:5,8 Ex 13:21,22
Heb 13:8
05.06
Morning:
Mercy and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].
A just God and a Saviour.
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will
magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.
God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not
imputing their trespasses unto them.--Whom God hath set forth
[to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare
his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God; to declare, [I say], at this
time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier
of him which believeth in Jesus.--He [was] wounded for our
transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes
we are healed.--Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's
elect? [It is] God that justifieth.--To him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is
counted for righteousness.
Ps 85:10 Isa 45:21 42:21 2Co 5:19 Ro 3:25,26 Isa 53:5
Ro 8:33 4:5
Evening:
How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, . . . it doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.--As we have
borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of
the heavenly.
The Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: . . . shall change our
vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all
things unto himself.
Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto
them, Peace [be] unto you. But they were terrified and
affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.--He was
seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: after that, he was seen of
above five hundred brethren at once.
If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
1Co 15:35 1Jo 3:2 1Co 15:49 Php 3:20,21 Lu 24:36,37 1Co 15:5,6
Ro 8:11
05.07
Morning:
Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
see that ye be not troubled.
God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be
removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of
the sea; [though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled,
[though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.--Come,
my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors
about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until
the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of
his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their
iniquity.-- In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge,
until [these] calamities be overpast.--Your life is hid with
Christ in God.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
trusting in the LORD.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might
have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of
good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Mt 24:6 Ps 46:1-3 Isa 26:20,21 Ps 57:1 Col 3:3 Ps 112:7
Joh 16:33
Evening:
They persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten.
It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe [unto
him], through whom they come!--Him, being delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and
by wicked hands have crucified and slain.--Then did they spit in
his face, and buffeted him; and others smote [him] with the
palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who
is he that smote thee?--Likewise also the chief priests mocking
[him], with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others;
himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now
come down from the cross.--Of a truth against thy holy child
Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate,
with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered
together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel
determined before to be done.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Ps 69:26 Lu 17:1 Ac 2:23 Mt 26:67,68 27:41,42 Ac 4:27,28
Isa 53:4
05.08
Morning:
It pleased the LORD to bruise him;
he hath put [him] to grief.
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save
me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven,
[saying], I have both glorified [it], and will glorify [it]
again.--Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me:
nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. And there appeared
an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.--
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,
that I might take it again.--For I came down from heaven, not to
do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.--The cup
which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
The Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those
things that please him.--My beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.--Mine elect, [in whom] my soul delighteth.
Is 53:10 Joh 12:27,28 Lu 22:42,43 Php 2:8
Joh 10:17 6:38 18:11 8:29 Mt 3:17 Isa 42:1
Evening:
Ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.
Thou . . . hast made us unto our God kings and priests.--The
sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and
they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your
generations. And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy
that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the
trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God,
and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.--Their
voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy dwelling
place, [even] unto heaven.--The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the
righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their cry.--Pray one for
another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of
a righteous man availeth much.
Come, Lord Jesus.--Make no tarrying, O my God.--Looking for
and hasting unto the coming of the day of God.
Isa 62:6 Re 5:9,10 Nu 10:8,9 Isa 45:19 2Ch 30:27 Ps 34:15
Jas 5:16 Re 22:20 Ps 40:17 2Pe 3:12
05.09
Morning:
Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him.--After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that
holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession.
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou
hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet]
have believed.--Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though
now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith,
[even] the salvation of [your] souls.
We walk by faith, not by sight.--Cast not away therefore your
confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Heb 11:1 1Co 15:19 1Co 2:9 Eph 1:13,14 Joh 20:29 1Pe 1:8,9
2Co 5:7 Heb 10:35
Evening:
It is I; be not afraid.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his
right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and
the last: I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am
alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of
death.--I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy
transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy
sins.
Woe [is] me! for I am undone; . . . mine eyes have seen the
King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me,
having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the
tongs from off the altar: and he laid [it] upon my mouth, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is
taken away, and thy sin purged.--I have blotted out, as a thick
cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return
unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous.
Joh 6:20 Re 1:17,18 Isa 43:25 6:5-7 44:22 1Jo 2:1
05.10
Morning:
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he might destroy the works of the devil.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
[places].--Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of
flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same;
that through death he might destroy him that had the power of
death, that is, the devil.--[And] having spoiled principalities
and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them.
--I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation,
and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his
Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which
accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Jo 3:8 Eph 6:12 Heb 2:14 Col 2:15 Re 12:10,11 1Co 15:57
Evening:
Vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.
We spend our years as a tale [that is told]. The days of our
years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of
strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength
labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable.--Here have we no continuing city, but we
seek one to come.--I [am] the LORD, I change not.--Our
conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we
look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change
our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious
body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue
all things unto himself.--The creature was made subject to
vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected
[the same] in hope.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.--
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is
to come.
Ec 1:2 Ps 90:9,10 1Co 15:19 Heb 13:14 Mal 3:6 Php 3:20,21
Ro 8:20 Heb 13:8 Re 4:8
05.11
Morning:
Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the
day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us
not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.
[It is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our
salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent,
the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.--Wherefore take
unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.--Cast
away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit.--Lay
apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive
with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your
souls.--Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall
appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at
his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every
one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
1Co 15:34 1Th 5:5,6 Ro 13:11,12 Eph 6:13 Eze 18:31 Jas 1:21
1Jo 2:28,29
Evening:
My sheep hear my voice.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup
with him, and he with me.
I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved
that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my
dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my
locks with the drops of the night.--I opened to my beloved; but
my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed
when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called
him, but he gave me no answer.
Speak; for thy servant heareth.--When Jesus came to the
place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus,
make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.
And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.--I
will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace
unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again
to folly.
Joh 10:27 Re 3:20 So 5:2,6 1Sa 3:10 Lu 19:5,6 Ps 85:8
05.12
Morning:
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God;
and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost which is given unto us.--Ye have not received the spirit
of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God.--He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in
himself.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we
might live through him.--In whom we have redemption through his
blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his
grace.--That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding
riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ
Jesus.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one
another.
1Jo 4:7 Ro 5:5 8:15,16 1Jo 5:10 4:9 Eph 1:7 2:7 1Jo 4:11
Evening:
Reproach hath broken my heart.
Is not this the carpenter's son?--Can there any good thing
come out of Nazareth?--Say we not well that thou art a
Samaritan, and hast a devil?--He casteth out devils through the
prince of the devils.--We know that this man is a sinner.--He
deceiveth the people.--This [man] blasphemeth.--Behold a man
gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and
the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the
house Beelzebub, how much more [shall they call] them of his
household?--This [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience
toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. . . . For even
hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us,
leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did
no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was
reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not;
but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously.--If ye
be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye]; for the
spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is
evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Ps 69:20 Mt 13:55 Joh 1:46 8:48 Mt 9:34 Joh 9:24 7:12
Mt 9:3 11:19 10:25 1Pe 2:19,21-23 4:14
05.13
Morning:
Pray every where, lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting.
The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and
in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God [is] a
Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit
and in truth.--Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer;
thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am].--When ye stand
praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any.
Without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him.--Let him ask in
faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man
think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear
[me].--My little children, these things write I unto you, that
ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation
for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of]
the whole world.
1Ti 2:8 Joh 4:23,24 Isa 58:9 Mr 11:25 Heb 11:6 Jas 1:6,7
Ps 66:18 1Jo 2:1,2
Evening:
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me.
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of
the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed:
lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.
He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will
I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may
rest upon me. . . . For when I am weak, then am I strong.
When [Peter] saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and
beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And
immediately Jesus stretched forth [his] hand, and caught him,
and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou
doubt?--[If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength
[is] small.--He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that
have] no might he increaseth strength.--The eternal God [is thy]
refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms.--Strengthened
with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all
patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.
Ps 38:10 61:1,2 2Co 12:9,10 Mt 14:30,31 Pr 24:10 Isa 40:29
De 33:27 Co 1:11
05.14
Morning:
The fellowship of his sufferings.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and
the servant as his lord.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from
him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.--In the world ye
shall have tribulation.--Because ye are not of the world, but I
have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth
you.
I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none.--At
my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air [have] nests;
but the Son of man hath not where to lay [his] head.--Here have
we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of
God.
Php 3:10 Mt 10:25 Isa 53:3 Joh 16:33 15:19 Ps 69:20 2Ti 4:16
Mt 8:20 Heb 13:14 12:1,2
Evening:
They overcame . . . by the blood of the Lamb.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is]
God that justifieth. Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ
that died.--It [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the
soul.--I [am] the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a
token upon the houses where ye [are]: and when I see the blood,
I will pass over you.
[There is] . . . now no condemnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus.
What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence
came they? . . . These are they which came out of great
tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb.
Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his
own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his
Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Re 12:11 Ro 8:33,34 Le 17:11 Ex 12:12,13 Ro 8:1
Re 7:13,14 1:5,6
05.15
Morning:
God shall wipe away all tears: . . .
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, . . .
for the former things are passed away.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will
wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people
shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath
spoken [it].--Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy
moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting
light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.--The
inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell
therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.--The voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
--Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will
be thy destruction.--The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed
[is] death.--Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
The things which are not seen [are] eternal.
Re 21:4 Isa 25:8 Isa 60:20 33:24 65:19 35:10 Ho 13:14
1Co 15:26,54 2Co 4:18
Evening:
Raised up together . . . in Christ Jesus.
Fear not; . . . I [am] he that liveth.--Father, I will that
they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.
We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.--
He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead.--Ye are complete in him, which is
the head.
Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that
through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,
that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
[must] put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Eph 2:6 Re 1:17,18 Joh 17:24 Eph 5:30 Col 1:18 2:10
Heb 2:14,15 1Co 15:53,54
05.16
Morning:
A servant of Jesus Christ.
Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for [so] I am.
--If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there
shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will [my]
Father honour.--Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.
What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
--Being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have
your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto
you.--Thou art no more a servant, but a son.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage.--For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only
[use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh.
Ro 1:1 Joh 13:13 Joh 12:26 Mt 11:29,30 Php 3:7 Ro 6:22
Joh 15:15 Ga 4:7 Ga 5:1,13
Evening:
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel.
His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor.--Counsel [is]
mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength.--
Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.--
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine
own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths.
O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it
is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.--Thine ears
shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk
ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to
the left.--Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts
shall be established.--He knoweth the way that I take.--Man's
goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own
way?
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive
me [to] glory.--This God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will
be our guide [even] unto death.
Ps 16:7 Isa 9:6 Pr 8:14 Ps 119:105 Pr 3:5,6 Jer 10:23
Isa 30:21 Pr 16:3 Job 23:10 Pr 20:24 Ps 73:24 48:14
05.17
Morning:
I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes,
and keep my judgments, and do them.
As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all
manner of conversation.--He that saith he abideth in him ought
himself also so to walk, even as he walked.--If ye know that he
is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is
born of him.--Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is
nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.--Whosoever
shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is
guilty of all.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as
of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God.--Teach me, O
LORD, the way of thy statutes.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it
is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good
pleasure.--The God of peace, . . . make you perfect in every
good work to do his will, working in you that which is
wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ.
Eze 20:19 1Pe 1:15 1Jo 2:6,29 1Co 7:19 Jas 2:10 2Co 3:5
Ps 119:33 Php 2:12,13 Heb 13:20,21
Evening:
I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.
Verily he took not on [him the nature of] angels; but he took
on [him] the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved
him to be made like unto [his] brethren.--Upon the likeness of
the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above
upon it.--The Son of man which is in heaven.--Behold my hands
and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a
spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
[He] made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and
being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God
also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is
above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow.--Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that
are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before
God.
Ps 89:19 Heb 2:16,17 Eze 1:26 Joh 3:13 Lu 24:39 Php 2:7-10
Re 3:2
05.18
Morning:
As the Father hath life in himself;
so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.
Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . hath abolished death, and hath
brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.--I am
the resurrection, and the life.--Because I live, ye shall live
also.--We are made partakers of Christ.--Partakers of the Holy
Ghost.--Partakers of the divine nature.--The first man Adam was
made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening
spirit.--Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and
is to come.--Who liveth for ever and ever.--The blessed and only
Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath
immortality.--Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the
only wise God, [be] honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Joh 5:26 2Ti 1:10 Joh 11:25 14:19 Heb 3:14 6:4 2Pe 1:4
1Co 15:45,51,52 Re 4:8,9 1Ti 6:15,16 1:17
Evening:
Let us not be desirous of vain glory.
Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that
ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they
had golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.) And they
answered, We will willingly give [them]. And they spread a
garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his
prey. . . . And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his
city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring
after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his
house.
Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not.--Lest
I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the
revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh.
[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in
lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
--Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave
itself unseemly, seeketh not her own.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me.
Ga 5:26 Jud 8:24,25,27 Jer 45:5 2Co 12:7 Php 2:3 1Co 13:4,5
Mt 11:29
05.19
Morning:
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity.
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they
have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities,
whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed
against me.--Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye
shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your
idols, will I cleanse you.
Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God.--If the blood of bulls and of
goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh. How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God?
He saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his
mighty power to be known.--Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but
unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's
sake.
Ps 51:2 Jer 33:8 Eze 36:25 Joh 3:5 Heb 9:13,14 Ps 106:8 115:1
Evening:
Fellowship in the gospel.
As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is]
Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,
whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free;
and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship
of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.--That which we have seen and
heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with
us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his
Son Jesus Christ.
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his
Son cleanseth us from all sin.--These words spake Jesus, . . .
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as
thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be
one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Php 1:5 1Co 12:12,13 1:9 1Jo 1:3,7 Joh 17:1,20,21
05.20
Morning:
Take heed unto thyself.
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we
an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so
fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my
body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.--
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high [places].
They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit.--For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God.--Meditate upon these things; give
thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
1Ti 4:16 1Co 9:25-27 Eph 6:11,12 Ga 5:24,25 Ro 8:14 1Ti 4:15
Evening:
Jesus saith unto her, Mary.
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by
thy name; thou [art] mine.--The sheep hear his voice: and he
calleth his own sheep by name. . . . And the sheep follow him:
for they know his voice.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy
walls [are] continually before me.
The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The
Lord knoweth them that are his.--We have a great high priest,
that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God.
Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names
of the children of Israel. . . And Aaron shall bear their names
before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial. . . . And
thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment. . . . And thou
shalt set in it . . . four rows of stones. . . . And the stones
shall be with the names of the children of Israel, . . . . they
shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD.
Joh 20:16 Isa 43:1 Joh 10:3,4 Isa 49:16 2Ti 2:19 Heb 4:14
Ex 28:9,12,15,17,21,30
05.21
Morning:
My brethren, be strong in the Lord,
and in the power of his might.
My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made
perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory
in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in
necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake:
for when I am weak, then am I strong.--I will go in the strength
of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness,
[even] of thine only.--The gospel of Christ . . . is the
power of God unto salvation.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.--
I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh
in me mightily.--We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that
the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
The joy of the LORD is your strength.--Strengthened with all
might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and
longsuffering with joyfulness.
Eph 6:10 2Co 12:9,10 Ps 71:16 Ro 1:16 Php 4:13 Col 1:29
2Co 4:7 Ne 8:10 Col 1:11
Evening:
Jesus Christ our Lord.
JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.--He
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death
of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things]
in earth, and [things] under the earth.
Messias . . . which is called Christ.--The LORD hath anointed
me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind
up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives.
The last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. . . . The first
man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from
heaven.--My Lord and my God.--Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye
say well; for [so] I am. If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have
washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For
I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to
you.
1Co 1:9 Mt 1:21 Php 2:8-10 Joh 4:25 Isa 61:1 1Co 15:45,47
Joh 20:28 13:13-15
05.22
Morning:
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
The world passeth away, and the lust thereof.--Surely every
man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain:
he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.--
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now
ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many
things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good
part, which shall not be taken away from her.--I would have you
without carefulness.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world.--The Lord of peace himself
give you peace always by all means.--The LORD bless thee, and
keep thee: the LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be
gracious unto thee: the LORD lift up his countenance upon thee,
and give thee peace.
Joh 14:27 1Jo 2:17 Ps 39:6 Ro 6:21 Lu 10:41,42 1Co 7:32
Joh 16:33 2Th 3:16 Nu 6:24-26
Evening:
The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.
The Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost.--What? know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in
you, which ye have of God?--It is God which worketh in you.
We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what
[is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for
the saints according to [the will of] God.
He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.--A
bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he
not quench.
The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.
The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to
lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
waters.
Ro 8:26 Joh 14:26 1Co 6:19 Php 2:13 Ro 8:26,27 Ps 103:14
Isa 42:3 Mt 26:41 Ps 23:1,2
05.23
Morning:
Thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod
[for] stones of memorial unto the children of Israel:
and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD.
[Jesus] because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable
priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the
uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to
make intercession for them.--Him that is able to keep you from
falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of
his glory.
Seeing . . . that we have a great high priest, that is passed
into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our]
profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all
points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. Let us
therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace.
The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; [and
the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell
between his shoulders.
Ex 28:12 Heb 7:24,25 Jude 1:24 Heb 4:14-16 De 33:12
Evening:
On that night could not the king sleep.
Thou holdest mine eyes waking.--Who [is] like unto the LORD
our God, who dwelleth on high, who humbleth [himself] to behold
[the things that are] in heaven, and in the earth!
He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and
[among] the inhabitants of the earth.--Thy way [is] in the sea,
and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not
known.--Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder
of wrath shalt thou restrain.
The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole
earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose
heart [is] perfect toward him.--We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them
shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very
hairs of your head are all numbered.
Es 6:1 Ps 77:4 113:5,6 Da 4:35 Ps 77:19 76:10 2Ch 16:9
Ro 8:28 Mt 10:29,30
05.24
Morning:
Grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
The love of the Spirit.--The Comforter, [which is] the Holy
Ghost.--In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel
of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he
redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days
of old. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore
he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he
hath given us of his Spirit.--After that ye believed, ye were
sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of
our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession.--[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall
not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against
the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are
contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things
that ye would.
The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.
Eph 4:30 Ro 15:30 Joh 14:26 Isa 63:9,10 1Jo 4:13 Eph 1:13,14
Ga 5:16,17 Ro 8:26
Evening:
I will go [and] return to my place,
till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face.
Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and
your sins have hid [his] face from you.-- My beloved had
withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: . . . I sought him, but I
could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.--I
hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of
his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him.--Hast thou
not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the
LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
He arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great
way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and
fell on his neck, and kissed him.--I will heal their
backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned
away.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
[our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Ho 5:15 Isa 59:2 So 5:6 Isa 57:17,18 Jer 2:17 Lu 15:20
Ho 14:4 1Jo 1:9
05.25
Morning:
How great [is] thy goodness,
which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee!
Since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.--Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him. But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit.--
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness
of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.
How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures. For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light
shall we see light.
Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of
the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Ps 31:19 Isa 64:4 1Co 2:9,10 Ps 16:11 36:7-9 1Ti 4:8
Evening:
The Son of God, . . . hath his eyes
like unto a flame of fire.
The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately
wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, [I] try
the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and]
according to the fruit of his doings.--Thou hast set our
iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy
countenance.--The Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter
remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him,
Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went
out, and wept bitterly.
Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all
[men], and needed not that any should testify of man: for he
knew what was in man.--He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that
we [are] dust.--A bruised reed shall he not break, and the
smoking flax shall he not quench.
The Lord knoweth them that are his.--I am the good shepherd,
and know my [sheep], and am known of mine.--My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto
them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall
any [man] pluck them out of my hand.
Re 2:18 Jer 17:9,10 Ps 90:8 Lu 22:61,62 Joh 2:24,25 Ps 103:14
Isa 42:3 2Ti 2:19 Joh 10:14,27,28
05.26
Morning:
Our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep.
The chief Shepherd.--I am the good shepherd, and know my
[sheep], and am known of mine.--My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal
life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck
them out of my hand.
The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to
lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name's sake.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all.--I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life
for the sheep.--I will seek that which was lost, and bring again
that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was]
broken, and will strengthen that which was sick.--Ye were as
sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and
Bishop of your souls.
Heb 13:20 1Pe 5:4 Joh 10:14,27,28 Ps 23:1-3 Isa 53:6 Joh 10:11
Eze 34:16 1Pe 2:25
Evening:
The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon,
to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it,
and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.
I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of
the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with
me. . . . And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am
Jesus whom thou persecutest.--Jesus taketh Peter, James, and
John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain
apart, and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine
as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.--The sun
shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall
the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee
an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no
more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the
LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended.
The God of all grace, . . . hath called us unto his eternal
glory by Christ Jesus.
Re 21:23 Ac 26:13,15 Mt 17:1,2 Isa 60:19,20 1Pe 5:10
05.27
Morning:
The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;
and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his
mercy [endureth] for ever.--God [is] our refuge and strength, a
very present help in trouble.--I will say of the LORD, [He is]
my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.--Who
[is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of
thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency!--[As for]
God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he
[is] a buckler to all them that trust in him. For who [is] God,
save the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save our God?
If any man love God, the same is known of him.--The
foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord
knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the
name of Christ depart from iniquity.--The LORD knoweth the way
of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.--Thou
hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
Na 1:7 Jer 33:11 Ps 46:1 91:2 De 33:29 2Sa 22:31,32 1Co 8:3
2Ti 2:19 Ps 1:6 Ex 33:17
Evening:
I would have you without carefulness.
He careth for you.--The eyes of the LORD run to and fro
throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf
of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him.
O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man
[that] trusteth in him.--The young lions do lack, and suffer
hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good
[thing].--Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your
life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for
your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat,
and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they
sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
--Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
1Co 7:32 1Pe 5:7 2Ch 16:9 Ps 34:8,10 Mt 6:25,26 Php 4:6,7
05.28
Morning:
We look for the Saviour.
The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all
men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself
for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify
unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.--We,
according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that
ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him
in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second time without
sin unto salvation.--And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this
[is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this
[is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation.
Php 3:20 Tit 2:11-14 2Pe 3:13,14 Heb 9:28 Isa 25:9
Evening:
So run, that ye may obtain.
The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall
be slain in the streets.--Let us lay aside every weight, and the
sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with
patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the
author and finisher of [our] faith.
Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
I press toward the mark.--I . . . so run, not as uncertainly;
I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that
by any means, . . . I myself should be a castaway.
The fashion of this world passeth away.
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent.--Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to
the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
1Co 9:24 Pr 22:13 Heb 12:1,2 2Co 7:1 Php 3:14
1Co 9:26,27 7:31 2Pe 3:13,14 1Pe 1:13
05.29
Morning:
The life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement
for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh
an atonement for the soul.
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.--The blood of the Lamb.--The precious blood of Christ, as
of a lamb without blemish and without spot.--Without shedding of
blood is no remission.--The blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin.
By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption [for us].--Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for
us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. . . . Let us
draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Le 17:11 Joh 1:29 Re 7:14 1Pe 1:19 Heb 9:22 1Jo 1:7
Heb 9:12 10:19,20,22 1Co 6:20
Evening:
Oh that I had wings like a dove!
[for then] would I fly away, and be at rest.
It came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God
prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of
Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said,
[It is] better for me to die than to live.
Job spake, and said, . . . Wherefore is light given to him
that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; which
long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than
for hid treasures?--Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous:
but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save
me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.--
In all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his]
brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest
in things [pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the
sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being
tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Ps 55:6 Jon 4:8 Job 3:2,20,21 Ps 34:19 Joh 12:27 Heb 2:17,18
05.30
Morning:
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest.
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and
broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction: . . . because
strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it.--The kingdom of heaven
suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.--Labour
not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which
endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give
unto you.--Give diligence to make your calling and election
sure: for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.--So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth
for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to
obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased
from his own works, as God [did] from his.--The LORD shall be
unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Heb 4:11 Mt 7:13,14 11:12 Joh 6:27 2Pe 1:10,11 1Co 9:24,25
Heb 4:10 Isa 60:19
Evening:
Thou hearest me always.
Jesus lifted up [his] eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee
that thou hast heard me.--Father, glorify thy name. Then came
there a voice from heaven, [saying], I have both glorified [it],
and will glorify [it] again.--Lo, I come . . . to do thy will, O
God.--Not my will, but thine, be done.
As he is, so are we in this world.--This is the confidence
that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his
will, he heareth us.
Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his
commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his
sight.
Without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
He ever liveth to make intercession for them.--We have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Joh 11:42 11:41 12:28 Heb 10:7 Lu 22:42 1Jo 4:17 5:14 3:22
Heb 11:6 7:25 1Jo 2:1
05.31
Morning:
Thy name shall be called . . . Israel: for as a prince
hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
By his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over
the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto
him.--[Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.
Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast
into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he
shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What
things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive
[them], and ye shall have [them].--If thou canst believe, all
things [are] possible to him that believeth.--Blessed [is] she
that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things
which were told her from the Lord.
Lord, Increase our faith.
Ge 32:28 Ho 12:3,4 Ro 4:20 Mr 11:22-24 9:23 Lu 1:45 17:5
Evening:
Little children, abide in him.
He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the
wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man [is] unstable
in all his ways.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not
another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert
the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have
preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are
justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.--Ye did run
well; who did hinder you?
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in
the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.--If ye abide in
me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.--For all the promises of God in him
[are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
1Jo 2:28 Jas 1:6-8 Ga 1:6-8 5:4,7 Joh 15:4,7 2Co 1:20
06.01
Morning:
The fruit of the Spirit is longsuffering, gentleness.
The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering,
and abundant in goodness and truth.
Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all
lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one
another in love.--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you.--The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and
good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.--Charity
suffereth long, [and] is kind.
In due season we shall reap, if we faint not.--Be patient
therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the
husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath
long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter
rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming
of the Lord draweth nigh.
Ga 5:22 Ex 34:6 Eph 4:1,2,32 Jas 3:17 1Co 13:4 Ga 6:9
Jas 5:7,8
Evening:
Emmanuel, . . . God with us.
Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold,
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. The Word
was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.--Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest
in the flesh.
[God] hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds.
The first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where
the disciples were assembled . . . came Jesus and stood in the
midst. . . . Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the
Lord. . . .After eight days again his disciples were within, and
Thomas with them: [then] came Jesus, the doors being shut, and
stood in the midst, and said, Peace [be] unto you. Then saith he
to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and
reach hither thy hand, and thrust [it] into my side: and be not
faithless, but believing. And Thomas . . . said unto him, My
Lord and my God.--Unto us a son is given: The mighty God.
Mt 1:23 2Ch 6:18 Joh 1:14 1Ti 3:16 Heb 1:2 Joh 20:19,20,26-28
Isa 9:6
06.02
Morning:
Thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, . . .
and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover.
Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest.--Here
have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.--There
remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Let your loins be girded about, and [your] lights burning;
and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when
he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and
knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed [are]
those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find
watching.--Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to
the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ.--[This] one thing [I do], forgetting
those things which are behind, . . . I press toward the mark for
the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us
therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.
Ex 12:11 Mic 2:10 Heb 13:14 4:9 Lu 12:35-37 1Pe 1:13
Php 3:13-15
Evening:
The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup.
Heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.--All things are
yours.--My beloved [is] mine.--The Son of God, . . . loved me,
and gave himself for me.
The LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in
their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am]
thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon
earth [that] I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart
faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion
for ever.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff
they comfort me.--I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded
that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him
against that day.
O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul
thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land.
Ps 16:5 Ro 8:17 1Co 3:21 So 2:16 Ga 2:20 Nu 18:20
Ps 73:25,26 23:4 2Ti 1:12 Ps 63:1
06.03
Morning:
Watch . . . for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.
Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this
life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare
shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole
earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be
accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to
pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For
when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they
shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children
of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night,
nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but
let us watch and be sober.
Mt 25:13 Lu 21:34-36 1Th 5:2-6
Evening:
I [am] the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for
which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count
not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do],
forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth
unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for
the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.
Grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ.--We all, with open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from
glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
These words spake Jesus, . . . I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil. . . . I in them, and thou in me, that they may be
made perfect in one.
Ge 17:1 Php 3:12-14 Ge 5:24 2Pe 3:18 2Co 3:18 Joh 17:1,15,23
06.04
Morning:
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than
of the former, . . . and in this place will I give peace.
The house [that is] to be builded for the LORD [must be]
exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all
countries.--The glory of the LORD . . . filled the LORD'S house.
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
. . . He spake of the temple of his body.--That which was made
glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory
that excelleth.--The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and truth.--God . . . hath in these
last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed
heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward men.--The Prince of Peace.--He is our peace.--The peace
of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus.
Hag 2:9 1Ch 22:5 2Ch 7:2 Joh 2:19,21 2Co 3:10 Joh 1:14
Heb 1:1,2 Lu 2:14 Isa 9:6 Eph 2:14 Php 4:7
Evening:
Let us put on the armour of light.
Put . . . on the Lord Jesus Christ. That I may win Christ,
and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is
of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is of God by faith.--The righteousness of
God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all
them that believe: for there is no difference.
He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.--I will go
in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy
righteousness, [even] of thine only.
Ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the
Lord: walk as children of light.--Have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them]. . . .
All things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for
whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith,
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ
shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly.
Ro 13:12,14 Php 3:8,9 Ro 3:22 Isa 61:10 Ps 71:16
Eph 5:8,11,13-15
06.05
Morning:
When ye shall have done all those things which
are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants.
Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of
works? Nay: but by the law of faith.--What hast thou that thou
didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou
glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?--By grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the
gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are
his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
By the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was
bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more
abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which
was with me.--For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all
things.--All things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we
given thee.
Enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight
shall no man living be justified.
Lu 17:10 Ro 3:27 1Co 4:7 Eph 2:8-10 1Co 15:10 Ro 11:36
1Ch 29:14 Ps 143:2
Evening:
He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
The LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully
made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth
right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made
in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the
earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and
in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in
continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of
them.
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?--In
him we live, and move, and have our being.--Like as a father
pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear
him.
He, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and
destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they
[were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not
again.
Ps 103:14 Ge 2:7 Ps 139:14-16 Mal 2:10 Ac 17:28
Ps 103:13 78:38,39
06.06
Morning:
He will rest in his love.
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were]
the fewest of all people: but because the LORD loved you.--We
love him, because he first loved us.--You . . . hath he
reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present
you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.--God
commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
Lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased.--Therefore doth my Father love me,
because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.--[His]
Son, . . . who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the
express image of his person, and upholding all things by the
word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat
down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Zep 3:17 De 7:7,8 1Jo 4:19 Col 1:21,22 1Jo 4:10 Ro 5:8
Mt 3:17 Joh 10:17 Heb 1:2,3
Evening:
A new and living way.
Cain went out from the presence of the LORD.--Your iniquities
have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid
[his] face from you.--Without [holiness], no man shall see the
Lord.
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ, . . . hath
abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel.
The holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the
first tabernacle was yet standing.--He is our peace, who hath
made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition
[between us].--The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the
top to the bottom.
Strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it.--Thou wilt shew me the
path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right
hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.
Heb 10:20 Ge 4:16 Isa 59:2 Heb 12:14 Joh 14:6 2Ti 1:10 Heb 9:8
Eph 2:14 Mt 27:51 7:14 Ps 16:11
06.07
Morning:
Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.
Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at
midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; for a
friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing
to set before him? And he from within shall answer and say,
Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with
me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto you, Though
he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet
because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as
he needeth.--Praying always with all prayer and supplication in
the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication for all saints.
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.--As a prince
hast thou power with God and with men.--Continue in prayer, and
watch in the same with thanksgiving.
[Jesus] went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all
night in prayer to God.
Lu 18:1 11:5-8 Eph 6:18 Ge 32:26,28 Col 4:2 Lu 6:12
Evening:
Forgive all my sins.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.--I, [even] I,
[am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,
and will not remember thy sins.
The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.--In whom
we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace.--Not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he
saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the
Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ
our Saviour.--Having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out
the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his
cross.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, . . . who forgiveth all thine
iniquities.
Ps 25:18 Isa 1:18 Mt 9:2 Isa 43:25 Mt 9:6 Eph 1:7 Tit 3:5,6
Col 2:13,14 Ps 103:2,3
06.08
Morning:
The LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in
his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy
[shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.--Trust in
the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and
verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and
he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.--Have not I
commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid,
neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee
whithersoever thou goest.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you.
As long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.--
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I
command thee this day; . . . and thou say in thine heart, My
power and the might of [mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.
[Is] not the LORD your God with you? and hath he [not] given
you rest on every side?
Ge 39:3 Ps 128:1,2 37:3,4 Jos 1:9 Mt 6:33 2Ch 26:5 De 8:11,17
1Ch 22:18
Evening:
Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now
dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the
deadness of Sara's womb: he staggered not at the promise of God
through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, [Thy] sins be
forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
--If thou canst believe, all things [are] possible to him that
believeth.
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.--Why are
ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?--Behold the
fowls of the air: . . . your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are
ye not much better than they?--Why reason ye among yourselves,
because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not . . . remember the
five loaves of the five thousand?
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.
Mr 2:8 Ro 4:19,20 Mr 2:9 9:23 Mt 28:18 Mr 4:40 Mt 6:26 16:8,9
Php 4:19
06.09
Morning:
Never man spake like this man.
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured
into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.--The
Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary. His
mouth [is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is]
my beloved, and this [is] my friend.
All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words
which proceeded out of his mouth.--For he taught them as [one]
having authority, and not as the scribes.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.--
The sword of the Spirit . . . is the word of God.--The word of
God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged
sword.--The weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty
through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down
imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ.
Joh 7:46 Ps 45:2 Isa 50:4 So 5:16 Lu 4:22 Mt 7:29 Col 3:16
Eph 6:17 Heb 4:12 2Co 10:4,5
Evening:
The triumphing of the wicked [is] short.
Thou shalt bruise his heel.--This is your hour, and the power
of darkness.--As the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through
death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is,
the devil.--Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a
shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom
resist stedfast in the faith.--Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him
with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that
his day is coming.--The God of peace shall bruise Satan under
your feet shortly.--The devil . . . was cast into the lake of
fire and brimstone, . . . and shall be tormented day and night
for ever and ever.
Job 20:5 Ge 3:15 Lu 22:53 Heb 2:14 Col 2:15 1Pe 5:8,9 Jas 4:7
Ps 37:12,13 Ro 16:20 Re 20:10
06.10
Morning:
The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country,
and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are
sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and by the Spirit of our God.--We were by nature the children of
wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in
sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are
saved;) and hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit
together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. . . . If, when we were enemies, we
were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Lu 15:13 1Co 6:11 Eph 2:3-6 1Jo 4:10 Ro 5:8,10
Evening:
As Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.
There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one
owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had
nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.--I forgave thee
all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou
also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had
pity on thee?
When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any:
that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father
which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.--Put on, . . . as
the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness,
humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one
another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel
against any.
How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
Charity, . . . is the bond of perfectness.
Col 3:13 Lu 7:41,42 Mt 18:32,33 Mr 11:25,26 Col 3:12,13
Mt 18:21,22 Col 3:14
06.11
Morning:
He arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a
great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion,
and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he
keep [his anger] for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our
sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the
heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his mercy toward
them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, [so]
far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father
pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear
him.
Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but
ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that
we are the children of God.--Ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ.--Now therefore ye are no more
strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints,
and of the household of God.
Lu 15:20 Ps 103:8-13 Ro 8:15,16 Eph 2:13,19
Evening:
Behold, I make all things new.
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
--If any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.--Purge out
therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump.--The new
man, which after God is created in righteousness and true
holiness.
Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the
LORD shall name.
Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former
shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.--[Seeing] then
[that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of
persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and
godliness?
Re 21:5 Joh 3:3 2Co 5:17 Eze 36:26 1Co 5:7 Eph 4:24
Isa 62:2 65:17 2Pe 3:11
06.12
Morning:
Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make
[it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean.
The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the
LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.--He
shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall
purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that
they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.--
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall
declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire
shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy
dross, and take away all thy tin.--I will melt them, and try
them.
Thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is
tried.--Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went
through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into
a wealthy [place].
When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.
Nu 31:23 De 13:3 Mal 3:3 1Co 3:13 Isa 1:25 Jer 9:7
Ps 66:10,12 Isa 43:2
Evening:
We, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.
Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which
is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in
the spirit of your mind; and . . . put on the new man, which
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.--As
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness of life. . . . Knowing
this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of
sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.--Likewise reckon ye also
yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as
those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as]
instruments of righteousness unto God.
1Pe 2:24 Eph 4:22-24 Col 3:3 Ro 6:4,6,7,11-13
06.13
Morning:
Abide in me, and I in you.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself for me.
I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that
which is good I find not. . . . O wretched man that I am! who
shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.--If Christ [be] in you, the body
[is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of
righteousness.--If ye continue in the faith grounded and
settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel,
which ye have heard.
Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we
may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his
coming.--He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so
to walk, even as he walked.
Joh 15:4 Ga 2:20 Ro 7:18,24,25 8:10 Col 1:23 1Jo 2:28,6
Evening:
Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe
on him?
The brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his
person.--The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and
Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light
which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can
see: to whom [be] honour and power everlasting. Amen.--I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord,
which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Lord, I believe.--I know whom I have believed, and am
persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed
unto him against that day.
Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious:
and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you
therefore which believe [he is] precious.
Joh 9:35,36 Heb 1:3 1Ti 6:15,16 Re 1:8 Joh 9:38 2Ti 1:12
1Pe 2:6,7
06.14
Morning:
As the sufferings of Christ abound in us,
so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
The fellowship of his sufferings.--Rejoice, inasmuch as ye
are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall
be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.--If we be
dead with [him], we shall also live with [him].--If children,
then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be
that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified
together.
God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an
oath: that by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible
for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have
fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.--Our
Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath
loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good
hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in
every good word and work.
2Co 1:5 Php 3:10 1Pe 4:13 2Ti 2:11 Ro 8:17 Heb 6:17,18
2Th 2:16,17
Evening:
Martha, Martha, thou art careful
and troubled about many things.
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap. . . .
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not.
. . .Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,
neither be ye of doubtful mind. . . . Your Father knoweth that
ye have need of these things.
Having food and raiment let us be therewith content. . . .
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and
[into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in
destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of
all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from
the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
The cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and
the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it
becometh unfruitful.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us.
Lu 10:41 12:24,27,29,30 1Ti 6:8-10 Mr 4:19 Heb 12:1
06.15
Morning:
The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God:
but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us.
LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither
do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for
me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is
weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.
The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he
will shew them his covenant.--There is a God in heaven that
revealeth secrets.--Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how
little a portion is heard of him?
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto
you.--If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may
abide with you for ever; [even] the Spirit of truth.
De 29:29 Ps 131:1,2 25:14 Da 2:28 Job 26:14 Joh 15:15 14:15-17
Evening:
The Spirit, . . . maketh intercession for the saints
according to [the will of] God.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the
Father in my name, he will give [it] you. Hitherto have ye asked
nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may
be full.--Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit.
This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask
any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know
that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the
petitions that we desired of him.--This is the will of God,
[even] your sanctification.
God hath . . . called us . . . unto holiness . . . who hath
also given unto us his holy Spirit.
Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give
thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning
you. Quench not the Spirit.
Ro 8:27 Joh 16:23,24 Eph 6:18 1Jo 5:14,15 1Th 4:3,7,8 5:16-19
06.16
Morning:
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools,
but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which
Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your
God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments,
and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and
with all your soul.--Walk in wisdom toward them that are
without, redeeming the time. Let your speech [be] alway with
grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to
answer every man.--Abstain from all appearance of evil.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom
cometh; go ye out to meet him.--Watch therefore, for ye know
neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election
sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.--Blessed
[are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find
watching.
Eph 5:15,16 Jos 22:5 Col 4:5,6 1Th 5:22 Mt 25:5,6,13 2Pe 1:10
Lu 12:37
Evening:
Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.--Lord, if
thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. . . . I will; be thou
clean.--Faith as a grain of mustard seed.
Cast not away . . . your confidence, which hath great
recompence of reward.--Work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and
to do of [his] good pleasure.
First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in
the ear.--Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the
LORD.--The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent
take it by force.--So run, that ye may obtain.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I
have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall
give me at that day.
Re 3:11 Mt 9:21 Mt 8:2,3 17:20 Heb 10:35 Php 2:12,13 Mr 4:28
Ho 6:3 Mt 11:12 1Co 9:24 2Ti 4:7,8
06.17
Morning:
In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God.
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my
supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,
therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen
[do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much
speaking.--The Spirit . . . helpeth our infirmities: for we know
not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself
maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy
hands, without wrath and doubting.--Praying always with all
prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto
with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth
as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for
them of my Father which is in heaven.
Php 4:6 Ps 116:1,2 Mt 6:7 Ro 8:26 1Ti 2:8 Eph 6:18 Mt 18:19
Evening:
All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD;
and thy saints shall bless thee.
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless]
his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits.--I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise
[shall] continually [be] in my mouth.--Every day will I bless
thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips
shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will
lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as
[with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with
joyful lips.
My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in
God my Saviour.
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and
power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure
they are and were created.
Ps 145:10 103:1,2 34:1 145:2 63:3-5 Lu 1:46,47 Re 4:11
06.18
Morning:
Thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark;
and there I will meet with thee.
The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest.--
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain
from the top to the bottom.
Having . . . brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
. . . Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water.--Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find
grace to help in time of need.
Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation
[mercy seat] through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through
the forbearance of God.--Through him we both have access by one
Spirit unto the Father.
Ex 25:21,22 Heb 9:8 Mt 27:50,51 Heb 10:19,20,22 4:16
Ro 3:24,25 Eph 2:18
Evening:
Faith as a grain of mustard seed.
Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go:
but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go.--God
subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children
of Israel.--Gideon . . . feared his father's household, and the
men of the city, that he could not do [it] by day, . . . did
[it] by night. Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by
mine hand, as thou hast said, . . . let me prove, I pray thee.
. . . And God did so.
Thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast
not denied my name.--Who hath despised the day of small things?
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly.--Lord,
increase our faith.--I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall
grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His
branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive
tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Mt 17:20 Jud 4:8,23 6:27,36,39,40 Re 3:8 Zec 4:10 2Th 1:3
Lu 17:5 Ho 14:5,6
06.19
Morning:
Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
--There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that
defileth.--[There is] no spot in thee.
Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy.--As
obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the
former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you
is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it
is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on the
Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to
every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in
fear.--Put off concerning the former conversation the old man,
which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be
renewed in the spirit of your mind; and . . . put on the new
man, which after God is created in righteousness and true
holiness.--He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in
love.
Heb 12:14 Joh 3:3 Re 21:27 So 4:7 Le 19:2 1Pe 1:14-17
Eph 4:22-24 1:4
Evening:
Gold tried in the fire.
There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands,
for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an
hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters,
and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in
the world to come eternal life.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you.--Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much
more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried
with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at
the appearing of Jesus Christ.
The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make
you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].--In the world
ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome
the world.
Re 3:18 Mr 10:29,30 1Pe 4:12 1:6,7 5:10 Joh 16:33
06.20
Morning:
Take this child away, and nurse it for me,
and I will give [thee] thy wages.
Go ye . . . into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will
give you.--Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in
my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he
shall not lose his reward.--The liberal soul shall be made fat:
and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.--God [is]
not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, . . . in
that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own
labour.
Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or
thirsty, and gave [thee] drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and
took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]? . . . Inasmuch as
ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done [it] unto me.--Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Ex 2:9 Mt 20:4 Mr 9:41 Pr 11:25 Heb 6:10 1Co 3:8
Mt 25:37,38,40,34
Evening:
Thou compassest my path and my lying down.
Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD
is in this place; and I knew [it] not. And he was afraid, and
said, How dreadful [is] this place! this [is] none other but
the house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven.
The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole
earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart
[is] perfect toward him.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD,
only makest me dwell in safety.
Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even]
the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee,
neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall
give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
--When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou
shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.--So he giveth his
beloved sleep.
Ps 139:3 Ge 28:16,17 2Ch 16:9 Ps 4:8 91:9-11 Pr 3:24 Ps 127:2
06.21
Morning:
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow his steps.
Even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.--Whosoever of
you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Jesus of Nazareth . . . went about doing good.--Bear ye one
another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
The meekness and gentleness of Christ.--In lowliness of mind
let each esteem other better than themselves.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.--Be ye
kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even
as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to
walk, even as he walked.--Looking unto Jesus the author and
finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the
right hand of the throne of God.
1Pe 2:21 Mr 10:45,44 Ac 10:38 Ga 6:2 2Co 10:1 Php 2:3
Lu 23:34 Eph 4:32 1Jo 2:6 Heb 12:2
Evening:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs
before their enemies! . . . And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get
thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? Israel hath
sinned, . . . for they have even taken of the accursed thing,
. . . and they have put [it] even among their own stuff.
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your
iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear
[me].
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we
confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are
pleasing in his sight.
So 5:6 Jos 7:8,10,11 Isa 59:1,2 Ps 66:18 1Jo 3:21,22
06.22
Morning:
Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
--I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself for me.--He died for all, that they which live
should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which
died for them, and rose again.--If any man [be] in Christ, [he
is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new.
We are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ.--
As thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may
be one in us.--Ye are the body of Christ, and members in
particular.--Because I live, ye shall live also.
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden
manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new
name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth
[it].
Col 3:3 Ro 6:2 Ga 2:20 2Co 5:15,17 1Jo 5:20 Joh 17:21
1Co 12:27 Joh 14:19 Re 2:17
Evening:
Behold how he loved.
He died for all.--Greater love hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends.
He . . . liveth to make intercession for them.--I go to
prepare a place for you.
I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I
am, [there] ye may be also.--Father, I will that they also,
whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.--Having loved
his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
We love him, because he first loved us.--The love of Christ
constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for
all, then were all dead: and [that] he died for all, that they
which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto
him which died for them, and rose again.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even
as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 11:36 2Co 5:15 Joh 15:13 Heb 7:25 Joh 14:2,3 17:24 13:1
1Jo 4:19 2Co 5:14,15 Joh 15:10
06.23
Morning:
I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, . . . [even] the Spirit of truth.
It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away,
the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will
send him unto you.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we
are the children of God.--Ye have not received the spirit of
bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.--The Spirit . . .
helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for
as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered.
The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
--Hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he
hath given us of his Spirit.
Joh 14:16,17 16:7 Ro 8:16,15,26 15:13 5:5 1Jo 4:13
Evening:
Shall I not seek rest for thee,
that it may be well with thee?
There remaineth . . . a rest to the people of God.--My people
shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places.--There the wicked cease [from]
troubling; and there the weary be at rest.--They . . . rest from
their labours.
The forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high
priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for
I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.--In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
confidence shall be your strength.
The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to
lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
waters.
Ru 3:1 Heb 4:9 Isa 32:18 Job 3:17 Re 14:13 Heb 6:20
Mt 11:28-30 Isa 30:15 Ps 23:1,2
06.24
Morning:
The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them
. . . to search out a resting place for them.
My times [are] in thy hand.--He shall choose our inheritance
for us.--Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness; . . . make thy
way straight before my face.
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
bring [it] to pass.--In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he
shall direct thy paths.--Thine ears shall hear a word behind
thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to
the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to
lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
waters.--Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD
pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he
remembereth that we [are] dust.--Your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have need of all these things.--Casting all your care
upon him; for he careth for you.
Nu 10:33 Ps 31:15 47:4 5:8 37:5 Pr 3:6 Isa 30:21
Ps 23:1,2 103:13,14 Mt 6:32 1Pe 5:7
Evening:
Master, where dwellest thou?
He saith unto them, Come and see.
In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not
[so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be
also.--To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my
throne.
Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with
him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive
the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the
contrite ones.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup
with him, and he with me.
Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.--
How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Joh 1:38,39 Joh 14:2,3 Re 3:21 Isa 57:15 Re 3:20 Mt 28:20
Ps 36:7
06.25
Morning:
When he shall appear, we shall be like him;
for we shall see him as he is.
As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the
sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name.--Whereby
are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:
now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am
known.--Christ . . . shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working
whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.--As
for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
1Jo 3:2 Joh 1:12 2Pe 1:4 Isa 64:4 1Co 13:12 Php 3:20,21
Ps 17:15
Evening:
The man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts.
In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.--I
have laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one]
chosen out of the people.--I have trodden the winepress alone;
and of the people [there was] none with me.
Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the
flesh.--Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
The brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when
he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of
the Majesty on high.--Unto the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O
God, [is] for ever and ever.
Let all the angels of God worship him.
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Zec 13:7 Col 2:9 Ps 89:19 Isa 63:3 1Ti 3:16 Isa 9:6
He 1:3,8,6 Re 19:16
06.26
Morning:
Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, . . .
and that thou wouldest keep [me] from evil! . . .
And God granted him that which he requested.
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
sorrow with it.--When he giveth quietness, who then can make
trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him?
Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon
thy people.--How great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid
up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them
that trust in thee before the sons of men!--I pray not that thou
shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest
keep them from the evil.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that
asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened.--The LORD redeemeth the soul of his
servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
1Ch 4:10 Pr 10:22 Job 34:29 Ps 3:8 Ps 31:19 Joh 17:15
Mt 7:7,8 Ps 34:22
Evening:
It [is] a night to be much observed unto the LORD
for bringing them out from the land of Egypt.
The Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took
bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said,
Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
remembrance of me. After the same manner also [he took] the cup,
when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my
blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink [it], in remembrance of
me.
He . . . kneeled down, and prayed. . . . And being in an
agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were
great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
It was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth
hour: . . . they took Jesus, and led [him] away; . . . into a
place called Golgotha: where they crucified him.
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us
keep the feast.
Ex 12:42 1Co 11:23-25 Lu 22:41,44 Joh 19:14,16-18 1Co 5:7,8
06.27
Morning:
Who shall be able to stand?
Who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when
he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like
fullers' soap.
I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could
number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white
robes, and palms in their hands.--These are they which came out
of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb. . . . They shall hunger no more,
neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of
waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.--Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free.
Re 6:17 Mal 3:2 Re 7:9,14,16,17 Ro 8:1 Ga 5:1
Evening:
Enter not into judgment with thy servant:
for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace
with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.--Acquaint now
thyself with him, and be at peace.
Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.--A man is not justified by the works of the
law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.--By the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified in his sight.
By him all that believe are justified from all things, from
which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Ps 143:2 Isa 1:18 27:5 Job 22:21 Ro 5:1 Ga 2:16 Ro 3:20
Ac 13:39 1Co 15:57
06.28
Morning:
I know [that] my redeemer liveth.
If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the
death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved
by his life.--This [man], because he continueth ever, hath an
unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them
to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever
liveth to make intercession for them.
Because I live, ye shall live also.--If in this life only we
have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now
is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of
them that slept.
The Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from
transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.--We have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the
riches of his grace.--Ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation
[received] by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Job 19:25 Ro 5:10 Heb 7:24,25 Joh 14:19 1Co 15:19,20
Isa 59:20 Eph 1:7 1Pe 1:18,19
Evening:
The Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.
Take heed therefore how ye hear.--Let the word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all wisdom.--Above all, taking the shield
of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery
darts of the wicked.
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall
offend them.--How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea,
sweeter] than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get
understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
--I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy
testimonies [are] my meditation.
Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.--But
though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed.
1Ti 4:1 Lu 8:18 Col 3:16 Eph 6:16 Ps 119:165,103,104,105,99
2Co 11:14 Ga 1:8
06.29
Morning:
His commandments are not grievous.
This is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.
--Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his
commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his
sight.
My yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.--If ye love me,
keep my commandments.--He that hath my commandments, and keepeth
them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be
loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest
myself to him.
Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that]
getteth understanding.--Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and
all her paths [are] peace.--Great peace have they which love thy
law: and nothing shall offend them.--I delight in the law of God
after the inward man.
This is his commandment, That we should believe on the name
of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.--Love worketh no
ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the
law.
1Jo 5:3 Joh 6:40 1Jo 3:22 Mt 11:30 Joh 14:15,21 Pr 3:13,17
Ps 119:165 Ro 7:22 1Jo 3:23 Ro 13:10
Evening:
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,
and, as a cloud, thy sins.--I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth
out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember
thy sins.--Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.--I will
remember their sin no more.--Thou wilt cast all their sins into
the depths of the sea.
Thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of
corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.--Who
[is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity? . . . he
retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in]
mercy.--Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in
his own blood.
Ps 25:7 Isa 44:22 43:25 1:18 Jer 31:34 Mic 7:19 Is 38:17
Mic 7:18 Re 1:5
06.30
Morning:
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor
faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.--For whom
the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in
whom] he delighteth.--He maketh sore, and bindeth up: he
woundeth, and his hands make whole.--Humble yourselves therefore
under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
--I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
--He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us
according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the
earth, [so] great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far
as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our
transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth [his] children,
[so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our
frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
Re 3:19 Heb 12:5,6 Pr 3:12 Job 5:18 1Pe 5:6 Isa 48:10 La 3:33
Ps 103:10-14
Evening:
God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth:
therefore let thy words be few.
When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]:
for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
They . . . called on the name of Baal from morning even
until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee,
and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus
with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men
[are], extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this
publican. . . . And the publican, standing afar off, would not
lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his
breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this
man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other.
Lord, teach us to pray.
Ec 5:2 Mt 6:7,8 1Ki 18:26 Lu 18:10,11,13,14 Lu 11:1
07.01
Morning:
The fruit of the Spirit is . . . goodness.
Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children.--Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate
you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute
you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in
heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the
good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.--Be ye
therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
The fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and
righteousness and truth.
After that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward
man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; ehich he shed on
us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.--The LORD [is]
good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over all his works.--
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all,
how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Ga 5:22 Eph 5:1 Mt 5:44,45 Lu 6:36 Eph 5:9 Tit 3:4-6
Ps 145:9 Ro 8:32
Evening:
Ebenezer, . . . Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
I was brought low, and he helped me.--Blessed [be] the LORD,
because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. The LORD
[is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I
am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my
song will I praise him.
[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
man. [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence
in princes.--Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his
help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God.--He led them forth by
the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.--
There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had
spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked
ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.--Because thou hast been my
help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
1Sa 7:12 Ps 116:6 28:6,7 118:8,9 146:5 107:7 Jos 21:45
Lu 22:35 Ps 63:7
07.02
Morning:
This [is] the ordinance of the passover:
There shall no stranger eat thereof.
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which
serve the tabernacle.--Except a man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of--God. That at that time ye were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from
the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the
world: but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, . . . having
abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of
commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself
of twain one new man, [so] making peace.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.
If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in
to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Ex 12:43 Heb 13:10 Joh 3:3 Eph 2:12-15,19 Re 3:20
Evening:
[Jesus] prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Who in the days of his flesh, . . . offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was
able to save him from death.
Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD.--
Continuing instant in prayer.--Praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication.--By prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the
peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].--This is the
confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing
according to his will, he heareth us.
Delight thyself . . . in the LORD; and he shall give thee the
desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also
in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.
Mt 26:44 Heb 5:7 Hos 6:3 Ro 12:12 Eph 6:18 Php 4:6,7 Mt 26:39
1Jo 5:14 Ps 37:4,5
07.03
Morning:
If children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.
If ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,
that we should be called the sons of God.--Thou art no more a
servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through
Christ.--Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of
his will.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be
with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou
hast given me.
He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him
will I give power over the nations.--To him that overcometh will
I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame,
and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Ro 8:17 Ga 3:29 1Jo 3:1 Ga 4:7 Eph 1:5 Joh 17:24 Re 2:26 3:21
Evening:
Things which are despised, hath God chosen.
Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
Jesus, . . . saw two brethren, . . . casting a net into the
sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me.--
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived
that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and
they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
My speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of
man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in
the power of God.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.--I am the vine, ye
[are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the
same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
nothing.--We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
1Co 1:28 Ac 2:7 Mt 4:18,19 Ac 4:13 1Co 2:4,5 Joh 15:16,5
2Co 4:7
07.04
Morning:
Leaning on Jesus' bosom.
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.--
They brought young children to him, that he should touch them:
and [his] disciples rebuked those that brought [them].--And he
took them up in his arms, put [his] hands upon them, and blessed
them.--Jesus called his disciples [unto him], and said, I have
compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now
three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them
away fasting, lest they faint in the way.--An high priest . . .
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all
points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.--In his love
and in his pity he redeemed them.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.--Can a
woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet
will I not forget thee.
The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them,
and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Joh 13:23 Isa 66:13 Mr 10:13,16 Mt 15:32 Heb 4:15 Isa 63:9
Joh 14:18 Isa 49:15 Re 7:17
Evening:
Jesus Christ the righteous: . . .
the propitiation for our sins.
Toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the
ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And
there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from
above the mercy seat.
Surely his salvation [is] nigh them that fear him; . . .
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
kissed [each other].
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
stand? But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be
feared.--Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there
is] mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption. And he shall
redeem Israel from all his iniquities.--All have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God
hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins.
1Jo 2:1,2 Ex 25:20-22 Ps 85:9,10 130:3,4,7,8 Ro 3:23-25
07.05
Morning:
We have known and believed the love that God hath to us.
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he
loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised
[us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly
[places] in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew
the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us
through Christ Jesus.
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.--He that spared not his own Son, but delivered
him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things?--The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies
[are] over all his works.
We love him, because he first loved us.
Blessed [is] she that believed: for there shall be a
performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
1Jo 4:16 Eph 2:4-7 Joh 3:16 Ro 8:32 Ps 145:9 1Jo 4:19 Lu 1:45
Evening:
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
[the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.--Hath not God
chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the
kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth].--
Having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they
that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into]
many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction
and perdition.
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the
world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea],
and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
that no flesh should glory in his presence.
LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty.
Ro 12:16 Jas 2:1,5 1Co 10:24 1Ti 6:8,9 1Co 1:27-29 Ps 131:1
07.06
Morning:
Let your speech [be] alway with grace.
A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of
silver. [As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold,
[so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.--Let no corrupt
communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good
to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the
hearers.--A good man out of the good treasure of the heart
bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil
treasure bringeth forth evil things.--By thy words thou shalt be
justified.--The tongue of the wise [is] health.
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another:
and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance
was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that
thought upon his name.
If thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be
as my mouth.--Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing, in]
faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all diligence,
. . . [see] that ye abound in this grace also.
Col 4:6 Pr 25:11,12 Eph 4:29 Mt 12:35,37 Pr 12:18 Mal 3:16
Jer 15:19 2Co 8:7
Evening:
Thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes.
The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to
anger, and of great mercy.--That ye may be the children of your
Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the
evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk
in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself
for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling
savour.--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.--
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through
the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye]
love one another with a pure heart fervently.--The love of
Christ constraineth us.
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for
nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be
the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful
and [to] the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also
is merciful.
Ps 26:3 145:8 Mt 5:45 Eph 5:1,2 4:32 1Pe 1:22 2Co 5:14
Lu 6:35,36
07.07
Morning:
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the
wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
In the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was
able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author
of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.--We have not
an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet]
without sin.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to
man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].--
My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect
in weakness.
Mt 4:1 Heb 5:7-9 4:15 1Co 10:13 2Co 12:9
Evening:
The Son of man came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.--I lay down my life
for the sheep.--No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again.
The life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it
to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for
it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.--
Without shedding of blood is no remission.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more
then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from
wrath through him.
Mt 20:28 Heb 9:13,14 Isa 53:7 Joh 10:15,18 Le 17:11 Heb 9:22
Ro 5:8,9
07.08
Morning:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
[our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before
me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil
in thy sight.
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a
great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him.--I have blotted out, as a
thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins:
return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.--Your sins are
forgiven you for his name's sake.--God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you.--That he might be just, and the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be
clean.--They shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ;
not by water only, but by water and blood.
1Jo 1:9 Ps 51:3,4 Lu 15:20 Isa 44:22 1Jo 2:12 Eph 4:32
Ro 3:26 Eze 36:25 Re 3:4 1Jo 5:6
Evening:
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee?
Truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son
Jesus Christ.--Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth
not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And
every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as
he is pure.
The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.--An
high priest . . . holy, harmless, undefiled.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
[places].--The prince of the power of the air, the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience.
Whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten
of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
[And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
wickedness.
Ps 94:20 1Jo 1:3 3:2,3 Joh 14:30 Heb 7:26 Eph 6:12 2:2
1Jo 5:18,19
07.09
Morning:
I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee,
and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose]
sin [is] covered.--We are all as an unclean [thing].--I know
that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for
to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is
good I find not.
As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on
Christ.--Ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have
put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the
image of him that created him.--Not having mine own
righteousness, which is of the law, but . . . the righteousness
which is of God by faith.
Bring forth the best robe, and put [it] on him.--The fine
linen is the righteousness of saints.--I will greatly rejoice in
the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed
me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the
robe of righteousness.
Zec 3:4 Ps 32:1 Isa 64:6 Ro 7:18 Ga 3:27 Col 3:9,10 Php 3:9
Lu 15:22 Re 19:8 Isa 61:10
Evening:
The day shall declare it.
Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both
will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make
manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man
have praise of God.
Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at
nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ.
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to
God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge
this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to
fall in [his] brother's way.
God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.--The
Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the
Son. . . and hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
because he is the Son of man.
The Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, [is] his name,
great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes [are] open
upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one
according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings.
1Co 3:13 1Co 4:5 Ro 14:10,12,13 Ro 2:16 Joh 5:22,27
Jer 32:18,19
07.10
Morning:
The disciple is not above [his] master.
Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for [so] I am.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and
the servant as his lord.--If they have persecuted me, they will
also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep
yours also.--I have given them thy word; and the world hath
hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not
of the world.
Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.--Ye
have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of
[our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of
the throne of God.--Forasmuch . . . as Christ hath suffered for
us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind.
Mt 10:24 Joh 13:13 Mt 10:25 Joh 15:20 17:14 Heb 12:3,4,1,2
1Pe 4:1
Evening:
My son, give me thine heart.
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear
me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well
with them, and with their children for ever!
Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.--Because the
carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in
the flesh cannot please God.
[They] . . . first gave their own selves to the Lord.--In
every work that [Hezekiah] began . . . to seek his God, he did
[it] with all his heart, and prospered.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the
issues of life.
Whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord.--As the
servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with
good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt
enlarge my heart.
Pr 23:26 De 5:29 Ac 8:21 Ro 8:7,8 2Co 8:5 2Ch 31:21 Pr 4:23
Col 3:23 Eph 6:6,7 Ps 119:32
07.11
Morning:
I [am] with thee to save thee.
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captive delivered? But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of
the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible
shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth
with thee, and I will save thy children. And I will feed them
that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be
drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh
shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One of Jacob.--Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee:
be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee;
yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness.
We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like
as [we are, yet] without sin.--In that he himself hath suffered
being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.--
The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly
cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.
Jer 15:20 Isa 49:24-26 Isa 41:10 Heb 4:15 2:18 Ps 37:23,24
Evening:
He satisfieth the longing soul,
and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.
O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul
thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory.
--My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the
LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.--
Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far
better.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.--They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the
sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto
living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes.--They shall be abundantly satisfied with the
fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the
river of thy pleasures.--My people shall be satisfied with my
goodness, saith the LORD.
Ps 107:9 1Pe 2:3 Ps 63:1,2 84:2 Php 1:23 Ps 17:15 Re 7:16,17
Ps 36:8 Jer 31:14
07.12
Morning:
My presence shall go [with thee],
and I will give thee rest.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of
them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee;
he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. . . . The LORD, he [it
is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not
fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
--Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be
not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is]
with thee whithersoever thou goest.--In all thy ways acknowledge
him, and he shall direct thy paths.
He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So
that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not
fear what man shall do unto me.--Our sufficiency [is] of God.
Lead us not into temptation.--O LORD, I know that the way of
man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to
direct his steps.--My times [are] in thy hand.
Ex 33:14 De 31:6,8 Jos 1:9 Pr 3:6 Heb 13:5,6 2Co 3:5 Mt 6:13
Jer 10:23 Ps 31:15
Evening:
Let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works.
How forcible are right words!--I stir up your pure minds by
way of remembrance.
They that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the
LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was
written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that
thought upon his name.--If two of you shall agree on earth as
touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for
them of my Father which is in heaven.
The LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be
alone.--Two [are] better than one; because they have a good
reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up
his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for
[he hath] not another to help him up.
Let . . . no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall
in [his] brother's way.--Bear ye one another's burdens, and so
fulfil the law of Christ.--Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a
fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit
of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Heb 10:24 Job 6:25 2Pe 3:1 Mal 3:16 Mt 18:19 Ge 2:18
Ec 4:9,10 Ro 14:13 Ga 6:2,1
07.13
Morning:
I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.
I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.--
I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.--Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none
of them is lost.
The LORD taketh pleasure in his people.--My delights [were]
with the sons of men.--His great love wherewith he loved us.--
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.
Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's.--Whether we live, we
live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord:
whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
So 7:10 2Ti 1:12 Ro 8:38,39 Joh 17:12 Ps 149:4 Pr 8:31
Eph 2:4 Joh 15:13 1Co 6:20 Ro 14:8
Evening:
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD.
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they
may be as frontlets between your eyes.--This book of the law
shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate
therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according
to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way
prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall
slide.--By the word of thy lips I have kept [me from] the paths
of the destroyer.--Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I
might not sin against thee.
We have . . . a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do
well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark
place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your
hearts.--That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures
might have hope.
Isa 34:16 De 11:18 Jos 1:8 Ps 37:31 17:4 119:11 2Pe 1:19
Ro 15:4
07.14
Morning:
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the
issues of life.--Death and life [are] in the power of the
tongue.--The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his
tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God [is] in his
heart; none of his steps shall slide.--Let no corrupt
communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good
to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the
hearers.
We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
--I believed, therefore have I spoken.
Whosoever . . . shall confess me before men, him will I
confess also before my Father which is in heaven.--With the
heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
Mt 12:34 Col 3:16 Pr 4:23 18:21 Ps 37:30,31 Eph 4:29 Ac 4:20
Ps 116:10 Mt 10:32 Ro 10:10
Evening:
I trust I shall shortly see thee,
and we shall speak face to face.
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
come down!--As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so
panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God,
for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?--
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young
hart upon the mountains of spices.
Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for
the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.--Looking for that blessed
hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our
Saviour Jesus Christ.--God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ,
[which is] our hope.--Whom having not seen, ye love.
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come
quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.--It shall be said in
that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he
will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we
will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
3Jo 1:14 Isa 64:1 Ps 42:1,2 So 8:14 Php 3:20 Tit 2:13
1Ti 1:1 1Pe 1:8 Re 22:20 Isa 25:9
07.15
Morning:
Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.
Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that
do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his,
that do his pleasure.
I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the
will of him that sent me.--I delight to do thy will, O my God:
yea, thy law [is] within my heart.--O my Father, if this cup may
not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in heaven.--Not the hearers of the law [are]
just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.--
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.--To him
that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.
Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good,
and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Mt 6:10 Ps 103:20,21 Joh 6:38 Ps 40:8 Mt 26:42 7:21 Ro 2:13
Joh 13:17 Jas 4:17 Ro 12:2
Evening:
The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone
out into the world.--Judge not according to the appearance, but
judge righteous judgment.--I speak as to wise men; judge ye what
I say.--Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith.--He
that is spiritual judgeth all things.
Take heed what ye hear.--I know thy works, . . . and how
. . . thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are
not, and hast found them liars.--Prove all things; hold fast
that which is good.
He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And
when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and
the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger
will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not
the voice of strangers.
Job 34:3 1Jo 4:1 Joh 7:24 1Co 10:15 Col 3:16 Re 2:29
1Co 2:15 Mr 4:24 Re 2:2 1Th 5:21 Joh 10:3-5
07.16
Morning:
Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests,
and an holy nation.
Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out
of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast
made us unto our God kings and priests.--Ye [are] a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath
called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call
you the Ministers of our God.--Priests of God and of Christ.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ
Jesus.--By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to
God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks
to his name.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them.--The temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.
Ex 19:6 Re 5:9,10 1Pe 2:9 Isa 61:6 Re 20:6 Heb 3:1 13:15
Eph 2:10 1Co 3:17
Evening:
We made our prayer unto our God,
and set a watch against them.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.--Continue
in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.--Casting all
your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be
vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast
in the faith.
Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
say?--Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
your own selves.
Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of
Israel, that they go forward.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Neh 4:9 Mt 26:41 Col 4:2 1Pe 5:7-9 Lu 6:46 Jas 1:22 Ex 14:15
Php 4:6,7
07.17
Morning:
Thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger,
and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according
as thou hast spoken, saying, The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of
great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no
means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
[generation].
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender
mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Help
us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and
deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.--O
LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for
thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned
against thee.--We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the
iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
stand? But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be
feared.
Jon 4:2 Nu 14:17,18 Ps 79:8,9 Jer 14:7,20 Ps 130:3,4
Evening:
Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my
garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out.
Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly
sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing
of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea,
[what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge!--
Fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and
truth; proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
The Father . . . shall give you another Comforter.--The love
of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is
given unto us.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.
In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and
their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing
to every man severally as he will.
2Th 2:13 So 4:16 2Co 7:11 Eph 5:9,10 Joh 14:16 Ro 5:5 Ga 5:22
2Co 8:2 1Co 12:11
07.18
Morning:
He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The
Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth
the name of Christ depart from iniquity.--Many will say to me in
that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in
thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew
you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.--The LORD knoweth
the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall
perish.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy
walls [are] continually before me.--Set me as a seal upon thine
heart, as a seal upon thine arm.--The LORD [is] good, a strong
hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in
him.
I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
Joh 10:3 2Ti 2:19 Mt 7:22,23 Ps 1:6 Isa 49:16 So 8:6 Na 1:7
Joh 14:2,3
Evening:
She hath done what she could.
This poor widow hath cast in more than they all.--Whosoever
shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye
belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his
reward.--If there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted
according to that a man hath, [and] not according to that he
hath not.
Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and
in truth.--If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of
daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be
[ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those
things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?--
But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart,
[so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God
loveth a cheerful giver.
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things
which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we
have done that which was our duty to do.
Mr 14:8 Lu 21:3 Mr 9:41 2Co 8:12 1Jo 3:18 Jas 2:15,16
2Co 9:6,7 Lu 17:10
07.19
Morning:
He that is mighty hath done to me great things;
and holy [is] his name.
Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is]
like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing
wonders?--Among the gods [there is] none like unto thee, O Lord;
neither [are there any works] like unto thy works.--Who shall
not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for [thou] only
[art] holy.--Hallowed be thy name.
Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and
redeemed his people,
Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in
the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save.--I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I
have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above
all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in
us, . . . [be] glory.
Lu 1:49 Ex 15:11 Ps 86:8 Re 15:4 Mt 6:9 Lu 1:68 Isa 63:1
Ps 89:19 Eph 3:20,21
Evening:
The dew of Hermon.
Mount Sion, which [is] Hermon.--There the LORD commanded the
blessing, [even] life for evermore.--I will be as the dew unto
Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as
Lebanon.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as
the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the
showers upon the grass.--As the rain cometh down, and the snow
from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the
sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it
shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in
the thing] whereto I sent it.
God giveth not the Spirit by measure [unto him].--And of his
fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.--[It is] like
the precious ointment upon the head, . . . [even] Aaron's . . .
that went down to the skirts of his garments.
Ps 133:3 De 4:48 Ps 133:3 Ho 14:5 De 32:2 Isa 55:10,11
Joh 3:34 1:16 Ps 133:2
07.20
Morning:
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief.--In the world ye shall have tribulation:
but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners.--That ye may be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation.
Jesus of Nazareth . . . who went about doing good, and
healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with
him.--As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all
[men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
[That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that
cometh into the world.--Ye are the light of the world. A city
that is set on an hill cannot be hid. . . . Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify
your Father which is in heaven.
Joh 17:16 Isa 53:3 Joh 16:33 Heb 7:26 Php 2:15 Ac 10:38
Ga 6:10 Joh 1:9 Mt 5:14,16
Evening:
He that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.
The joy of the LORD is your strength.--The kingdom of God is
not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the
Holy Ghost.--Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making
melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all
things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
By him . . . let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to
his name.
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall]
fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and
the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from
the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: yet I will
rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.--
Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.--We glory in tribulations also.
Pr 15:15 Ne 8:10 Ro 14:17 Eph 5:18-20 Heb 13:15 Hab 3:17,18
2Co 6:10 Ro 5:3
07.21
Morning:
What profit [is there] of circumcision?
Much every way.--Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take
away the foreskins of your heart.--If then their uncircumcised
hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of
their iniquity: then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and
also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham
will I remember.
Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth
of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers.--In
whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without
hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ.--You, being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with
him, having forgiven you all trespasses.
Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which
is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in
the spirit of your mind; and . . . put on the new man, which
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Ro 3:1,2 Jer 4:4 Le 26:41,42 Ro 15:8 Col 2:11,13 Eph 4:22-24
Evening:
The veil of the temple was rent in twain
from the top to the bottom.
The Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took
bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said,
Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
remembrance of me.--The bread that I will give is my flesh,
which I will give for the life of the world.
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his
blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at
the last day. . . . He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my
blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath
sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he
shall live by me. . . . When Jesus knew in himself that his
disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend
you? [What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where
he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing.
A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us,
through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. . . .Let us draw
near.
Mt 27:51 1Co 11:23,24 Joh 6:51,53,54,56,57,61-63 Heb 10:20,22
07.22
Morning:
In that he died, he died unto sin once:
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
He was numbered with the transgressors.--Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many.--Who his own self bare our
sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins,
should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
--By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified.
This [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable
priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the
uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to
make intercession for them.--While we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Forasmuch . . . as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath
suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer
should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of
men, but to the will of God.
Ro 6:10 Isa 53:12 Heb 9:28 1Pe 2:24 Heb 10:14 7:24,25
Ro 5:8,9 1Pe 4:1,2
Evening:
Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye
abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that
abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye can do nothing.
The fruit of the Spirit is love.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so
shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I
loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments,
ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's
commandments, and abide in his love.--Whoso keepeth his word, in
him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we
are in him.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have
loved you.--God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us.--God is love; and he that
dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Jude 1:21 Joh 15:4,5 Ga 5:22 Joh 15:8-10 1Jo 2:5 Joh 15:12
Ro 5:8 1Jo 4:16
07.23
Morning:
Then [cometh] the end.
Of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
--And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.--The Lord is
not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.--The coming of
the Lord draweth nigh. . . . The judge standeth before the door.
--Surely I come quickly.
[Seeing] . . . [that] all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy
conversation and godliness.
The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and
watch unto prayer.--Let your loins be girded about, and [your]
lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for
their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he
cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
1Co 15:24 Mr 13:32,33,37 2Pe 3:9 Jas 5:8,9 Re 22:20 2Pe 3:11
1Pe 4:7 Lu 12:35,36
Evening:
Brethren, pray for us.
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the
church; and let them pray over him. . . . And the prayer of
faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.
. . . Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man
subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that
it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space
of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the
heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication for all saints;
Without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.--
Always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand
perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1Th 5:25 Jas 5:14-18 Eph 6:18 Ro 1:9 Col 4:12
07.24
Morning:
Patient in tribulation.
It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.--Whom,
though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would
make supplication to my judge.--The LORD gave, and the LORD hath
taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.--What? shall we
receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
Jesus wept.--A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.--Now no chastening for the present seemeth to
be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby.--Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious
power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.--In
the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I
have overcome the world.
Ro 12:12 1Sa 3:18 Job 9:15 1:21 2:10 Joh 11:35 Isa 53:3,4
Heb 12:6,11 Col 1:11 Joh 16:33
Evening:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
Have faith in God. . . . Whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and
shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those
things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have
whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things
soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them],
and ye shall have [them].--Without faith [it is] impossible to
please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
He that had received the promises offered up his only
begotten [son], of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy
seed be called: accounting that God [was] able to raise [him]
up, even from the dead.--Being fully persuaded that, what he had
promised, he was able also to perform.
Is any thing too hard for the LORD?--With God all things are
possible.--Lord, Increase our faith.
Ro 4:20 Mr 11:22-24 Heb 11:6,17-19 Ro 4:21 Ge 18:14 Mt 19:26
Lu 17:5
07.25
Morning:
We know that we have passed from death unto life.
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but
is passed from death unto life.--He that hath the Son hath life;
[and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed
us, [is] God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of
the Spirit in our hearts.--Hereby we know that we are of the
truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. . . . Beloved, if
our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God.
--We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
wickedness.
You [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and
sins.--Quickened . . . together with Christ.--Who hath delivered
us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the
kingdom of his dear Son.
1Jo 3:14 Joh 5:24 1Jo 5:12 2Co 1:21,22 1Jo 3:19,21 5:19
Eph 2:1,5 Col 1:13
Evening:
Thou wilt shew me the path of life.
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of
life, and the way of death.--I will teach you the good and the
right way.--I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me.--Follow me.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof [are] the ways of death.--Wide [is] the gate, and broad
[is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be
which go in thereat: because strait [is] the gate, and narrow
[is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that
find it.
An highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called
The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it
[shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not
err [therein].--Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know
the LORD.
In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not
[so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Ps 16:11 Jer 21:8 1Sa 12:23 Joh 14:6 Mt 4:19 Pr 14:12
Mt 7:13,14 Isa 35:8 Ho 6:3 Joh 14:2
07.26
Morning:
By faith Abraham, . . . called to go out into a place
which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed.
He shall choose our inheritance for us.--He led him about, he
instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle
stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: [so]
the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with
him.
I [am] the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go.--Who teacheth
like him?
We walk by faith, not by sight.--Here have we no continuing
city, but we seek one to come.--Dearly beloved, I beseech [you]
as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war
against the soul.--Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not
[your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you],
even with a sore destruction.
Heb 11:8 Ps 47:4 De 32:10-12 Isa 48:17 Job 36:22 2Co 5:7
Heb 13:14 1Pe 2:11 Mic 2:10
Evening:
Give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
The heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more
abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like
water?--Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less
man, [that is] a worm?
Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is]
like thee, glorious in holiness.--Holy, holy, holy, [is] the
LORD of hosts.
As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all
manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I
am holy.--Partakers of his holiness.
The temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.--What
manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation
and godliness, . . . without spot, and blameless.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but
that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister
grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Ps 97:12 Job 15:15,16 25:5,6 Ex 15:11 Isa 6:3 1Pe 1:15,16
Heb 12:10 1Co 3:17 2Pe 3:11,14 Eph 4:29,30
07.27
Morning:
Christ, who is the image of God.
The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see [it] together.--No man hath seen God at any time; the only
begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared [him].--And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among
us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father,) full of grace and truth.--He that hath seen me
hath seen the Father.--The brightness of [his] glory, and the
express image of his person.--God was manifest in the flesh.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the
forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of every creature.--Whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he
might be the firstborn among many brethren.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also
bear the image of the heavenly.
2Co 4:4 Isa 40:5 Joh 1:18,14 14:9 Heb 1:3 1Ti 3:16 Col 1:14,15
Ro 8:29 1Co 15:49
Evening:
Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle.
When I am weak, then am I strong.
Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is]
nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that
have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and
in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our
God; let not man prevail against thee.--Jehoshaphat cried out,
and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from
him.
[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
man. [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence
in princes.--There is no king saved by the multitude of an host:
a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. An horse [is] a
vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver [any] by his
great strength.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
[places]. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God.
Ps 18:39 2Co 12:10 2Ch 14:11 18:31 Ps 118:8,9 33:16,17
Eph 6:12,13
07.28
Morning:
Walk in love.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another;
as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.--Above all
things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall
cover the multitude of sins.--Love covereth all sins.
When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any:
that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses.--Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping
for nothing again.--Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and
let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.--Not rendering
evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise
blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should
inherit a blessing.--If it be possible, as much as lieth in you,
live peaceably with all men.--Be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's
sake hath forgiven you.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in
tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Eph 5:2 Joh 13:34 1Pe 4:8 Pr 10:12 Mr 11:25 Lu 6:35 Pr 24:17
1Pe 3:9 Ro 12:18 Eph 4:32 1Jo 3:18
Evening:
Let your requests be made known unto God.
Abba, Father, all things [are] possible unto thee; take away
this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou
wilt.--There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger
of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart
from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee:
for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly
therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities.
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my
trouble.--Hannah . . . [was] in bitterness of soul, and prayed
unto the LORD, and wept sore. And she vowed a vow, and said, O
LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of
thine handmaid, . . . and wilt give unto thine handmaid a man
child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his
life. . . . The LORD remembered her.
We know not what we should pray for as we ought.--He shall
choose our inheritance for us.
Php 4:6 Mr 14:36 2Co 12:7-9 Ps 142:2 1Sa 1:9-11,19 Ro 8:26
Ps 47:4
07.29
Morning:
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,
that thou wouldest come down.
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a
young hart upon the mountains of spices.--We ourselves groan
within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the
redemption of our body.--Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down:
touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
--Unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time
without sin unto salvation.--It shall be said in that day, Lo,
this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us:
this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation.
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come
quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.--That blessed hope,
. . . the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour
Jesus Christ.--Our conversation is in heaven.
Isa 64:1 So 8:14 Ro 8:23 Ps 144:5 Ac 1:11 Heb 9:28 Isa 25:9
Re 22:20 Tit 2:13 Php 3:20
Evening:
Thou hast given [me] the heritage
of those that fear thy name.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and
every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the
LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD.--The
angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and
delivereth them. O taste and see that the LORD [is] good:
blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye
his saints: for [there is] no want to them that fear him. The
young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the
LORD shall not want any good [thing].--The lines are fallen unto
me in pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow
up as calves of the stall.--He that spared not his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things?
Ps 61:5 Isa 54:17 Ps 34:7-10 16:6 Mal 4:2 Ro 8:32
07.30
Morning:
Seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Get wisdom, get understanding.--The wisdom that is from
above.--The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith,
[It is] not with me.--We are buried with him by baptism into
death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the
glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of
life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of
his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his]
resurrection.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us.--God . . . hath quickened us together with
Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised [us] up
together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in
Christ Jesus.
They that say such things declare plainly that they seek a
country.--Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have
wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness.
Col 3:1 Pr 4:5 Jas 3:17 Job 28:14 Ro 6:4,5 Heb 12:1
Eph 2:4-6 Heb 11:14 Zep 2:3
Evening:
Nicodemus . . . he that came to Jesus by night.
Peter followed him afar off.--Among the chief rulers also
many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not
confess [him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for
they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.--The
fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the
LORD shall be safe.
Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.--A bruised
reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not
quench.--Faith as a grain of mustard seed.
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and
of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of
the testimony of our Lord.--Little children, abide in him; that,
when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed
before him at his coming.--Whosoever . . . shall confess me
before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in
heaven.
Joh 7:50 Mt 26:58 Joh 12:42,43 Pr 29:25 Joh 6:37 Isa 42:3
Mt 17:20 2Ti 1:7,8 1Jo 2:28 Mt 10:32
07.31
Morning:
Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a
leader and commander to the people.--It became him, for whom
[are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many
sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect
through sufferings.--We must through much tribulation enter into
the kingdom of God.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
[places]. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God.--We
do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare
[are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds).
The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make
you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
2Ti 2:3 Isa 55:4 Heb 2:10 Ac 14:22 Eph 6:12,13 2Co 10:3,4
1Pe 5:10
Evening:
The unity of the Spirit.
[There is] one body, and one Spirit.--Through him we both
have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are
no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the
saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner [stone]; in whom all the building fitly
framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom
ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through
the Spirit.
Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to
dwell together in unity! [It is] like the precious ointment upon
the head, that ran down upon the beard, [even] Aaron's beard:
that went down to the skirts of his garments.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth
through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see
that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently.
Eph 4:3,4 2:18-22 Ps 133:1,2 1Pe 1:22
08.01
Morning:
The fruit of the Spirit is . . faith.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: [it is] the gift of God.--Without faith [it is]
impossible to please [him].--He that believeth on him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already,
because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten
Son of God.--Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God
perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.--Faith which
worketh by love.--Faith without works is dead?
We walk by faith, not by sight.--I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the
life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.--Whom having
not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet
believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your]
souls.
Ga 5:22 Eph 2:8 Heb 11:6 Joh 3:18 Mr 9:24 1Jo 2:5 Ga 5:6
Jas 2:20 2Co 5:7 Ga 2:20 1Pe 1:8,9
Evening:
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD
pitieth them that fear him.--The LORD [is] gracious and full of
compassion. He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will
ever be mindful of his covenant.
He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that
keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.--As an eagle
stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: [So]
the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with
him.
His compassions fail not. [They are] new every morning: great
[is] thy faithfulness.
Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved
with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.--The same
yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
The very hairs of your head are all numbered. . . . Are not
two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall
on the ground without your Father. . . . Fear ye not therefore.
Jas 5:11 Ps 103:13 111:4,5 121:3,4 De 32:11,12 La 3:22,23
Mt 14:14 Heb 13:8 Mt 10:30,29,31
08.02
Morning:
The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year:
. . . and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall
kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and
strike [it] on the two side posts and on the upper door post of
the houses, wherein they shall eat it. . . . and when I see the
blood, I will pass over you.--The blood of sprinkling.--Christ
our passover is sacrificed for us.--Being delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.--According to his
own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before
the world began.
We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins.
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath
suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer
should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of
men, but to the will of God.
Re 13:8 Ex 12:5-7,13 Heb 12:24 1Co 5:7 Ac 2:23 2Ti 1:9
Eph 1:7 1Pe 4:1,2
Evening:
I have trodden the winepress alone.
Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is]
like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing
wonders?--He saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that
[there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation
unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.--Who his own
self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.--Being made a
curse for us.
O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous
things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the
victory.--Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a
shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.--He shall see
of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall
bear their iniquities.
O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.--We are more than
conquerors through him that loved us.--They overcame . . . by
the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.
Isa 63:3 Ex 15:11 Isa 59:16 1Pe 2:24 Ga 3:13 Ps 98:1 Col 2:15
Isa 53:11 Jud 5:21 Ro 8:37 Re 12:11
08.03
Morning:
His mercy [is] on them that fear him.
[Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for
them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that
trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in
the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt
keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons
judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your
sojourning [here] in fear.--The LORD [is] nigh unto all them
that call upon him, . . . in truth. He will fulfil the desire of
them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save
them.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself
before the LORD, . . . and hast rent thy clothes, and wept
before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.--To this
[man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a
contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.--The LORD [is] nigh
unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a
contrite spirit.
Lu 1:50 Ps 31:19,20 1Pe 1:17 Ps 145:18,19 2Ki 22:19 Isa 66:2
Ps 34:18
Evening:
Them that honour me I will honour.
Whosoever . . . shall confess me before men, him will I
confess also before my Father which is in heaven.--He that
loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he
that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not
worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he
that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
promised to them that love him.
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. . . . Be
thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for
us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory.--Praise
and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
1Sa 2:30 Mt 10:32,37-39 Jas 1:12 Re 2:10 2Co 4:17 1Pe 1:7
08.04
Morning:
It is finished:
and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith.--I have
glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou
gavest me to do.--We are sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once [for all]. And every priest standeth
daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had
offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right
hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made
his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever
them that are sanctified.--Blotting out the handwriting of
ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and
took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,
that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay
it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power
to take it again.--Greater love hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 19:30 Heb 12:2 Joh 17:4 Heb 10:10-14 Col 2:14
Joh 10:17,18 15:13
Evening:
He sent from above, he took me,
he drew me out of many waters.
He brought me up . . . out of an horrible pit, out of the
miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my
goings.--You [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses
and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course
of this world. . . . We all had our conversation in times past
in the lusts of our flesh.
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of
the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed.--
Out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas;
and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves
passed over me.--We went through fire and through water: but
thou broughtest us out into a wealthy [place].
When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.
Ps 18:16 40:2 Eph 2:1-3 Ps 61:1,2 Jon 2:2,3 Ps 66:12 Isa 43:2
08.05
Morning:
Walk in newness of life.
As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and
to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members
servants to righteousness unto holiness.--I beseech you, . . .
brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your
reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
If any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold, all things are become new.--In Christ
Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk
according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy.--This I
say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk
not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.--But ye
have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and
have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.--Put on the
new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true
holiness.
Ro 6:4,19 12:1,2 2Co 5:17 Ga 6:15,16 Eph 4:17,20,21,24
Evening:
Thy will be done.
O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it
is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.--Not as I will,
but as thou [wilt].--Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,
as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a
weaned child.
We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what
[is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for
the saints according to [the will of] God.
Ye know not what ye ask.--He gave them their request; but
sent leanness into their soul.--These things were our examples,
to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also
lusted.
I would have you without carefulness.--Thou wilt keep [him]
in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he
trusteth in thee.
Mt 26:42 Jer 10:23 Mt 26:39 Ps 131:2 Ro 8:26,27 Mt 20:22
Ps 106:15 1Co 10:6 1Co 7:32 Isa 26:3
08.06
Morning:
Whom the LORD loveth he correcteth.
See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with
me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is
there any] that can deliver out of my hand.--I know the thoughts
that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and
not of evil, to give you an expected end.--My thoughts [are] not
your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and
speak comfortably unto her.--As a man chasteneth his son, [so]
the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.--Now no chastening for the
present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto
them which are exercised thereby.--Humble yourselves therefore
under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that]
thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Pr 3:12 De 32:39 Jer 29:11 Isa 55:8 Ho 2:14 De 8:5 Heb 12:11
1Pe 5:6 Ps 119:75
Evening:
The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof.
She did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and
multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal.
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time
thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my
wool and my flax.
All things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given
thee. For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as
[were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow,
and [there is] none abiding. O LORD our God, all this store
. . . [cometh] of thine hand, and [is] all thine own.--Of him,
and through him, and to him, [are] all things: to whom [be]
glory for ever. Amen.
The living God . . . giveth us richly all things to enjoy.--
Every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if
it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the
word of God and prayer.
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.
Ps 24:1 Ho 2:8,9 1Ch 29:14-16 Ro 11:36 1Ti 6:17 4:4,5 Php 4:19
08.07
Morning:
The Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name.
If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to
thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he
would have given thee living water.--If ye, . . . being evil,
know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more
shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask him?--Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall
ask the Father in my name, he will give [it] you. Hitherto have
ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that
your joy may be full.--Ye have not, because ye ask not.
When . . . the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but
whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will
shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall
receive of mine, and shall shew [it] unto you.
They rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was
turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.
Joh 14:26 4:10 Lu 11:13 Joh 16:23,24 Jas 4:2 Joh 16:13,14
Isa 63:10
Evening:
What think ye of Christ?
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is
this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he [is] the King of
glory.--He hath on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name
written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Unto you . . . which believe [he is] precious: but unto them
which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed,
the same is made the head of the corner.--Christ crucified, unto
the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but
unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God, and the wisdom of God.
I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the
loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win
Christ.--Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love
thee.
Mt 22:42 Ps 24:9,10 Re 19:16 1Pe 2:7 1Co 1:23,24 Php 3:8
Joh 21:17
08.08
Morning:
The path of the just [is] as the shining light,
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for
which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.--Then shall we
know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD.
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the
kingdom of their Father.--We all, with open face beholding as in
a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--When
that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall
be done away.--For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as
also I am known.--Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he
is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure.
Pr 4:18 Php 3:12 Ho 6:3 Mt 13:43 2Co 3:18 1Co 13:10,12
1Jo 3:2,3
Evening:
Whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved.
Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.--Lord,
remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said
unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me
in paradise.--What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say
unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had
compassion [on them], and touched their eyes: and immediately
their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
If ye . . . being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to them that ask him?--I will put my spirit within
you. . . . Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet [for] this be
enquired of.
This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask
any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know
that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the
petitions that we desired of him.
Ro 10:13 Joh 6:37 Lu 23:42,43 Mt 20:32-34 Lu 11:13
Eze 36:27,37 1Jo 5:14,15
08.09
Morning:
Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the
sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in
it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have
not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with
ointment.--We are all as an unclean [thing], and all our
righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags.--I know that in me (that
is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.
Ye are washed, . . . ye are sanctified, . . . ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of
our God.--The king's daughter [is] all glorious within.--Perfect
through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord
GOD.
Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us.
These are they which . . . have washed their robes, and made
them white in the blood of the Lamb.--A glorious church, not
having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but . . . holy and
without blemish.--Ye are complete in him.
So 4:7 Isa 1:5,6 64:6 Ro 7:18 1Co 6:11 Ps 45:13 Eze 16:14
Ps 90:17 Re 7:14 Eph 5:27 Col 2:10
Evening:
Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Eve . . . bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the
LORD.
Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may
reach] unto heaven. . . . The LORD scattered them.--Lot chose
him all the plain of Jordan; . . . it [was] well watered every
where, . . . [even] as the garden of the LORD. . . . But the men
of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and
folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in
much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge
increaseth sorrow.--I made me great works; I builded me houses;
I planted me vineyards. . . I gathered me also silver and gold.
. . . Then I looked on all, . . . and, behold, all [was] vanity
and vexation of spirit.
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.--He
satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with
goodness.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
earth.
Jer 2:13 Ge 4:1 11:4,8 Ge 13:11,10,13 Ec 1:17,18 2:4,8,11
Joh 7:37 Ps 107:9 Col 3:2
08.10
Morning:
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world,
but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in
the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine
as lights in the world.--Ye are the salt of the earth . . . the
light of the world.--Let your light so shine before men, that
they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is
in heaven.
I also withheld thee from sinning against me.
The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep [you]
from evil.--So did not I, because of the fear of God.--Who gave
himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present
evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.--Now
unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present
[you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding
joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Joh 17:15 Php 2:15 Mt 5:13,14,16 Ge 20:6 2Th 3:3 Ne 5:15
Ga 1:4 Jude 1:24,25
Evening:
Whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high.--The LORD [is]
high above all nations, [and] his glory above the heavens. . . .
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the needy
out of the dunghill; that he may set [him] with princes.
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he
loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised
[us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly
[places] in Christ Jesus.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
. . . For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
Pr 29:25 Isa 33:5 Ps 113:4,7,8 Eph 2:4-6 Ro 8:32,38,39
08.11
Morning:
That through death he might destroy him
that had the power of death.
Our Saviour Jesus Christ, . . . hath abolished death, and
hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.--
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe
away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people
shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath
spoken [it].--When this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death
is swallowed up in victory. O death, where [is] thy sting? O
grave, where [is] thy victory? The sting of death [is] sin; and
the strength of sin [is] the law. But thanks [be] to God, which
giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and
of love, and of a sound mind.--Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou
[art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Heb 2:14 2Ti 1:10 Isa 25:8 1Co 15:54-57 2Ti 1:7 Ps 23:4
Evening:
Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth?
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.--As long as I
am in the world, I am the light of the world.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from
all sin. The Father . . . hath made us meet to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us
from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the
kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his
blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the
day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.--Ye are the light
of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. . . .
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Job 38:19 1Jo 1:5 Joh 9:5 1Jo 1:6,7 Col 1:12-14 1Th 5:5
Mt 5:14,16
08.12
Morning:
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion.
Fear thou not, . . . saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee;
. . . I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in
measure.--For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with
great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my
face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will
I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. . . . For the
mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my
kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant
of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted,
behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy
foundations with sapphires.
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have
sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute
judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I
shall behold his righteousness.
Lam 3:31,32 Jer 46:28 Isa 54:7,8,10,11 Mi 7:9
Evening:
God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty.
When the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD
raised them up a deliverer, Ehud, . . . a man lefthanded. . . .
After him was Shamgar . . . . which slew of the Philistines six
hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
The LORD looked upon [Gideon], and said, Go in this thy
might: . . . have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, Oh my
Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family [is] poor
in Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my father's house.
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with
thee [are] too many for me, . . . lest Israel vaunt themselves
against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD
of hosts.--My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power
of his might.
1Co 1:27 Jud 3:15,31 6:14,15 7:2 Zec 4:6 Eph 6:10
08.13
Morning:
He hath prepared for them a city.
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be
also.--An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.--Here have we no
continuing city, but we seek one to come.
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
--Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the
earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early
and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for
the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.--Yet a little while, and he
that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
We which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.
Heb 11:16 Joh 14:3 1Pe 1:4 Heb 13:14 Ac 1:11 Jas 5:7,8
Heb 10:37 1Th 4:17,18
Evening:
Base things of the world . . . hath God chosen.
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such
were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but
ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God.
You [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and
sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of
this world; . . . among whom also we all had our conversation in
times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of
the flesh and of the mind.
According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on
us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways
my ways, saith the LORD.
1Co 1:28 6:9-11 Eph 2:1-3 Tit 3:5,6 Isa 55:8
08.14
Morning:
The joy of the LORD is your strength.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into
singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people,
and will have mercy upon his afflicted.--Behold, God [is] my
salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH
[is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.
--The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and
with my song will I praise him.--My soul shall be joyful in my
God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he
hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
decketh [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth
[herself] with her jewels.
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in
those things which pertain to God.--We . . . joy in God through
our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the
atonement.--I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of
my salvation.
Ne 8:10 Isa 49:13 Isa 12:2 Ps 28:7 Isa 61:10 Ro 15:17 5:11
Hab 3:18
Evening:
He hath made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all [things], and sure.
I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
[places] in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to
the good pleasure of his will.
We know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be]
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did
predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he
also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
2Sa 23:5 2Ti 1:12 Eph 1:3-5 Ro 8:28-30
08.15
Morning:
The God of peace . . . make you perfect
in every good work to do his will.
Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in
peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: not of works, lest any man
should boast.--Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is
no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it
is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good
pleasure.--Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
will of God.--Being filled with the fruits of righteousness,
which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.--
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as
of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God.
Heb 13:20,21 2Co 13:11 Eph 2:8,9 Jas 1:17 Php 2:12,13
Ro 12:2 Php 1:11 2Co 3:5
Evening:
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak comfortably unto her.
Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, and
will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.--Having therefore these
promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the
fear of God.
Jesus, . . . that he might sanctify the people with his own
blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto
him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Mark 6:31
[Jesus] said, . . . Come ye yourselves apart into a desert
place, and rest a while.--The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not
want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me
beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in
the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Ho 2:14 2Co 6:17,18 2Co 7:1 Heb 13:12,13 Mr 6:31 Ps 23:1-3
08.16
Morning:
The house [that is] to be builded for the LORD
[must be] exceeding magnifical.
Ye . . . as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house.--
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit
of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple]
ye are.--Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God's.--What agreement hath the temple of
God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God
hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will
be their God, and they shall be my people.--Ye . . . are built
upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the chief corner [stone]; in whom all the building
fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God
through the Spirit.
1Ch 22:5 1Pe 2:5 1Co 3:16,17 1Co 6:19,20 2Co 6:16 Eph 2:19-22
Evening:
He is before all things.
The Amen, . . . the beginning of the creation of God.--The
beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he
might have the preeminence.
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his
works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
or ever the earth was. . . . When he prepared the heavens, I
[was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree, that
the waters should not pass his commandment. . . . I was by him,
[as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight,
rejoicing always before him.--Yea, before the day [was] I [am]
he.
The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.--The author
and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before
him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at
the right hand of the throne of God.
Col 1:17 Re 3:14 Col 1:18 Pr 8:22,23,27-30 Isa 43:13
Re 13:8 Heb 12:2
08.17
Morning:
Pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me
to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:
peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt
thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I
find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.--Pray
for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which
thou hast given me; for they are thine.--Neither pray I for
these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through
their word.--Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the
law of Christ.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he
prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on
the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Jas 5:16 Ge 18:27,28 Lu 23:34 Mt 5:44 Joh 17:9,20 Ga 6:2
Jas 5:16,17
Evening:
[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the
field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it,
and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our]
hearts unto wisdom.--What shall it profit a man, if he shall
gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Surely the people [is] grass. The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.--The world
passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will
of God abideth for ever.
2 Corinthians 6:2
Behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day
of salvation.--Use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the
fashion of this world passeth away.--Let us consider one another
to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is];
but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the
day approaching.
Ps 103:15,16 90:12 Mr 8:36 Isa 40:7,8 1Jo 2:17 2Co 6:2
1Co 7:31 Heb 10:24,25
08.18
Morning:
What God [is there] in heaven or in earth, that can do
according to thy works, and according to thy might?
Who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among
the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? . . . O
LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto thee? or to
thy faithfulness round about thee?--Among the gods [there is]
none like unto thee, O Lord; neither [are there any works] like
unto thy works.--For thy word's sake, and according to thine own
heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy
servant know [them]. Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for
[there is] none like thee, neither [is there any] God beside
thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him. But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his
Spirit.--The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but
those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our
children.
De 3:24 Ps 89:6,8 86:8 2Sa 7:21,22 1Co 2:9,10 De 29:29
Evening:
He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the
mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in
his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD.
I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the
loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win
Christ.--I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.--I have
. . . whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things
which pertain to God.
Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon
earth [that] I desire beside thee.--My heart rejoiceth in the
LORD. . . . I rejoice in thy salvation.
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give
glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.
1Co 1:31 Jer 9:23,24 Php 3:8 Ro 1:16 15:17 Ps 73:25 1Sa 2:1
Ps 115:1
08.19
Morning:
As he which hath called you is holy,
so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.
Ye know how we exhorted . . . and charged every one of you,
. . . that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto
his kingdom and glory.--Ye should shew forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the
Lord: walk as children of light: (for the fruit of the Spirit
[is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what
is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].--Being
filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus
Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.--Whether
therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the
glory of God.
1Pe 1:15 1Th 2:11,12 1Pe 2:9 Eph 5:8-11 Php 1:11 Mt 5:16
1Co 10:31
Evening:
Ask me of things to come concerning my sons,
and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
A new heart . . . will I give you, and a new spirit will I
put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my
spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. . . .
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet [for] this be enquired of by
the house of Israel, to do [it] for them.
If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that
they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is
in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my
name, there am I in the midst of them.
Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast
into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he
shall have whatsoever he saith.
Isa 45:11 Eze 36:26,27,37 Mt 18:19,20 Mr 11:22,23
08.20
Morning:
God [is] not a man, that he should lie;
neither the son of man, that he should repent.
The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning.--Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day,
and for ever.
His truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.
God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an
oath: that by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible
for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have
fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.
The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them
that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand
generations.--All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth
unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.--Happy [is
he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is]
in the LORD his God: which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and
all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever.
Nu 23:19 Jas 1:17 Heb 13:8 Ps 91:4 Heb 6:17,18 De 7:9
Ps 25:10 146:5,6
Evening:
[If] thou faint in the day of adversity,
thy strength [is] small.
He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no
might he increaseth strength.--My grace is sufficient for thee:
for my strength is made perfect in weakness.--He shall call upon
me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I
will deliver him, and honour him.--The eternal God [is thy]
refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall
thrust out the enemy from before thee.
I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and
for comforters, but I found none.
Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in
things [pertaining] to God, . . . who can have compassion on the
ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; . . . so also
Christ . . . though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by
the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became
the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.--
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
Pr 24:10 Isa 40:29 2Co 12:9 Ps 91:15 De 33:27 Ps 69:20
Heb 5:1,2,5,8,9 Isa 53:4
08.21
Morning:
[Thou art] my portion, O LORD.
All things are yours. . . . and ye are Christ's; and Christ
[is] God's.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . gave himself for us.
[God] gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the
church.--Christ . . . loved the church, and gave himself for
it; . . . that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD.--I will greatly
rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he
hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness.
Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon
earth [that] I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart
faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion
for ever.--[O my soul], thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art]
my Lord: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee.--The LORD [is] the
portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my
lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places]; yea, I
have a goodly heritage.
Ps 119:57 1Co 3:21,23 Tit 2:13,14 Eph 1:22 5:25,27 Ps 34:2
Isa 61:10 Ps 73:25,26 Ps 16:2,5,6
Evening:
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.
Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
--Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have
kept [me from] the paths of the destroyer.
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder
come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go
after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve
them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or
that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to
know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and
with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and
fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye
shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Pr 14:12 28:26 Ps 119:105 17:4 De 13:1-4 Ps 32:8
08.22
Morning:
None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die,
we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are
the Lord's.--Let no man seek his own, but every man another's
[wealth].--Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by
life, or by death. For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die
[is] gain. But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my
labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait
betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ;
which is far better.
I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto
God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself for me.
Ro 14:7,8 1Co 10:24 6:20 Php 1:20-23 Ga 2:19,20
Evening:
God gave Solomon . . . largeness of heart,
even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.
Behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.--The Prince of
Peace.
Scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure
for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth
his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us.--Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.--The love of Christ . . . passeth knowledge.
Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.--In whom are
hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.--The unsearchable
riches of Christ.--Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is
made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption.
1Ki 4:29 Mt 12:42 Isa 9:6 Ro 5:7,8 Php 2:6-8 Eph 3:19
1Co 1:24 Col 2:3 Eph 3:8 1Co 1:30
08.23
Morning:
I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
We are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren
beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen
you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief
of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the
obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.--[God] hath
saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to
our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was
given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.--Thine eyes did
see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my
members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned,
when [as yet there was] none of them.
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
Jer 31:3 2Th 2:13,14 2Ti 1:9 Ps 139:16 Joh 3:16 1Jo 4:10
Evening:
I have made, and I will bear.
Thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that
formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I
have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine. When thou
passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through
the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.--[Even] to [your] old
age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar hairs will I carry [you].
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her
wings: [so] the LORD alone did lead him.--He bare them, and
carried them all the days of old.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.--
For I am persuaded, that neither . . . height, nor depth, nor
any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love
of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not
have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget,
yet will I not forget thee.
Isa 46:4 43:1,2 46:4 De 32:11,12 Isa 63:9 Heb 13:8 Ro 8:38,39
Isa 49:15
08.24
Morning:
I know their sorrows.
A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--Touched with
the feeling of our infirmities.
Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] sicknesses.--
Jesus, . . . being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the
well.
When Jesus . . . saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping
which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
. . . Jesus wept.--For in that he himself hath suffered being
tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
heaven did the LORD behold the earth; to hear the groaning of
the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death.--He
knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall
come forth as gold.--When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
then thou knewest my path.
He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.--In all
their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he
bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Ex 3:7 Isa 53:3 Heb 4:15 Mt 8:17 Joh 4:6 11:33,35 Heb 2:18
Ps 102:19,20 Job 23:10 Ps 142.3 Zec 2:8 Isa 63:9
Evening:
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing: but
the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.--He that watereth
shall be watered also himself.
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish
his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then]
cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And
he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may
rejoice together.--The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man
[that is] an householder, which went out early in the morning to
hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with
the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season.--Occupy
till I come.
I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the
grace of God which was with me.
Joh 9:4 Pr 13:4 Pr 11:25 Joh 4:34-36 Mt 20:1,2 2Ti 4:2
Lu 19:13 1Co 15:10
08.25
Morning:
Look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn,
and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity.--None eye pitied thee,
. . . but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing
of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed
by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto
thee, . . . Live.
He brought me up . . . out of an horrible pit, out of the
miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my
goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise
unto our God.
When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died
for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die:
yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But
God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.--God, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in
sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.
Isa 51:1 Ps 51:5 Eze 16:5,6 Ps 40:2,3 Ro 5:6-8 Eph 2:4,5
Evening:
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD,
my soul shall be joyful in my God.
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall]
continually [be] in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in
the LORD: the humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad. O
magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.--
The LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he
withhold from them that walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, blessed
[is] the man that trusteth in thee.--Bless the LORD, O my soul:
and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name.
Is any merry? let him sing psalms.--Be filled with the Spirit;
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving
thanks always for all things.--Singing with grace in your hearts
to the Lord.
At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God:
and the prisoners heard them.--Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and]
again I say, Rejoice.
Isa 61:10 Ps 34:1-3 84:11,12 103:1 Jas 5:13 Eph 5:18-20
Col 3:16 Ac 16:25 Php 4:4
08.26
Morning:
Thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and grave upon it,
[like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.--God [is]
a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit
and in truth.--But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our
righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags.--I will be sanctified in
them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be
glorified.
This [is] the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain
the whole limit thereof round about [shall be] most holy.--
Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth.--Seeing . . . that we have a great
high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of
God, let us . . . come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Ex 28:36 Heb 12:14 Joh 4:24 Isa 64:6 Le 10:3 Eze 43:12
Ps 93:5 Joh 17:19 Heb 4:14,16
Evening:
My cup runneth over.
O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man
[that] trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for
[there is] no want to them that fear him. The young lions do
lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not
want any good [thing].--His compassions fail not. [They are] new
every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in
pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage.--Whether . . .
the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to
come; all are yours.--Blessed [be] the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be
content.--Godliness with contentment is great gain.--My God
shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus.
Ps 23:5 34:8-10 La 3:22,23 Ps 16:5,6 1Co 3:22 Eph 1:3 Php 4:11
1Ti 6:6 Php 4:19
08.27
Morning:
Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
By the word of thy lips I have kept [me from] the paths of
the destroyer. Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my
footsteps slip not.--When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when
thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it
shall talk with thee. For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the
law [is] light.--Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the
right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.--We have
also a . . . sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place.--Now we
see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know
in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.--They
need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God
giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Psa 119:105 17:4,5 Pr 6:22,23 Isa 30:21 Joh 8:12 2Pe 1:19
1Co 13:12 Re 22:5
Evening:
What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise.
This [is] not [your] rest: . . . it is polluted, it shall
destroy [you].--Set your affection on things above, not on
things on the earth.--If riches increase, set not your heart
[upon them].--Set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your
God; arise therefore.
Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.--
Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this
life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.--
Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will
not tarry.--Now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now
[is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.--Watch ye
therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh,
at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the
morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Jon 1:6 Mic 2:10 Col 3:2 Ps 62:10 1Ch 22:19 Lu 22:46 21:34
Mt 25:5 Heb 10:37 Ro 13:11 Mr 13:35,36
08.28
Morning:
The accuser of our brethren is cast down,
which accused them before our God day and night.
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word
of their testimony.--Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he that
condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.
Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of
them openly, triumphing over them in it.--That through death he
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the
devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage.--In all these things we are more
than conquerors through him that loved us.--Put on the whole
armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of
the devil. . . . And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword
of the Spirit, which is the word of God.--But thanks [be] to
God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Re 12:10,11 Ro 8:33,34 Col 2:15 Heb 2:14,15 Ro 8:37
Eph 6:11,17 1Co 15:57
Evening:
The tree of life.
God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son.--He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life.--As the Father
raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth [them]; even so the Son
quickeneth whom he will. . . . As the Father hath life in
himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of
life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.--In the
midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was
there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits,
[and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree
[were] for the healing of the nations.
Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom. . . . Length of
days [is] in her right hand. . . . She [is] a tree of life to
them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that
retaineth her.--Christ Jesus . . . is made unto us wisdom.
Ge 2:9 1Jo 5:11 Joh 3:16 5:21,26 Re 2:7 22:2 Pr 3:13,16,18
1Co 1:30
08.29
Morning:
Whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy [is] he.
[Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and
being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able
also to perform.--The children of Israel were brought under at
that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they
relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be
removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of
the sea.--[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put
confidence in man. [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to
put confidence in princes.--The steps of a [good] man are
ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Though he
fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth
[him with] his hand.
O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the
man [that] trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for
[there is] no want to them that fear him.
Pr 16:20 Ro 4:20,21 2Ch 13:18 Ps 46:1,2 118:8,9 37:23,24
Ps 34:8,9
Evening:
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep:
for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night. . . .He
shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt
thou trust.--Even as a hen gathereth her chickens under [her]
wings.--He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth
thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall
neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD
[is] thy shade upon thy right hand.
I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the
covert of thy wings.--The darkness hideth not from thee; but the
night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both
alike [to thee].
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?--
Ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.--I will trust, and not
be afraid.
Ps 4:8 91:5,4 Mt 23:37 Ps 121:3-5 61:4 139:12 Ro 8:32 1Co 3:23
Isa 12:2
08.30
Morning:
The king held out . . . the golden sceptre
that [was] in his hand. So Esther drew near,
and touched the top of the sceptre.
It shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will
hear; for I [am] gracious.
We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God
is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God
in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have
boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in
this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth
out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made
perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water.--For through him we . . .
have access by one Spirit unto the Father.--We have boldness and
access with confidence by the faith of him.--Let us therefore
come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy,
and find grace to help in time of need.
Es 5:2 Ex 22:27 1Jo 4:16-19 Heb 10:22 Eph 2:18 3:12 Heb 4:16
Evening:
They said, . . . It [is] manna:
for they wist not what it [was].
Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God
was manifest in the flesh.--The bread of God is he which cometh
down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.--
If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the
bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the
life of the world.--My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is
drink indeed.
The children of Israel . . . gathered, some more, some less.
. . . He that gathered little had no lack. . . .They gathered it
every morning, every man according to his eating.
Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we
drink? . . . Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of
all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Ex 16:15 1Ti 3:16 Joh 6:33,49,51,55 Ex 16:17,18,21 Mt 6:31-33
08.31
Morning:
The free gift [is] of many offences unto justification.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.--
I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for
mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put me in
remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified.--I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy
transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I
have redeemed thee.
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.--Not as the offence, so also [is] the free
gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more
the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man,
Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.--And such were some of
you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of
our God.
Ro 5:16 Isa 1:18 43:25,26 44:22 Joh 3:16 Ro 5:15 1Co 6:11
Evening:
Occupy till I come.
[The Son of man is] as a man taking a far journey, who left
his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man
his work, and commanded the porter to watch.--Unto one he gave
five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man
according to his several ability; and straightway took his
journey.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no man can work.--Wist ye not that I must
be about my Father's business?--Leaving us an example, that ye
should follow his steps.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.--
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall
declare it.--Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,
unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch
as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Lu 19:13 Mr 13:34 Mt 25:15 Joh 9:4 Lu 2:49 1Pe 2:21 2Ti 4:2
1Co 3:13 15:58
09.01
Morning:
The fruit of the Spirit is . . . meekness.
The meek . . . shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and
the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.--
Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall
not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall
humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the
kingdom of heaven.--[The ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit,
. . . is in the sight of God of great price.--Charity vaunteth
not itself, is not puffed up.
Follow after . . . meekness.--Take my yoke upon you, and
learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart.--He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he
is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.--Christ also
suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow
his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; . . . but committed
[himself] to him that judgeth righteously.
Ga 5:22,23 Isa 29:19 Mt 18:3,4 1Pe 3:4 1Co 13:4 1Ti 6:11
Mt 11:29 Isa 53:7 1Pe 2:21-23
Evening:
If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report.--All
that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.--
--The offence of the cross ceased.
If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye];
. . . but let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief,
or [as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed;
but let him glorify God on this behalf.
Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to
believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.--If one died
for all, then were all dead: And [that] he died for all, that
they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but
unto him which died for them, and rose again.--If we suffer, we
shall also reign with [him].
Lu 9:23 2Co 6:8 2Ti 3:12 Ga 5:11 1:10 1Pe 4:14-16 Php 1:29
2Co 5:14,15 2Ti 2:12
09.02
Morning:
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen thine heart.
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the
everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary? . . . He giveth power to the
faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.
--Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I
[am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
--Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy
in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the
heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm
[against] the wall.
The trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience
have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,
wanting nothing.--Cast not away therefore your confidence, which
hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience,
that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the
promise.
Ps 27:14 Isa 40:28,29 41:10 25:4 Jas 1:3,4 Heb 10:35,36
Evening:
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
The wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest.
. . . [There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest.--Rest in the LORD.--He that is entered into
his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For
[it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace.--
That we . . . be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of
men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to
deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in
all things, which is the head, [even] Christ.
I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit
[was] sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house,
and his banner over me [was] love.
Ps 23:2 Isa 57:20,21 Mt 11:28 Ps 37:7 Heb 4:10 13:9
Eph 4:14,15 So 2:3,4
09.03
Morning:
Neither shall there be leaven seen
with thee in all thy quarters.
The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil.--Abhor that which is
evil.--Abstain from all appearance of evil.--Looking diligently
lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of
bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be
defiled.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear
[me].
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,
as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed
for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,
neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.--Let a man examine
himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that]
cup.
Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from
iniquity.--Such an high priest became us, [who is] holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.--In him is no sin.
Ex 13:7 Pr 8:13 Ro 12:9 1Th 5:22 Heb 12:15 Ps 66:18
1Co 5:6-8 11:28 2Ti 2:19 Heb 7:26 1Jo 3:5
Evening:
The serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
. . . your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.
My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his
might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
stand against the wiles of the devil.--Take unto you the whole
armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day,
and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your
loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of
righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God.--Lest Satan should get an
advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Ge 3:4,5 2Co 11:3 Eph 6:10,11,13-17 2Co 2:11
09.04
Morning:
Sit still, my daughter.
Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted.--
Be still, and know that I [am] God.--Said I not unto thee, that,
if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?--
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of
men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in
that day.
Mary, . . . sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.--Mary
hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from
her.--In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and
in confidence shall be your strength.--Commune with your own
heart upon your bed, and be still.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not
thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the
man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
trusting in the LORD. His heart [is] established.
He that believeth shall not make haste.
Ru 3:18 Isa 7:4 Ps 46:10 Joh 11:40 Isa 2:17 Lu 10:39,42
Isa 30:15 Ps 4:4 37:7 112:7,8 Isa 28:16
Evening:
What I do thou knowest not now;
but thou shalt know hereafter.
Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led
thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and]
to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou
wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
When I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time
[was] the time of love; . . . yea, I sware unto thee, and
entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou
becamest mine.--Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be
glad also with exceeding joy.--Our light affliction, which is
but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and]
eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which are not seen.
Joh 13:7 De 8:2 Eze 16:8 Heb 12:6 1Pe 4:12,13 2Co 4:17,18
09.05
Morning:
As the body is one, and hath many members,
. . . so also [is] Christ.
He is the head of the body, the church.--The head over all
[things] to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him
that filleth all in all.--We are members of his body, of his
flesh, and of his bones.
A body hast thou prepared me.--Thine eyes did see my
substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members]
were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as
yet there was] none of them.
Thine they were, and thou gavest them me.--He hath chosen us
in him before the foundation of the world.--Whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the
image of his Son.
Grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even]
Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together and
compacted by that which every joint supplieth, . . . maketh
increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
1Co 12:12 Col 1:18 Eph 1:22,23 5:30 Heb 10:5 Ps 139:16
Joh 17:6 Eph 1:4 Ro 8:29 Eph 4:15,16
Evening:
The fountain of living waters.
How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures. For with thee [is] the fountain of life.
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but
ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye
shall be thirsty.--Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him
shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life.--This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on
him should receive.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.--The
Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let
him take the water of life freely.
Jer 2:13 Ps 36:7-9 Isa 65:13 Joh 4:14 7:39 Isa 55:1 Re 22:17
09.06
Morning:
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands
unto God in the heavens.
Who [is] like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
who humbleth [himself] to behold [the things that are] in
heaven, and in the earth!--Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my
soul.--I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth]
after thee, as a thirsty land. . . . Hide not thy face from me,
lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. Cause me to
hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust:
cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my
soul unto thee.
Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips
shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will
lift up my hands in thy name.--Rejoice the soul of thy servant:
for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord,
[art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto
all them that call upon thee.
Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.
La 3:41 Ps 113:5,6 25:1 143:6-8 63:3,4 86:4,5 Joh 14:13
Evening:
Watchman, what of the night?
[It is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our
salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent,
the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh:
so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it
is near, [even] at the doors.--Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I
hope. My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch
for the morning: [I say, more than] they that watch for the
morning.
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come
quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Watch, . . . for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.
Isa 21:11 Ro 13:11,12 Mt 24:32,33,35 Ps 130:5,6 Re 22:20
Mt 25:13
09.07
Morning:
Rejoicing in hope.
The hope which is laid up for you in heaven.--If in this life
only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.--
We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
--Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot
be my disciple.--No man should be moved by these afflictions:
for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.--The
God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that
ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.--
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.--
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him]
not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of
glory.--By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Ro 12:12 Col 1:5 1Co 15:19 Ac 14:22 Lu 14:27 1Th 3:3 Php 4:4
Ro 15:13 1Pe 1:3,8 Ro 5:2
Evening:
I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me.
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil.--My thoughts [are] not your
thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For
[as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
How precious . . . are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great
is the sum of them! [If] I should count them, they are more in
number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.--O
LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very deep.
--Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou
hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward.
Not many mighty, not many noble, [are called].--Hath not God
chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the
kingdom?--Having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.--The
unsearchable riches of Christ.
Ps 40:17 Jer 29:11 Isa 55:8,9 Ps 139:17,18 92:5 40:5 1Co 1:26
Jas 2:5 2Co 6:10 Eph 3:8
09.08
Morning:
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
The LORD [is] a God of knowledge, and by him actions are
weighed.--That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination
in the sight of God.--[The LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man
looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the
heart.--Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh
shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul?--What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for
Christ.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts.--Thou hast
proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou
hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing.
Da 5:27 1Sa 2:3 Lu 16:15 1Sa 16:7 Ga 6:7,8 Mt 16:26 Php 3:7
Ps 51:6 17:3
Evening:
Christ the firstfruits.
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.--If
the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the
root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.--Now is Christ risen from
the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.--If
we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we
shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection.--The Lord
Jesus Christ . . . shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working
whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
The firstborn from the dead.--If the Spirit of him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by
his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live.
1Co 15:23 Joh 12:24 Ro 11:16 1Co 15:20 Ro 6:5 Php 3:20,21
Col 1:18 Ro 8:11 Joh 11:25
09.09
Morning:
He hath filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and
have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to
buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich.
. . . As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous
therefore, and repent.
Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall be filled.--[When] the poor and
needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue
faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of
Israel will not forsake them.--I [am] the LORD thy God, . . .
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread?
and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken
diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let
your soul delight itself in fatness.--I am the bread of life: he
that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on
me shall never thirst.
Lu 1:53 Re 3:17-19 Mt 5:6 Isa 41:17 Ps 81:10 Isa 55:2
Joh 6:35
Evening:
My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired [to
have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat: but I have prayed
for thee, that thy faith fail not.
A just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again.--
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD
upholdeth [him with] his hand.
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto
me.--He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there
shall no evil touch thee.
If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous.--Wherefore he is able also to save them to
the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth
to make intercession for them.
Ps 73:2 94:18 Lu 22:31,32 Pr 24:16 Ps 37:24 Mic 7:8 Job 5:19
1Jo 2:1 Heb 7:25
09.10
Morning:
I will give them one heart, and one way,
that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them.
A new heart . . . will I give you, and a new spirit will I
put within you.--Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will
he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment:
and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD
[are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his
testimonies.
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I
in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me.
I . . . beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation
wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, . . .
endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace. [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are
called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and
through all, and in you all.
Jer 32:39 Eze 36:26 Ps 25:8-10 Joh 17:21 Eph 4:1-6
Evening:
They that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength.
When I am weak, then am I strong.--My God shall be my
strength.--He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for
my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore
will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ
may rest upon me.--Let him take hold of my strength.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee.--
The arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the
mighty [God] of Jacob.
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a
shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the
God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.--Plead [my
cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against
them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and
stand up for mine help.
Isa 40:31 2Co 12:10 Isa 49:5 2Co 12:9 Isa 27:5 Ps 55:22
Ge 49:24 32:26 1Sa 17:45 Ps 35:1,2
09.11
Morning:
Be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil.
Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God.
What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath
Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an
infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?--
Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world.
If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
. . . The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that
doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
In time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience.--Ye have not so
learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, . . . as the
truth is in Jesus.
Ro 12:2 Ex 23:2 Jas 4:4 2Co 6:14-16 1Jo 2:15,17
Eph 2:2 4:20,21
Evening:
Man goeth forth unto his work
and to his labour until the evening.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground.--We commanded you, that if any would not
work, neither should he eat.--Study to be quiet, and to do your
own business, and to work with your own hands.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might;
for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,
in the grave, whither thou goest.--The night cometh, when no man
can work.
Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall
reap, if we faint not.--Always abounding in the work of the
Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in
the Lord.
There remaineth . . . a rest to the people of God.--Unto us,
which have borne the burden and heat of the day.--This [is] the
rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is]
the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Ps 104:23 Ge 3:19 2Th 3:10 1Th 4:11 Ec 9:10 Joh 9:4 Ga 6:9
1Co 15:58 Heb 4:9 Mt 20:12 Isa 28:12
09.12
Morning:
I have seen his ways, and will heal him.
I [am] the LORD that healeth thee.--O LORD, thou hast
searched me, and known [me]. Thou knowest my downsitting and
mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou
compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with]
all my ways.--Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our
secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.--All things [are]
naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.--He is gracious
unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I
have found a ransom.--He [was] wounded for our transgressions,
[he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our
peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.--He
hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted.--Thy faith hath made
thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
Isa 57:18 Ex 15:26 Ps 139:1-3 90:8 Heb 4:13 Isa 1:18
Job 33:24 Isa 53:5 61:1 Mr 5:34
Evening:
The LORD taketh my part.
The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God
of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and
strengthen thee out of Zion. . . .We will rejoice in thy
salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up [our]
banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions. . . . Some [trust]
in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name
of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we
are risen, and stand upright.
When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the
LORD shall lift up a standard against him.--There hath no
temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is]
faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye
are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].
If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?--The LORD [is]
on my side; I will not fear.
Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning
fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us].
Ps 118:7 20:1,2,5,7,8 Isa 59:19 1Co 10:13 Ro 8:31 Ps 118:6
Da 3:17
09.13
Morning:
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the
LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.--O
God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul
thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory,
so [as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he
that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine
and milk without money and without price.--The Spirit and the
bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him
that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water
of life freely.--Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him
shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life.--My blood is drink indeed.
Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Joh 7:37 Ps 84:2 63:1,2 Isa 55:1 Re 22:17 Joh 4:14 6:55
So 5:1
Evening:
Ye are the salt of the earth.
That which is not corruptible.--Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth for ever.--He that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live.--The children of God,
being the children of the resurrection.--The uncorruptible God.
If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin;
but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. But if the
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.--It is sown in
corruption; it is raised in incorruption.
Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.--
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that
which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace
unto the hearers.
Mt 5:13 1Pe 3:4 1:23 Joh 11:25 Lu 20:36 Ro 1:23 8:9-11
1Co 15:42 Mr 9:50 Eph 4:29
09.14
Morning:
I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you.
Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who
comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to
comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith
we ourselves are comforted of God.--Like as a father pitieth
[his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he
knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.--As one
whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.--Casting all
your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious,
longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Another Comforter . . . [even] the Spirit of truth.--The
Spirit . . . helpeth our infirmities.
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
away.
Isa 51:12 2Co 1:3,4 Ps 103:13,14 Isa 66:13 1Pe 5:7 Ps 86:15
Joh 14:16,17 Ro 8:26 Re 21:4
Evening:
Ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son.
He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there
came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.--Behold, what manner of
love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God.
Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children.--If children,
then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.
The brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his
person.--Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame.
--These things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy
fulfilled in themselves.--As the sufferings of Christ abound in
us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
1Co 1:9 2Pe 1:17 1Jo 3:1 Eph 5:1 Ro 8:17 Heb 1:3 Mt 5:16
Heb 12:2 Joh 17:13 2Co 1:5
09.15
Morning:
Sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law,
but under grace? God forbid.--My brethren, ye . . . are become
dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married
to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we
should bring forth fruit unto God.--Being not without law to
God, but under the law to Christ.--The sting of death [is] sin;
and the strength of sin [is] the law. But thanks [be] to God,
which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and death.--Whosoever committeth sin is
the servant of sin.--If the Son . . . shall make you free, ye
shall be free indeed.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage.
Ro 6:14,15 7:4 1Co 9:21 15:56,57 Ro 8:2 Joh 8:34,36 Ga 5:1
Evening:
A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back,
is fit for the kingdom of God.
He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he
is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.--Let him ask in
faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man
think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.--What things
soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them],
and ye shall have [them].
Be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about
with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and]
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but
speaking the truth in love, . . . grow up into him in all
things, which is the head, [even] Christ.
Abide in me.--Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is
not in vain in the Lord.
Jas 1:8 Lu 9:62 Heb 11:6 Jas 1:6,7 Mr 11:24 Eph 4:14,15
Joh 15:4 1Co 15:58
09.16
Morning:
The LORD pondereth the hearts.
The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the
ungodly shall perish.--The LORD will shew who [are] his, and
[who is] holy.--Thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall
reward thee openly.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
thoughts: and see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead
me in the way everlasting.--There is no fear in love; but
perfect love casteth out fear.
Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not
hid from thee.--When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then
thou knewest my path.--He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what
[is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for
the saints according to [the will of] God.
The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The
Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth
the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Pr 21:2 Ps 1:6 Nu 16:5 Mt 6:4 Ps 139:23,24 1Jo 4:18
Ps 38:9 142:3 Ro 8:27 2Ti 2:19
Evening:
Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy [cometh] in the morning.
No man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves
know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were
with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation.
In me ye . . . have peace. In the world ye shall have
tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.--The
night is far spent, the day is at hand.--[He shall be] as the
light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning
without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the
earth by clear shining after rain.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will
wipe away tears from off all faces.--There shall be no more
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away.--We which are
alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Ps 30:5 1Th 3:3,4 Joh 16:33 Ps 17:15 Ro 13:12 2Sa 23:4
Isa 25:8 Re 21:4 1Th 4:17,18
09.17
Morning:
A bruised reed shall he not break.
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a
contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.--He healeth the
broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.--For thus saith
the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is]
Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that
is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the
humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will
not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the
spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which
was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and
will strengthen that which was sick.--Wherefore lift up the
hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight
paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of
the way; but let it rather be healed.--Behold, your God . . .
will come and save you.
Mt 12:20 Ps 51:17 147:3 Isa 57:15,16 Eze 34:16 Heb 12:12,13
Isa 35:4
Evening:
O taste and see that the LORD [is] good:
blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was
made wine, and knew not whence it was: . . . [he] saith . . .
Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when
men have well drunk, then that which is worse: [but] thou hast
kept the good wine until now.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.--I
believed, and therefore have I spoken.--I know whom I have
believed.--I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and
his fruit [was] sweet to my taste.
The goodness of God.--He that spared not his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things?
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that
ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is]
gracious.
Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them
ever shout for joy.
Ps 34:8 Joh 2:9,10 Job 34:3 2Co 4:13 2Ti 1:12 So 2:3
Ro 2:4 8:32 1Pe 2:2,3 Ps 5:11
09.18
Morning:
Open thou mine eyes,
that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures.--It is given unto you to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
--I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou
hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast
revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good
in thy sight.--We have received, not the spirit of the world,
but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God.--How precious also are thy
thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! [If] I
should count them, they are more in number than the sand.--O the
depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how
unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor? . . . For of him, and through him, and to him, [are]
all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.
Psa 119:18 Lu 24:45 Mt 13:11 11:25,26 1Co 2:12 Ps 139:17,18
Ro 11:33,34,36
Evening:
Enhakkore (The well of him that called, or cried).
If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to
thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he
would have given thee living water.--If any man thirst, let him
come unto me, and drink. . . . This spake he of the Spirit,
which they that believe on him should receive.
Prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not
open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing,
that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].--If ye
then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to them that ask him?--Ask, and it shall be given
you; seek, and ye shall find.
Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.--Ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have
received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Jud 15:19 Joh 4:10 7:37,39 Mal 3:10 Lu 11:13,9 Ga 4:6 Ro 8:15
09.19
Morning:
The God of all grace.
I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be
gracious to whom I will be gracious.--He is gracious unto him,
and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found
a ransom.--Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth [to
be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through
the forbearance of God.--Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: [it is] the gift of God.--Grace, mercy, [and] peace,
from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.--Unto every one
of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of
Christ.--As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister
the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace
of God.--He giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and for ever. Amen.
1Pe 5:10 Ex 33:19 Job 33:24 Ro 3:24,25 Joh 1:17 Eph 2:8
1Ti 1:2 Eph 4:7 1Pe 4:10 Jas 4:6 2Pe 3:18
Evening:
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence
cometh my help. My help [cometh] from the LORD.
As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD
[is] round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of
their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of
her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until
that he have mercy upon us.--Because thou hast been my help,
therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might
against this great company that cometh against us; neither know
we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee.--Mine eyes [are]
ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
--Our help [is] in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and
earth.
Ps 121:1,2 125:2 123:1,2 63:7 2Ch 20:12 Ps 25:15 124:8
09.20
Morning:
Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom,
and the man [that] getteth understanding.
Whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the
LORD.
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his
wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, . . .
the rich [man] glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth
glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am]
the LORD.--The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom.
What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I
have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but]
dung, that I may win Christ.--In whom are hid all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge.--Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I
[am] understanding; I have strength.
Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
He that winneth souls [is] wise.
Pr 3:13 8:35 Jer 9:23,24 Pr 9:10 Php 3:7,8 Col 2:3 Pr 8:14
1Co 1:30 Pr 11:30
Evening:
Poor, yet making many rich.
Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he
was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his
poverty might be rich.--Of his fulness have all we received, and
grace for grace.--My God shall supply all your need according to
his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.--God [is] able to make all
grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency
in all [things], may abound to every good work.
Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and
heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love
him?--Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble, [are called]: but God hath chosen the foolish things
of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency
of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2Co 6:10 8:9 Joh 1:16 Php 4:19 2Co 9:8 Jas 2:5 1Co 1:26,27
2Co 4:7
09.21
Morning:
We know that all things work together
for good to them that love God.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of
wrath shalt thou restrain.--Ye thought evil against me; [but]
God meant it unto good.
All things are yours; whether . . . the world, or life, or
death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and
ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.--All things [are] for
your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the
thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which
cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the
inward [man] is renewed day by day. For our light affliction,
which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding
[and] eternal weight of glory.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations; knowing [this], that the trying of your faith
worketh patience. But let patience have [her] perfect work, that
ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Ro 8:28 Ps 76:10 Ge 50:20 1Co 3:21-23 2Co 4:15-17 Jas 1:2-4
Evening:
The communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all.
I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [even] the
Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth
him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you.--He shall not speak of himself;
but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will
shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall
receive of mine, and shall shew [it] unto you.
The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost which is given unto us.
He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. . . . Know ye
not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto
the day of redemption.--The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered.
2Co 13:14 Joh 14:16,17 16:13,14 Ro 5:5 1Co 6:17,19 Eph 4:30
Ro 8:26
09.22
Morning:
My meditation of him shall be sweet:
I will be glad in the LORD.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my
beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great
delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste.--For who in the
heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among the sons of
the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten
thousand.--One pearl of great price.--The prince of the kings of
the earth.
His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy,
[and] black as a raven.--The head over all [things].--The head
of the body, the church.
His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers.--He
could not be hid.
His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers.--
His lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.--Never
man spake like this man.
His countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.--
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant.--LORD, lift thou up the
light of thy countenance upon us.
Ps 104:34 So 2:3 Ps 89:6 So 5:10 Mt 13:46 Re 1:5 So 5:11
Eph 1:22 Col 1:18 So 5:13 Mr 7:24 So 5:13 Joh 7:46 So 5:15
Ps 31:16 4:6
Evening:
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save
me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the
will of him that sent me.--He . . . became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross.--In the days of his flesh, when he
had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and
tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was
heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suffered.
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he
shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?--
Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to
rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and
remission of sins should be preached in his name among all
nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Mt 26:39 Joh 12:27 6:38 Php 2:8 Heb 5:7,8 Mt 26:53 Lu 24:46,47
09.23
Morning:
Our God hath not forsaken us.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you.--If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with
sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if
ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are
ye bastards, and not sons.
The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the
LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's
sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.--
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet
will I not forget thee.--Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of
Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God.
Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night
unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will
avenge them speedily.
Ezr 9:9 1Pe 4:12 Heb 12:7,8 De 13:3 1Sa 12:22 Isa 49:15
Ps 146:5 Lu 18:7,8
Evening:
He that overcometh shall inherit all things.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable.--Now they desire a better [country], that
is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their
God: for he hath prepared for them a city.--An inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved
in heaven for you.
All things are yours; . . . the world, or life, or death, or
things present, or things to come; all are yours.--Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But
God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we
have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.--Let us lay
aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us],
and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Re 21:7 1Co 15:19 Heb 11:16 1Pe 1:4 1Co 3:21,22 2:9,10
2Jo 1:8 Heb 12:1
09.24
Morning:
[It is] good for me to draw near to God.
LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place
where thine honour dwelleth.--A day in thy courts [is] better
than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my
God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.--Blessed [is the
man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [unto thee,
that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.
The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul
[that] seeketh him.--Therefore will the LORD wait, that he may
be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he
may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment:
blessed [are] all they that wait for him.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he
hath consecrated for us; . . . let us draw near with a true
heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience.
Ps 73:28 26:8 84:10 65:4 La 3:25 Isa 30:18 Heb 10:19,20,22
Evening:
Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.--Thou art fairer than the children of
men: grace is poured into thy lips.--All bare him witness, and
wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
Ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.--He that believeth
on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.--We speak that we
do know, and testify that we have seen.
O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man
[that] trusteth in him.--I sat down under his shadow with great
delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste.
He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
strength is made perfect in weakness.--Unto every one of us is
given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.--As
every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same
one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
2Co 8:9 Joh 1:14 Ps 45:2 Lu 4:22 1Pe 2:3 1Jo 5:10 Joh 3:11
Ps 34:8 So 2:3 2Co 12:9 Eph 4:7 1Pe 4:10
09.25
Morning:
Let patience have [her] perfect work,
that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much
more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried
with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at
the appearing of Jesus Christ.--We glory in tribulations also:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience,
experience; and experience, hope.
[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait
for the salvation of the LORD.--Ye have in heaven a better and
an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of
patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might
receive the promise.--Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God,
even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us]
everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort
your hearts.
Jas 1:4 1Pe 1:6,7 Ro 5:3,4 La 3:26 Heb 10:34-36 2Th 2:16,17
Evening:
God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.
Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both
will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make
manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man
have praise of God.--The Father judgeth no man, but hath
committed all judgment unto the Son: . . . because he is the Son
of man.--The Son of God, . . . hath his eyes like unto a flame
of fire.
They say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the
most High?--These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence;
thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself:
[but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine
eyes.--There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed;
neither hid, that shall not be known.
Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not
hid from thee.--Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins
and my heart.
Ro 2:16 1Co 4:5 Joh 5:22,27 Re 2:18 Ps 73:11 50:21 Lu 12:2
Ps 38:9 26:2
09.26
Morning:
A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.
Him that judgeth righteously.--We must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things
[done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether
[it be] good or bad.--Every one of us shall give account of
himself to God.--The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man
[that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the
shepherd.--The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.--
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
kissed [each other].--Mercy rejoiceth against judgment.--The
wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
A just God and a Saviour; [there is] none beside me.--Just,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.--Justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus.
De 32:4 1Pe 2:23 2Co 5:10 Ro 14:12 Eze 18:4 Zec 13:7 Isa 53:6
Ps 85:10 Jas 2:13 Ro 6:23 Isa 45:21 Ro 3:26,24
Evening:
Death is swallowed up in victory.
Thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that
through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,
that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live
with him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth
no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he
died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth
unto God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto
sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him
that loved us.
1Co 15:54,57 Heb 2:14,15 Ro 6:8-11 8:37
09.27
Morning:
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,
that he may exalt you in due time.
Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the
LORD: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou
our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand. Be not wroth
very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold,
see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.--Thou hast
chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to
the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art]
the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and
after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was
ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach
of my youth.--[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in
his youth.
Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble
spring out of the ground; yet man is born unto trouble, as the
sparks fly upward.
1Pe 5:6 Pr 16:5 Isa 64:8,9 Jer 31:18,19 La 3:27 Job 5:6,7
Evening:
Yea, hath God said?
When the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son
of God.--[Jesus] said, It is written, . . . it is written, . . .
it is written.--Then the devil leaveth him.
I may not return with thee. . . . For it was said to me by
the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water
there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. He
said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an angel
spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back
with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink
water. [But] he lied unto him. So he went back with him. . . .
The man of God, . . . was disobedient unto the word of the LORD:
therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath
torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD.--
Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed.--Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not
sin against thee.
Ge 3:1 Mt 4:3,4,7,10,11 1Ki 13:16-19,26 Ga 1:8 Ps 119:11
09.28
Morning:
They shall put my name upon the children of Israel;
and I will bless them.
O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had dominion
over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.--
We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them; they were not
called by thy name.
All people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.--The LORD
will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because
it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer
not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people
are called by thy name.--Help us, O God of our salvation, for
the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins,
for thy name's sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where
[is] their God?
The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous
runneth into it, and is safe.
Nu 6:27 Isa 26:13 63:19 De 28:10 1Sa 12:22 Da 9:19 Ps 79:9,10
Pr 18:10
Evening:
The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
The invisible things of him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
[even] his eternal power and Godhead.--He left not himself
without witness.--Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto
night sheweth knowledge. [There is] no speech nor language,
[where] their voice is not heard.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that
thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest
him?
[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the
moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth
from [another] star in glory. So also [is] the resurrection of
the dead.--They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of
the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the
stars for ever and ever.
Ps 19:1 Ro 1:20 Ac 14:17 Ps 19:2,3 8:3,4 1Co 15:41,42 Da 12:3
09.29
Morning:
Hereby perceive we the love [of God],
because he laid down his life for us.
The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.--Greater love
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends.--Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye
through his poverty might be rich.--Beloved, if God so loved us,
we ought also to love one another.--Be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's
sake hath forgiven you.--Forbearing one another, and forgiving
one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as
Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.--For even the Son of man
came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his
life a ransom for many.--Christ . . . suffered for us, leaving
us an example, that ye should follow his steps.
Ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given
you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.--We
ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.
1Jo 3:16 Eph 3:19 Joh 15:13 2Co 8:9 1Jo 4:11 Eph 4:32 Col 3:13
Mr 10:45 1Pe 2:21 Joh 13:14,15 1Jo 3:16
Evening:
What things soever [the Father] doeth,
these also doeth the Son likewise.
The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge
and understanding.--I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which
all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
thine heart.--My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength
is made perfect in weakness.
Them that are sanctified by God the Father.--He that
sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for
which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.--The fulness
of him that filleth all in all.
I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no
saviour.--This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Joh 5:19 Pr 2:6 Lu 21:15 Ps 27:14 2Co 12:9 Jude 1:1 Heb 2:11
Jer 23:24 Eph 1:23 Isa 43:11 Joh 4:42 Tit 1:4
09.30
Morning:
He knoweth the way that I take:
[when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
He knoweth our frame.--He doth not afflict willingly nor
grieve the children of men.
The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The
Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth
the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house
there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of
wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a
vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use,
[and] prepared unto every good work.
He shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he
shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and
silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in
righteousness.--I . . . will refine them as silver is refined, .
. . they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will
say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, The LORD [is] my
God.
Job 23:10 Ps 103:14 La 3:33 2Ti 2:19-21 Mal 3:3 Zec 13:9
Evening:
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
Moses said unto the LORD, . . . I pray thee, if I have found
grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee,
that I may find grace in thy sight. . . . My presence shall go
[with thee], and I will give thee rest.--He made known his ways
unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he
teach his way.--What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him
shall he teach in the way [that] he shall choose.--
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he
shall direct thy paths.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is]
fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for
evermore.--I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which
thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.--The path of the
just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto
the perfect day.
Ps 25:4 Ex 33:12-14 Ps 103:7 25:9,12 Pr 3:5,6 Ps 16:11 32:8
Pr 4:18
10.01
Morning:
The fruit of the Spirit is . . . temperance.
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we
an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so
fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my
body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with
the Spirit.
If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me.
Let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be
sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be
drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the
day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and
for an helmet, the hope of salvation.--Denying ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly,
in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ.
Ga 5:22,23 1Co 9:25-27 Eph 5:18 Mt 16:24 1Th 5:6-8 Tit 2:12,13
Evening:
Grow up into him in all things,
which is the head, [even] Christ.
First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in
the ear.--Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
They measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing
themselves among themselves, are not wise. . . . But he that
glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth
himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
The body [is] of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your
reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,
intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from
which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment
ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of
God.
Grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ.
Eph 4:15 Mr 4:28 Eph 4:13 2Co 10:12,17,18 Col 2:17-19
2Pe 3:18
10.02
Morning:
The goat shall bear upon him
all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited:
and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed
our transgressions from us.--In those days, and in that time,
saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and
[there shall be] none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not
be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.--Thou wilt cast
all their sins into the depths of the sea.--Who [is] a God like
unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all.--He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide
him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil
with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death:
and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin
of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.--The Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Le 16:22 Ps 103:12 Jer 50:20 Mic 7:19,18 Isa 53:6,11,12
Joh 1:29
Evening:
Who maketh thee to differ [from another]?
and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
By the grace of God I am what I am.--Of his own will begat he
us with the word of truth.--[It is] not of him that willeth, nor
of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.--Where [is]
boasting then? It is excluded.--Christ Jesus . . . is made unto
us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption: . . . He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
You [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and
sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among
whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the
mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
--Ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1Co 4:7 15:10 Jas 1:18 Ro 9:16 3:27 1Co 1:30,31 Eph 2:1-3
1Co 6:11
10.03
Morning:
Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown
it.--Love [is] strong as death.--Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by
whose stripes ye were healed.--In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the
riches of his grace.
Ye are washed, . . . ye are sanctified, . . . ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of
our God.--Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an
holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his
marvellous light.--I beseech you . . . brethren, by the mercies
of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
Re 1:5 So 8:7,6 Joh 15:13 1Pe 2:24 Eph 1:7 1Co 6:11 1Pe 2:9
Ro 12:1
Evening:
There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
Over the king's treasures [was] Azmaveth the son of Adiel:
and over the storehouses . . . Jehonathan the son of Uzziah: and
over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the
ground [was] Ezri the son of Chelub: and over the vineyards
[was] Shimei the Ramathite. . . . All these [were] the rulers of
the substance which [was] king David's.
God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily
prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of
healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.--All these
worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man
severally as he will.
As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the
same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of
God. If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if
any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God
giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus
Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.
1Co 12:5 1Ch 27:25-27,31 1Co 12:28,11 1Pe 4:10,11
10.04
Morning:
Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone
while he talked with him.
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give
glory.--Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or
thirsty, and gave [thee] drink?--In lowliness of mind let each
esteem other better than themselves.--Be clothed with humility.
[Jesus] was transfigured before them: and his face did shine
as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.--All that
sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as
it had been the face of an angel.--The glory which thou gavest
me I have given them.--We all, with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill
cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a
bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that
are in the house.
Ex 34:29 Ps 115:1 Mt 25:37 Php 2:3 1Pe 5:5 Mt 17:2 Ac 6:15
Joh 17:22 2Co 3:18 Mt 5:14,15
Evening:
There are diversities of operations,
but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
There fell [some] of Manasseh to David. . . . And they helped
David against the band [of the rovers]: for they [were] all
mighty men of valour.--The manifestation of the Spirit is given
to every man to profit withal.
Of the children of Issachar, [which were men] that had
understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.--To
one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the
word of knowledge by the same Spirit.
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with
all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank:
[they were] not of double heart.--A double minded man [is]
unstable in all his ways.
There should be no schism in the body; but . . . the members
should have the same care one for another. And whether one
member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be
honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
1Co 12:6 1Ch 12:19,21 1Co 12:7 1Ch 12:32 1Co 12:8 1Ch 12:33
Jas 1:8 1Co 12:25,26 Eph 4:5
10.05
Morning:
Call upon me in the day of trouble:
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise
him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.--LORD,
thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare
their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.--For thou, Lord,
[art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto
all them that call upon thee.
Jacob said unto his household, . . . Let us arise, and go up
to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered
me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I
went.--Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits.
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my
supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,
therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live. The sorrows
of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I
found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the
LORD.
Psa 50:15 Ps 42:11 10:17 86:5 Ge 35:2,3 Ps 103:2 116:1-4
Evening:
Yet a little while,
and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he
may run that readeth it. For the vision [is] yet for an
appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:
though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it
will not tarry.
Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is]
with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men
count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
--Thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious,
longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.--Oh that thou
wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down.-- For
since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Heb 10:37 Hab 2:2,3 2Pe 3:8,9 Ps 86:15 Isa 64:1,4
10.06
Morning:
The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
I know that thou canst do every [thing].--The things which
are impossible with men are possible with God.--He doeth
according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the
inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say
unto him, What doest thou?--[There is] none that can deliver out
of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?--Abba, Father,
all things [are] possible unto thee.
Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him,
Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your
faith be it unto you.--Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me
clean. And Jesus put forth [his] hand, and touched him, saying,
I will; be thou clean.--The mighty God.--All power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth.
Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will
remember the name of the LORD our God.--Be strong and
courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed, . . . [there be] more
with us than with him.
Re 19:6 Job 42:2 Lu 18:27 Da 4:35 Isa 43:13 Mr 14:36
Mt 9:28,29 8:2,3 Isa 9:6 Mt 28:18 Ps 20:7 2Ch 32:7
Evening:
What [is] the thing that [the LORD] hath said unto thee?
He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the
LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?--To keep the commandments of the
LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy
good?
As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:
for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in
all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it
is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.--It was added
because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the
promise was made.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days
spoken unto us by [his] Son.
Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth.
1Sa 3:17 Mic 6:8 De 10:13 Ga 3:10,11,19 Heb 1:1,2 1Sa 3:9
10.07
Morning:
The meek will he teach his way.
Blessed [are] the meek.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to
the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to
the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour
to men of skill.--A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD
directeth his steps.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of
their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of
her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God.--Cause
me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul
unto thee.
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might
against this great company that cometh against us; neither know
we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to
all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
him.
When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth.
Ps 25:9 Mt 5:5 Ec 9:11 Pr 16:9 Ps 123:1,2 143:8 2Ch 20:12
Jas 1:5 Joh 16:13
Evening:
O Lord GOD, . . . with thy blessing
let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
Thou blessest, O LORD, and [it shall be] blessed for ever.--
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
sorrow with it.
Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more
blessed to give than to receive.--When thou makest a feast, call
the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be
blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be
recompensed at the resurrection of the just.--Come, ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me
meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and
ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye
visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will
deliver him in time of trouble.
The LORD God [is] a sun and shield.
2Sa 7:29 1Ch 17:27 Pr 10:22 Ac 20:35 Lu 14:13,14 Mt 25:34-36
Ps 41:1 84:11
10.08
Morning:
I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall]
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we
are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have
no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall
fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast
into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness'
sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when
[men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all
manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and
be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven.--None
of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto
myself, so that I might finish my course with joy.--I will speak
of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
Heb 13:6 Ro 8:35,37 Lu 12:4,5 Mt 5:10-12 Ac 20:24 Ps 119:46
Evening:
He . . . set my feet upon a rock.
That Rock was Christ.--Simon Peter . . . said, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God. . . . Upon this rock I will
build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it.--Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none
other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.
Full assurance of faith, . . . faith without wavering.--
Faith, nothing wavering. . . . He that wavereth is like a wave
of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall]
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we
are more than conquerors through him that loved us. . . . Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
Ps 40:2 1Co 10:4 Mt 16:16,18 Ac 4:12 Heb 10:22,23 Jas 1:6
Ro 8:35,37,39
10.09
Morning:
Thou [art] a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men
count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
--The longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation.
For this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus
Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them
which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.--
Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our
learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures
might have hope.
Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and
longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee
to repentance?--Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn
unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow
to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Ne 9:17 2Pe 3:9,15 1Ti 1:16 Ro 15:4 2:4 Joe 2:13
Evening:
The words of the LORD [are] pure words.
Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.--
The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the
commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.--Every
word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their
trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee,
and thou be found a liar.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin
against thee.--I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect
unto thy ways.--Brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever
things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever
things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if
[there be] any praise, think on these things.--As newborn babes,
desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.
We are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of
sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in
Christ.--Nor handling the word of God deceitfully.
Ps 12:6 119:140 19:8 Pr 30:5,6 Ps 119:11,15 Php 4:8 1Pe 2:2
2Co 2:17 4:2
10.10
Morning:
The whole family in heaven and earth.
One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through
all, and in you all.--Ye are all the children of God by faith in
Christ Jesus.--That in the dispensation of the fulness of times
he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which
are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him.
He is not ashamed to call them brethren.--Behold my mother
and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father
which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and
mother.--Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my
Father, and your Father.
I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for
the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: . . .
and white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was
said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,
until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should
be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled.--That they
without us should not be made perfect.
Eph 3:15 4:6 Ga 3:26 Eph 1:10 Heb 2:11 Mt 12:49,50 Joh 20:17
Re 6:9-11 Heb 11:40
Evening:
After this manner . . . pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Jesus . . . lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father.--
My Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God.
Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.--Ye
have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye
have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that
we are the children of God.
Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art
no more a servant, but a son.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the
Father in my name, he will give [it] you. Hitherto have ye asked
nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may
be full.
I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Mt 6:9 Joh 17:1 20:17 Ga 3:26 Ro 8:15,16 Ga 4:6,7
Joh 16:23,24 2Co 6:17,18
10.11
Morning:
Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near.
How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt
thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my
soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily?--Hide not thy face
[far] from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been
my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my
salvation.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be]
with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.--The
LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that
call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that
fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.--Lo, I
am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.
God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble.--Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my
salvation.--My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation
[is] from him.
Ps 22:11 13:1,2 27:9 91:15 145:18,19 Joh 14:18 Mt 28:20
Ps 46:1 62:1,5
Evening:
Hallowed be thy name.
Thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name
[is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God.
Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is]
like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing
wonders?--Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.
Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.--I saw . . . the
Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had
six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the
whole earth [is] full of his glory. . . . Woe [is] me! for I am
undone.--I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now
mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor [myself].
The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all
sin.--That [we] might be partakers of his holiness.--Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus, . . . Let us draw near with a true heart.
Mt 6:9 Ex 34:14 15:11 Re 4:8 1Ch 16:29 Isa 6:1-3,5 Job 42:5,6
1Jo 1:7 Heb 12:10 10:19,22
10.12
Morning:
God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them.
It pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell;
and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
reconcile all things unto himself.--Mercy and truth are met
together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil.--Come now, and let us reason
together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they
shall be as wool.
Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity?
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace.--Work out
your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which
worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.--
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought
all our works in us.
2Co 5:19 Col 1:19,20 Ps 85:10 Jer 29:11 Isa 1:18 Mic 7:18
Job 22:21 Php 2:12,13 Isa 26:12
Evening:
Thy kingdom come.
In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a
kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall
not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.--A
stone . . . cut out without hands.--Not by might, nor by power,
but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.--The kingdom of God
cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here!
or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of
God.--So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed
into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and
the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. . . .
But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in
the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Be ye . . . ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the
Son of man cometh.
The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth
say, Come.
Mt 6:10 Da 2:44,34 Zec 4:6 Lu 17:20,21 Mr 4:11,26,27,29
Mt 24:44 Re 22:17
10.13
Morning:
From the first day that thou didst set thine heart
to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God,
thy words were heard.
Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with
him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive
the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the
contrite ones.--The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a
broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.--
Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off.--Humble yourselves therefore
under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
--God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous
in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. Give ear, O LORD,
unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. In
the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt
answer me.
Da 10:12 Isa 57:15 Ps 51:17 138:6 1Pe 5:6 Jas 4:6,7 Ps 86:5-7
Evening:
Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.
Understanding what the will of the Lord [is].
It is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that
one of these little ones should perish.
This is the will of God, [even] your sanctification.--That he
no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the
lusts of men, but to the will of God.--Of his own will begat he
us with the word of truth; . . . wherefore lay apart all
filthiness.
Be ye holy; for I am holy.--[Jesus] said . . . Whosoever
shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister,
and mother.--Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house
upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for
it was founded upon a rock.--The world passeth away, and the
lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for
ever.
Mt 6:10 Eph 5:17 Mt 18:14 1Th 4:3 1Pe 4:2 Jas 1:18,21
1Pe 1:16 Mr 3:34,35 Mt 7:24,25 1Jo 2:17
10.14
Morning:
Christ both died, and rose, and revived,
that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of
the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall
bear their iniquities.--Ought not Christ to have suffered these
things, and to enter into his glory?--We thus judge, that if one
died for all, then were all dead: and [that] he died for all,
that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves,
but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath
made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and
Christ.--Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of
the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by
him do believe in God.
Ro 14:9 Isa 53:10,11 Lu 24:26 2Co 5:14,15 Ac 2:36 1Pe 1:20,21
Evening:
Give us this day our daily bread.
I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.--[His] bread
shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.--The ravens
brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh
in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.--[Be] content with such things as ye
have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee.
He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee
with manna, . . . that he might make thee know that man doth not
live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of
the mouth of the LORD doth man live.--Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread
from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from
heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from
heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him,
Lord, evermore give us this bread.
Mt 6:11 Ps 37:25 Isa 33:16 1Ki 17:6 Php 4:19 Heb 13:5 De 8:3
Joh 6:32-34
10.15
Morning:
God [is] my defence.
The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; the
God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the
horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour.
--The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and
with my song will I praise him.
When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the
LORD shall lift up a standard against him.--We may boldly say,
The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do
unto me.
The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be
afraid?
As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD
[is] round about his people from henceforth even for ever.--
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
wings will I rejoice.
For thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Ps 59:9 2Sa 22:2,3 Ps 28:7 Isa 59:19 Heb 13:6
Ps 27:1 125:2 63:7 31:3
Evening:
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my
brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times:
but, Until seventy times seven.--O thou wicked servant, I
forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest
not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as
I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to
the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So
likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from
your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.--You
. . . hath he quickened, . . . having forgiven you all
trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was
against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the
way, nailing it to his cross.--Even as Christ forgave you, so
also [do] ye.
Mt 6:12 18:21,22,32-35 Eph 4:32 Col 2:13,14 3:13
10.16
Morning:
Not slothful in business;
fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might;
for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,
in the grave, whither thou goest.--Whatsoever ye do, do [it]
heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the
Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye
serve the Lord Christ.--Whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the
same shall he receive of the Lord.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no man can work.--Wist ye not that I must
be about my Father's business?--The zeal of thine house hath
eaten me up.
Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election
sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.--We desire
that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full
assurance of hope unto the end: that ye be not slothful, but
followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
promises.--So run, that ye may obtain.
Ro 12:11 Ec 9:10 Col 3:23,24 Eph 6:8 Joh 9:4 Lu 2:49
Joh 2:17 2Pe 1:10 Heb 6:11,12 1Co 9:24
Evening:
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso
walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust,
and enticed.--Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and
I will receive you.
Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan,
that it [was] well watered every where, . . . [even] as the
garden of the LORD. . . . Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; . . . but the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners
before the LORD exceedingly.
[The Lord] delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked. . . . The Lord knoweth how to
deliver the godly out of temptations.--Yea, he shall be holden
up: for God is able to make him stand.
Mt 6:13 Pr 28:26 Jas 1:13,14 2Co 6:17 Ge 13:10,11,13
2Pe 2:7,9 Ro 14:4
10.17
Morning:
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day:
and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
In the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him
shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be
ashamed. In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified,
and shall glory.--Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye
righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in
heart.
The righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of
God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all
them that believe.--To declare . . . at this time his
righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus.
Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.--Whom
having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not,
yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of
glory.
Psa 89:16 Isa 45:24,25 Ps 32:11 Ro 3:21,22,26 Php 4:4 1Pe 1:8
Evening:
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, for ever.
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; . . . thy
throne [is] established of old: thou [art] from everlasting.
The LORD [is] . . . great in power.--If God [be] for us, who
[can be] against us?--Our God whom we serve is able to deliver
us.--My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and
no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand.--
Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give
glory.--Thine, O LORD, [is] the greatness, and the power, and
the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all [that is]
in the heaven and in the earth [is thine]; thine [is] the
kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. . . .
Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious
name. But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be
able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things
[come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Mt 6:13 Ps 93:1,2 Na 1:3 Ro 8:31 Da 3:17 Joh 10:29 1Jo 4:4
Ps 115:1 1Ch 29:11,13,14
10.18
Morning:
One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side,
and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made
with you.--The life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your
souls.--For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of
goats should take away sins.
[Jesus] said unto them, This is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many.--By his own blood he entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
[for us].--Peace through the blood of his cross.
Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
[as] silver and gold, . . . but with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: . . .
manifest in these last times for you.
. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be
clean: . . . from all your idols, will I cleanse you.--Let us
draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
Joh 19:34 Ex 24:8 Le 17:11 Heb 10:4 Mr 14:24 Heb 9:12
Col 1:20 1Pe 1:18-20 Eze 36:25 Heb 10:22
Evening:
Amen.
Amen: the LORD God . . . say so [too].--He who blesseth
himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth;
and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of
truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because
they are hid from mine eyes.
When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by
no greater, he sware by himself.--For men verily swear by the
greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all
strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the
heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it]
by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which [it was]
impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation,
who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before
us.
These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness.--
For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen,
unto the glory of God by us.
Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
wondrous things. And blessed [be] his glorious name for ever.
. . . Amen, and Amen.
Mt 6:13 1Ki 1:36 Isa 65:16 Heb 6:13,16-18 Re 3:14 2Co 1:20
Ps 72:18,19
10.19
Morning:
The LORD shall be thy confidence,
and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of
wrath shalt thou restrain.--The king's heart [is] in the hand of
the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever
he will.--When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his
enemies to be at peace with him.
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I
hope. My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch
for the morning: [I say, more than] they that watch for the
morning.--I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me
from all my fears.
The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the
everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before
thee; and shall say, Destroy [them].--Blessed [is] the man that
trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us,
who [can be] against us?
Pr 3:26 Ps 76:10 Pr 21:1 16:7 Ps 130:5,6 34:4 De 33:27
Jer 17:7 Ro 8:31
Evening:
Consolation in Christ, . . .
comfort of love, . . . fellowship of the Spirit.
Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of
trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he
fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.--My flesh and my
heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my
portion for ever.
The Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he
may abide with you for ever.--The Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name.--Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all
comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may
be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort
wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. And so shall
we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with
these words.
Php 2:1 Job 14:1,2 Ps 73:26 Joh 14:16,26 2Co 1:3,4
1Th 4:14,17,18
10.20
Morning:
I delight in the law of God after the inward man.
O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.--Thy
words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me
the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.--I sat down under his
shadow with great delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my
taste.--I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my
necessary [food].
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within
my heart.--My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to
finish his work.
The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart:
the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
. . . More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much
fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.--Be ye
doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own
selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he
is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass.
Ro 7:22 Ps 119:97 Jer 15:16 So 2:3 Job 23:12 Ps 40:8 Joh 4:34
Ps 19:8,10 Jas 1:22,23
Evening:
The LORD thy God accept thee.
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself
before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt
offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased
with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of
oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit
of my body [for] the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O
man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but
to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy
God?
We are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses
[are] as filthy rags.--There is none righteous, no, not one.--
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
to declare . . . at this time his righteousness: that he might
be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Accepted in the beloved.--Ye are complete in him.
2Sa 24:23 Mic 6:6-8 Isa 64:6 Ro 3:10,23-26 Eph 1:6 Col 2:10
10.21
Morning:
Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.--Behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we
should be called the sons of God.
[His] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things.--If
children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;
if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also
glorified together.
I and [my] Father are one.--The Father [is] in me, and I in
him.--My Father, and your Father; . . . my God, and your God.--I
in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.
The church, which is his body, the fulness of him that
filleth all in all.
Having . . . these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse
ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Joh 1:16 Mt 17:5 1Jo 3:1 Heb 1:2 Ro 8:17
Joh 10:30,38 20:17 17:23 Eph 1:22,23 2Co 7:1
Evening:
The servant is not greater than his lord;
neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
There was . . . a strife among them, which of them should be
accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the
Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise
authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not
[be] so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the
younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For
whether [is] greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that
serveth? [is] not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as
he that serveth.--Even as the Son of man came not to be
ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom
for many.
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his
hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; he riseth
from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and
girded himself. After that he poureth water into a bason, and
began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe [them] with the
towel wherewith he was girded.
Joh 13:16,17 Lu 22:24-27 Mt 20:28 Joh 13:3-5
10.22
Morning:
O God, my heart is fixed.
The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be
afraid?
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is]
stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.--He shall not be
afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the
LORD. His heart [is] established, he shall not be afraid, until
he see [his desire] upon his enemies.
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.--In the time of
trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his
tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And
now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about
me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make
you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you]. To him [be]
glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Ps 108:1 27:1 Isa 26:3 Ps 112:7,8 56:3 27:5,6 1Pe 5:10,11
Evening:
The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens;
and his kingdom ruleth over all.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof
[is] of the LORD.--Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD
hath not done [it]?
I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God
beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: that
they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,
that [there is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD, and [there is]
none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace,
and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and
[among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his
hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?--If God [be] for us, who
[can be] against us?
He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.--
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to
give you the kingdom.
Ps 103:19 Pr 16:33 Am 3:6 Isa 45:5-7 Da 4:35 Ro 8:31
1Co 15:25 Lu 12:32
10.23
Morning:
A man's life consisteth not
in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the
riches of many wicked.--Better [is] little with the fear of the
LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.--Godliness with
contentment is great gain. . . . Having food and raiment let us
be therewith content.
Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food
convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who
[is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name
of my God [in vain].--Give us this day our daily bread.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not
the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?--When I sent
you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing?
And they said, Nothing.--[Let your] conversation [be] without
covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for
he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Lu 12:15 Ps 37:16 Pr 15:16 1Ti 6:6,8 Pr 30:8,9 Mt 6:11,25
Lu 22:35 Heb 13:5
Evening:
It is the spirit that quickeneth.
The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was
made] a quickening spirit.--That which is born of the flesh is
flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.--Not by
works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing
of the Holy Ghost.
If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin;
but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. But if the
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of
God.--Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Joh 6:63 1Co 15:45 Joh 3:6 Tit 3:5 Ro 8:9-11 Ga 2:20 Ro 6:11
10.24
Morning:
I am cast out of thy sight;
yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she
should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may
forget, yet will I not forget thee.
I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is
perished from the LORD.--Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
arise, cast [us] not off for ever.--Why sayest thou, O Jacob,
and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my
judgment is passed over from my God?--In a little wrath I hid my
face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will
I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him,
[who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.--[We are]
troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed,
but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but
not destroyed.
Jon 2:4 Isa 49:14,15 La 3:17,18 Ps 44:23 Isa 40:27 54:8
Ps 43:5 2Co 4:8,9
Evening:
[When] the poor and needy seek water,
and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst,
I the LORD will hear them.
[There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good?--What
hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart,
wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days [are]
sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest
in the night.--All [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.--They
have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them
out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.--I will
pour water upon him that is thirsty.--Blessed [are] they which
do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be
filled.
O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul
thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is.
Isa 41:17 Ps 4:6 Ec 2:22,23,17 Jer 2:13 Joh 6:37 Isa 44:3
Mt 5:6 Ps 63:1
10.25
Morning:
Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.
If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that
they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is
in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my
name, there am I in the midst of them.--He that hath my
commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he
that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him.
Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and
not unto the world? . . . If a man love me, he will keep my
words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him,
and make our abode with him.
Unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with
exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Mt 28:20 Mt 18:19,20 Joh 14:21-23 Jude 1:24,25
Evening:
The end of all things is at hand.
I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from
whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.--The heavens and
the earth, which are now, . . . are kept in store, reserved unto
fire against the day of judgment.
God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be
removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of
the sea; [though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled,
[though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.--Ye
shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not
troubled.
We have a building of God, an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.--We . . . look for new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved,
seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be
found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
1Pe 4:7 Re 20:11 2Pe 3:7 Ps 46:1-3 Mt 24:6 2Co 5:1
2Pe 3:13,14
10.26
Morning:
The LORD reigneth.
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea
by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the
waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though
they roar, yet can they not pass over it?--Promotion [cometh]
neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.
He changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and
setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge
to them that know understanding.--Ye shall hear of wars and
rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled.
If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?--Are not two
sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on
the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head
are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value
than many sparrows.
Ps 99:1 Jer 5:22 Ps 75:6,7 Da 2:21 Mt 24:6 Ro 8:31 Mt 10:29-31
Evening:
Take heed to your spirit.
Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we
forbad him, because he followeth not with us. And Jesus said
unto him, Forbid [him] not: for he that is not against us is for
us.--Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from
heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he . . .
rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are
of.
Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son
of Nun . . . answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. And
Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that
all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would
put his spirit upon them!
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.--And they
that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections
and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one
another, envying one another.
Mal 2:15 Lu 9:49,50,54,55 Nu 11:27-29 Ga 5:22-26
10.27
Morning:
Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] sicknesses.
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be
cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and
scarlet, and hyssop: and the priest shall command that one of
the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: as
for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and
the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living
bird in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the running
water: and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed
from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and
shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
Behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on [his]
face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean.--And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth
[his] hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou
clean. And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy
departed from him, and he was cleansed.
Mt 8:17 Le 14:4-7 Lu 5:12 Mr 1:41,42
Evening:
Whom thou blessest [is] blessed.
Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. Blessed [are] they that mourn: for they shall be
comforted. Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the
earth. Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed [are] the
merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed [are] the pure in
heart: for they shall see God. Blessed [are] the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed [are]
they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is
the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile
you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding
glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted
they the prophets which were before you.--Blessed [are] they
that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the
gates into the city.
Nu 22:6 Mt 5:3-12 Lu 11:28 Re 22:14
10.28
Morning:
He saw that [there was] no man,
and wondered that [there was] no intercessor:
therefore his arm brought salvation unto him.
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast
thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it
is] written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy
law [is] within my heart.--I lay down my life, that I might take
it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself.
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
[There is] no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour;
[there is] none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all
the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.
--There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby
we must be saved.
Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he
was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his
poverty might be rich.
Isa 59:16 Ps 40:6-8 Joh 10:17,18 Isa 45:21,22 Ac 4:12 2Co 8:9
Evening:
The Enemy.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.--Resist
the devil, and he will flee from you.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high [places]. Wherefore take unto you the whole
armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day,
and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your
loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of
righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto
me.
Lu 10:19 1Pe 5:8 Jas 4:7 Eph 6:11-16 Mic 7:8
10.29
Morning:
He [is] altogether lovely.
My meditation of him shall be sweet.--My beloved [is] . . .
the chiefest among ten thousand.--A chief corner stone, elect,
precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
--Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into
thy lips.--God . . . hath highly exalted him, and given him a
name which is above every name.--It pleased [the Father] that in
him should all fulness dwell.
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see
[him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and
full of glory.
I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the
loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win
Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of
Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.
So 5:16 Ps 104:34 So 5:10 1Pe 2:6 Ps 45:2 Php 2:9 Col 1:19
1Pe 1:8 Php 3:8,9
Evening:
David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal
life.--I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is
able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that
day.
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God:
he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him,
[even] into his ears.--They prevented me in the day of my
calamity: but the LORD was my stay. He brought me forth also
into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall]
continually [be] in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in
the LORD: the humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad. O
magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. I
sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my
fears.--O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is]
the man [that] trusteth in him.
1Sa 30:6 Joh 6:68 2Ti 1:12 Ps 18:6,18,19 Ps 34:1-4,8
10.30
Morning:
[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait
for the salvation of the LORD.
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up
his tender mercies?--I said in my haste, I am cut off from
before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my
supplications when I cried unto thee.
Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night
unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will
avenge them speedily.--Wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
--Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who
bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set
yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD.
Let us not be weary in well doing: . . . in due season we
shall reap, if we faint not.--Behold, the husbandman waiteth for
the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it,
until he receive the early and latter rain.
La 3:26 Ps 77:9 Ps 31:22 Lu 18:7,8 Pr 20:22 Ps 37:7 2Ch 20:17
Ga 6:9 Jas 5:7
Evening:
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines:
for our vines [have] tender grapes.
Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret
[faults].--Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of
God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and
thereby many be defiled.--Ye did run well; who did hinder you
that ye should not obey the truth?
He which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it]
until the day of Jesus Christ.--Only let your conversation be as
it becometh the gospel of Christ.--The tongue is a little
member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a
little fire kindleth! And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of
iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth
the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it
is set on fire of hell. . . . The tongue can no man tame; [it
is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.m-Let your speech [be]
alway with grace, seasoned with salt.
So 2:15 Ps 19:12 Heb 12:15 Ga 5:7 Php 1:6,27 Jas 3:5,6,8
Col 4:6
10.31
Morning:
Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit,
saith the LORD of hosts.
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his
counsellor hath taught him?
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the
world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea],
and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
that no flesh should glory in his presence.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it
goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.--Born, not of
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God.
My spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.--The battle [is]
not yours, but God's.
The LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle [is]
the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
Zec 4:6 Isa 40:13 1Co 1:27-29 Joh 3:8 1:13 Hag 2:5 2Ch 20:15
1Sa 17:47
Evening:
Do as thou hast said.
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy
fear.--So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth
me: for I trust in thy word.--Remember the word unto thy
servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.--Thy statutes
have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.--The law of
thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and
silver.--For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy
faithfulness [is] unto all generations.
God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an
oath: that by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible
for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have
fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which
[hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast,
and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the
forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus.
Exceeding great and precious promises.
2Sa 7:25 Ps 119:38,42,49,54,72,89,90 Heb 6:17-20 2Pe 1:4
11.01
Morning:
Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily
at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their
masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her
mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that
he have mercy upon us.
A continual burnt offering throughout your generations [at]
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD:
where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.--In all places
where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless
thee.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.
The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship him. God [is] a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit.--Pray without ceasing.
Pr 8:34 Ps 123:2 Ex 29:42 Ex 20:24 Mt 18:20 Joh 4:23,24
Eph 6:18 1Th 5:17
Evening:
His name shall be called . . . Counsellor.
The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; and shall make
him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD.
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?--
Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons of man. O
ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an
understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things;
and the opening of my lips [shall be] right things.--Counsel
[is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have
strength.
The LORD of hosts . . . is wonderful in counsel, [and]
excellent in working.--If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of
God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and
it shall be given him.--Trust in the LORD with all thine heart;
and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Isa 9:6 11:2,3 Pr 8:1,4-6,14 Isa 28:29 Jas 1:5 Pr 3:5,6
11.02
Morning:
Ever follow that which is good.
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also
suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow
his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; . . . but committed
[himself] to him that judgeth righteously.--Consider him that
endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye
be wearied and faint in your minds.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of
[our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of
the throne of God.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever
things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever
things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if
[there be] any praise, think on these things.
1Th 5:15 1Pe 2:21-23 Heb 12:3,1,2 Php 4:8
Evening:
The mighty God.
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured
into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird
thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O [most] mighty, with thy glory and
thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously. . . . Thy
throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy
kingdom [is] a right sceptre.--Thou spakest in vision to thy
holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon [one that is]
mighty.--The man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts.
Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be
afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he
also is become my salvation.--Thanks [be] unto God, which always
causeth us to triumph in Christ.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with
exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
Isa 9:6 Ps 45:2-4,6 89:19 Zec 13:7 Isa 12:2 2Co 2:14
Jude 1:24,25
11.03
Morning:
The ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk
in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Unto you . . . which believe [he is] precious: but unto them
which be disobedient, . . . and a stone of stumbling, and a rock
of offence.--The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright:
but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.--Whoso [is] wise,
and will observe these [things], even they shall understand the
lovingkindness of the LORD.--The light of the body is the eye:
if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full
of light.--If any man will do his will, he shall know of the
doctrine, whether it be of God.--Whosoever hath, to him shall be
given, and he shall have more abundance.
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear
[them] not, because ye are not of God.--Ye will not come to me,
that ye might have life.--My sheep hear my voice, and I know
them, and they follow me.
Ho 14:9 1Pe 2:7,8 Pr 10:29 Mt 11:15 Ps 107:43 Mt 6:22
Joh 7:17 Mt 13:12 Joh 8:47 5:40 10:27
Evening:
The everlasting Father.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD.
I and [my] Father are one.--The Father [is] in me, and I in
him.--If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.--
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it
sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time
with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath
seen me hath seen the Father.--Behold I and the children which
God hath given me.--He shall see of the travail of his soul,
[and] shall be satisfied.--I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and
which is to come, the Almighty.--Before Abraham was, I am.--God
said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Unto the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and
ever.--He is before all things, and by him all things consist.--
In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Isa 9:6 De 6:4 Joh 10:30,38 8:19 14:8,9 Heb 2:13 Isa 53:11
Re 1:8 Joh 8:58 Ex 3:14 Heb 1:8 Col 1:17 2:9
11.04
Morning:
Now for a season, if need be,
ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be
glad also with exceeding joy.--The exhortation which speaketh
unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.
--Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit
of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like
as [we are, yet] without sin.--For in that he himself hath
suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are
tempted.--God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able.
1Pe 1:6 4:12,13 Heb 12:5,11 4:15 2:18 1Co 10:13
Evening:
The Prince of Peace.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor
with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people,
and the little hills, by righteousness. . . . He shall come down
like rain upon the mown grass: as showers [that] water the
earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance
of peace so long as the moon endureth.--Glory to God . . . on
earth peace, good will toward men.
Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring
from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in
darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into
the way of peace.--Peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all).
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world.--Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
--The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep
your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Isa 9:6 Ps 72:2,3,6,7 Lu 2:14 1:78,79 Ac 10:36 Joh 16:33 14:27
Php 4:7
11.05
Morning:
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, . . .
and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment.
Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye
make [any other] like it, after the composition of it: it [is]
holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you.--One Spirit.--Diversities
of gifts, but the same Spirit.
Thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above
thy fellows.--God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with power.--God giveth not the Spirit by measure [unto
him].
Of his fulness have all we received.--As the same anointing
teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and
even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.--He which
stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is]
God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the
Spirit in our hearts.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such
there is no law.
Ex 30:23,25,32 Eph 4:4 1Co 12:4 Ps 45:7 Ac 10:38 Joh 3:34 1:16
1Jo 2:27 2Co 1:21,22 Ga 5:22,23
Evening:
The fashion of this world passeth away.
All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine
years: and he died.
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of
the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen
with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower
thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth:
so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.--For what [is]
your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little
time, and then vanisheth away.--The world passeth away, and the
lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for
ever.
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,
what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].--When they shall
say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them,
as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should
overtake you as a thief.
1Co 7:31 Ge 5:27 Jas 1:9-11 4:14 1Jo 2:17 Ps 39:4 1Th 5:3,4
11.06
Morning:
When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live.--God hath given to us
eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son
hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive [and]
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
wherefore comfort one another with these words.--When he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.--
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
weakness; it is raised in power.
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be
also.
Col 3:4 Joh 11:25 1Jo 5:11,12 1Th 4:16-18 1Jo 3:2 1Co 15:43
Joh 14:3
Evening:
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me.
When . . . the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth.--Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye
know all things.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according
to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.--All
scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works.--The holy scriptures . . . are
able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.--The light of the
body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light.--If any man will do his will, he
shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God.--The wayfaring
men, though fools, shall not err [therein].
Ps 25:5 Joh 16:13 1Jo 2:20 Isa 8:20 2Ti 3:16,17 2Ti 3:15
Ps 32:8 Mt 6:22 Joh 7:17 Isa 35:8
11.07
Morning:
Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness,
and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man
[that] trusteth in him.--[Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which
thou hast laid up for them that fear thee!
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth
my praise.--Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good
pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.--That we should
be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
How great [is] his goodness, and how great [is] his beauty!--
The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over all
his works. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy
saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy
kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make known to the sons of men
his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
Ps 107:8 34:8 31:19 Isa 43:21 Eph 1:5,6,12 Zec 9:17
Ps 145:9-12
Evening:
Behold, we count them happy which endure.
We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation
worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience,
hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto
us.--No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit
of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.--My
brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing.--Blessed [is] the man that endureth
temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of
life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.--Most
gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the
power of Christ may rest upon me. . . . For when I am weak, then
am I strong.
Jas 5:11 Ro 5:3-5 Heb 12:11 Jas 1:2-4,12 2Co 12:9,10
11.08
Morning:
Let us, who are of the day, be sober,
putting on the breastplate of faith and love;
and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end
for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation
of Jesus Christ.--Stand therefore, having your loins girt about
with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
. . . above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall
be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take
the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word of God.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will
wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people
shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath
spoken [it]. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our
God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the
LORD; . . . we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
1Th 5:8 1Pe 1:13 Eph 6:14,16,17 Isa 25:8,9 Heb 11:1
Evening:
The children of Israel pitched before them like two
little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD
[is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys,
therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine
hand, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. And they pitched
one over against the other seven days. And [so] it was, that in
the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of
Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one
day.--Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:
because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the
world.
Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I
[am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
They shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail
against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver
thee.
1Ki 20:27-29 1Jo 4:4 Isa 41:10 Jer 1:19
11.09
Morning:
I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty;
I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.
I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no
saviour.--[There is] one God, and one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus.--There is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
The mighty God.--[Who] made himself of no reputation, and
took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him
a name which is above every name.--We see Jesus, who was made a
little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste
death for every man.--Forasmuch . . . as the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part
of the same.
Ps 89:19 Isa 43:11 1Ti 2:5 Ac 4:12 Isa 9:6 Php 2:7-9
Heb 2:9,14
Evening:
Gather my saints together unto me;
those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second time without
sin unto salvation.--He is the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, . . . they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be
with me where I am.--Then shall he send his angels, and shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from the
uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.--If
[any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of heaven,
from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence
will he fetch thee.
The dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive
[and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.
Ps 50:5 Heb 9:28,15 Joh 17:24 Mr 13:27 De 30:4 1Th 4:16,17
11.10
Morning:
Fruitful in every good work,
and increasing in the knowledge of God.
I beseech you, . . . brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, [which is] your reasonable service. And be not conformed to
this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God.--As ye have yielded your members servants
to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield
your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.--In Christ
Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk
according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so
shall ye be my disciples.--I have chosen you, and ordained you,
that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit
should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my
name, he may give it you.
Col 1:10 Ro 12:1,2 6:19 Ga 6:15,16 Joh 15:8,16
Evening:
I sought him, but I found him not.
Return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine
iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto
him, Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God. . . .
but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust,
and enticed. . . . Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good
gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from
the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.--[It is] good that [a
man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the
LORD.--Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and
night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my
salvation.--My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation
[is] from him.
So 3:1 Ho 14:1,2 Jas 1:13,14,16,17 Ps 27:14 Lam 3:26 Lu 18:7
Ps 62:1,5
11.11
Morning:
He led them on safely.
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the
paths of judgment.
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,
and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.--In all
their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he
bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
They got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and
thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst
a favour unto them.--So didst thou lead thy people, to make
thyself a glorious name.
Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine
enemies; make thy way straight before my face.--O send out thy
light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto
thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the
altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will
I praise thee, O God my God.
Ps 78:53 Pr 8:20 Ex 23:20 Isa 63:9 Ps 44:3 Isa 63:14
Ps 5:8 43:3,4
Evening:
Ye are washed, . . .
ye are sanctified, . . . ye are justified.
The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
--The chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed.
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that
he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by
the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish.--To her was granted that she
should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine
linen is the righteousness of saints.--Let us draw near with a
true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with
pure water.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is]
God that justifieth.--Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is]
forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered. Blessed [is] the man unto
whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there
is] no guile.
1Co 6:11 1Jo 1:7 Isa 53:5 Eph 5:25-27 Re 19:8 Heb 10:22
Ro 8:33 Ps 32:1,2
11.12
Morning:
Godly sorrow worketh repentance
to salvation not to be repented of.
Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him,
Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went
out, and wept bitterly.--If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.--The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us
from all sin.
Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not
able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head:
therefore my heart faileth me. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver
me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on
thy God continually.
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a
contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.--He healeth the
broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.--He hath shewed
thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of
thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God?
2Co 7:10 Mt 26:75 1Jo 1:9,7 Ps 40:12,13 Ho 12:6
Ps 51:17 147:3 Mic 6:8
Evening:
[Is it] well with thee? . . .
And she answered, [It is] well.
We having the same spirit of faith.
As chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway
rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and
[yet] possessing all things.
[We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are]
perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken;
cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body
the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might
be made manifest in our body.--For which cause we faint not; but
though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed
day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of
glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at
the things which are not seen.
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and
be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
2Ki 4:26 2Co 4:13 2Co 6:9,10 4:8-10,16-18 3Jo 1:2
11.13
Morning:
Christ . . . loved the church, and gave himself for it;
that he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water by the word.
Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given
himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a
sweetsmelling savour.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for
ever.--Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.--
Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God.--Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by
the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.--
Thy word hath quickened me.
The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the
testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple. The
statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the
commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
Eph 5:25,26,2 1Pe 1:23 Joh 17:17 3:5 Tit 3:5 Ps 119:50 19:7,8
Evening:
Through him we both have access
by one Spirit unto the Father.
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in
one.
Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in
my name, I will do [it]. . . . And I will pray the Father, and
he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you
for ever; [even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.--[There
is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope
of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and
Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you
all.--When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, . . .
Let us draw near.
Eph 2:18 Joh 17:23 14:13,14,16,17 Eph 4:4-6 Lu 11:2
Heb 10:19,20,22
11.14
Morning:
Thou [art] my help and my deliverer;
make no tarrying, O my God.
The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly
cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.--In the
fear of the LORD [is] strong confidence: and his children shall
have a place of refuge.--Who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be
afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which]
shall be made [as] grass; and forgettest the LORD thy maker?
I [am] with thee to deliver thee.--Be strong and of a good
courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God,
he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor
forsake thee.
I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy
in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the
day of my trouble.--Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt
preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs
of deliverance.
Ps 40:17 37:23,24 Pr 14:26 Isa 51:12,13 Jer 1:8 De 31:6
Ps 59:16 32:7
Evening:
How wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
For Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest.
The priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD
stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the
Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were
passed clean over Jordan.
We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for
the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he
by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff
they comfort me.--When thou passest through the waters, I [will
be] with thee.
Fear not; I am the first and the last: I [am] he that liveth,
and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and
have the keys of hell and of death.
Jer 12:5 Jos 3:15,17 Heb 2:9 Ps 23:4 Isa 43:2 Re 1:17,18
11.15
Morning:
God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called
unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without
wavering; for he [is] faithful that promised.--God hath said, I
will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.--Truly our fellowship [is] with the
Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.--Rejoice, inasmuch as ye
are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall
be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to
comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length,
and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness
of God.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
dwelleth in him, and he in God.--And he that keepeth his
commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him.
1Co 1:9 Heb 10:23 2Co 6:16 1Jo 1:3 1Pe 4:13 Eph 3:17-19
1Jo 4:15 3:24
Evening:
We are his workmanship.
They brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones,
to lay the foundation of the house.--The house, when it was in
building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought
thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe [nor] any tool
of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house.--
Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; in whom all the
building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in
the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation
of God through the Spirit.--Which in time past [were] not a
people, but [are] now the people of God.
[Ye are] God's building.--Therefore if any man [be] in
Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new.--Now he that hath wrought us
for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the
earnest of the Spirit.
Eph 2:10 1Ki 5:17 6:7 1Pe 2:5 Eph 2:20-22 1Pe 2:10 1Co 3:9
2Co 5:17 2Co 5:5
11.16
Morning:
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto
you.--Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
[thereto] according to thy word. With my whole heart have I
sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is
pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee,
understanding shall keep thee.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not
declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his
lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my
necessary [food].--I have more understanding than all my
teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation.--If ye
continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed; and ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Joh 17:17 15:3 Col 3:16 Ps 119:9,10 Pr 2:10,11 Job 23:11,12
Ps 119:99 Joh 8:31,32
Evening:
Fellowcitizens with the saints.
Ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of
angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to
the spirits of just men made perfect.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises,
but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and
embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth.--Our conversation is in heaven; from
whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who
shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto
his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able
even to subdue all things unto himself.--The Father . . . hath
delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated
[us] into the kingdom of his dear Son.
As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which
war against the soul.
Eph 2:19 Heb 12:22,23 Heb 11:13 Php 3:20,21 Col 1:12,13
1Pe 2:11
11.17
Morning:
Thy thoughts are very deep.
We . . . do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye
might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding.--That Christ may dwell in your hearts
by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be
able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ,
which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the
fulness of God.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past
finding out!--For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither
[are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For [as] the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.--Many, O LORD my God, [are]
thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts
[which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto
thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more
than can be numbered.
Ps 92:5 Col 1:9 Eph 3:17-19 Ro 11:33 Isa 55:8,9 Ps 40:5
Evening:
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
They that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.--
They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.--He
that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
To him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward.--
He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore
opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them
who are of the household of faith.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is]
that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall
be watered also himself.--He which soweth sparingly shall reap
also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully.
Ga 6:7 Job 4:8 Ho 8:7 Ga 6:8 Pr 11:18 Ga 6:8-10 Pr 11:24,25
2Co 9:6
11.18
Morning:
He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies
[are] great.--I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave
thee altogether unpunished.--He will not always chide: neither
will he keep [his anger] for ever. He hath not dealt with us
after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.--
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.--I
will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a
way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].--Satan hath
desired [to have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat: but I
have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.
Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from
the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm
[against] the wall.
Isa 27:8 2Sa 24:14 Jer 30:11 Ps 103:9,10,14 Mal 3:17 1Co 10:13
Lu 22:31,32 Isa 25:4
Evening:
I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes
had seen [it]: and, behold, the half was not told me.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with
this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the
uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and,
behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.--We beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth.
My speech and my preaching [was] . . . in demonstration of
the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.--But as it is written,
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him. But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit:
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of
God.
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty.--We shall see
him as he is.--In my flesh shall I see God.--I shall be
satisfied.
1Ki 10:7 Mt 12:42 Joh 1:14 1Co 2:4,5,9,10 Isa 33:17 1Jo 3:2
Job 19:26 Ps 17:15
11.19
Morning:
By their fruits ye shall know them.
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth
righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.--Doth a
fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a
vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and
fresh. Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness
of wisdom.--Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles:
that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by
[your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the
day of visitation.
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make
the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known
by [his] fruit.--A good man out of the good treasure of the
heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the
evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have
not done in it?
Mt 7:20 1Jo 3:7 Jas 3:11-13 1Pe 2:12 Mt 12:33,35 Isa 5:4
Evening:
I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth
[is] my footstool.
Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold,
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much
less this house which I have built!
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it [is] a little
while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea,
and the dry [land]; and I will shake all nations, and the desire
of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with
glory, saith the LORD of hosts. . . . The glory of this latter
house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of
hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of
hosts.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
. . . And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold,
the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be
with them, [and be] their God.
Isa 60:13 66:1 2Ch 6:18 Hag 2:6,7,9 Re 21:1,3
11.20
Morning:
When I sit in darkness,
the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.
When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou
walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither
shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I [am] the LORD thy God,
the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.--I will bring the blind by
a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that]
they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and
crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and
not forsake them.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me.--What time I am afraid, I will trust in
thee. In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust;
I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.--The LORD [is] my
light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the
strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Mic 7:8 Isa 43:2,3 42:16 Ps 23:4 56:3,4 27:1
Evening:
One God, and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD.--Now a
mediator is not [a mediator] of one, but God is one.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity,
we have done wickedly. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in
Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies. . . .
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his
chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath,
lest he should destroy [them].
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ
Jesus; who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses
[was faithful] in all his house.
He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
established upon better promises.--I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I
remember no more.
1Ti 2:5 De 6:4 Ga 3:20 Ps 106:6,7,23 Heb 3:1-3 8:6,12
11.21
Morning:
Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
It shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will
hear; for I [am] gracious.--I will not cast them away, neither
will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my
covenant with them: for I [am] the LORD their God.--I will
remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I
will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.--Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let
him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and
to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.--Lord, remember me
when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him,
Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in
paradise.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall
he not quench.
Joh 6:37 Ex 22:27 Le 26:44 Eze 16:60 Isa 1:18 55:7
Lu 23:42,43 Isa 42:3
Evening:
His dear Son.
Lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased.--Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine
elect, [in whom] my soul delighteth.--The only begotten Son,
which is in the bosom of the Father.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we
might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God,
but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation
for our sins.--And we have known and believed the love that God
hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth
in God, and God in him.
The glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they
may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that
they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know
that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved
me.--Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon
us, that we should be called the sons of God.
Col 1:13 Mt 3:17 Isa 42:1 Joh 1:18 1Jo 4:9,10,16 Joh 17:22-24
1Jo 3:1
11.22
Morning:
Praying in the Holy Ghost.
God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship
[him] in spirit and in truth.--We . . . have access by one
Spirit unto the Father.
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].
The Spirit . . . helpeth our infirmities: for we know not
what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And
he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the
Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according
to [the will of] God.--This is the confidence that we have in
him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth
us. When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide
you into all truth.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication.
Jude 1:20 Joh 4:24 Eph 2:18 Mt 26:39 Ro 8:26,27 1Jo 5:14
Joh 16:13 Eph 6:18
Evening:
There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down,
that it will sprout again,
and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
A bruised reed shall he not break.--He restoreth my soul.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be
repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.--No
chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
word.--After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and
for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished
us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such]
deliverance as this.
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto
me. . . . He will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall
behold his righteousness.
Job 14:7 Isa 42:3 Ps 23:3 2Co 7:10 Heb 12:11 Ps 119:67
Ezr 9:13 Mic 7:8,9
11.23
Morning:
Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,
and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.--
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall
abide under the shadow of the Almighty.--His truth [shall be
thy] shield and buckler.
Your life is hid with Christ in God.--He that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of his eye.--Fear ye not, stand still, and
see the salvation of the LORD. . . . The LORD shall fight for
you, and ye shall hold your peace.--God [is] our refuge and
strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we
fear.
Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be
not afraid.--Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in
your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself:
handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye
see me have.--I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that
he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against
that day.
Pr 1:33 Ps 90:1 91:1,4 Col 3:3 Zec 2:8 Ex 14:13,14 Ps 46:1,2
Mt 14:27 Lu 24:38,39 2Ti 1:12
Evening:
My kingdom is not of this world.
This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for
ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.--Hereafter
shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power,
and coming in the clouds of heaven.
He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
Thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.--H he raised him from the dead, and set [him]
at his own right hand in the heavenly [places], far above all
principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name
that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is
to come: and hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him
[to be] the head over all [things] to the church, which is his
body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.--He shall
shew, [who is] the blessed and only Potentate, the King of
kings, and Lord of lords.
Joh 18:36 Heb 10:12,13 Mt 26:64 1Co 15:25,57 Eph 1:20-23
1Ti 6:15
11.24
Morning:
My mother and my brethren are these
which hear the word of God, and do it.
Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are]
all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them
brethren, saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in
the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.--In Jesus
Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.--Ye are my
friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.--Blessed [are] they
that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in heaven.--My meat is to do the will of him
that sent me, and to finish his work.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.--Whoso keepeth his word,
in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that
we are in him.
Lu 8:21 Heb 2:11,12 Ga 5:6 Joh 15:14 Lu 11:28 Mt 7:21 Joh 4:34
1Jo 1:6 2:5
Evening:
What doest thou here, Elijah?
He knoweth the way that I take.--O LORD, thou hast searched
me, and known [me]. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine
uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou
compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with]
all my ways.--Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither
shall I flee from thy presence?--[If] I take the wings of the
morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even
there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are.--The fear
of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD
shall be safe.--Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast
down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.--A just [man]
falleth seven times, and riseth up again.
Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall
reap, if we faint not.--The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the
flesh [is] weak.--Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so]
the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
1Ki 19:9 Job 23:10 Ps 139:1-3,7,9,10 Jas 5:17 Pr 29:25
Ps 37:24 Pr 24:16 Ga 6:9 Mt 26:41 Ps 103:13
11.25
Morning:
Being then made free from sin,
ye became the servants of righteousness.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.--When ye were the servants of
sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in
those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those
things [is] death. But now being made free from sin, and become
servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life.
Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one
that believeth.
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there
shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will [my]
Father honour.--Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.
O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had dominion
over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.--I
will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my
heart.
Ro 6:18 Mt 6:24 Ro 6:20-22 Ro 10:4 Joh 12:26 Mt 11:29,30
Isa 26:13 Ps 119:32
Evening:
Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
shall be saved.
Manasseh . . . did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, . . . and he reared
up altars for Baal. . . . And he built altars for all the host
of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.--And he
made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used
enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he
wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke
[him] to anger.--And when he was in affliction, he besought the
LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his
fathers, and prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and
heard his supplication.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.--The Lord is
. . . longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should
perish.
Ac 2:21 2Ki 21:1,2,3,5,6 2Ch 33:12,13 Isa 1:18 2Pe 3:9
11.26
Morning:
The LORD delighteth in thee.
Thus saith the LORD that created thee, . . . Fear not: for I
have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art]
mine.--Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not
have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget,
yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the
palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.
The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way.--My delights [were] with the sons of men.
--The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that
hope in his mercy.--They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts,
in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as
a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind
by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his
flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight.
Isa 62:4 43:1 49:15,16 Ps 37:23 Pr 8:31 Ps 147:11 Mal 3:17
Col 1:21,22
Evening:
The sorrow of the world worketh death.
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he
saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to
his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself,
and died.--A wounded spirit who can bear?
[Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there?
why then is not the health of the daughter of my people
recovered?--The LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings
unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
. . . to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn
in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.--
Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for
I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.
Philip . . . preached unto him Jesus.--He healeth the broken
in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
2Co 7:10 2Sa 17:23 Pr 18:14 Jer 8:22 Isa 61:1-3 Mt 11:28-30
Ac 8:35 Ps 147:3
11.27
Morning:
The glory which thou gavest me I have given them.
I saw . . . the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted
up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the
seraphims. . . . And one cried unto another, and said, Holy,
holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of
his glory.--These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and
spake of him.--Upon the likeness of the throne [was] the
likeness . . . of a man above upon it. . . . As the appearance
of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the
appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.
I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. . . . And he said, Thou
canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
--No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].--God, who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ.
Joh 17:22 Isa 6:1-3 Joh 12:41 Eze 1:26,28 Ex 33:18,20 Joh 1:18
2Co 4:6
Evening:
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also
unto her husband with her; and he did eat.--Did not Achan the
son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath
fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished
not alone in his iniquity.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil.
Wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.
None of us liveth to himself.--Brethren, ye have been called
unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the
flesh, but by love serve one another.--Take heed lest by any
means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that
are weak.--When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their
weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all.
Pr 1:10 Ge 3:6 Jos 22:20 Ex 23:2 Mt 7:13 Ro 14:7 Ga 5:13
1Co 8:9,12 Isa 53:6
11.28
Morning:
As the body without the spirit is dead,
so faith without works is dead also.
Not every one that saith, . . . Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven.--Holiness, without which no man shall see
the Lord.--Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to
patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and
abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he
that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and
hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore
the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and
election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: not of works, lest any man
should boast.
Jas 2:26 Mt 7:21 Heb 12:14 2Pe 1:5-10 Eph 2:8-9
Evening:
As the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same;
that [he might] deliver them who through fear
of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy
victory?--Thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.--For which cause we faint not;
but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is
renewed day by day.
We know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were
dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.--Therefore [we are] always
confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we
are absent from the Lord. . . . We are . . . willing rather to
be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe
also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were]
not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye
may be also.
Heb 2:14,15 1Co 15:55,57 2Co 4:16 5:1,6-8 Joh 14:1-2
11.29
Morning:
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house.
One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek
after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of
my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his
temple.
Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall be filled.--He hath filled the
hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul
with goodness.--I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me
shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst.
How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures. For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light
shall we see light.
Ps 65:4 27:4 Mt 5:6 Lu 1:53 Ps 107:9 Joh 6:35 Ps 36:7-9
Evening:
Do ye now believe?
What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath
faith, and have not works? can faith save him?--Even so faith,
if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he
that had received the promises offered up his only begotten
[son], of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be
called: accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even
from the dead.--Was not Abraham our father justified by works,
when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?--Ye see then
how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
[therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
By their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith
unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but
he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.--If ye
know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Joh 16:31 Jas 2:14,17 Heb 11:17-19 Jas 2:21,24 1:25 Mt 7:20,21
Joh 13:17
11.30
Morning:
Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always
by all means. The Lord [be] with you all.
Peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to
come.--The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall
keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto
them, Peace [be] unto you.--Peace I leave with you, my peace I
give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not
your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
The Comforter . . . [even] the Spirit of truth.--The fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace.-- The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
My presence shall go [with thee], and I will give thee rest.
And he said unto him, If thy presence go not [with me], carry us
not up hence. For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy
people have found grace in thy sight? [is it] not in that thou
goest with us?
2Th 3:16 Re 1:4 Php 4:7 Lu 24:36 Joh 14:27 15:26 Ga 5:22
Ro 8:16 Ex 33:14-16
Evening:
We glory in tribulations.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be
glad also with exceeding joy.--Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.
Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.--They
departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they
were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing.
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall]
fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and
the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from
the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: yet I will
rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Ro 5:3 1Co 15:19 1Pe 4:12,13 2Co 6:10 Php 4:4 Ac 5:41 Ro 15:13
Hab 3:17,18
12.01
Morning:
A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind,
and a covert from the tempest.
Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same.--The man
[that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts.--I and [my] Father
are one.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall
abide under the shadow of the Almighty.--There shall be a
tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a
place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.--The
LORD [is] thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite
thee by day, nor the moon by night.
When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is
higher than I.--Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve
me from trouble.--Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a
strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm,
a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is]
as a storm [against] the wall.
Isa 32:2 Heb 2:14 Zec 13:7 Joh 10:30 Ps 91:1 Isa 4:6
Ps 121:5,6 61:2 32:7 Isa 25:4
Evening:
Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.
The new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall
remain before me, . . . so shall your seed and your name remain.
We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And
I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And
I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them, [and be] their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former
things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new.
Isa 65:17 66:22 2Pe 3:13 Re 21:1-5
12.02
Morning:
Ye have an unction from the Holy One,
and ye know all things.
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with
power.--It pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness
dwell.--Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for
grace.
Thou anointest my head with oil.--The anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man
teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,
and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye
shall abide in him.
The Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what
we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
1Jo 2:20 Ac 10:38 Col 1:19 Joh 1:16 Ps 23:5 1Jo 2:27 Joh 14:26
Ro 8:26
Evening:
Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?--The
blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of]
Abel.
We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace;
When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people
according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats,
with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the
book, and all the people. . . . Moreover he sprinkled with blood
both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And
almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 10:22 9:13,14 12:24 Eph 1:7 Heb 9:19,21,22
12.03
Morning:
I would seek unto God,
and unto God would I commit my cause.
Is any thing too hard for the LORD?--Commit thy way unto the
LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.--Be
careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
unto God.--Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for
you.
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers,
and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD,
and spread it before the LORD. And Hezekiah prayed unto the
LORD.
It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.--The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my
supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,
therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live.
Job 5:8 Ge 18:14 Ps 37:5 Php 4:6 1Pe 5:7 Isa 37:14,15 65:24
Jas 5:16 Ps 116:1,2
Evening:
Our bodies washed with pure water.
Thou shalt . . . make a laver [of] brass, . . . and thou
shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the
altar, and thou shalt put water therein. For Aaron and his sons
shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: when they go into
the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water,
that they die not; . . . they shall wash their hands and their
feet, that they die not.--Your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost [which is] in you.--If any man defile the temple of God,
him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which
[temple] ye are.
In my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and
mine eyes shall behold, and not another.--There shall in no wise
enter into it any thing that defileth.--[Thou art] of purer eyes
than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.--I beseech
you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
[which is] your reasonable service.
Heb 10:22 Ex 30:18-21 1Co 6:19 3:17 Job 19:26,27 Re 21:27
Hab 1:13 Ro 12:1
12.04
Morning:
Where shall wisdom be found?
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to
all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
tossed.--Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not
unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him,
and he shall direct thy paths.--The only wise God.--Be not wise
in thine own eyes.
Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child. But
the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou shalt
go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee
thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with
thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give
[it] you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye
shall receive, that your joy may be full.--All things,
whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Job 28:12 Jas 1:5,6 Pr 3:5,6 1Ti 1:17 Pr 3:7 Jer 1:6-8
Joh 16:23,24 Mt 21:22
Evening:
I would not live alway.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would
I fly away, and be at rest. . . . I would hasten my escape from
the windy storm [and] tempest.
In this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with
our house which is from heaven. . . . For we that are in [this]
tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be
unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed
up of life.--Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ;
which is far better.
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of
God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Job 7:16 Ps 55:6,8 2Co 5:2,4 Php 1:23 Heb 12:1-3 Joh 14:27
12.05
Morning:
[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted;
that I might learn thy statutes.
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered.--We suffer with [him], that we may be also
glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory
which shall be revealed in us.
He knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I
shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way
have I kept, and not declined.
Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led
thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and]
to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou
wouldest keep his commandments, or no.--Thou shalt also consider
in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD
thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to
fear him.
Ps 119:71 Heb 5:8 Ro 8:17,18 Job 23:10,11 De 8:2,5,6
Evening:
By strength shall no man prevail.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee
in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel, whom thou hast defied.--And David put his hand in his
bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it], and smote the
Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his
forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David
prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty
man is not delivered by much strength. . . . Behold, the eye of
the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in
his mercy.--Both riches and honour [come] of thee, and thou
reignest over all; and in thine hand [is] power and might; and
in thine hand [it is] to make great, and to give strength unto
all.
I . . . glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may
rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in
reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for
Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
1Sa 2:9 17:45,49,50 Ps 33:16,18 1Ch 29:12 2Co 12:9,10
12.06
Morning:
It is God which worketh in you.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as
of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God.--A man can
receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.--No man can
come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I
will raise him up at the last day.--And I will give them one
heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever.
Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of
lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them.
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
wrought all our works in us.
Php 2:13 2Co 3:5 Joh 3:27 6:44 Jer 32:39 Jas 1:16-18 Eph 2:10
Isa 26:12
Evening:
The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.
In the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee;
the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the
remembrance of thee. With my soul have I desired thee in the
night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early.
I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that
which is good I find not.--For I delight in the law of God after
the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to
the law of sin which is in my members.--The flesh lusteth
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these
are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the
things that ye would.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.--
Our sufficiency [is] of God.--My grace is sufficient for thee.
Mt 26:41 Isa 26:8,9 Ro 7:18,22,23 Ga 5:17 Php 4:13
2Co 3:5 12:9
12.07
Morning:
He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.--Who his
own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we,
being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose
stripes ye were healed.--As by one man's disobedience many were
made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made
righteous.
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour
toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have
done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on
us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being
justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life.--[There is] therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit.
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
2Co 5:21 Isa 53:6 1Pe 2:24 Ro 5:19 Tit 3:4-7 Ro 8:1 Jer 23:6
Evening:
I will be as the dew unto Israel.
The meekness and gentleness of Christ.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall
he not quench.
The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed
me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that
are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. . . .
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture
fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered
at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter
remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him,
Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went
out, and wept bitterly.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the
lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall
gently lead those that are with young.
Ho 14:5 2Co 10:1 Isa 42:3 Lu 4:18,19,21,22 Lu 22:61,62
Isa 40:11
12.08
Morning:
By love serve one another.
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are
spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness;
considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one
another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one
convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner
from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and
shall hide a multitude of sins.--Seeing ye have purified your
souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned
love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure
heart fervently.--Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.--[Be] kindly
affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour
preferring one another.--Yea, all [of you] be subject one to
another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the
proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
We . . . that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the
weak, and not to please ourselves.
Ga 5:13 6:1,2 Jas 5:19,20 1Pe 1:22 Ro 13:8 12:10 1Pe 5:5
Ro 15:1
Evening:
The dust return to the earth as it was.
It is sown in corruption; . . . it is sown in dishonour;
. . . it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown
a natural body.--The first man [is] of the earth, earthy.
Dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.--One dieth
in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. . . . And
another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth
with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the
worms shall cover them.
My flesh . . . shall rest in hope.--[Though] after my skin
[worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God.--
The Lord Jesus Christ . . . shall change our vile body, that it
may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the
working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto
himself.
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,
what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].--So teach [us]
to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.
Ec 12:7 1Co 15:42-44,47 Ge 3:19 Job 21:23,25,26 Ps 16:9
Job 19:26 Php 3:20,21 Ps 39:4 90:12
12.09
Morning:
To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable
to the LORD than sacrifice.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the
LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?--Hath the LORD [as great] delight
in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of
the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to
hearken than the fat of rams.--To love him with all the heart,
and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with
all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is
more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and
wait on thy God continually.--Mary . . . sat at Jesus' feet, and
heard his word.--One thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that
good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
[his] good pleasure.
Pr 21:3 Mic 6:8 1Sa 15:22 Mr 12:33 Ho 12:6 Lu 10:39,42
Php 2:13
Evening:
The spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
The LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.--[There is] a spirit in man: and the inspiration of
the Almighty giveth them understanding.--The first man Adam was
made a living soul.--The spirit of man that goeth upward.
Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the
Lord. . . . We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be
absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.--With
Christ; which is far better.--I would not have you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye
sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in
Jesus will God bring with him.
I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
Ec 12:7 Ge 2:7 Job 32:8 1Co 15:45 Ec 3:21 2Co 5:6,8 Php 1:23
1Th 4:13,14 Joh 14:2,3
12.10
Morning:
No [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand.
I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.--
The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will
preserve [me] unto his heavenly kingdom.--We are more than
conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.--Your life
is hid with Christ in God.
Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and
heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love
him?
Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father,
which hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation
and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish
you in every good word and work.
Joh 10:29 2Ti 1:12 4:18 Ro 8:37-39 Col 3:3 Jas 2:5 2Th 2:16,17
Evening:
The perfect law of liberty.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
. . . Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin
is the servant of sin. . . . If the Son therefore shall make you
free, ye shall be free indeed.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage.--For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only
[use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love
serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word,
[even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.--Being
then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness.--For the woman which hath an husband is bound by
the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the
husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and death.--I will walk at liberty: for
I seek thy precepts.
Jas 1:25 Joh 8:32-34,36 Ga 5:1,13,14 Ro 6:18 7:2 8:2 Ps 119:45
12.11
Morning:
Let not then your good be evil spoken of.
Abstain from all appearance of evil.--Providing for honest
things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight
of men.--For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may
put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or
[as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet
if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but
let him glorify God on this behalf.
Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not
liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one
another.--Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours
become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.--Whoso shall
offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were
better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and
[that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.--Inasmuch as ye
have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done [it] unto me.
Ro 14:16 1Th 5:22 2Co 8:21 1Pe 2:15 4:15,16 Ga 5:13 1Co 8:9
Mt 18:6 25:40
Evening:
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light.
[It is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our
salvation nearer than when we believed.--Therefore let us not
sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. For they
that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are
drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober,
putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet,
the hope of salvation.
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the
LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover
the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall
arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope
to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ.--Let your loins be girded about, and
[your] lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that
wait for their lord.
Eph 5:14 Ro 13:11 1Th 5:6-8 Isa 60:1,2 1Pe 1:13 Lu 12:35,36
12.12
Morning:
The LORD, [is] in the midst of thee.
Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I
[am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
--Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:
behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a
recompence; he will come and save you.--The LORD thy God in the
midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over
thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee
with singing.--Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he
shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them, [and be] their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former
things are passed away.
Zep 3:15 Isa 41:10 35:3,4 Zep 3:17 Ps 27:14 Re 21:3,4
Evening:
Wherefore criest thou unto me?
speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.
Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for
our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do
[that which is] good in his sight.--We made our prayer unto our
God, and set a watch against them day and night.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in heaven.--If any man will do his will, he
shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God.--Then shall we
know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.--Watch ye,
stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.--Not
slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not.
Ex 14:15 1Ch 19:13 Ne 4:9 Mt 7:21 Joh 7:17 Ho 6:3 Mt 26:41
1Co 16:13 Ro 12:11 Isa 35:3,4
12.13
Morning:
Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power.
--As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk
ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the
faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving.--Trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD,
that he might be glorified.--Built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
corner [stone]; in whom all the building fitly framed together
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are
builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is
able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all
them which are sanctified.--Being filled with the fruits of
righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and
praise of God.
Fight the good fight of faith.--In nothing terrified by your
adversaries.
2Ti 2:1 Col 1:11 2:6,7 Isa 61:3 Eph 2:20-22 Ac 20:32 Php 1:11
1Ti 6:12 Php 1:28
Evening:
Thou renderest to every man according to his work.
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which
is Jesus Christ.--If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be
burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet
so as by fire.--We must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his]
body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or
bad.
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy
Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.--
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and
reckoneth with them.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as
of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God.--LORD, thou wilt
ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in
us.
Ps 62:12 1Co 3:11,14,15 2Co 5:10 Mt 6:3,4 25:19 2Co 3:5
Isa 26:12
12.14
Morning:
Make his praise glorious.
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth
my praise.--I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby
they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have
transgressed against me. And it shall be to me a name of joy, a
praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth.--By
him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to
his name.
I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I
will glorify thy name for evermore. For great [is] thy mercy
toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
--Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, . . . glorious in holiness,
fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?--I will praise the name of
God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.--They
sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the
Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God
Almighty.
Ps 66:2 Isa 43:21 Jer 33:8,9 Heb 13:15 Ps 86:12,13 Ex 15:11
Ps 69:30 Re 15:3
Evening:
By nature the children of wrath, even as others.
We ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice
and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.--Marvel not that I
said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
Job answered the LORD, and said, Behold, I am vile; what
shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.--The
LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that
[there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright
man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.--David . . . to whom also he gave testimony, and
said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, a man after mine
own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
I obtained mercy . . . who was before a blasphemer, and a
persecutor, and injurious.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.
Eph 2:3 Tit 3:3 Joh 3:7 Job 40:3,4 1:8 Ps 51:5 Ac 13:22
1Ti 1:13 Joh 3:6
12.15
Morning:
Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on
the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus: [who] took upon him the form of a servant.--Even
the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister,
and to give his life a ransom for many.--He died for all, that
they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but
unto him which died for them, and rose again.
When Jesus . . . saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping
which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
. . . Jesus wept.--Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep
with them that weep.
[Be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another,
love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous: not rendering
evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise
blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should
inherit a blessing.
Ga 6:2 Php 2:4,5,7 Mr 10:45 2Co 5:15 Joh 11:33,35 Ro 12:15
1Pe 3:8,9
Evening:
Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
Thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an
heir of God through Christ.
Reckon ye . . . yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin
therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in
the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members [as]
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves
unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your
members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.--As obedient
children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former
lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is
holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is
written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.--Sanctified, and meet for
the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good work.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know
that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Mt 21:28 Ga 4:7 Ro 6:11-13 1Pe 1:14-16 2Ti 2:21 1Co 15:58
12.16
Morning:
Having loved his own which were in the world,
he loved them unto the end.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which
thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine,
and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.--I pray not that
thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye
in my love.--Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do
whatsoever I command you.--A new commandment I give unto you,
That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love
one another.
He which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it]
until the day of Jesus Christ.--Christ . . . loved the church,
and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water by the word.
Joh 13:1 17:9,10,15,16 15:9,13,14 13:34 Php 1:6 Eph 5:25,26
Evening:
The deep things of God.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto
you.--It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom
of heaven.
We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God.
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his
glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner
man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye,
being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend
with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth,
and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
1Co 2:10 Joh 15:15 Mt 13:11 1Co 2:12 Eph 3:14-19
12.17
Morning:
Quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
It is the spirit that quickeneth.--The Spirit also helpeth
our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we
ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the
hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he
maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of]
God.--Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance.
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast
quickened me.--The words that I speak unto you, [they] are
spirit, and [they] are life.--The letter killeth, but the spirit
giveth life.--If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye
shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.--This
is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing
according to his will, he heareth us.
No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
Ps 80:18 Joh 6:63 Ro 8:26,27 Eph 6:18 Ps 119:93 Joh 6:63
2Co 3:6 Joh 15:7 1Jo 5:14 1Co 12:3
Evening:
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
but rather reprove [them].
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven. . . . I wrote unto you in an
epistle not to company with fornicators: yet not altogether with
the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or
extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out
of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep
company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or
covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.--That ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the
midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as
lights in the world.
In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of
silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and
some to dishonour.
Eph 5:11 1Co 15:33 5:6,7,9-11 Php 2:15 2Ti 2:20
12.18
Morning:
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy,
and find grace to help in time of need.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.--Ye have
not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have
received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.--
Having therefore, . . . boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
snd [having] an high priest over the house of God. Let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed
with pure water.--We may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper,
and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Heb 4:16 Php 4:6,7 Ro 8:15 Isa 45:19 Heb 10:19,22 13:6
Evening:
Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.
Where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.--The
law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from
the law of sin and death.--If the Son . . . shall make you free,
ye shall be free indeed.
Brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the
free.--Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the
law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in
Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ,
and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law
shall no flesh be justified.
Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
[therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.--Stand fast
therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and
be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Joh 8:32 2Co 3:17 Ro 8:2 Joh 8:36 Ga 4:31 2:16 Jas 1:25 Ga 5:1
12.19
Morning:
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.
Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no
light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his
God.--Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the
LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.--The commandment [is] a
lamp; and the law [is] light.
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto
me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have
sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute
judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I
shall behold his righteousness.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye
be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore
the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that
darkness!
Ps 112:4 Isa 50:10 Ps 37:24 Pr 6:23 Mic 7:8,9 Mt 6:22,23
Evening:
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather
the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom,
[and] shall gently lead those that are with young.
I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue
with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: . . . I will
not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.--We have
not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of
our infirmities.
They brought young children to him, . . . and he took them up
in his arms, put [his] hands upon them, and blessed them.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant.--The
Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.--Ye
were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdom.--I will feed my flock, and I will cause
them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
Isa 40:11 Mt 15:32 Heb 4:15 Mr 10:13,16 Ps 119:176 Lu 19:10
1Pe 2:25 Lu 12:32 Eze 34:15
12.20
Morning:
He hath chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world.
That we should be holy and without blame before him in love.
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: whereunto
he called you, . . . to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ.--Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate
[to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did
predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he
also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.--
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of
the blood of Jesus Christ.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.--God hath not
called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Eph 1:4 2Th 2:13,14 Ro 8:29,30 1Pe 1:2 Eze 36:26 1Th 4:7
Evening:
[If] the LORD would make windows in heaven,
might this thing be?
Have faith in God.--Without faith [it is] impossible to
please [God].--With God all things are possible.
Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I
no power to deliver?
My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways
my ways, saith the LORD. For [as] the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts
than your thoughts.--Prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of
hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour
you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to
receive it].
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.--LORD, [it is]
nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that
have no power.
We should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth
the dead.
2Ki 7:2 Mr 11:22 Heb 11:6 Mt 19:26 Isa 50:2 55:8,9 Mal 3:10
Isa 59:1 2Ch 14:11 2Co 1:9
12.21
Morning:
The days of thy mourning shall be ended.
In the world ye shall have tribulation.--The whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only
[they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for
the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.--We that are
in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we
would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be
swallowed up of life.
These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have
washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the
Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him
day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall
feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters:
and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Isa 60:20 Joh 16:33 Ro 8:22,23 2Co 5:4 Re 7:14-17
Evening:
Master, carest thou not that we perish?
The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over
all his works.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as
the green herb have I given you all things.--While the earth
remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer
and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and
he knoweth them that trust in him.--God heard the voice of the
lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and
said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath
heard the voice of the lad where he [is]. . . . And God opened
her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled
the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we
drink? . . . for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need
of all these things.--Trust . . . in the living God, who giveth
us richly all things to enjoy.
Mr 4:38 Ps 145:9 Ge 9:3 Ge 8:22 Na 1:7 Ge 21:17,19 Mt 6:31,32
1Ti 6:17
12.22
Morning:
Your work of faith.
This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath
sent.
Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.--Faith
which worketh by love.--He that soweth to his flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of
the Spirit reap life everlasting.--We are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them.--Who gave himself for us,
that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto
himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the
charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.--
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count
you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure
of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power.--It is God
which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good
pleasure.
1Th 1:3 Joh 6:29 Jas 2:17 Ga 5:6 6:8 Eph 2:10 Tit 2:14
2Th 1:3,11 Php 2:13
Evening:
Where is the promise of his coming?
Enoch, . . . the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
saints, to execute judgment upon all.--Behold, he cometh with
clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which
pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of
him.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive [and]
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all
men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 3:4 Jude 1:14-15 Re 1:7 1Th 4:16,17 Tit 2:11-13
12.23
Morning:
Let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make
peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
--[There is] no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh
by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace.
It pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell;
and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
reconcile all things unto himself.--Christ Jesus: whom God hath
set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to
declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
past, . . . that he might be just, and the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus.--If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is]
everlasting strength.
Isa 27:5 Jer 29:11 Isa 48:22 Eph 2:13,14 Col 1:19,20
Ro 3:24-26 1Jo 1:9 Isa 26:4
Evening:
God hath given to us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son.
As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
Son to have life in himself.--For as the Father raiseth up the
dead, and quickeneth [them]; even so the Son quickeneth whom he
will.
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never die.--I am the good shepherd: the
good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.--I lay down my
life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but
I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my
Father.--No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.--He that hath
the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath
not life.--For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God. When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory.
1Jo 5:11 Joh 5:26,21 11:25,26 10:11,17,18 Joh 14:6 1Jo 5:12
Col 3:3,4
12.24
Morning:
If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:
but if ye through the Spirit do mortify
the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these];
Adultery, fornication, . . . and such like: of the which I tell
you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such
there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the
flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit.
The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all
men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself
for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify
unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Ro 8:13 Ga 5:19,21-25 Tit 2:11-14
Evening:
Then said the princes of the Philistines,
What [do] these Hebrews [here]?
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye];
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their
part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. But
let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, . . . or
as a busybody in other men's matters.
Let not . . . your good be evil spoken of.--Having your
conversation honest among the Gentiles.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness? . . . Ye are the temple of
the living God. . . . wherefore come out from among them, and be
ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing].
Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises
of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous
light.
1Sa 29:3 1Pe 4:14,15 Ro 14:16 1Pe 2:12 2Co 6:14,16,17 1Pe 2:9
12.25
Morning:
The kindness and love of God our Saviour
toward man appeared.
I have loved thee with an everlasting love.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we
might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God,
but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation
for our sins.
When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that
were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
--The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.--Great is the mystery of godliness: God
was manifest in the flesh,
As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also
himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the
devil.
Tit 3:4 Jer 31:3 1Jo 4:9,10 Ga 4:4,5 Joh 1:14 1Ti 3:16
Heb 2:14
Evening:
Thanks [be] unto God for his unspeakable gift.
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the
LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. . . .
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts
with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.--For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
He . . . spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all.--Having yet . . . one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him.
Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
[for] his wonderful works to the children of men!--Bless the
LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless] his holy
name.
My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in
God my Saviour.
2Co 9:15 Ps 100:1,2,4 Isa 9:6 Ro 8:32 Mr 12:6 Ps 107:21 103:1
Lu 1:46,47
12.26
Morning:
Be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord.
Ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.--As ye
have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk ye in
him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as
ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.--He
that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.--That
on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart,
having heard the word, keep [it], and bring forth fruit with
patience.
By faith ye stand.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no man can work.
He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing:
for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have
therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially
unto them who are of the household of faith.
1Co 15:58 Col 2:6,7 Mt 24:13 Lu 8:15 2Co 1:24 Joh 9:4
Ga 6:8-10
Evening:
He is able . . . to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him.
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.--Neither is there salvation in any other: for
there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby
we must be saved.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.--He which
hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of
Jesus Christ.--Is any thing too hard for the LORD?
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with
exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Heb 7:25 Joh 14:6 Ac 4:12 Joh 10:27,28 Php 1:6 Ge 18:14
Jude 1:24,25
12.27
Morning:
We look not at the things which are seen,but at the things
which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are]
temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
Here have we no continuing city.--Ye have in heaven a better
and an enduring substance.
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdom.
Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations.--There the wicked cease [from] troubling;
and there the weary be at rest.
We that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened.--
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
The sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be
compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us.--Our
light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a
far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory.
2Co 4:18 Heb 13:14 10:34 Lu 12:32 1Pe 1:6 Job 3:17 2Co 5:4
Re 21:4 Ro 8:18 2Co 4:17
Evening:
He is our peace.
God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not
imputing their trespasses unto them; . . . for he hath made him
[to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.--Having made peace through the
blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself;
by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in
heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in
[your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the
body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.--Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his
cross.--Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law
of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in
himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
Eph 2:14 2Co 5:19,21 Col 1:20-22 2:14 Eph 2:15 Joh 14:27
12.28
Morning:
Thy sins be forgiven thee.
I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin
no more.--Who can forgive sins but God only?
I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for
mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.--Blessed [is he
whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.
Blessed [is] the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity.--
Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity.
God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.--The blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have
no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our]
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed
our transgressions from us.--Sin shall not have dominion over
you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.--Being then
made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Mr 2:5 Jer 31:34 Mr 2:7 Isa 43:25 Ps 32:1,2 Mic 7:18 Eph 4:32
1Jo 1:7-9 Ps 103:12 Ro 6:14,18
Evening:
We would see Jesus.
O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul
[is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all
that call upon him in truth.
Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am
I in the midst of them.--I will not leave you comfortless: I
will come to you.--Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end
of the world.
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith.
Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.--
Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far
better.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every
man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is
pure.
Joh 12:21 Isa 26:8 Ps 145:18 Mt 18:20 Joh 14:18 Mt 28:20
Heb 12:1,2 1Co 13:12 Php 1:23 1Jo 3:2,3
12.29
Morning:
Understanding what the will of the Lord [is].
This is the will of God, [even] your sanctification.--
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good
shall come unto thee.--This is life eternal, that they might
know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent.--We know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an
understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in
him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the
true God, and eternal life.
We . . . do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye
might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding.--The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your
understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the
hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints, and what [is] the exceeding greatness
of his power to us-ward who believe.
Eph 5:17 1Th 4:3 Job 22:21 Joh 17:3 1Jo 5:20 Col 1:9
Eph 1:17-19
Evening:
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Enoch walked with God.--Can two walk together, except they be
agreed?--[It is] good for me to draw near to God.
The LORD [is] with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek
him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will
forsake you. . . . But when they in their trouble did turn unto
the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the
LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and
pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me,
and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, . . .
and [having] an high priest over the house of God; let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
Jas 4:8 Ge 5:24 Am 3:3 Ps 73:28 2Ch 15:2,4 Jer 29:11-13
Heb 10:19-22
12.30
Morning:
Blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind
by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his
flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith grounded
and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the
gospel.--That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and
blameless.--Sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with
exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
1Co 1:8 Col 1:21-23 Php 2:15 2Pe 3:14 Php 1:10 Jude 1:24,25
Evening:
He will keep the feet of his saints.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from
all sin.--He that is washed needeth not save to wash [his] feet,
but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in
right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened;
and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. . . . Enter not
into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil
[men]. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.--
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look
straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all
thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the
left: remove thy foot from evil.
The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will
preserve [me] unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] glory for
ever and ever. Amen.
1Sa 2:9 1Jo 1:6,7 Joh 13:10 Pr 4:11,12,14,15,25-27 2Ti 4:18
12.31
Morning:
The LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in
all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.--In
his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all the days of old.--As an eagle stirreth up her
nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings,
taketh them, beareth them on her wings: [so] the LORD alone did
lead him.
[Even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar hairs
will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I will
carry, and will deliver [you].--This God [is] our God for ever
and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto death.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.--Take no thought
for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor
yet for your body, what ye shall put on.--For your heavenly
Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
De 1:31 Ex 19:4 Isa 63:9 De 32:11,12 Isa 46:4 Ps 48:14 55:22
Mt 6:25,32 1Sa 7:12
Evening:
There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for
which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Be ye therefore perfect.--Giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge
temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience
godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity.
I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and [in] all judgment.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him. But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his
Spirit.
There remaineth . . . a rest to the people of God.--Thine
eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the
land that is very far off.
Jos 13:1 Php 3:12 Mt 5:48 2Pe 1:5-7 Php 1:9 1Co 2:9,10 Heb 4:9
Isa 33:17