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@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ January 19th|january-19|<strong>Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.</str
 January 20th|january-20|<strong>His name shall be called Wonderful.</strong>+ +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.+ +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 hath 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.+ +Touching 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; John 1:14; Psa 138:2; Matt 1:23; Matt 1:21; John 5:23; Phl 29; Eph 1:21,22; Rev 19:12,16; Job 37:23; Prov 30:4|<strong>The Lord's portion is his people.</strong>+ +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 forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.+ +Ye are God's husbandry, 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 unto 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.  |Deut 32:9; 1 Cor 3:23; Song 7:10; Song 2:16; Gal 2:20; 1 Cor 6:19,20; Deut 4:20; 1 Cor 3:9; Heb 3:6; 1 Pet 2:5; Mal 3:17; John 17:10; Eph 1:18
 January 21st|january-21|<strong>Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it.</strong>+ +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 unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.+ +We glory in tribulations: 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. -- 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. 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. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees.  |John 15:2; Mal 3:2,3; Rom 5:3; Heb 12:7,8,11,12|<strong>Now we call the proud happy.</strong>+ +Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him 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 their's is the kingdom of heaven.+ +These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, ... . -- Every one that is proud of 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 be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.+ +Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and 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; Prov 16:19; Matt 5:3; Prov 6:16,17; Prov 16:5; Psa 139:23,24; Phl 1:2,3; Matt 5:5
 January 22nd|january-22|<strong>This God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.</strong>+ +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 mine 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 holden 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 beside 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 thine own hands.  |Psa 48:14; Isa 25:1; Psa 16:5; Psa 23:3,4; Psa 73:23; Psa 33:21; Psa 138:8|<strong>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.</strong>+ +O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. -- Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. it:+ +I am but a litile child: I know not how to go out or come in. -- If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, ... and it shall be given 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 be forgiven thee ... Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.+ +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.  |Psa 94:19; Psa 61:2; Isa 38:14; Psa 55:22; 1 Kgs 3:7; Jas 1:5; 2 Cor 2:16; Rom 7:18; 2 Cor 12:9; Matt 9:2,22; Psa 63:5,6
-January 23rd|january-23|<strong>Hope maketh not ashamed.</strong>+ +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 JEHOVAH 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 defense; I shall not be moved. -- I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed.+ +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.  |Rom 5:5; Isa 49:23; Jer 17:7; Isa 26:3,4; Psa 62:5,6; 2 Tim 1:12; Heb 6:17|<strong>The offence of the cross.</strong>+ +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? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. -- We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. -- Unto you therefore 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, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.+ +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. -- 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.  |Gal 5:11; Matt 16:24; Isa 4:4; Acts 14:22; Rom 9:33; 1 Pet 2:7,8; Gal 6:1; Gal 2:20; Gal 5:24; 2 Tim 2:12
+January 23rd|january-23|<strong>Hope maketh not ashamed.</strong>+ +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 JEHOVAH 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 defense; I shall not be moved. -- I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed.+ +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.  |Rom 5:5; Isa 49:23; Jer 17:7; Isa 26:3,4; Psa 62:5,6; 2 Tim 1:12; Heb 6:17|<strong>The offence of the cross.</strong>+ +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? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. -- We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. -- Unto you therefore 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, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.+ +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. -- 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.  |Gal 5:11; Matt 16:24; Jas 4:4; Acts 14:22; Rom 9:33; 1 Pet 2:7,8; Gal 6:1; Gal 2:20; Gal 5:24; 2 Tim 2:12
 January 24th|january-24|<strong>The Lord is at hand.</strong>+ +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. -- He which 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 of 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 be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.+ +Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.  |Phl 4:5; 1 Thes 4:16; Rev 22:20; 2 Pet 3:14; 1 Thes 5:22; Jas 5:8|<strong>The choice vine.</strong>+ +My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, ... and he looked 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 unto me.+ +The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, ... envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: ... but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.+ +I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 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. Abide in me, and I in you ... Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.  |Gen 49:11; Isa 5:1,2; Jer 2:21; Gal 5:19,21; John 15:1,2,4,8
-January 25th|january-25|<strong>The righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.</strong>+ +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 of God is made unto 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 Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.+ +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.  |Rom 3:22; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 3:13; 1 Cor 1:30; Tit 3:5,6; Phl 3:8,9|<strong>The spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.</strong>+ +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 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.+ +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 unto 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.  |Rom 8:15; John 17:1,11,25; Mark 14:36; Gal 4:6; Eph 2:18,19; Isa 63:16; Luke 15:18; Eph 5:1
+January 25th|january-25|<strong>The righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.</strong>+ +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 of God is made unto 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 Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.+ +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.  |Rom 3:22; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 3:13; 1 Cor 1:30; Tit 3:5,6; Phl 3:8,9|<strong>The spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.</strong>+ +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 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.+ +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 unto 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.  |Rom 8:15; John 17:1,11,25; Mark 14:36; Gal 4:6; Eph 2:18,19; Isa 63:16; Luke 15:18; Eph 5:1
-January 26th|january-26|<strong>Let us go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.</strong>+ +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. -- As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.+ +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.+ +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 in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.  |Heb 13:13,14; 1 Pet 4:12,13; 2 Cor 1:7; 1 Pet 4:14; Acts 5:41; Heb 11:25,26|<strong>The Lord Jesus Christ ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.</strong>+ +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 round about 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 round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.+ +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. -- 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.  |Phl 3:20,21; Ezek 1:26; 2 Cor 3:18; 1 John 3:2; Rev 7:16; Rev 15:3
+January 26th|january-26|<strong>Let us go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.</strong>+ +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. -- As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.+ +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.+ +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 in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.  |Heb 13:13,14; 1 Pet 4:12,13; 2 Cor 1:7; 1 Pet 4:14; Acts 5:41; Heb 11:25,26|<strong>The Lord Jesus Christ ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.</strong>+ +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 round about 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 round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.+ +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. -- 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.  |Phl 3:20,21; Ezek 1:26-27; 2 Cor 3:18; 1 John 3:2; Rev 7:16; Rev 15:3
 January 27th|january-27|<strong>Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins: and in him is no sin.</strong>+ +God, ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by 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. -- 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; ... 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 manifest 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 which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.  |1 John 3:5; Heb 1:13; 2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 1:17; 2 Cor 5:14,15|<strong>I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.</strong>+ +For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.+ +If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin but now they have no cloke for their sin. That servant, which 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 to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto 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.  |Deut 30:19; Ezek 18:32; John 15:22; Luke 12:47; Rom 6:23; John 3:36; Rom 6:16; John 12:26
-January 28th|january-28|<strong>As thy days, so shall thy strength be.</strong>+ +When they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. -- Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.The God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto 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. 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 which strengtheneth me. -- O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.  |Deut 33:25; Matt 13:11; Matt 6:34; Psa 68:35; Isa 40:29; 2 Cor 12:9,10; Phl 4:13; Judg 5:21|<strong>Awake, O north wind, and ... blow upon my garden, that the the spices thereof may flow out.</strong>+ +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. -- 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 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.+ +Though [Jesus] were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the the things which he suffered. -- In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.  |Song 4:16; Heb 12:11; Gal 5:22; Isa 27:8; Psa 103:13; 2 Cor 4:16; Heb 5:8; Heb 4:15
+January 28th|january-28|<strong>As thy days, so shall thy strength be.</strong>+ +When they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. -- Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. The God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto 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. 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 which strengtheneth me. -- O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.  |Deut 33:25; Matt 13:11; Matt 6:34; Psa 68:35; Isa 40:29; 2 Cor 12:9,10; Phl 4:13; Judg 5:21|<strong>Awake, O north wind, and ... blow upon my garden, that the the spices thereof may flow out.</strong>+ +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. -- 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 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.+ +Though [Jesus] were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the the things which he suffered. -- In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.  |Song 4:16; Heb 12:11; Gal 5:22; Isa 27:8; Psa 103:13; 2 Cor 4:16; Heb 5:8; Heb 4:15
-January 29th|january-29|<strong>Thou God seest me.</strong>+ +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. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether ... Such knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot attain unto 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. -- 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.+ +Jesus ... knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in man. -- Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.  |Gen 16:13; Psa 139:1-4,6; Prov 15:3; Prov 5:21; Luke 16:15; 2 Chr 16:9; John 2:24,25; John 21:17|<strong>I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.</strong>+ +Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. -- It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: to shew forth thy lovingkindness 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 unto God, which is your reasonable service. -- Jesus ... 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 unto 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.  |Psa 86:12; Psa 50:23; Psa 92:1,2; Psa 150:6; Rom 12:1; Heb 13:12,15; Eph 5:20; Rev 5:12
+January 29th|january-29|<strong>Thou God seest me.</strong>+ +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. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether ... Such knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot attain unto 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. -- 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.+ +Jesus ... knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in man. -- Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.  |Gen 16:13; Psa 139:1-4,6; Prov 15:3; Prov 5:21; Luke 16:15; 2 Chr 16:9; John 2:24,25; John 21:17|<strong>I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.</strong>+ +Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. -- It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: to shew forth thy lovingkindness 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 unto God, which is your reasonable service. -- Jesus ... 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 unto 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.  |Psa 86:12; Psa 50:23; Psa 92:1,2; Psa 150:6; Rom 12:1; Heb 13:12,15; Eph 5:20; Rev 5:12
 January 30th|january-30|<strong>Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.</strong>+ +If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. -- Whosoever he be 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 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. -- 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. -- Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.  |Heb 12:1,2; Luke 9:23; Luke 14:33; Rom 13:12; 1 Cor 9:25,27; Phl 3:13,14; Hos 6:3|<strong>It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.</strong>+ +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, which corrected us; and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto 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.  |Lam 3:27; Prov 22:6; Heb 12:9,10; Psa 119:67,71; Jer 29:11; 1 Pet 5:6
 January 31st|january-31|<strong>If ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you;</strong>+ +those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein 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 strongholds; casting down imaginations, ... and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.+ +Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For 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.+ +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.  |Num 33:55; 1 Tim 6:12; 2 Cor 10:4,5; Rom 8:12,13; Gal 5:17; Rom 7:23; Rom 8:37|<strong>If a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him?</strong>+ +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 our's 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 might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.+ +He is gracious unto 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 be for us, who can be against us? 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.  |1 Sam 2:25; 1 John 2:1,2; Rom 3:25,26; Job 33:24; Rom 8:31,33,34
 February 1st|february-01|<strong>Whom having not seen, ye love.</strong>+ +We walk by faith, not by sight. -- We love him, because he first loved us. -- 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. -- In whom ye trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that 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 say, 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 unto 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.  |1 Pet 1:8; 2 Cor 5:7,1 John 4:19,1 John 4:16; Eph L:13; Col 1:27; 1 John 4:20; John 20:29; Psa 2:12|<strong>The Lord Our Righteousness.</strong>+ +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 but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ... 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.  |Jer 23:6; Isa 64:6; Psa 71:16; Isa 61:10; Luke 15:22; Rev 19:8; Phl 3:8,9
@@ -34,16 +34,16 @@ February 2nd|february-02|<strong>Oh that thou wouldest keep me from evil.</stron
 February 3rd|february-03|<strong>Be strong, and work; for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts.</strong>+ +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 which strengtheneth me. -- Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. -- The joy of the Lord is your strength.+ +Thus said 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. -- The Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might.+ +If God be 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, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  |Hag 2:4; John 15:5; Phl 4:13; Eph 6:10; Neh 8:10; Zech 8:9; Isa 35:3,4; Judg 6:14; Rom 8:31 ; 2 Cor 4:1; Gal 6:9; 1 Cor 15:57|<strong>The darkness hideth not from thee.</strong>+ +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, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh 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.  |Psa 139:12; Job 34:21,2; Jer 23:24; Psa 91:5,6,9,10; Psa 121:3,5; Psa 23:4
 February 4th|february-04|<strong>The Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.</strong>+ +Truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is a heavenly. 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 in Egypt. -- 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. -- No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.+ +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. -- Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.+ +He which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.  |Deut 17:16; Heb 11:15,16,25,26; Heb 10:38,39; Luke 9:62; Gal 6:14; 2 Cor 6:17; Phl 1:6|<strong>They talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.</strong>+ +I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. 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.+ +He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. -- Comfort the feebleminded, 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 ourelves.+ +Charity ... rejoiceth not in iniquity. -- Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.  |Psa 69:26; Zech 1:15; Gal 6:1; Jas 5:20; 1 Thes 5:14; Rom 14:30; Rom 15:1; 1 Cor 13:4,6; 1 Cor 10:12
 February 5th|february-05|<strong>I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.</strong>+ +In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. -- She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.+ +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 which 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, ... 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 might be saved.  |John 10:10; Gen 2:17; Gen 3:6; Rom 6:23; Rom 5:17; 1 Cor 15:21-22; 2 Tim 1:10; 1 John 5:11-12; John 3:17|<strong>The judgment seat.</strong>+ +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 forth 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, yea, 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 which are in Christ Jesus.+ +We are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.  |2 Cor 5:10; Rom 2:2; Matt 25:31-32; Matt 13:43; Rom 8:33-34; Rom 8:1; 1 Cor 11:32
-February 6th|february-06|<strong>The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +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 become rich. -- For where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.+ +That in the ages to come he might shew 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 of 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 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. -- 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.  |1 Tim 1:14; 2 Cor 8:9; Rom 5:20; Eph 2:7-9; Gal 2:16; Tit 3:5,6|<strong>I am ... the bright and morning Star.There shall come a star out of Jacob.</strong>+ +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 break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bethel.+ +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 far 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 find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.  |Rev 22:16; Num 24:17; Rom 13:12; Song 2:17; Isa 25:11,12; John 8:12; Rev 2:28; Mark 13:33,37
+February 6th|february-06|<strong>The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +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 become rich. -- For where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.+ +That in the ages to come he might shew 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 of 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 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. -- 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.  |1 Tim 1:14; 2 Cor 8:9; Rom 5:20; Eph 2:7-9; Gal 2:16; Tit 3:5,6|<strong>I am ... the bright and morning Star. There shall come a star out of Jacob.</strong>+ +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 break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bethel.+ +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 far 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 find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.  |Rev 22:16; Num 24:17; Rom 13:12; Song 2:17; Isa 25:11,12; John 8:12; Rev 2:28; Mark 13:33,37
 February 7th|february-07|<strong>When thou has eaten and are full, ... thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.</strong>+ +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 that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.+ +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. -- 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 thine iniquities; ... who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies.  |Deut 8:10; Deut 8:11; Luke 17:15; 1 Tim 4:4,5; Rom 14:6; Prov 10:22; Psa 103:1|<strong>Jesus ... was moved with compassion toward them.</strong>+ +Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. -- 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. -- Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way. -- He cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto 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, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.  |Matt 14:14; Heb 13:8; Heb 4:15; Heb 5:2; Mark 14:37,38; Psa 103:13,14; Psa 86:15,16
-February 8th|february-08|<strong>Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends.</strong>+ +The Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? -- It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. -- God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. -- Even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.+ +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 secret of the Lord is with them that fear him: and he will shew them his covenant. -- I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.  |John 15:15; Gen 18:17; Matt 13:11,1 Cor 2:10,1 Cor 2:7; Psa 65:4; Psa 25:14; John 17:8; John 15:14|<strong>Thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.</strong>+ +The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.+ +Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but feIlowcitizens 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. -- If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively 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; Rev 21:14; Eph 2:19-22,1 Pet 2:3; Psa 65:1
+February 8th|february-08|<strong>Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends.</strong>+ +The Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? -- It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. -- God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. -- Even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.+ +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 secret of the Lord is with them that fear him: and he will shew them his covenant. -- I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.  |John 15:15; Gen 18:17; Matt 13:11,1 Cor 2:10,1 Cor 2:7; Psa 65:4; Psa 25:14; John 17:8; John 15:14|<strong>Thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.</strong>+ +The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.+ +Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but feIlowcitizens 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. -- If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively 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; Rev 21:14; Eph 2:19-22,1 Pet 2:3; Psa 65:1
 February 9th|february-09|<strong>Now he is comforted.</strong>+ +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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.  |Luke 16:25; Isa 60:20; Isa 25:8; Rev 7:14-17; Rev 21:4|<strong>The night cometh when no man can work.</strong>+ +Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, ... they ... rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. -- There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. -- Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?+ +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 dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.+ +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 is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.  |John 9:4; Rev 14:13; Job 3:17; 1 Sam 28:15; Eccl 9:10; Psa 115:17; 2 Tim 4:6-8; Heb 4:9,10
 February 10th|february-10|<strong>The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single thy whole body also is full of light.</strong>+ +The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spint of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. -- Open thou mine 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 open face beholding as in a glass 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 shined in 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 unto 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.  |Luke 11:34; 1 Cor 2:14; Psa 119:18; John 8:12; 2 Cor 3:18; 2 Cor 4:6; Eph 1:17,18|<strong>He smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed.</strong>+ +All our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink 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 forthwith came there out blood and water. -- 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.+ +Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. -- My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.+ +If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. -- Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.  |Psa 78:20; 1 Cor 10:1; John 19:34; Isa 53:5; John 5:40; Jer 2:13; John 7:37; Rev 22:17
-February 11th|february-11|<strong>They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.</strong>+ +It came to pass that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. -- Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst ot 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 thereof 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.  |Mal 3:16; Luke 24:15; Matt 18:20; Phl 4:3; Col 3:16; Heb 3:13; Matt 12:36,37; Isa 65:6|<strong>The trees of the Lord are full of sap.</strong>+ +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 shalt be as the olive tree, and his smell as 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 careful 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 be 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.  |Psa 104:16; Hos 14:5,6; Jer 17:7,8; Eze 17:24; Psa 92:12
+February 11th|february-11|<strong>They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.</strong>+ +It came to pass that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. -- Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst ot 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 thereof 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.  |Mal 3:16; Luke 24:15; Matt 18:20; Phl 4:3; Col 3:16; Heb 3:13; Matt 12:36,37; Isa 65:6|<strong>The trees of the Lord are full of sap.</strong>+ +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 shalt be as the olive tree, and his smell as 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 careful 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 be 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.  |Psa 104:16; Hos 14:5,6; Jer 17:7,8; Eze 17:24; Psa 92:12
 February 12th|february-12|<strong>They shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels.</strong>+ +I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 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. 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: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.+ +I will come again, and receive you unto myself. -- He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe ... in that day. -- 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. -- 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; John 17:6,9,10,24; John 14:3; 2 Thes 1:10; 1 Thes 4:17; Isa 62:3|<strong>I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.</strong>+ +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 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, which 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 unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.+ +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. -- 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: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.  |Exo 33:18; 2 Cor 4:6; John 1:14,18; Psa 42:2; Psa 27:8; 2 Cor 3:18; John 17:24
 February 13th|february-13|<strong>Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.</strong>+ +The man Christ Jesus. -- Made in the likeness of men ... found in fashion as a man. -- 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.+ +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 unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. -- What and 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.  |Ezek 1:26; 1 Tim 2:5; Phl 2:7,8; Heb 2:14; Rev 1:18; Rom 6:9; John 6:62; Eph 1:20; Col 2:9; 2 Cor 13:4|<strong>Thy word hath quickened me.</strong>+ +The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening 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 whosoever 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 gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which 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 quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. -- The word of God is quick 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.  |Psa 119:50; 1 Cor 15:45; John 5:26; John 11:25,26; John 1:4,12,13; John 6:63; Heb 4:12
-February 14th|february-14|<strong>Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.</strong>+ +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 unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise 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 case 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 might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. -- Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.  |Matt 3:15; Psa 40:8; Matt 5:17,18; Isa 42:21; Matt 5:20; Rom 8:3,4; Rom 10:4|<strong>I am thy part and thine inheritance.</strong>+ +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. -- 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.+ +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.  |Num 18:20; Psa 73:25,26; Psa 16:5,6; Lam 3:24; Psa 119:111; Psa 63:1,7; Song 2:16
+February 14th|february-14|<strong>Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.</strong>+ +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 unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise 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 case 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 might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. -- Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.  |Matt 3:15; Psa 40:8; Matt 5:17,18; Isa 42:21; Matt 5:20; Rom 8:3,4; Rom 10:4|<strong>I am thy part and thine inheritance.</strong>+ +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. -- 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.+ +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.  |Num 18:20; Psa 73:25,26; Psa 16:5,6; Lam 3:24; Psa 119:111; Psa 63:1,7; Song 2:16
-February 15th|february-15|<strong>Who can say, I have made my heart clean?</strong>+ +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. -- 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. -- God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto 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.  |Prov 20:9; Psa 14:2,3; Rom 8:8; Rom 7:18,19; Isa 64:6; Gal 3:22; 2 Cor 5:19; 1 John 1:8,9|<strong>The floods lift up their waves.</strong>+ +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 unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.+ +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? 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 unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.  |Psa 93:3; Psa 93:4; Psa 89:8,9; Jer 5:22; Isa 43:2; Matt 14:29; Psa 56:3
+February 15th|february-15|<strong>Who can say, I have made my heart clean?</strong>+ +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. -- 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. -- God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto 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.  |Prov 20:9; Psa 14:2,3; Rom 8:8; Rom 7:18,19; Isa 64:6; Gal 3:22; 2 Cor 5:19; 1 John 1:8,9|<strong>The floods lift up their waves.</strong>+ +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 unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.+ +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? 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 unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.  |Psa 93:3; Psa 93:4; Psa 89:8,9; Jer 5:22; Isa 43:2; Matt 14:29; Psa 56:3
 February 16th|february-16|<strong>Thy name is as ointment poured forth.</strong>+ +Christ ... hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. -- Unto you therefore which 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 Ghost which is given unto 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.  |Song 1:3; Eph 5:2; 1 Pet 2:7; Phl 2:9; Col 29; John 14:15; Rom 5:5; John 12:3; Acts 4:13; Psa 8:1; Matt 1:23; Isa 9:6; Prov 18:10|<strong>We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened.</strong>+ +Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee ... Mine iniquities are gone over mine 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 ... which have the first‑fruits of the Spirit ... groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. -- Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold 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.  |2 Cor 5:4; Psa 38:9,4; Rom 7:24; Rom 8:22,23; 1 Pet 1:6; 2 Pet 1:14; 1 Cor 15:53,54
 February 17th|february-17|<strong>The whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire.</strong>+ +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 without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, 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. -- 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. -- Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.  |Lev 4:12; John 19:16,18; Heb 13:11-13; Phl 3:10; 1 Pet 413; 2 Cor 4:17|<strong>God created man in his own image.</strong>+ +Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.+ +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. We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto 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.  |Gen 1:27; Acts 17:29; Eph 2:4,5,10; Rom 8:29; 1 John 3:2; Psa 17:15; Rev 21:7; Rom 8:17
 February 18th|february-18|<strong>Thou art my hope in the day of evil.</strong>+ +There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. -- I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou has been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.+ +In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto 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 my Redeemer. -- Sorrow shall be turned into joy. -- Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.  |Jer 17:17; Psa 4:6; Psa 59:16; Psa 30:6,8-10; Isa 54:7-8; John 16:20; Psa 30:5|<strong>Adam... begat a son in his own likeness.</strong>+ +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 allow not; for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 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 where made sinners. -- 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.+ +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, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  |Gen 5:3; Job 14:4; Psa 51:5; Eph 2:1,3; Rom 7:14,15,18; Rom 5:12,19; Rom 5:15; Rom 8:2; 1 Cor 15:57
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 February 21st|february-21|<strong>I am the Lord which sanctify you.</strong>+ +I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed 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 be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +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 unto himself a peculiar 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 might be sanctified through the truth. -- Through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.  |Lev 20:8; Lev 20:24,26; Jude 1; John 17:17; 1 Thes 5:23; Heb 13:12; Tit 2:13,14; Heb 2:11; John 17:19; 1 Pet 1:2|<strong>Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.</strong>+ +They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again 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, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though 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.  |Psa 97:11; Psa 126:5,6; 1 Cor 15:27; 1 Pet 1:3,6,7
 February 22nd|february-22|<strong>What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.</strong>+ +The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light.+ +Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- 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 turn to the left. -- 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. 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.  |Psa 25:12; Matt 6:22; Psa 119:105; Isa 30:21; Psa 32:8‑11; Jer 10:23|<strong>When thou liest down, thou shall not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.</strong>+ +There arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.+ +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.+ +I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only 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.  |Prov 3:24; Mark 4:37,38; Phl 4:6,7; Psa 4:8; Psa 127:2; Acts 7:59,60; 2 Cor 5:8
 February 23rd|february-23|<strong>The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.</strong>+ +Behold the Lamb of God, which 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 the 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 the fat thereof ... The Lord had respect unto 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; John 1:29; Rev 13:8; Heb 10:4,5,10; Gen 4:4; Eph 5:2; Heb 10:22; Heb 10:19|<strong>Who knoweth the power of thine anger?</strong>+ +From the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, <em>Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?</em> 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 which 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. Herein 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 might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.  |Psa 90:11; Matt 27:45,46; Isa 53:6; Rom 8:1; Rom 5:1; Gal 3:13; 1 John 4:9,10; Rom 3:26
-February 24th|february-24|<strong>Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be enquired of.</strong>+ +Ye have not, because ye ask not.+ +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. -- This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything 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. -- 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. -- 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 unto their cry. The Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. -- Ye shall ask in my name; and I say not unto 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.  |Ezek 36:37; Jas 4:2; Matt 7:7,8; 1 John 5:14,15; Jas 1:5; Psa 81:10; Luke 18:1; Psa 34:15,17; John 16:26,27,24|<strong>Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?</strong>+ +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 talk 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 be as his master, and the servant as his lord. -- Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.+ +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. -- These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  |Job 2:10; Psa 119:75; Isa 64:8; 1 Sam 3:18; Jer 12:1; Mal 3:3; Heb 12:6; Matt 10:25; Heb 5:8; 1 Pet 4:13; Rev 7:14
+February 24th|february-24|<strong>Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be enquired of.</strong>+ +Ye have not, because ye ask not.+ +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. -- This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything 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. -- 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. -- 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 unto their cry. The Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. -- Ye shall ask in my name; and I say not unto 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.  |Ezek 36:37; Jas 4:2; Matt 7:7,8; 1 John 5:14,15; Jas 1:5; Psa 81:10; Luke 18:1; Psa 34:15,17; John 16:26,27,24|<strong>Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?</strong>+ +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 talk 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 be as his master, and the servant as his lord. -- Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.+ +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. -- These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  |Job 2:10; Psa 119:75; Isa 64:8; 1 Sam 3:18; Jer 12:1; Mal 3:3; Heb 12:6; Matt 10:25; Heb 5:8; 1 Pet 4:13; Rev 7:14
 February 25th|february-25|<strong>Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</strong>+ +When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. -- Get thee hence, 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 unto him.+ +Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may he 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 stedfast 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 anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.  |Jas 4:7; Isa 59:19; Matt 4:10,11; Eph 6:10,11; Eph 5:11; 2 Cor 2:11; 1 Pet 5:8,9; 1 John 5:4; Rom 8:33|<strong>Oh that I knew where I might find him!</strong>+ +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.+ +Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. -- 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.+ +Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. -- Now in Christ Jesus ye who sometime were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.+ +If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.+ +Look, I am with you alway. -- 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; Luke 11:9,10; 1 John 1:3; Eph 2:13,18; 1 John 1:6; Matt 28:20; Heb 13:5; John 14:16,17
-February 26th|february-26|<strong>Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.</strong>+ +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 unto 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: and he is the propitiation for our sins. -- 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 say, his flesh: and having a 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.  |Lam 3:40; Psa 26:2; Psa 51:6; Psa 119:59,60; 1 Cor 11:28; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:1; Heb 10:19‑22|<strong>There was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.</strong>+ +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,... and I 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.+ +We declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto their children, in that He hath raised up Jesus again.Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.  |Rev 4:3; Gen 9:12,13,16; 2 Sam 23:5; Heb 6:18; Acts 13:32; Heb 13:8
+February 26th|february-26|<strong>Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.</strong>+ +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 unto 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: and he is the propitiation for our sins. -- 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 say, his flesh: and having a 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.  |Lam 3:40; Psa 26:2; Psa 51:6; Psa 119:59,60; 1 Cor 11:28; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:1; Heb 10:19‑22|<strong>There was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.</strong>+ +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,... and I 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.+ +We declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto their children, in that He hath raised up Jesus again. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.  |Rev 4:3; Gen 9:12,13,16; 2 Sam 23:5; Heb 6:18; Acts 13:32; Heb 13:8
 February 27th|february-27|<strong>Reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.</strong>+ +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. -- 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.+ +Because I live, ye shall live also. -- I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.+ +If ye then be risen 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.  |Rom 6:11; John 5:24; Gal 2:19,20; John 14:19; John 10:28‑30; Gal 3:1,3|<strong>God ... giveth ... liberally, and upbraideth not.</strong>+ +Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto 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 unto many ... The free gift is of many offences unto justification.+ +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.+ +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; John 8:10,11; Rom 5:15,16; Eph 2:4‑7; Rom 8:32
-February 28th|february-28|<strong>God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</strong>+ +God ... hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto 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 him. -- God is 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  |John 3:16; 2 Cor 5:18‑21; 1 John 4:8‑11|<strong>The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.</strong>+ +He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone a her ... And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last.Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof 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 condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, 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 that thing which he alloweth.+ +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.  |Prov 20:27; John 8:7,9; Gen 3:11; Jas 4:17; 1 John 3:20,21; Rom 14:20,22; Psa 139:23,24
+February 28th|february-28|<strong>God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</strong>+ +God ... hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto 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 him. -- God is 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  |John 3:16; 2 Cor 5:18‑21; 1 John 4:8‑11|<strong>The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.</strong>+ +He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone a her ... And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof 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 condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, 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 that thing which he alloweth.+ +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.  |Prov 20:27; John 8:7,9; Gen 3:11; Jas 4:17; 1 John 3:20,21; Rom 14:20,22; Psa 139:23,24
-February 29th|february-29|<strong>Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.</strong>+ +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 whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.+ +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.+ +Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine 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 the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  |Prov 27:1; 2 Cor 6:2; John 12:35,36; Eccl 9:10; Luke 12:19‑21; Jas 4:14; 1 John 2:17|<strong>Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. </strong>+ +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 today, and forever.+ +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 unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. -- Fear not; I am the first and the last.  |Psa 102:27; Psa 90:2; Mal 3:6; Heb 13:8; Jas 1:17; Rom 11:29; Num 23:19; Lam 3:22; Heb 7:24,25; Rev 1:17
+February 29th|february-29|<strong>Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.</strong>+ +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 whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.+ +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.+ +Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine 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 the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  |Prov 27:1; 2 Cor 6:2; John 12:35,36; Eccl 9:10; Luke 12:19‑21; Jas 4:14; 1 John 2:17|<strong>Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. </strong>+ +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 today, and forever.+ +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 unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. -- Fear not; I am the first and the last.  |Psa 102:27; Psa 90:2; Mal 3:6; Heb 13:8; Jas 1:17; Rom 11:29; Num 23:19; Lam 3:22; Heb 7:24,25; Rev 1:17
 March 1st|march-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is love.</strong>+ +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 Ghost which is given unto us. -- Unto you ... which 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 which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.+ +Ye yourselves are taught of 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 the 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.  |Gal 5:22; 1 John 4:16; Rom 5:5; 1 Pet 2:7; 1 John 4:19; 2 Cor 5:14,15; 1 Thes 4:9; John 15:12; 1 Pet 4:8; Eph 5:2|<strong>Jehovah‑nissi: The Lord my banner.</strong>+ +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.  |Exo 17:15; Rom 8:31; Psa 118:6; Psa 60:4; Psa 27:1,3; 2 Chr 13:12; Psa 46:7; Rev 17:14; Psa 2:1,4; Isa 8:10
-March 2nd|march-02|<strong>God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.</strong>+ +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. 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 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 Lord stood with me, and strengthened me.+ +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.  |Gen 41:52; 2 Cor 1:3‑5; 1 Pet 1:6,7; 2 Tim 4:17; 1 Pet 4:19|<strong>There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.</strong>+ +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 ... But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.  |Heb 4:9; Job 3:17,18; Rev 14:13; John 11:11,13; 2 Cor 5:4; Rom 8:23‑25
+March 2nd|march-02|<strong>God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.</strong>+ +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. 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 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 Lord stood with me, and strengthened me.+ +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.  |Gen 41:52; 2 Cor 1:3‑5; 1 Pet 1:6,7; 2 Tim 4:17; 1 Pet 4:19|<strong>There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.</strong>+ +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 ... But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.  |Heb 4:9; Job 3:17,18; Rev 14:13; John 11:11,13; 2 Cor 5:4; Rom 8:23‑25
-March 3rd|march-03|<strong>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.</strong>+ +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.+ +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.  |Prov 3:5,6; Psa 62:8; Psa 32:8‑10; Isa 30:21; Exo 33:15,16|<strong>The prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +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 has 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.  |Phl 3:14; Matt 19:21; Gen 15:1; Mark 25:21; Rev 22:5; 1 Pet 5:4; Jas 1:12; 2 Tim 4:8; 1 Cor 9:25; John 17:24; 1 Thes 4:17; Rom 8:18
+March 3rd|march-03|<strong>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.</strong>+ +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.+ +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.  |Prov 3:5,6; Psa 62:8; Psa 32:8‑10; Isa 30:21; Exo 33:15,16|<strong>The prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +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 has 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.  |Phl 3:14; Matt 19:21; Gen 15:1; Mark 25:21; Rev 22:5; 1 Pet 5:4; Jas 1:12; 2 Tim 4:8; 1 Cor 9:25; John 17:24; 1 Thes 4:17; Rom 8:18
-March 4th|march-04|<strong>Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.</strong>+ +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.+ +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. -- An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.  |Col 3:2; 1 John 2:15; Matt 6:19‑21; 2 Cor 5:7; 2 Cor 4:16‑18; 1 Pet 1:4|<strong>He bowed his shoulder to bear.</strong>+ +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? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. -- 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.  |Gen 49:15; Jas 5:10; 1 Cor 10:11; Job 2:10; Lev 10:3; 1 Sam 3:18; Psa 55:22; Isa 53:4; Matt 11:28‑30
+March 4th|march-04|<strong>Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.</strong>+ +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.+ +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. -- An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.  |Col 3:2; 1 John 2:15; Matt 6:19‑21; 2 Cor 5:7; 2 Cor 4:16‑18; 1 Pet 1:4|<strong>He bowed his shoulder to bear.</strong>+ +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? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. -- 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.  |Gen 49:15; Jas 5:10; 1 Cor 10:11; Job 2:10; Lev 10:3; 1 Sam 3:18; Psa 55:22; Isa 53:4; Matt 11:28‑30
 March 5th|march-05|<strong>O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.</strong>+ +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 storms.+ +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.  |Psa 38:14; Psa 123:1,2; Psa 61:1‑4; Isa 25:4; 1 Pet 2:21‑23|<strong>Fight the good fight of faith.</strong>+ +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. -- 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 [those] who through faith subdued kingdoms, ... out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.  |1 Tim 6:12; 2 Cor 7:5; 2 Kgs 6:16; Eph 6:10; 1 Sam 17:45; 2 Sam 22:33,35; 2 Cor 3:5; Psa 34:7; 2 Kgs 6:17; Heb 11:32‑34
 March 6th|march-06|<strong>He preserveth the way of his saints.</strong>+ +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. -- 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 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.  |Prov 2:8; Deut 1:32,33; Deut 32:11,12; Psa 37:23,24; Psa 34:19; Psa 1:6; Rom 8:28; 2 Chr 32:8; Zeph 3:17|<strong>My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?</strong>+ +He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; ... 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.  |Matt 27:46; Isa 53:5,6,8,10; Rom 4:24,25; 1 Pet 3:18; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 3:13
 March 7th|march-07|<strong>Thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name.</strong>+ +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 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; Isa 61:1‑3; Isa 61:10; Hos 2:19; Rom 8:35|<strong>My times are in thy hand.</strong>+ +All his saints are in thy hand. -- The word of the Lord came unto Elijah, 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. And the word of the Lord can 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 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 cares for you.  |Psa 31:15; Deut 33:3; 1 Kgs 17:2‑4,8,9; Matt 6:25,32; Prov 3:5,6; 1 Pet 5:7
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ March 16th|march-16|<strong>What is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeare
 March 17th|march-17|<strong>He shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.</strong>+ +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, a 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.  |Lev 1:4; 1 Pet 1:18,19; 1 Pet 2:24; Eph 1:6; 1 Pet 2:5; Rom 12:1; Jude 24,25|<strong>In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.</strong>+ +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 [Jesus], he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread (the lust of the flesh). But he answered, ... 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; Gen 3:6; 1 John 2:16; Matt 4:3,4,8‑10; 1 John 2:16; Heb 2:18; Jas 1:12
 March 18th|march-18|<strong>Mine eyes fail with looking upward.</strong>+ +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,... the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.  |Isa 38:14; Psa 6:2‑4; Psa 55:4‑6; Heb 10:36; Acts 1:10,11‑phl 3:20; Tit 2:13|<strong>His name shall be in their foreheads.</strong>+ +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.  |Rev 22:4; John 10:14; 2 Tim 2:19; Nah 1:7, ‑rev 7:3; Eph 1:13,14; 2 Cor 1:21,22; Rev 3:12; Jer 33:16
 March 19th|march-19|<strong>God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in the turning away every one of you from his iniquities.</strong>+ +Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercies 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?  |Acts 3:26; 1 Pet 1:3; Rom 5:10; Tit 2:13,14; 1 Pet 1:15,16; Eph 1:3; Col 2:9,10; John 1:16; Rom 8:32|<strong>Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.</strong>+ +Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou has 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 strertethened 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.  |Psa 119:28; Psa 119:49; Isa 38:14; Luke 21:33; Josh 23:14; Dan 10:1; Hag 2:4; Zech 4:6; Eph 6:10
-March 20th|march-20|<strong>The entrance of thy words giveth light.</strong>+ +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, a 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.  |Psa 119:130; 1 John 1:5; 2 Cor 4:6; John 1:1,4; 1 John 1:7; Psa 119:11; John 15:3; Eph 5:8; 1 Pet 2:9|<strong>Noah was a just man.</strong>+ +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.Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth. -- Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified.  |Gen 6:9; Gal 3:11; Gen 8:20,21; Rev 13:8; Rom 5:1; Rom 3:20-22; Rom 5:11; Rom 8:33; Rom 8:30
+March 20th|march-20|<strong>The entrance of thy words giveth light.</strong>+ +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, a 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.  |Psa 119:130; 1 John 1:5; 2 Cor 4:6; John 1:1,4; 1 John 1:7; Psa 119:11; John 15:3; Eph 5:8; 1 Pet 2:9|<strong>Noah was a just man.</strong>+ +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. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth. -- Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified.  |Gen 6:9; Gal 3:11; Gen 8:20,21; Rev 13:8; Rom 5:1; Rom 3:20-22; Rom 5:11; Rom 8:33; Rom 8:30
-March 21st|march-21|<strong>Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die.</strong>+ +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.  |Rev 3:2; 1 Pet 4:7; 1 Pet 5:8; Deut 4:9; Heb 10:38,39; Mark 13:37; Isa 41:10,13|<strong>Is his mercy clean gone for ever?</strong>+ +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 sin 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.+ +A merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.  |Psa 77:8; Psa 136:23; Num 14:18; Mic 7:18,19; Tit 3:5; 2 Cor 1:3,4; Heb 2:17,15
+March 21st|march-21|<strong>Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die.</strong>+ +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.  |Rev 3:2; 1 Pet 4:7; 1 Pet 5:8; Deut 4:9; Heb 10:38,39; Mark 13:37; Isa 41:10,13|<strong>Is his mercy clean gone for ever?</strong>+ +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 sin 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.+ +A merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.  |Psa 77:8; Psa 136:23; Num 14:18; Mic 7:18,19; Tit 3:5; 2 Cor 1:3,4; Heb 2:17,15
 March 22nd|march-22|<strong>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.</strong>+ +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 sometime 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.  |Gen 13:10,11; 2 Pet 2:7,8; Gal 6:7; Luke 17:32; 2 Cor 6:14,17; Eph 5:7,8,10,11|<strong>If so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.</strong>+ +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.  |Josh 14:12; Heb 13:5,6; Psa 71:16; Isa 32:17; Eph 6:14,12,13; Judg 6:12,14
 March 23rd|march-23|<strong>Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.</strong>+ +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 ot 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?  |Rev 4:8; Psa 22:3; Exo 3:5,6; Isa 40:25; Isa 43:3,11; 1 Pet 1:15,16; 1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 6:16; Amos 3:3|<strong>They constrained him, saying, Abide with us.</strong>+ +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.  |Luke 24:29; Rev 3:20; Song 1:7; Song 1:4; Song 4:16; Song 5:1; Isa 45:19; Matt 28:20; Heb 13:5; Matt 18:20; John 14:19
 March 24th|march-24|<strong>Abraham believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.</strong>+ +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.  |Gen 15:6; Rom 4:20‑24; Rom 4:13; Rom 1:17; Heb 10:23; Psa 115:3; Luke 1:37,45|<strong>God hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Thes 2:12; John 18:36; Heb 10:13; Rev 11:15; Rev 5:10; Rev 20:4; Matt 13:43; Luke 12:32; Luke 22:29,30; Matt 6:10
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ March 28th|march-28|<strong>Be strong and of a good courage.</strong>+ +The Lord
 March 29th|march-29|<strong>Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.</strong>+ +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 overeometh 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.  |Matt 25:34; Luke 12:32; Jas 2:5; Rom 8:17; John 16:27; Heb 11:16; Rev 21:7; 2 Tim 4:8; Phl 1:6|<strong>Riches are not forever; and doth the crown endure to every generation?</strong>+ +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. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.+ +They do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptble. -- 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.  |Prov 27:24; Psa 39:6; Col 3:2; Matt 6:19‑21; 1 Cor 9:25; 2 Cor 4:18; Prov 11:18; 2 Tim 4:8; 1 Pet 5:4
 March 30th|march-30|<strong>Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide.</strong>+ +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.  |Gen 24:63; Psa 19:14; Psa 8:3,4; Psa 111:2; Psa 1:1,2; Josh 1:8; Psa 63:5,6|<strong>How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord! for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?</strong>+ +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 suckling 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! But he answered her not a word.+ +The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth.  |Psa 13:1; Jas 1:17; Isa 49:14,15; Isa 44:21,22; John 11:5,6; Matt 15:22,23; 1 Pet 1:7
 March 31st|march-31|<strong>My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all ... things shall be added unto you. -- He that spared not his Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things? -- All things are your's: whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come: all are your's: 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 be withheld 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.  |Phil 4:19; Matt 6:33; Rom 8:32; 1 Cor 3:21‑23; 2 Cor 6:10; Psa 23:1; Psa 84:11; 1 Tim 6:17; 2 Cor 9:8|<strong>What communion hath light with darkness?</strong>+ +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 sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.  |2 Cor 6:14; John 3:19; 1 Thes 5:5; 1 John 2:11; Psa 119:105; Psa 74:20; 1 John 4:7,8; Prov 4:19,18; John 12:46; Eph 5:8
-April 1st|april-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is joy.</strong>+ +Joy in the Holy Ghost. -- Unspeakable and full of glory.Sorrowful, yet always 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 fuIl. -- 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.  |Gal 5:22; Rom 14:17; 1 Pet 1:8; 2 Cor 6:10; 7,4; Rom 5:3; Heb 122; John 15:11; 2 Cor 1:5; Phl 4:4; Neh 8:10; Psa 16:11; Rev 7:17|<strong>Jehovah‑shalom: (The Lord send peace.)</strong>+ +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.  |Judg 6:24; 1 Chr 22:9; Matt 12:42; Isa 9:6; Isa 32:18,19; Eph 2:14; Mic 5:5; Rev 17:14; John 14:27
+April 1st|april-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is joy.</strong>+ +Joy in the Holy Ghost. -- Unspeakable and full of glory. Sorrowful, yet always 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 fuIl. -- 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.  |Gal 5:22; Rom 14:17; 1 Pet 1:8; 2 Cor 6:10; 7,4; Rom 5:3; Heb 122; John 15:11; 2 Cor 1:5; Phl 4:4; Neh 8:10; Psa 16:11; Rev 7:17|<strong>Jehovah‑shalom: (The Lord send peace.)</strong>+ +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.  |Judg 6:24; 1 Chr 22:9; Matt 12:42; Isa 9:6; Isa 32:18,19; Eph 2:14; Mic 5:5; Rev 17:14; John 14:27
 April 2nd|april-02|<strong>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.</strong>+ +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 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 with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.+ +Behold, thou desireth 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.  |1 Sam 7:3; 1 John 5:21; 2 Cor 6:17,18; Matt 6:24; Exo 34:14; 1 Chr 28:9; Psa 51:6; 1 Sam 16:7; 1 John 3:21|<strong>When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</strong>+ +He came unto his own, and his own received him not. -- The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall 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,  |Luke 18:8; John 1:11; 1 Tim 4:1; 2 Tim 4:2-4; Mark 13:32,33; Luke 12:37; Tit 2:13
 April 3rd|april-03|<strong>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.</strong>+ +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 acomplish 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!  |2 Pet 3:8,9; Isa 55:8‑11; Rom 11:32,33|<strong>Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning.</strong>+ +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.  |Amos 4:11; Isa 33:14; 2 Cor 1:9,10; Rom 6:23; Heb 10:31; 2 Cor 5:11; 2 Tim 4:2; Jude 23; Zech 4:6; 1 Tim 2:4
 April 4th|april-04|<strong>Fear not; I am the first and the last.</strong>+ +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 a 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, aud 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?  |Rev 1:17; Heb 12:18,22‑24; Heb 12:2; Heb 4:15,16; Isa 44:6; Isa 9:6; Hab 1:12; 2 Sam 22:32|<strong>Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.</strong>+ +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 heaven.+ +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.  |Psa 61:2; Phl 4:6,7; Psa 142:3; Job 23:10; Psa 90:1; Isa 25:4; Psa 18:31; John 10:28; Psa 119:116; Heb 6:19
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ April 6th|april-06|<strong>He ever liveth to make intercession.</strong>+ +Who i
 April 7th|april-07|<strong>As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.</strong>+ +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.  |2 Cor 6:10; Rom 5:2,3; 2 Cor 7:4; 1 Pet 1:8; 2 Cor 8:2; Eph 3:8,9; Jas 2:5; 2 Cor 9:8|<strong>The Lord strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 41:3; Isa 63:9; John 11:3; 2 Cor 12:9; Phl 4:13; 2 Cor 4:16; Acts 17:28; Isa 40:29‑31; Deut 33:27
 April 8th|april-08|<strong>In everything ye are enriched by him.</strong>+ +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 be 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.  |1 Cor 1:5; Rom 5:6; Rom 8:32; Col 2:9,10; John 15:4,5; Rom 7:18; Eph 4:7; John 15:7; Col 3:16|<strong>They shall see his face.</strong>+ +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.  |Rev 22:4; Exo 33:18,20; John 1:18; Rev 1:7; Num 24:17; Job 19:25,26; Psa 17:15; 1 John 3:2; 1 Thes 4:16,17
 April 9th|april-09|<strong>Fear not; for I have redeemed thee.</strong>+ +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; Isa 54:4,5; Isa 44:22; 1 Pet 1:19; Jer 50:34; John 10:29; Gal 1:3‑5|<strong>I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us.</strong>+ +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 love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died 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 43:7; Psa 40:2; Gal 2:20; Rom 8:32; Rom 5:8; 2 Cor 1:22; Eph 1:14; Eph 2:4‑6
-April 10th|april-10|<strong>I am black, but comely.</strong>+ +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.  |Song 1:5; Psa 51:5; Ezek 16:14; Luke 5:8; Song 4:1; Job 42:6; Song 4:7; Rom 7:21; Matt 9:2; Rom 7:18; Col 2:10; Col 1:28; 1 Cor 6:11; 1 Pet 2:9|<strong>All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.</strong>+ +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 ... 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. 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.  |2 Tim 3:12; Matt 10:35,36; Jas 4:4; 1 John 2:15,16; John 15:18‑20; John 17:14
+April 10th|april-10|<strong>I am black, but comely.</strong>+ +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.  |Song 1:5; Psa 51:5; Ezek 16:14; Luke 5:8; Song 4:1; Job 42:6; Song 4:7; Rom 7:21; Matt 9:2; Rom 7:18; Col 2:10; Col 1:28; 1 Cor 6:11; 1 Pet 2:9|<strong>All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.</strong>+ +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 ... 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. 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.  |2 Tim 3:12; Matt 10:35,36; Jas 4:4; 1 John 2:15,16; John 15:18‑20; John 17:14
 April 11th|april-11|<strong>In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.</strong>+ +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. -- If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able to bridle the whole body. -- By thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. -- Set a watch, Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.+ +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. -- 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.  |Prov 10:19; Jas 1:19; Prov 16:32; Jas 3:2; Matt 12:37; Psa 141:3; 1 Pet 2:21‑23; Heb 12:3; Rev 14:5|<strong>Teach me thy way, O Lord.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 27:11; Psa 32:8; Psa 25:8,9; John 10:9; John 14:6; Heb 10:19‑22; Hos 6:3; Psa 25:10
 April 12th|april-12|<strong>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.</strong>+ +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 ... 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.  |Rom 8:3; Heb 10:1,2; Acts 13:39; Heb 2:14‑17|<strong>All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.</strong>+ +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.  |Rom 3:23; Rom 3:10,12; Eccl 7:20; Job 25:4; Heb 4:1; Psa 51:3,5; 2 Sam 12:13; Rom 8:30; 2 Cor 3:18; Col 1:23; 1 Thes 2:12
 April 13th|april-13|<strong>Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.</strong>+ +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.  |Prov 3:9; 2 Cor 9:6; 1 Cor 16:2; Heb 6:10; Rom 12:l; 2 Cor 5:14,15; 1 Cor 10:31|<strong>There shall be no night there.</strong>+ +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 sometime 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.  |Rev 21:25; Isa 60:19; Rev 21:24; Rev 22:5; 1 Pet 2:9; Col 1:12,13; Eph 5:8; 1 Thes 5:5; Prov 4:18
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ April 17th|april-17|<strong>Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me.</strong>+ +Let
 April 18th|april-18|<strong>I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.</strong>+ +[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.  |Deut 18:18; Deut 5:5; 1 Tim 2:5; Num 12:3; Matt 11:29; Phl 2:57; Heb 3:5,6|<strong>Everlasting consolation.</strong>+ +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 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 cormfort one another with these words.+ +This is not your rest. -- Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.  |2 Thes 2:16; Ezek 16:60; Heb 10:14; Heb 7:25; 2 Tim 1:12; Rom 11:29; Rom 8:35; Rev 7:17; 1 Thes 4:17,18; Mic 2:10; Heb 13:14
 April 19th|april-19|<strong>Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.</strong>+ +The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. -- Christ ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. -- 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.  |John 10:7; Matt 27:51; 1 Pet 3:18; Heb 9:8; John 10:9; John 14:6; Eph 2:15,19; Heb 10:19,20; Rom 5:1,2|<strong>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.</strong>+ +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 ... 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; 1 Cor 9:16,18; Acts 4:18‑20; 2 Cor 5:14; Matt 25:25‑27; Mark 5:19
 April 20th|april-20|<strong>There shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand.</strong>+ +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.  |Deut 13:1,7; 2 Cor 6:17; 1 Pet 2:11; Jude 23; 1 John 3:2,3; Tit 2:11‑14|<strong>Who art thou Lord? I am Jesus.</strong>+ +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?  |Acts 26:15; Matt 14:27; Isa 43:2,3; Psa 23:4; Matt 1:23; Matt 1:21; 1 John 2:1; Rom 8:34,35
-April 21st|april-21|<strong>Stand fast in the Lord.</strong>+ +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 into 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.  |Phl 4:1; Job 23:11; Psa 37:28; Psa 121:7; Heb 10:38; John 2:19; John 8:31; Matt 24:13; 1 Cor 16:13; Rev 3:11; Rev 3:5|<strong>Enoch walked with God.</strong>+ +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.  |Gen 5:22; Amos 3:3; Col 1:20‑22; Eph 2:13; Rom 5:10,11; 1 John 1:3; 2 Cor 13:14
+April 21st|april-21|<strong>Stand fast in the Lord.</strong>+ +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 into 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.  |Phl 4:1; Job 23:11; Psa 37:28; Psa 121:7; Heb 10:38; John 2:19; John 8:31; Matt 24:13; 1 Cor 16:13; Rev 3:11; Rev 3:5|<strong>Enoch walked with God.</strong>+ +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.  |Gen 5:22; Amos 3:3; Col 1:20‑22; Eph 2:13; Rom 5:10,11; 1 John 1:3; 2 Cor 13:14
 April 22nd|april-22|<strong>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. 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.</strong>+ +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.  |Lev 1:3,4; Gen 22:8; John 1:29; Heb 10:10; Matt 20:28; John 10:18; Hos 14:4; Gal 2:20; 2 Cor 5:21; Eph 1:6|<strong>Great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 86:13; Matt 10:28; Isa 43:1,11,25; Psa 49:6‑8; Job 33:24; Eph 2:4,5; Acts 4:12
 April 23rd|april-23|<strong>The Lord was my stay.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 18:8; Jer 3:23; Psa 18:2; Isa 12:6; Psa 34:7,17; Deut 33:27; Heb 13:6; Psa 18:31,32; 1 Cor 15:10|<strong>All we like sheep have gone astray.</strong>+ +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. 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 righteous 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, either 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; 1 John 1:8; Rom 3:10‑12; 1 Pet 2:25; Psa 119:176; Psa 23:3; John 10:27,28; Luke 15:4
 April 24th|april-24|<strong>The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.</strong>+ +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 surelv 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.  |Gen 21:1; Psa 62:8; 1 Sam 30: 6; Gen 50:24; Acts 7:34,36; Josh 21:45; Heb 10:23; Num 23:19; Matt 24:35; Isa 40:8|<strong>The eyes of all wait upon thee.</strong>+ +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: blessed are all they that wait for him. -- 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.  |Psa 145:15; Acts 17:25; Psa 145:9; Matt 6:26; Rom 10:12; Psa 121:1; Psa 123:2; Isa 30:18; Isa 25:9; Rom 8:25
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 May 3rd|may-03|<strong>Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect</strong>.+ +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.  |Matt 5:48; Gen 17:1; Lev 20:26; 1 Cor 6:20; Col 2:10; Tit 2:14; 2 Pet 3:14; Psa 119:1; Jas 1:25; Psa 139:23,24|<strong>Perfecting holiness in the fear of God.</strong>+ +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 wordly 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 knowledege of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.  |2 Cor 7:1; 2 Cor 7:1; Psa 51:6; Tit 2:12; Matt 5:16; Phl 3:12; 1 John 3:3; 2 Cor 5:5; Eph 4:12,13
 May 4th|may-04|<strong>Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.</strong>+ +In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. -- While 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; Psa 138:3 ‑dan 9:21; Psa 27:9; Psa 22:19; Jer 32:17; 2 Cor 1:10; Luke 18:7,8|<strong>I have glorified thee on the earth.</strong>+ +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 -- All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words, which proceeded out of his mouth.+ +Thou art worthy ... for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and peopIe, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.  |John 17:4; John 4:34; John 9:4; Luke 2:49,50; John 11:4,40; Luke 2:52; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:22; Rev 5:9,10
 May 5th|may-05|<strong>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.</strong>+ +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 everything 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. 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.  |Matt 6:31,32; Psa 34:9,10; Psa 84:11,12; 1 Cor 7:32; Phl 4:6; Matt 10:29-31; Mark 4:40; Mark 11:22|<strong>He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.</strong>+ +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 today, and forever.  |Psa 105:39; Psa 103:13,14; Psa 121:6; Isa 4:6; Psa 121:5,8; Exo 13:21,22; Heb 13:8
-May 6th|may-06|<strong>Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.</strong>+ +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 forebearance 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.  |Psa 85:10; Isa 45:21; Isa 42:21; 2 Cor 5:19; Rom 3:25,26; Isa 53:5; Rom 8:33; Rom 4:5|<strong>How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?</strong>+ +Beloved, now are we the Sons of God; ... it doth not 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 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.  |1 Cor 15:35; 1 John 3:2; 1 Cor 15:49; Phl 3:20,21; Luke 24:36,37; 1 Cor 15:5,6; Rom 8:11
+May 6th|may-06|<strong>Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.</strong>+ +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 forebearance 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.  |Psa 85:10; Isa 45:21; Isa 42:21; 2 Cor 5:19; Rom 3:25,26; Isa 53:5; Rom 8:33; Rom 4:5|<strong>How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?</strong>+ +Beloved, now are we the Sons of God; ... it doth not 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 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.  |1 Cor 15:35; 1 John 3:2; 1 Cor 15:49; Phl 3:20,21; Luke 24:36,37; 1 Cor 15:5,6; Rom 8:11
 May 7th|may-07|<strong>Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled.</strong>+ +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 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.  |Matt 24:6; Psa 46:1-3; Isa 26:20,21; Psa 57:1; Col 3:3; Psa 112:7; John 16:33|<strong>They persecute him whom thou hast smitten.</strong>+ +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. -- They did 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, to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.+ +Surely he hath borne our grief, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.  |Psa 69:26; Luke 17:1; Acts 2:23; Matt 26:67,68; Matt 27:41,42; Acts 4:27,28; Isa 53:4
 May 8th|may-08|<strong>It pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.</strong>+ +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 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.  |Isa 53:10; John 12:27,28; Luke 22:42,43; Phl 2:8; John 10:17; John 6:38; John 18:11; John 8:29; Matt 3:17; Isa 42:1|<strong>Ye that are the Lord's remembrancers, keep not silence.</strong>+ +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: 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; Rom 5:9,10; Num 10:8,9; Isa 45:19; 2 Chr 30:27; Psa 34:15; Jas 5:16; Rev 22:20; Psa 40:17; 2 Pet 3:12
 May 9th|may-09|<strong>Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.</strong>+ +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. But God hath revealed them unto us by 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.+ +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; 1 Cor 15:19; 1 Cor 2:9,10; Eph 1:13,14; John 20:29; 1 Pet 1:8,9; 2 Cor 5:7; Heb 10:35|<strong>It is I; be not afraid.</strong>+ +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.  |John 6:20; Rev 1:17,18; Isa 43:25; Isa 6:5‑7; Isa 44:22; 1 John 2:1
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 May 11th|may-11|<strong>Awake to righteousness, and sin not.</strong>+ +Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day. 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.  |1 Cor 15:34; 1 Thes 5:5,6; Rom 13:11,12; Eph 6:13; Ezek 18:31; Jas 1:21; 1 John 2:28,29|<strong>My sheep hear my voice.</strong>+ +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. 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.  |John 10:27; Rev 3:20; Song 5:2,6; 1 Sam 3:10; Luke 19:5,6; Psa 85:8
 May 12th|may-12|<strong>Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.</strong>+ +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.  |1 John 4:7; Rom 5:5; Rom 8:15,16; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 4:9; Eph 1:7; Eph 2:7; 1 John 4:11|<strong>Reproach hath broken my heart.</strong>+ +Is not this the carpenter's son? -- Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? -- Say we not well that thou are 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. -- 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 we 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.  |Psa 69:20; Matt 13:55; John 1:46; John 8:48; Matt 9:34; John 9:24; John 7:12; Matt 9:3; Matt 11:19; Matt 10:25; 1 Pet 2:19-23; 1 Pet 4:14
 May 13th|may-13|<strong>Pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.</strong>+ +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 anything 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.  |1 Tim 2:8; John 4:23,24; Isa 58:9; Mark 11:25; Heb 11:6; Jas 1:6,7; Psa 66:18; 1 John 2:1,2|<strong>My heart panteth, my strength faileth me.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 38:10; Psa 61:1,2; 2 Cor 12:9,10; Matt 14:30,31; Prov 24:10; Isa 40:29; Deut 33:27; Col 1:11
-May 14th|may-14|<strong>The fellowship of His sufferings.</strong>+ +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.  |Phl 3:10; Matt 10:25; Isa 53:3; John 16:33; John 15:19; Psa 69:20; 2 Tim 4:16; Matt 8:20; Heb 13:14; Heb 12:1,2|<strong>They overcame ... by the blood of the Lamb.</strong>+ +Who shall lay anything 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. 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 ... 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.cUnto 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.  |Rev 12:11; Rom 8:33,34; Lev 17:11; Exo 12:12,13; Rom 8:1; Rev 7:13,14; Rev 1:5,6
+May 14th|may-14|<strong>The fellowship of His sufferings.</strong>+ +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.  |Phl 3:10; Matt 10:25; Isa 53:3; John 16:33; John 15:19; Psa 69:20; 2 Tim 4:16; Matt 8:20; Heb 13:14; Heb 12:1,2|<strong>They overcame ... by the blood of the Lamb.</strong>+ +Who shall lay anything 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. 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 ... 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.  |Rev 12:11; Rom 8:33,34; Lev 17:11; Exo 12:12,13; Rom 8:1; Rev 7:13,14; Rev 1:5,6
 May 15th|may-15|<strong>God shall wipe away all tears: ... there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, ... for the former things are passed away.</strong>+ +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.  |Rev 21:4; Isa 25:8; Isa 60:20; Isa 33:24; Isa 65:19; Isa 35:10; Hos 13:14; 1 Cor 15:26,54; 2 Cor 4:18|<strong>Raised up together in Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +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; Rev 1:17,18; John 17:24; Eph 5:30; Col 1:18; Col 2:10; Heb 2:14,15; 1 Cor 15:53,54
 May 16th|may-16|<strong>A servant of Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +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.  |Rom 1:1; John 13:13; John 12:26; Matt 11:29,30; Phl 3:7; Rom 6:22; John 15:15; Gal 4:7; Gal 5:1,13|<strong>I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 16:7; Isa 9:6; Prov 8:14; Psa 119:105; Prov 3:5,6; Jer 10:23; Isa 30:21; Prov 16:3; Job 23:10; Prov 20:24; Psa 73:24; Psa 48:14
 May 17th|may-17|<strong>I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them.</strong>+ +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 anything, 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 well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ.  |Ezek 20:19; 1 Pet 1:15; 1 John 2:6,29; 1 Cor 7:19; Jas 2:10; 2 Cor 3:5; Psa 119:33; Phl 2:12,13; Heb 13:20,21|<strong>I have exalted one chosen out of the people.</strong>+ +Verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 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.  |Psa 89:19; Heb 2:16,17; Ezek 1:26; John 3:13; Luke 24:39; Phl 2:7‑10; Rev 3:2
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 June 17th|june-17|<strong>In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.</strong>+ +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.+ +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.+ +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.  |Phl 4:6; Psa 16:1,2; Matt 6:7; Rom 8:26; 1 Tim 2:8; Eph 6:18; Matt 18:19|<strong>All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 145:10; Psa 103:1,2; Psa 34:1; Psa 145:2; Psa 63:3-5; Luke 1:46,47; Rev 4:11
 June 18th|june-18|<strong>Thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and there I will meet with thee.</strong>+ +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 have access by one Spirit unto the Father.  |Exo 25:21,22; Heb 9:8; Matt 27:50,51; Heb 10:19,20,22; Heb 4:16; Rom 3:24,25; Eph 2:18|<strong>Faith as a grain of mustard seed.</strong>+ +Barak said unto [Deborah], 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. -- Gideon ... feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, ... did it by night. And 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, cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.  |Matt 17:20; Judg 4:8,23; Judg 6:27,36,39,40; Rev 3:8; Zech 4:10; 2 Thes 1:3; Luke 17:5; Hos 14:5,6
 June 19th|june-19|<strong>Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.</strong>+ +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 he holy and without blame before him in love.  |Heb 2:14; John 3:3; Rev 21:27; Song 4:7; Lev 19:2; 1 Pet 1:14-17; Eph 4:22-24; Eph 1:4|<strong>Gold tried in the fire.</strong>+ +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  |Rev 318; Mark 10:29,30; 1 Pet 4:12; 1 Pet 1:6,7; 1 Pet 5:10; John 16:33
-June 20th|june-20|<strong>Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.</strong>+ +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 hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, ... 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.  |Exo 2:9; Matt 20:4; Mark 9:41; Prov 11:25; Heb 6:10; 1 Cor 3:8; Matt 25:37,38,40,34|<strong>Thou compassest my path and my lying down.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 139:3; Gen 28:16,17; 2 Chr 16:9; Psa 4:8; Psa 91:9-11; Prov 3:24; Psa 127:2
+June 20th|june-20|<strong>Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.</strong>+ +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 hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, ... 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.  |Exo 2:9; Matt 20:4; Mark 9:41; Prov 11:25; Heb 6:10; 1 Cor 3:8; Matt 25:37,38,40,34|<strong>Thou compassest my path and my lying down.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 139:3; Gen 28:16,17; 2 Chr 16:9; Psa 4:8; Psa 91:9-11; Prov 3:24; Psa 127:2
-June 21st|june-21|<strong>Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps.</strong>+ +Even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. -- 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 fulfill 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.  |1 Pet 2:21; Mark 10:45; Mark 10:44; Acts 10:38; Gal 6:2; 2 Cor 10:1; Phl 2:3; Luke 23:34; Eph 4:32; 1 John 2:6; Heb 12:2|<strong>I sought him, but I could not find him: I called him, but he gave me no answer.</strong>+ +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.  |Song 5:6; Josh 7:8,10,11; Isa 59:1,2; Psa 66:18; 1 John 3:21,22
+June 21st|june-21|<strong>Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps.</strong>+ +Even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. -- 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 fulfill 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.  |1 Pet 2:21; Mark 10:45; Mark 10:44; Acts 10:38; Gal 6:2; 2 Cor 10:1; Phl 2:3; Luke 23:34; Eph 4:32; 1 John 2:6; Heb 12:2|<strong>I sought him, but I could not find him: I called him, but he gave me no answer.</strong>+ +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.  |Song 5:6; Josh 7:8,10,11; Isa 59:1,2; Psa 66:18; 1 John 3:21,22
 June 22nd|june-22|<strong>Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.</strong>+ +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 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 wilt 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; Rom 6:2; Gal 2:20; 2 Cor 5:15; 2 Cor 5:17; 1 John 5:20; John 17:21; 1 Cor 12:27; John 14:19; Rev 2:17|<strong>Behold how he loved.</strong>+ +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 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 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 to 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.  |John 11:36; 2 Cor 5:15; John 15:13; Heb 7:25; John 14:2; John 14:3; John 17:24; John 13:1; 1 John 4:19; 2 Cor 5:14,15; John 15:10
 June 23rd|june-23|<strong>I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, even the Spirit of truth.</strong>+ +It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if l 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.  |John 14:16,17; John 16:7; Rom 8:16; Rom 8:15; Rom 8:26; Rom 15:13; Rom 5:5; 1 John 4:13|<strong>Shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?</strong>+ +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.  |Ruth 3:1; Heb 4:9; Isa 32:18; Job 3:17; Rev 14:13; Heb 6:20; Matt 11:28-30; Isa 30:15; Psa 23:1,2
 June 24th|june-24|<strong>The ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them to search out a resting place for them.</strong>+ +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 shalt 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.  |Num 10:33; Psa 31:15; Psa 47:4; Psa 5:8; Psa 37:5; Prov 3:6; Isa 30:21; Psa 23:1,2; Psa 103:13,14; Matt 6:32; 1 Pet 5:7|<strong>Master, where dwellest thou? He saith unto them, Come and see.</strong>+ +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.+ +Look, 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.  |John 1:38,39; John 14:2,3; Rev 3:21; Isa 57:15; Rev 3:20; Matt 28:20; Psa 36:7
-June 25th|june-25|<strong>When he shall appear, we shall be like him; we shall see him as he is.</strong>+ +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 we 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, that 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.  |1 John 3:2; John 1:12; 2 Pet 1:4; Isa 64:4; 1 Cor 13:12; Phl 3:20,21; Psa 17:15|<strong>The man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts.</strong>+ +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.Kings of kings, and Lord of lords.  |Zech 13:7; Col 2:9; Psa 89:19; Isa 63:3; 1 Tim 3:16; Isa 9:6; Heb 1:3; Heb 1:8; Heb 1:6; Rev 19:16
+June 25th|june-25|<strong>When he shall appear, we shall be like him; we shall see him as he is.</strong>+ +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 we 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, that 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.  |1 John 3:2; John 1:12; 2 Pet 1:4; Isa 64:4; 1 Cor 13:12; Phl 3:20,21; Psa 17:15|<strong>The man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts.</strong>+ +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. Kings of kings, and Lord of lords.  |Zech 13:7; Col 2:9; Psa 89:19; Isa 63:3; 1 Tim 3:16; Isa 9:6; Heb 1:3; Heb 1:8; Heb 1:6; Rev 19:16
 June 26th|june-26|<strong>Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil! And God granted him that which he requested.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Chr 4:10; Prov 10:22; Job 34:29; Psa 3:8; Psa 31:19; John 17:15; Matt 7:7,8; Psa 3422|<strong>It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt.</strong>+ +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.  |Exo 12:42; 1 Cor 11:23-25; Luke 22:41,44; John 19:14,16-18; 1 Cor 5:7,8
 June 27th|june-27|<strong>Who shall be able to stand?</strong>+ +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 peoples, 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 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.  |Rev 6:17; Mal 3:2; Rev 7:9,14-17; Rom 8:1; Gal 5:1|<strong>Enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 143:2; Isa 1:18; Isa 27:5; Job 22:21; Rom 5:1; Gal 2:16; Rom 3:20; Acts 13:39; 1 Cor 15:57
 June 28th|june-28|<strong>I know that my Redeemer liveth.</strong>+ +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; Rom 5:10; Heb 7:24,25; John 14:19; 1 Cor 15:19,20; Isa 59:20; Eph 1:7; 1 Pet 1:15,19|<strong>The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Tim 4:1; Luke 8:18; Col 3:16; Eph 6:16; Psa 119:165,103,104; Psa 119:105; Psa 119:99; 2 Cor 11:14; Gal 1:8
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ July 21st|july-21|<strong>What profit is there of circumcision?</strong>+ +Much
 July 22nd|july-22|<strong>In that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.</strong>+ +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.  |Rom 6:10; Isa 53:12; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 10:14; Heb 7:24,25; Rom 5:8,9; 1 Pet 4:1,2|<strong>Keep yourselves in the love of God.</strong>+ +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.+ +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 21; John 15:4,5; Gal 5:22; John 15:8‑10; 1 John 2:5; John 15:12; Rom 5:8; 1 John 4:16
 July 23rd|july-23|<strong>Then cometh the end.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Cor 15:24; Matt 13:32,33,37; 2 Pet 3:9; Jas 5:8,9; Rev 22:20; 2 Pet 3:11; 1 Pet 4:7; Luke 12:35,36|<strong>Brethren, pray for us.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Thes 5:25; Jas 5:14‑18; Eph 6:18; Rom 1:9; Col 4:12
 July 24th|july-24|<strong>Patient in tribulation.</strong>+ +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.  |Rom 12:12; 1 Sam 3:18; Job 9:15; Job 1:21; Job 2:10; John 11:35; Isa 53:3,4; Heb 12:6,11; Col L:11; John 16:33|<strong>He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.</strong>+ +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.  |Rom 4:20; Mark 11:22‑24; Heb 11:16; Heb 11:17‑19; Rom 4:21; Gen 18:14; Matt 19:26; Luke 17:5
-July 25th|july-25|<strong>We know that we have passed from death unto life.</strong>+ +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 sin. -- Quickened ... together with Christ. -- Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom his dear Son.  |1 John 3:14; John 5:24; 1 John 5:12; 2 Cor 1:21,22; 1 John 3:19,21; 1 John 5:19; Eph 2:1; Eph 2:5; Col 1:13|<strong>Thou wilt shew me the path of life.</strong>+ +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 ends 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, that 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.  |Psa 16:11; Jer 21:8; 1 Sam 12:23; John 14:6; Matt 14:19; Prov 4:12; Matt 7:13,14; Isa 35:8; Hos 6:3; John 14:2
+July 25th|july-25|<strong>We know that we have passed from death unto life.</strong>+ +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 sin. -- Quickened ... together with Christ. -- Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom his dear Son.  |1 John 3:14; John 5:24; 1 John 5:12; 2 Cor 1:21,22; 1 John 3:19,21; 1 John 5:19; Eph 2:1; Eph 2:5; Col 1:13|<strong>Thou wilt shew me the path of life.</strong>+ +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 ends 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, that 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.  |Psa 16:11; Jer 21:8; 1 Sam 12:23; John 14:6; Matt 14:19; Prov 4:12; Matt 7:13,14; Isa 35:8; Hos 6:3; John 14:2
 July 26th|july-26|<strong>By faith Abraham, ... called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed.</strong>+ +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; Psa 47:4; Deut 32:10‑12; Isa 48:17; Job 36:22; 2 Cor 5:7; Heb 13:14; 1 Pet 2:11; Mic 2:10|<strong>Give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.</strong>+ +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. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.  |Psa 97:12; Job 15:15,16; Job 25:5,6; Exo 15:11; Isa 6:3; 1 Pet 1:15,16; Heb 12:10; 1 Cor 3:17; 2 Pet 3:11,14; Eph 4:29,30
 July 27th|july-27|<strong>Christ, who is the image of God.</strong>+ +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 first‑born 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.+ +As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.  |2 Cor 4:4; Isa 40:5; John 1:18,14; John 14:9; Heb 1:3; 1 Tim 3:16; Col 1:14,15; Rom 8:29; 1 Cor 15:49|<strong>Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle.</strong>+ +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.+ +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.  |Psa 18:39; 2 Cor 12:10; 2 Chr 14:11; 2 Chr 18:31; Psa 118:8,9; Psa 33:16,17; Eph 6:12,13
 July 28th|july-28|<strong>Walk in love.</strong>+ +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, tender‑hearted, 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; John 13:34; 1 Pet 4:8; Prov 10:12; Mark 11:25; Luke 6:35; Prov 24:17; 1 Pet 3:9; Rom 12:18; Eph 4:32; 1 John 3:18|<strong>Let your requests be made known unto God.</strong>+ +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. 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.  |Phil 4:6; Mark 14:36; 2 Cor 12:7‑9; Psa 142:2; 1 Sam 1:9‑11,20; Rom 8:26; Psa 47:4
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 August 29th|august-29|<strong>Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.</strong>+ +[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 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.  |Prov 16:20; Rom 4:20,21; 2 Chr 13:18; Psa 46:1,2; Psa 118:8,9; Psa 37:23,24; Psa 34:8,9|<strong>I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 4:8; Psa 91:5,4; Matt 23:37; Psa 121:3-5; Psa 61:4; Psa 139:12; Rom 8:32; 1 Cor 3:23; Isa 12:2
 August 30th|august-30|<strong>The king held out ... the golden sceptre. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre</strong>.+ +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.  |Esth 5:2; Exo 22:27; 1 John 4:16-19; Heb 10:22; Eph 2:18; Eph 3:12; Heb 4:16|<strong>They said, ... it is manna: for they wist not what it was.</strong>+ +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 much had nothing over, and 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.  |Exo 16:15; 1 Tim 3:16; John 6:33; John 6:49,51,55; Luke 16:17,18,21; Exo 16:17,18,21; Matt 6:31-33
 August 31st|august-31|<strong>The free gift is of many offences unto justification.</strong>+ +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.  |Rom 5:16; Isa 1:18; Isa 43:25,26; Isa 44:22; John 3:16; Rom 5:15; 1 Cor 6:11|<strong>Occupy till I come.</strong>+ +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.  |Luke 19:13; Mark 13:34; Matt 25:15; John 9:4; Luke 2:49; 1 Pet 2:21; 2 Tim 4:2; 1 Cor 3:13; 1 Cor 15:58
-September 1st|september-01|<strong>The fruit of the spirit is meekness.</strong>+ +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 O 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 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.  |Gal 5:22; Isa 29:19; Matt 8:3,4; 1 Cor 3:4; 1 Cor 13:4; 1 Tim 6:11; Matt 11:29; Isa 53:7; 1 Pet 2:21-23|<strong>If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.</strong>+ +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.+ +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.  |Luke 9:23; 2 Cor 6:8; 2 Tim 3:12; Gal 5:11; Gal 1:10; 1 Pet 4:14-16; Phl 1:29; 2 Cor 5:14,15; 2 Tim 2:12
+September 1st|september-01|<strong>The fruit of the spirit is meekness.</strong>+ +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 O 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 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.  |Gal 5:22; Isa 29:19; Matt 8:3,4; 1 Cor 3:4; 1 Cor 13:4; 1 Tim 6:11; Matt 11:29; Isa 53:7; 1 Pet 2:21-23|<strong>If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.</strong>+ +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.+ +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.  |Luke 9:23; 2 Cor 6:8; 2 Tim 3:12; Gal 5:11; Gal 1:10; 1 Pet 4:14-16; Phl 1:29; 2 Cor 5:14,15; 2 Tim 2:12
 September 2nd|september-02|<strong>Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart.</strong>+ +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 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.  |Psa 27:14; Isa 40:28,29; Isa 41:10; Isa 25:4; Jas 1:3,4; Heb 10:35,36|<strong>He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 23:2; Isa 57:20,21; Matt 11:28; Psa 37:7; Heb 4:10; Heb 13:9; Eph 4:14,15; Song 2:3,4
 September 3rd|september-03|<strong>Neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.</strong>+ +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.  |Exo 13:7; Prov 8:13; Rom 12:9; 1 Thes 5:22; Heb 12:15; Psa 66:18; 1 Cor 5:6-8; 1 Cor 11:28; 2 Tim 2:19; Heb 7:26; 1 John 3:5|<strong>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.</strong>+ +I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, 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.  |Gen 3:4,5; 2 Cor 11:3; Eph 6:10,11,13-17; 2 Cor 2:11
 September 4th|september-04|<strong>Sit still, my daughter.</strong>+ +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.  |Ruth 3:18; Isa 7:8; Psa 46:10; John 11:40; Isa 2:17; Luke 10:39; Luke 10:42; Isa 30:15; Psa 4:4; Psa 37:7; Psa 112:7,8; Isa 28:16|<strong>What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. </strong>+ +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.  |John 13:7; Deut 8:2; Ezek 16:8; Heb 12:6; 1 Pet 4:12,13; 2 Cor 4:17,18
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 September 22nd|september-22|<strong>My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.</strong>+ +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. -- He is the head of the body, the church.+ +His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers. -- He could not be hid.+ +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 thy countenance upon us.  |Psa 104:34; Song 2:3; Psa 89:6; Song 5:10; Matt 13:46; Rev 1:5; Song 5:11; Eph 1:22; Col 1:18; Song 5:13; Mark 7:24; Song 5:13; John 7:46; Song 5:15; Psa 31:16; Psa 4:6|<strong>O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.</strong>+ +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 behooved 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.  |Matt 26:39; John 12:27; John 6:38; Phl 2:8; Heb 5:7,8; Matt 26:53; Luke 24:46,47
 September 23rd|september-23|<strong>Our God hath not forsaken us.</strong>+ +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.  |Ezra 9:9; 1 Pet 4:12; Heb 12:7,8; Deut 13:3; 1 Sam 12:22; Isa 49:15; Psa 146:5; Luke 18:7,8|<strong>He that overcometh shall inherit all things</strong>.+ +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 your's; ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's. -- 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.  |Rev 21:7; 1 Cor 15:19; Heb 11:16; 1 Pet 1:4; 1 Cor 3:21,22; 1 Cor 2:9,10; 2 John 8; Heb 12:1
 September 24th|september-24|<strong>It is good for me to draw near to God.</strong>+ +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 door keeper 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.  |Psa 73:28; Psa 26:8; Psa 84:10; Psa 65:4; Lam 3:25; Isa 30:18; Heb 10:19,20,22|<strong>Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +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 are 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.  |2 Cor 8:9; John 1:14; Psa 45:2; Luke 4:22; 1 Pet 2:3; 1 John 5:10; John 3:11; Psa 34:8; Song 2:3; 2 Cor 12:9; Eph 4:7; 1 Pet 4:10
-September 25th|september-25|<strong>Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.</strong>+ +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.|James 1:4; 1 Pet 1:6,7; Rom 5:3-4; Lam 3:26; Heb 10: 34-36; 2Th 2:16-17|<strong>God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +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.|Rom 2:16; 1Cor 4:5; Joh 5:22,27; Rev 2:18; Ps 73:11; Ps 50:21; Lu 12:2; Ps 38:9; Ps 26:2
+September 25th|september-25|<strong>Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.</strong>+ +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. |James 1:4; 1 Pet 1:6,7; Rom 5:3-4; Lam 3:26; Heb 10: 34-36; 2Th 2:16-17|<strong>God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +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. |Rom 2:16; 1Cor 4:5; Joh 5:22,27; Rev 2:18; Ps 73:11; Ps 50:21; Lu 12:2; Ps 38:9; Ps 26:2
 September 26th|september-26|<strong>A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.</strong>+ +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.  |Deut 32:4; 1 Pet 2:23; 2 Cor 5:10; Rom 14:12; Ezek 18:4; Zech 13:7; Isa 53:6; Psa 85:10; Isa 2:13; Rom 6:23; Isa 45:21; Rom 3:26; Rom 3:24|<strong>Death is swallowed up in victory.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Cor 15:54; 1 Cor 15:57; Heb 2:14,15; Rom 6:8-10; Rom 6:11; Rom 8:37
 September 27th|september-27|<strong>Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Pet 5:6; Prov 16:5; Isa 64:8,9; Jer 31:18,19; Lam 3:27; Job 5:6,7,|<strong>Yea, hath God said?</strong>+ +When the tempter came to Jesus, he said, If thou be the Son of God. -- Jesus said unto him, 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. 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.  |Gen 3:1; Matt 4:3; Matt 4:4,7,10; Matt 4:11; 1 Kgs 13:16-19,26; Gal 1:8; Psa 119:11
 September 28th|september-28|<strong>They shall put my name upon the childen of Isael; and I will bless them.</strong>+ +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.  |Num 6:27; Isa 26:13; Isa 63:19; Deut 28:10; 1 Sam 12:22; Dan 9:19; Psa 79:9,10; Prov 18:10|<strong>The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.</strong>+ +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.  |Psa 19:1; Rom 1:20; Acts 14:17; Psa 19:2,3; Psa 8:3,4; 1 Cor 15:41,42; Dan 12:3
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ October 29th|october-29|<strong>He is altogether lovely.</strong>+ +My meditatio
 October 30th|october-30|<strong>It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.</strong>+ +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.  |Lam 3:26; Psa 77:9; Psa 31:22; Luke 18:7,8; Prov 20:22; Psa 37:7; 2 Chr 20:17; Gal 6:9; Jas 5:7|<strong>Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.</strong>+ +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. -- Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.  |Song 2:15; Psa 19:12; Heb 12:15; Gal 5:7; Phl 1:6,27; Jas 3:5,6; Col 4:6
 October 31st|october-31|<strong>Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.</strong>+ +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 your's, but God's.+ +The LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's.  |Zech 4:6; Isa 40:13; 1 Cor 1:27-29; John 3:8; John 1:13; Hag 2:5; 2 Chr 20:15; 1 Sam 17:47|<strong>Do as thou hast said.</strong>+ +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.  |2 Sam 7:25; Psa 119:38,42,49,54,72,89,90; Heb 6:17-20; 2 Pet 1:4
 November 1st|november-01|<strong>Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.</strong>+ +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.+ +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.  |Prov 8:34; Psa 123:2; Exo 29:42; Exo 20:24; Matt 18:20; John 4:23,24; Eph 6:18; 1 Thes 5:17|<strong>His name shall be called Counsellor.</strong>+ +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; Luke 11:2,3; Prov 8:1,4-6,14; Isa 28:29; Jas 1:5; Prov 3:5,6
-November 2nd|november-02|<strong>Ever follow that which is good.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Thes 5:15; 1 Pet 2:21-23; Heb 12:3; Heb 12:1,2; Phl 4:8|<strong>The mighty God.</strong>+ +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 causes 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; Psa 45:2-4,6; Psa 89:19; Zech 13:7; Isa 12:2; 2 Cor 2:14; Jude 24,25
+November 2nd|november-02|<strong>Ever follow that which is good.</strong>+ +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.  |1 Thes 5:15; 1 Pet 2:21-23; Heb 12:3; Heb 12:1,2; Phl 4:8|<strong>The mighty God.</strong>+ +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 causes 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; Psa 45:2-4,6; Psa 89:19; Zech 13:7; Isa 12:2; 2 Cor 2:14; Jude 24,25
 November 3rd|november-03|<strong>The ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.</strong>+ +Unto you ... which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, ... 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 unto me, that ye might have life. -- My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.  |Hos 14:9; 1 Pet 2:7,8; Prov 10:29; Mark 11:15; Psa 107:43; Matt 6:22; John 7:17; Matt 13:12; John 8:47; John 5:40; John 10:27|<strong>The everlasting Father.</strong>+ +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. -- Had 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; Deut 6:4; John 10:30,38; John 8:19; John 14:8,9; Heb 2:13; Isa 53:11; Rev 1:8; John 8:58; Exo 3:14; Heb 1:8; Col 1:17; Col 2:9
 November 4th|november-04|<strong>Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.</strong>+ +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 ... 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 a 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.  |1 Pet 1:6; 1 Pet 4:12,13; Heb 12:5; Heb 12:11; Heb 4:15; Heb 2:18; 1 Cor 10:13|<strong>The Prince of Peace.</strong>+ +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; ... 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; Psa 72:2-7; Luke 2:14; Luke 1:78,79; Acts 10:36; John 16:33; John 14:27; Phl 4:7
 November 5th|november-05|<strong>Take thou also unto thee principal spices, and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment.</strong>+ +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 ... 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.  |Exo 30:23,25; Exo 30:32; Eph 4:4; 1 Cor 12:4; Psa 45:7; Acts 10:38; John 3:34; John 1:16; 1 John 2:27; 2 Cor 1:21,22; Gal 5:22,23|<strong>The fashion of this world passeth away.</strong>+ +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 of 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.  |1 Cor 7:31; Gen 5:27; Jas 1:9-11; Jas 4:14; 1 John 2:17; Psa 39:4; 1 Thes 5:3,4