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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ January 17th|january-17|<strong>Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from t
 January 18th|january-18|<strong>Him that was to come.</strong>+ +Jesus ... made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, ... that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. -- One died for all. -- As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.+ +The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spint. -- That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. -- God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. -- God ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. -- Thou hast given him power over all flesh.+ +The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.  |Rom 5:14; Heb 2:9; 2 Cor 5:14; Rom 5:19; 1 Cor 15:45; 1 Cor 15:46; Gen 1:26,27; Heb 1:1; John 17:2; 1 Cor 15:47,48|<strong>Things which shall be hereafter.</strong>+ +As it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. -- The Spirit of truth ... will shew you things to come.+ +Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.+ +I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For 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.  |Rev 1:19; 1 Cor 2:9,10; John 16:13; Rev 1:7; 1 Thes 4:13,14,16,17
 January 19th|january-19|<strong>Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.</strong>+ +Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whoso-ever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.+ +If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. -- I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man, ... not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. -- When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.+ +Our rejoicing is this, ... that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world. -- We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.  |Acts 20:19; Matt 20:26; Gal 6:3; Rom 12:3; Luke 17:10; 2 Cor 1:12; 2 Cor 4:7|<strong>We have turned every one to his own way.</strong>+ +Noah ... planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken. -- Abram ... said unto Sara his wife, ... Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake. -- Isaac said unto Jacob, ... Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. -- Moses ... spake unadvisedly with his lips. -- The men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord. And Joshua made peace with them. -- David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.+ +These all ... obtained a good report through faith. -- Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. -- The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.+ +Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways.  |Isa 53:6; Gen 9:20,21; Gen 12:11,13; Gen 27:21,24; Psa 106:32,33; Josh 9:14,15; 1 Kgs 15:5; Heb 11:39; Rom 3:24; Isa 53:8; Ezek 36:32
 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 right-eousness.+ +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 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 believ-eth 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 affec-tions 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 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, good-ness, 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 purg-eth 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
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 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 wishall 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
 February 19th|february-19|<strong>The Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.</strong>+ +Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own under-standing. -- If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbradeth not; and it shall be given him. -- The fool-ishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -- God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. That no flesh should glory in his presence.+ +The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. -- Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.+ +All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. -- Never man spake like this man. -- Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanc-tification, and redemption.  |Prov 2:6; Prov 3:5; Jas 1:5; 1 Cor 1:25; 1 Cor 1:27,29; Psa 119:130; Psa 119:11; Luke 4:22; John 7:46; 1 Cor 1:30|<strong>The year of my redeemed is come.</strong>+ +Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, ... and unto his family.+ +Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead.+ +The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the 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.+ +I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.+ +Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name.  |Isa 63:4; Lev 25:10; Isa 26:19; 1 Thes 4:16,17; Hos 13:14; Jer 50:34
 February 20th|february-20|<strong>He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.</strong>+ +Jesus ... said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. -- He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.+ +This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. -- To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which be purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. -- That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.+ +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, unto the praise of his glory. -- 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.  |Isa 3:11; John 19:30; 2 Cor 5:21; Isa 43:21; Eph 3:10,11; Eph 2:7; Eph 1:13,14; 1 Pet 2:9|<strong>The day of temptation in the wilderness.</strong>+ +Let no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.They lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.+ +Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.+ +He himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. -- Simon, Simon, ... Satan hath desired to have you, that he might sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not.  |Heb 3:8; Jas 1:13‑15; Psa 106:14; Luke 4:1‑3; Heb 2:18; Luke 22:31,32
-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 with-out 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 resur-rection 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 per-isheth, 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 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 sweet-smelling 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
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ March 3rd|march-03|<strong>Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not
 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 Heph-zibah, ... 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 right-eousness, 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
+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 Heph-zibah, ... 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
 March 8th|march-08|<strong>Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.</strong>+ +Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for- ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have com-passion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.+ +For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with ever-lasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. -- I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.+ +Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. -- The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  |Isa 38:17; Mic 7:18,19; Isa 54:7,8; Jer 31:34; Psa 32:1,2; 1 John 1:7|<strong>I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able.</strong>+ +Able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.Able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.Able to succour them that are tempted.+ +Able ... to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for the.Able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the pres-ence of his glory with exceeding joy.+ +Able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.Believe ye that I am able to do this? ... Yea, Lord. According to your faith be it unto you.  |2 Tim 1:12; Eph 3:20; 2 Cor 9:8; Heb 2:18; Heb 7:25; Jude 24; 2 Tim 1:12; Phl 3:21; Matt 9:28,29
 March 9th|march-09|<strong>The living God giveth us richly all things to enjoy.</strong>+ +Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his com-mandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; ... then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God: ... for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth.+ +Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. -- They got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them -- There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.  |1 Tim 6:17; Deut 8:11,12,14,18; Psa 127:1,2; Psa 44:3; Psa 4:6|<strong>They sang as it were a new song.</strong>+ +A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us. -- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour. -- By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast.+ +Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory. -- Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. -- Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. -- I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, ... cried ... saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.  |Rev 14:3; Heb 10:20; Tit 3:5,6; Eph 2:8,9; Psa 115:1; Rev 1:5; Rev 5:9; Rev 7:9,10
 March 10th|march-10|<strong>The Lord will provide.</strong>+ +God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. -- There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.+ +Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. -- Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; to deliver their soul from death.+ +My God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. -- He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusteth in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth: and with my song will I praise him.  |Gen 22:14; Gen 22:8; Isa 59:1; Rom 11:26; Psa 146:5; Psa 33:18,19; Phl 4:19; Heb 13:5,6; Psa 28:7|<strong>The Lord will provide.</strong>+ +God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.+ +Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. -- There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.+ +Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. -- Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; to deliver their soul from death.+ +My God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. -- He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusteth in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth: and with my song will I praise him.  |Gen 22:14 (marg) Gen 22:8; Isa 59:1; Rom 11:26; Psa 146:5; Psa 33:18,19; Phl 4:19; Heb 13:5,6; Psa 28:7
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ April 2nd|april-02|<strong>If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, t
 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
 April 5th|april-05|<strong>I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.</strong>+ +Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.+ +O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt. -- According to your faith be it unto you. -- Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.+ +They drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and [Jesus] made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: ... he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? -- I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight. -- My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.  |Gen 32:26; Isa 27:5; Matt 15:28; Matt 9:29; Jas 1:6,7; Luke 24:28,29,31,32; Exo 33:13; Exo 33:14|<strong>Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.</strong>+ +I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. -- Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last: I am he.+ +Sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ. -- The very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. -- He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. -- Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? -- The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.+ +It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.  |Heb 12:2; Rev 1:8; Isa 41:4; Jude 1:1; 1 Thes 5:23,24; Phl 1:6; Gal 3:3; Psa 138:8; Phl 2:13
-April 6th|april-06|<strong>He ever liveth to make intercession.</strong>+ +Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died ... who also maketh inter-cession for us. -- Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.+ +If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. -- There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.+ +Seeing ... that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. -- Through him we ... have access by one Spirit unto the Father.  |Heb 7:25; Rom 8:34; Heb 9:24; 1 John 2:1; 1 Tim 2:5; Heb 4:14‑16; Eph 2:18|<strong>They that know thy name will put their trust in thee.</strong>+ +This is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHT-EOUSNESS. -- I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.+ +His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor. -- O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.+ +The mighty God, The everlasting Father. -- I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.+ +The Prince of Peace. -- He is our peace. -- Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. -- Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help. -- As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.  |Psa 9:10; Jer 23:6; Psa 71:16; Isa 9:6; Jer 10:23; Isa 9:6; 2 Tim 1:12; Isa 9:6; Eph 2:14; Rom 5:1; Prov 18:10; Isa 31:1; Isa 31:5
+April 6th|april-06|<strong>He ever liveth to make intercession.</strong>+ +Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died ... who also maketh inter-cession for us. -- Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.+ +If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. -- There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.+ +Seeing ... that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. -- Through him we ... have access by one Spirit unto the Father.  |Heb 7:25; Rom 8:34; Heb 9:24; 1 John 2:1; 1 Tim 2:5; Heb 4:14‑16; Eph 2:18|<strong>They that know thy name will put their trust in thee.</strong>+ +This is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. -- I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.+ +His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor. -- O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.+ +The mighty God, The everlasting Father. -- I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.+ +The Prince of Peace. -- He is our peace. -- Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. -- Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help. -- As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.  |Psa 9:10; Jer 23:6; Psa 71:16; Isa 9:6; Jer 10:23; Isa 9:6; 2 Tim 1:12; Isa 9:6; Eph 2:14; Rom 5:1; Prov 18:10; Isa 31:1; Isa 31:5
 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
@@ -170,67 +170,67 @@ June 17th|june-17|<strong>In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksg
 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 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 bur-dens, 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, tender-hearted, 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 command-ments, 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, tender-hearted, 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 con-straineth 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 heavv 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 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 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 cruci-fied 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 ap-peareth? 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 where-with 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 trans-gression 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 ot 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
-June 29th|june-29|<strong>His commandments are not grievous.</strong>+ +This is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life. -- Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.+ +My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. -- If ye love me, keep my com-mandments. -- He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.+ +Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth under-standing. -- Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. -- Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them. -- I delight in the law of God after the inward man.+ +This is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another. -- Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.  |1 John 5:3; John 6:40; 1 John 3:22; Matt 11:30; John 14:15,21; Prov 3:13; Prov 3:17; Psa 119:165; Rom 7:22; 1 John 3:23; Rom 13:10|<strong>Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.</strong>+ +I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. -- I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. -- Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -- I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. -- Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.+ +Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. -- Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity? ... he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he de-lighteth in mercy. -- Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.  |Psa 25:7; Isa 44:22; Isa 43:25; Isa 1:18; Jer 31:34; Mic 7:19; Isa 38:17; Mic 7:18; Rev 1:5
+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
+June 29th|june-29|<strong>His commandments are not grievous.</strong>+ +This is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life. -- Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.+ +My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. -- If ye love me, keep my commandments. -- He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.+ +Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth under-standing. -- Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. -- Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them. -- I delight in the law of God after the inward man.+ +This is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another. -- Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.  |1 John 5:3; John 6:40; 1 John 3:22; Matt 11:30; John 14:15,21; Prov 3:13; Prov 3:17; Psa 119:165; Rom 7:22; 1 John 3:23; Rom 13:10|<strong>Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.</strong>+ +I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. -- I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. -- Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -- I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. -- Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.+ +Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. -- Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity? ... he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. -- Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.  |Psa 25:7; Isa 44:22; Isa 43:25; Isa 1:18; Jer 31:34; Mic 7:19; Isa 38:17; Mic 7:18; Rev 1:5
 June 30th|june-30|<strong>As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.</strong>+ +My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. -- Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. -- He maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. -- Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. -- I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.+ +He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. -- He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.  |Rev 3:19; Heb 12:5,6; Prov 3:12; Job 5:18; 1 Pet 5:6; Isa 48:10; Lam 3:33; Psa 103:10-14|<strong>God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.</strong>+ +When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.+ +They ... called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.+ +Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other.+ +Lord, teach us to pray.  |Eccl 5:2; Matt 6:7,8; 1 Kgs 18:26; Luke 18:10,11,13,14; Luke 11:1
 July 01st|july-01|<strong>The fruit ot the Spirit is goodness.</strong>+ +Be ye ... followers of God, as dear children. -- Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. -- Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.+ +The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.+ +After that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour. -- The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. -- He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?  |Gal 5:22; Eph 5:1; Matt 5:44,45; Luke 6:36; Eph 5:9; Tit 3:4-6; Psa 145:9; Rom 8:32|<strong>Eben‑ezer ... Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.</strong>+ +I was brought low, and he helped me. -- Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.+ +It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. -- Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. -- He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. -- There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord hath spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.+ +When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. -- Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.  |1 Sam 7:12; Psa 116:6; Psa 28:6,7; Psa 118:8,9; Psa 146:5, -psa 107:7; Josh 21:45; Luke 22:35; Psa 63:7
-July 02nd|july-02|<strong>This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof.</strong>+ +We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the taber-nacle. -- Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. -- At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise. But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometime were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.+ +For he is our peace, who hath made both one, ... having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.+ +Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow‑citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.+ +If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.  |Exo 12:43; Heb 13:10; John 3:3; Eph 2:12,13; Eph 2:14,15; Eph 2:19; Rev 3:20|<strong>[Jesus] prayed the third time, saying the same words.</strong>+ +Who in the days of his flesh ... offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death.+ +Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. -- Continuing instant in prayer. -- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication. -- By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.+ +Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. -- This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.+ +Delight thyself ... in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.  |Matt 26:44; Heb 5:7; Hos 6:3; Rom 12:12; Eph 6:18; Phl 4:6,7; Matt 26:39; 1 John 5:14; Psa 37:4,5
+July 02nd|july-02|<strong>This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof.</strong>+ +We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. -- Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. -- At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise. But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometime were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.+ +For he is our peace, who hath made both one, ... having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.+ +Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow‑citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.+ +If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.  |Exo 12:43; Heb 13:10; John 3:3; Eph 2:12,13; Eph 2:14,15; Eph 2:19; Rev 3:20|<strong>[Jesus] prayed the third time, saying the same words.</strong>+ +Who in the days of his flesh ... offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death.+ +Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. -- Continuing instant in prayer. -- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication. -- By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.+ +Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. -- This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.+ +Delight thyself ... in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.  |Matt 26:44; Heb 5:7; Hos 6:3; Rom 12:12; Eph 6:18; Phl 4:6,7; Matt 26:39; 1 John 5:14; Psa 37:4,5
 July 03rd|july-03|<strong>If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint‑heirs with Christ.</strong>+ +If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.+ +Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. -- Thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. -- Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.+ +Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me.+ +He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him I will give power over the nations. -- To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.  |Rom 8:17; Gal 3:29; 1 John 3:l; Gal 4:7; Eph 1:5; John 17:24; Rev 2:26; Rev 3:21|<strong>Things which are despised, hath God chosen.</strong>+ +Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?+ +Jesus, ... saw two brethren, ... casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me. -- Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.+ +My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.+ +Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. -- We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God.  |1 Cor 1:28; Acts 2:7; Matt 4:18,19; Acts 4:13; 1 Cor 2:4,5; John 15:16,5; 2 Cor 4:7
 July 04th|july-04|<strong>Leaning on Jesus' bosom.</strong>+ +As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. -- They brought young children to him, that he should touch them. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. -- Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. -- A high Priest ... touched with with the feeling of our infirmities. -- In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.+ +I will not leave you comfortless: (marg. orphans) I will come to you. -- Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.+ +The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.  |John 13:23; Isa 66:13; Mark 10:13,16; Matt 15:32; Heb 4:15; Isa 63:9; John 14:18; Isa 49:15; Rev 7:17|<strong>Jesus Christ the righteous: the propitiation for our sins.</strong>+ +Toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat.+ +Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.+ +If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. -- All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins.  |1 John 2:1,2; Exo 25:20‑22; Psa 85:9,10; Psa 130:3,4,7,8; Rom 3:23-25
 July 05th|july-05|<strong>We have known and believed the love that God hath to us.</strong>+ +God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.+ +God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. -- He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? -- The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.+ +We love him, because he first loved us.+ +Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.  |1 John 4:16; Eph 2:4‑7; John 3:16; Rom 8:32; Psa 145:9; 1 John 4:19; Luke 1:45|<strong>Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.</strong>+ +My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?+ +Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. -- Having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.+ +God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise: and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.+ +Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty.  |Rom 12:16; Jas 2:1,5; 1 Cor 10:24; 1 Tim 6:8,9; 1 Cor 1:27‑29; Psa 131:1
 July 06th|july-06|<strong>Let your speech be always with grace.</strong>+ +A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. -- Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. -- A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. -- By thy words thou shalt be justified. -- The tongue of the wise is health.+ +They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.+ +If thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. -- Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and know-ledge, and in all diligence, ... see that ye abound in this grace also.  |Col 4:6; Prov 25:11,12; Eph 4:29; Matt 12:35; Matt 12:37; Prov 12:18; Mal 3:16; Jer 15:19; 2 Cor 8:7|<strong>Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes.</strong>+ +The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. -- Your Father which is in heaven: ... maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.+ +Be ye ... followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet‑smelling savour. -- Be ye kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. -- Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. -- The love of Christ constraineth us.+ +Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.  |Psa 26:3; Psa 145:8; Matt 5:45; Eph 5:1,2; Eph 4:32; 1 Pet 1:22; 2 Cor 5:14; Luke 6:35,36
 July 07th|july-07|<strong>Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.</strong>+ +In the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. -- We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.+ +There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. -- My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.  |Matt 4:1; Heb 5:7‑9; Heb 4:15; 1 Cor 10:13; 2 Cor 12:9|<strong>The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many.</strong>+ +If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?+ +He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. -- I lay down my life for the sheep. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.+ +The life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. -- Without shedding of blood is no remission.+ +While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.  |Matt 20:28; Heb 9:13,14; Isa 53:7; John 10:15,18; Lev 17:11; Heb 9:22; Rom 5:8,9
 July 08th|july-08|<strong>If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</strong>+ +I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight.+ +And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. -- I have blotted out as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. -- Your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. -- God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. -- That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.+ +Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. -- They shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.+ +This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water and blood.  |1 John 1:9; Psa 51:3,4; Luke 15:20; Isa 44:22; 1 John 2:12; Eph 4:32; Rom 3:26; Eze 36:25; Rev 3:4; 1 John 5:6|<strong>Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee?</strong>+ +Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. -- Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.+ +The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. -- An high priest ... holy, harmless, undefiled.+ +We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. -- The prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.+ +Whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.  |Psa 94:20; 1 John 1:3; 1 John 3:2,3; John 14:30; Heb 7:26; Eph 6:12; Eph 2:2; 1 John 5:18,19
-July 09th|july-09|<strong>I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.</strong>+ +Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. -- We are all as an unclean thing. -- I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.+ +As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. -- Ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. -- Not having mine own righteousness which is of the law, but ... the righteousness which is of God by faith.+ +Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him. -- The fine linen is the right-eousness of saints. -- I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.  |Zech 3:4; Psa 32:1; Isa 64:6; Rom 7:18; Col 3:27; Col 3:9,10; Phl 3:9; Luke 15:22; Rev 19:8; Isa 61:10|<strong>The day shall declare it.</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.+ +Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more.+ +God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. -- The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.+ +The Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.  |1 Cor 3:13; 1 Cor 4:5; Rom 14:10,12,13; Rom 2:16; John 5:22,27; Jer 32:18,19
-July 10th|july-10|<strong>The disciple is not above his master.</strong>+ +Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.+ +It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. -- If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also. -- I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.+ +Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.+ +Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. -- Forasmuch ... as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind.  |Matt 10:24; John 13:13; Matt 10:25; John 15:20; John 17:14; Heb 12:3,4; Heb 12:1,2; 1 Pet 4:1|<strong>My son, give me thine heart.</strong>+ +O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!+ +Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. -- Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.+ +They ... first gave their own selves to the Lord. -- In every work that [Heze-kiah] began ... to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.+ +Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.+ +Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord. -- As the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.+ +I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.  |Pro 23:26; Deut 5:29; Acts 8:21; Rom 87,8; 2 Cor 8:5; 2 Chr 31:21; Prov 4:23; Col 3:23; Eph 6:6,7; Psa 119:32
-July 11th|july-11|<strong>I am with thee to save thee.</strong>+ +Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee. And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. -- Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my right-ousness.+ +We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. -- In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. -- The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.  |Jer 15:20; Isa 49:24‑26; Isa 41:10; Heb 4:15; Heb 2:18; Psa 37:23,24|<strong>He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.</strong>+ +Ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious+ +O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory. -- My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. -- Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.+ +I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. -- They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. -- They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. -- My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.  |Psa 107:9; 1 Pet 2:3; Psa 63:1,2; Psa 84:2; Phl 1:23; Psa 17:15; Rev 7:16,17; Psa 36:8; Jer 31:14
-July 12th|july-12|<strong>My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.</strong>+ +Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. The Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. -- Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. -- In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.+ +He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- Our sufficiency is of God.+ +Lead us not into temptation. -- O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. -- My times are in thy hand.  |Exo 33:14; Deut 31:6,8; Josh 1:9; Prov 3:6; Heb 13:5,6; 2 Cor 3:5; Matt 6:13; Jer 10:23; Psa 31:15|<strong>Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.</strong>+ +How forcible are right words! -- I stir up your pure minds by way of re-membrance.+ +They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. -- If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.+ +The Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. -- Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.+ +Let ... no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. -- Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.  |Heb 10:24; Job 6:25; 2 Pet 3:1; Mal 3:16; Matt 18:19; Gen 2:18; Eccl 4:9,10; Rom 14:13; Gal 6:2,1
-July 13th|july-13|<strong>I am my Beloved's, and His desire is toward me.</strong>+ +I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. -- I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -- Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of then is lost.+ +The Lord taketh pleasure in his people. -- My delights were with the sons of men. -- His great love wherewith he loved us. -- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.+ +Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in you body, and in your spirit, which are God's. -- Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.  |Song 7:10; 2 Tim 1:12; Rom 8:38,39; John 17:12; Psa 149:4; Prov 8:31; Eph 2:4; John 15:13; 1 Cor 6:20; Rom 14:8|<strong>Seek ye out of the book of the Lord.</strong>+ +Ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. -- This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.+ +The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. -- By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. -- Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.+ +We have ... a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. -- That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.  |Isa 34:16; Deut 11:18; Josh 1:8; Psa 37:31; Psa 17:4; Psa 119:11; 2 Pet 1:19; Rom 15:4
-July 14th|july-14|<strong>Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.</strong>+ +Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.+ +Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. -- Death and life are in the power of the tongue. --The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slide. -- Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.+ +We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. -- I believed, therefore have I spoken.+ +Whosoever ... shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. -- With the heart man believeth unto righteous-ness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  |Matt 12:34; Col 3:16; Prov 4:23; Prov 18:21; Psa 37:30,31; Eph 4:29; Acts 4:20; Psa 116:10; Mark 10:32; Rom 10:10|<strong>I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face.</strong>+ +Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down! -- As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? -- Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.+ +Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. -- God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope. -- Whom having not seen, ye love.+ +He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly; Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. -- It shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.  |21 John 14; Isa 64:1; Psa 42:1,2; Song 8:14; Phl 3:20; Tit 2:13; 1 Tim 1:1; 1 Pet 1:8; Rev 22:20; Isa 25:9
-July 15th|july-15|<strong>Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.</strong>+ +Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his com-mandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.+ +I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. -- I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart. -- O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.+ +Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. -- Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. -- If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. -- To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.+ +Be not conformed to this world: but ye be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  |Matt 6:10; Psa 103:20,21; John 6:38; Psa 40:8; Matt 26:42; Matt 7:21; Rom 2:13; John 13:17; Jas 4:17; Rom 12:2|<strong>The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.</strong>+ +Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. -- Judge not ac-cording to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. -- I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. -- Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.+ +He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith. -- He that is spiritual judgeth all things.+ +Take heed what ye hear. -- I know thy works, ... and how thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. -- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.+ +He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.  |Job 34:3; 1 John 4:1; John 7:24; 1 Cor 10:15; Col 3:16; Rev 2:29; 1 Cor 2:15; Mark 4:24; Rev 2:2; 1 Thes 5:21; John 10:3‑5
+July 09th|july-09|<strong>I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.</strong>+ +Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. -- We are all as an unclean thing. -- I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.+ +As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. -- Ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. -- Not having mine own righteousness which is of the law, but ... the righteousness which is of God by faith.+ +Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him. -- The fine linen is the righteousness of saints. -- I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.  |Zech 3:4; Psa 32:1; Isa 64:6; Rom 7:18; Col 3:27; Col 3:9,10; Phl 3:9; Luke 15:22; Rev 19:8; Isa 61:10|<strong>The day shall declare it.</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.+ +Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more.+ +God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. -- The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.+ +The Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.  |1 Cor 3:13; 1 Cor 4:5; Rom 14:10,12,13; Rom 2:16; John 5:22,27; Jer 32:18,19
+July 10th|july-10|<strong>The disciple is not above his master.</strong>+ +Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.+ +It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. -- If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also. -- I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.+ +Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.+ +Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. -- Forasmuch ... as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind.  |Matt 10:24; John 13:13; Matt 10:25; John 15:20; John 17:14; Heb 12:3,4; Heb 12:1,2; 1 Pet 4:1|<strong>My son, give me thine heart.</strong>+ +O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!+ +Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. -- Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.+ +They ... first gave their own selves to the Lord. -- In every work that [Hezekiah] began ... to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.+ +Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.+ +Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord. -- As the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.+ +I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.  |Pro 23:26; Deut 5:29; Acts 8:21; Rom 87,8; 2 Cor 8:5; 2 Chr 31:21; Prov 4:23; Col 3:23; Eph 6:6,7; Psa 119:32
+July 11th|july-11|<strong>I am with thee to save thee.</strong>+ +Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee. And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. -- Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my rightousness.+ +We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. -- In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. -- The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.  |Jer 15:20; Isa 49:24‑26; Isa 41:10; Heb 4:15; Heb 2:18; Psa 37:23,24|<strong>He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.</strong>+ +Ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious+ +O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory. -- My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. -- Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.+ +I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. -- They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. -- They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. -- My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.  |Psa 107:9; 1 Pet 2:3; Psa 63:1,2; Psa 84:2; Phl 1:23; Psa 17:15; Rev 7:16,17; Psa 36:8; Jer 31:14
+July 12th|july-12|<strong>My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.</strong>+ +Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. The Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. -- Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. -- In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.+ +He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- Our sufficiency is of God.+ +Lead us not into temptation. -- O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. -- My times are in thy hand.  |Exo 33:14; Deut 31:6,8; Josh 1:9; Prov 3:6; Heb 13:5,6; 2 Cor 3:5; Matt 6:13; Jer 10:23; Psa 31:15|<strong>Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.</strong>+ +How forcible are right words! -- I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance.+ +They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. -- If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.+ +The Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. -- Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.+ +Let ... no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. -- Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.  |Heb 10:24; Job 6:25; 2 Pet 3:1; Mal 3:16; Matt 18:19; Gen 2:18; Eccl 4:9,10; Rom 14:13; Gal 6:2,1
+July 13th|july-13|<strong>I am my Beloved's, and His desire is toward me.</strong>+ +I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. -- I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -- Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost.+ +The Lord taketh pleasure in his people. -- My delights were with the sons of men. -- His great love wherewith he loved us. -- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.+ +Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in you body, and in your spirit, which are God's. -- Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.  |Song 7:10; 2 Tim 1:12; Rom 8:38,39; John 17:12; Psa 149:4; Prov 8:31; Eph 2:4; John 15:13; 1 Cor 6:20; Rom 14:8|<strong>Seek ye out of the book of the Lord.</strong>+ +Ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. -- This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.+ +The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. -- By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. -- Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.+ +We have ... a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. -- That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.  |Isa 34:16; Deut 11:18; Josh 1:8; Psa 37:31; Psa 17:4; Psa 119:11; 2 Pet 1:19; Rom 15:4
+July 14th|july-14|<strong>Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.</strong>+ +Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.+ +Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. -- Death and life are in the power of the tongue. --The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slide. -- Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.+ +We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. -- I believed, therefore have I spoken.+ +Whosoever ... shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. -- With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  |Matt 12:34; Col 3:16; Prov 4:23; Prov 18:21; Psa 37:30,31; Eph 4:29; Acts 4:20; Psa 116:10; Mark 10:32; Rom 10:10|<strong>I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face.</strong>+ +Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down! -- As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? -- Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.+ +Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. -- God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope. -- Whom having not seen, ye love.+ +He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly; Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. -- It shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.  |21 John 14; Isa 64:1; Psa 42:1,2; Song 8:14; Phl 3:20; Tit 2:13; 1 Tim 1:1; 1 Pet 1:8; Rev 22:20; Isa 25:9
+July 15th|july-15|<strong>Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.</strong>+ +Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.+ +I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. -- I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart. -- O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.+ +Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. -- Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. -- If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. -- To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.+ +Be not conformed to this world: but ye be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  |Matt 6:10; Psa 103:20,21; John 6:38; Psa 40:8; Matt 26:42; Matt 7:21; Rom 2:13; John 13:17; Jas 4:17; Rom 12:2|<strong>The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.</strong>+ +Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. -- Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. -- I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. -- Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.+ +He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith. -- He that is spiritual judgeth all things.+ +Take heed what ye hear. -- I know thy works, ... and how thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. -- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.+ +He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.  |Job 34:3; 1 John 4:1; John 7:24; 1 Cor 10:15; Col 3:16; Rev 2:29; 1 Cor 2:15; Mark 4:24; Rev 2:2; 1 Thes 5:21; John 10:3‑5
 July 16th|july-16|<strong>Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.</strong>+ +Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests. -- Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, 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.+ +Ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God. -- Priests of God and of Christ.+ +Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. -- By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.+ +For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. -- The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.  |Exo 19:6; Rev 5:9,10; 1 Pet 2:9; Isa 61:6; Rev 20:6; Heb 3:1; Heb 13:15; Eph 2:10; 1 Cor 3:17|<strong>We made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them.</strong>+ +Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. -- Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. -- Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith.+ +Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? -- Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.+ +Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.+ +Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  |Neh 4:9; Matt 26:41; Col 4:2; 1 Pet 5:7-9; Luke 6:46; Jas 1:22; Exo 14:15; Phl 4:6,7
-July 17th|july-17|<strong>Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.</strong>+ +I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.+ +O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us. Help us, O God of our salvaton, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. -- Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. -- We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.+ +If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.  |John 4:2; Num 14:7,18; Psa 79:8,9; Jer 14:7; Jer 14:20; Psa 130:3,4|<strong>Sanctification of the Spirit.</strong>+ +Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.+ +Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what care-fulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! -- Fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth: proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.+ +The Comforter is the Holy Ghost. -- The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.+ +The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.+ +In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.+ +All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.  |2 Thes 2:13; Song 4:16; 2 Cor 7:11; Eph 5:9,10; John 14:16; Rom 5:5; Gal 5:22; 2 Cor 8:2; 1 Cor 12:11
+July 17th|july-17|<strong>Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.</strong>+ +I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.+ +O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us. Help us, O God of our salvaton, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. -- Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. -- We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.+ +If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.  |John 4:2; Num 14:7,18; Psa 79:8,9; Jer 14:7; Jer 14:20; Psa 130:3,4|<strong>Sanctification of the Spirit.</strong>+ +Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.+ +Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! -- Fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth: proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.+ +The Comforter is the Holy Ghost. -- The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.+ +The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.+ +In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.+ +All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.  |2 Thes 2:13; Song 4:16; 2 Cor 7:11; Eph 5:9,10; John 14:16; Rom 5:5; Gal 5:22; 2 Cor 8:2; 1 Cor 12:11
 July 18th|july-18|<strong>He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.</strong>+ +The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his; and, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity. -- Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you ... depart from me, ye that work iniquity. -- The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.+ +Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. -- Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm. -- The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.+ +I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  |John 10:3; 2 Tim 2:19; Matt 7:22,23; Psa 1:6; Isa 49:16; Song 8:6; Nah 1:7; John 14:2,3|<strong>She hath done what she could.</strong>+ +This poor widow hath cast in more than they all. -- Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. -- If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.+ +Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. -- If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? -- He which soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of+ +necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.+ +When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.  |Mark 14:8; Luke 21:3; Mark 9:41; 2 Cor 8:12; 1 John 3:18; Jas 2:15,16; 2 Cor 9:6,7; Luke 17:10
 July 19th|july-19|<strong>He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.</strong>+ +Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? -- Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. -- Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy. -- Hallowed be thy name.+ +Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people.+ +Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. -- I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.+ +Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, ... be glory.  |Luke 1:49; Exo 15:11; Psa 86:8; Rev 15:4; Matt 6:9; Luke 1:68; Isa 63:1; Psa 89:19; Eph 3:20,21|<strong>The dew of Hermon.</strong>+ +Mount Sion, which is Hermon. -- There the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. -- I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.+ +My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. -- As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.+ +God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. -- And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. -- It is like the precious ointment upon the head ... even Aaron's ... that went down to the skirts of his garments.  |Psa 133:3; Deut 4:48; Psa 133:3; Hos 14:5; Deut 32:2; Isa 55:10,11; John 3:34; John 1:16; Psa 133:2
 July 20th|july-20|<strong>They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.</strong>+ +He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. -- In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.+ +Such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. -- That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation.+ +Jesus of Nazareth ... went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. -- As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.+ +That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. -- Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.  |John 17:16; Isa 53:3; John 16:33; Heb 7:26; Phl 2:15; Acts 10:38; Gal 6:10; John 1:9; Matt 5:14,16|<strong>He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.</strong>+ +The joy of the Lord is your strength. -- The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. -- Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +By him ... let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.+ +Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. -- Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing. -- We glory in tribulations also.  |Prov 15:15; Neh 8:10; Rom 14:17; Eph 5:18‑20; Heb 13:15; Hab 3:17,18; 2 Cor 6:10; Rom 5:3
-July 21st|july-21|<strong>What profit is there of circumcision?</strong>+ +Much every way. -- Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart. -- If ... their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember.+ +Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers. -- In whom also ye are cir-cumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. -- You, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.+ +Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and ... put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness.  |Rom 3:1; Rom 3:2; Jer 4:4; Lev 26:41,42; Rom 15:8; Col 2:11; Col 2:13; Eph 4:22‑24|<strong>The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.</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. -- The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.+ +Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.+ +A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; let us draw near.  |Matt 27:51; 1 Cor 11:23,24; John 6:51; John 6:53,54,56,57,61‑63; Heb 10:20,22
+July 21st|july-21|<strong>What profit is there of circumcision?</strong>+ +Much every way. -- Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart. -- If ... their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember.+ +Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers. -- In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. -- You, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.+ +Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and ... put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness.  |Rom 3:1; Rom 3:2; Jer 4:4; Lev 26:41,42; Rom 15:8; Col 2:11; Col 2:13; Eph 4:22‑24|<strong>The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.</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. -- The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.+ +Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.+ +A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; let us draw near.  |Matt 27:51; 1 Cor 11:23,24; John 6:51; John 6:53,54,56,57,61‑63; Heb 10:20,22
 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 right-eousness 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 remov-ed, 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 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 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 pil-grims, 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 contrar-wise 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
+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
 July 29th|july-29|<strong>Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down.</strong>+ +Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. -- We ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. -- Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.+ +This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. -- Unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. -- It shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.+ +He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. -- That blessed hope ... the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. -- Our conversation is in heaven.  |Isa 64:1; Song 8:14; Rom 8:23; Psa 144:5; Acts 1:10,11; Heb 9:28; Isa 25:9; Rev 22:20; Tit 2:13; Phil 3:20|<strong>Thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.</strong>+ +No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. -- The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. -- The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.+ +Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings: and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. -- He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?  |Psa 61:5; Isa 54:17; Psa 34:7‑10; Psa 16:6; Mal 4:2; Rom 8:32
-July 30th|july-30|<strong>Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.</strong>+ +Get wisdom, get understanding. -- The wisdom that is from above. -- The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. -- We are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.+ +Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. -- God ... hath quick-ened us together with Christ, ... and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.+ +They that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. -- Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness.  |Col 3:1; Prov 4:5; Jas 3:17; Job 28:14; Rom 6:4,5; Heb 12:1; Eph 2:4‑6; Heb 11:14; Zeph 2:3|<strong>Nicodemus ... he that came to Jesus by night.</strong>+ +Peter followed him afar off. -- Among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. -- The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.+ +Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. -- A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. -- Faith as a grain of mustard seed.+ +God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. -- Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have con-fidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. -- Whosoever ... shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.  |John 7:50; Matt 26:58; John 12:42,43; Prov 29:25; John 6:37; Isa 42:3; Matt 17:20; 2 Tim 1:7,8; 1 John 2:28; Matt 10:32
+July 30th|july-30|<strong>Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.</strong>+ +Get wisdom, get understanding. -- The wisdom that is from above. -- The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. -- We are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.+ +Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. -- God ... hath quickened us together with Christ, ... and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.+ +They that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. -- Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness.  |Col 3:1; Prov 4:5; Jas 3:17; Job 28:14; Rom 6:4,5; Heb 12:1; Eph 2:4‑6; Heb 11:14; Zeph 2:3|<strong>Nicodemus ... he that came to Jesus by night.</strong>+ +Peter followed him afar off. -- Among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. -- The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.+ +Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. -- A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. -- Faith as a grain of mustard seed.+ +God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. -- Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. -- Whosoever ... shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.  |John 7:50; Matt 26:58; John 12:42,43; Prov 29:25; John 6:37; Isa 42:3; Matt 17:20; 2 Tim 1:7,8; 1 John 2:28; Matt 10:32
 July 31st|july-31|<strong>Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ</strong>.+ +I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and a commander to the people. -- It became him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. -- We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.+ +We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God. -- We do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.)+ +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.  |2 Tim 2:3; Isa 55:4; Heb 2:10; Acts 14:22; Eph 6:12,13; 2 Cor 10:3,4; 1 Pet 5:10|<strong>The unity of the Spirit.</strong>+ +There is one body, and one Spirit. -- Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow‑citizens 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 cornerstone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.+ +Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard; that went down to the skirts of his garments.+ +Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.  |Eph 4:3; Eph 4:4; Eph 2:18‑22; Psa 133:1,2; 1 Pet 1:22
-August 01st|august-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is ... faith.</strong>+ +By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. -- Without faith it is impossible to please him. -- He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. -- Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.+ +Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. -- Faith worketh by love. -- Faith without works is dead.+ +We walk by faith, not by sight. -- I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. -- Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.  |Gal 5:22; Eph 2:8; Heb 11:6; John 3:18; Mark 9:24; 1 John 2:5; Gal 5:6; Jas 2:20; 2 Cor 5:7; Gal 2:20; 1 Pet 1:8,9|<strong>The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.</strong>+ +Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. -- The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. He will ever be mindful of his covenant.+ +He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. -- As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.+ +His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faith-fulness.Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compas-sion toward them, and he healed their sick. -- The same yesterday, and today, and forever.+ +The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. Fear ye not therefore.  |Jas 5:11; Psa 103:13; Psa 111:4,5; Psa 121:3,4; Deut 32:11,12; Lam 3:22,23; Matt 14:14; Heb 13:8; Matt 10:30,29,31
-August 02nd|august-02|<strong>The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.</strong>+ +Your lamb shall be without blemish, ... and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it, ... and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. -- The blood of sprinkling. -- Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. -- Being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. -- According to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.+ +We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.  |Rev 13:8; Exo 12:5‑7,13; Heb 12:24; 1 Cor 5:7; Acts 2:23; 2 Tim 1:9; Eph 1:7; 1 Pet 4:1,2|<strong>I have trodden the winepress alone.</strong>+ +Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? -- He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. -- Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. -- Being made a curse for us.+ +O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. -- Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. -- He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.+ +O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. -- We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. -- They overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.  |Isa 63:3; Exo 15:11; Isa 59:16; 1 Pet 2:24; Gal 3:13; Psa 98:1; Col 2:15; Isa 53:11; Judg 5:21; Rom 8:37; Rev 12:11
+August 01st|august-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is ... faith.</strong>+ +By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. -- Without faith it is impossible to please him. -- He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. -- Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.+ +Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. -- Faith worketh by love. -- Faith without works is dead.+ +We walk by faith, not by sight. -- I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. -- Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.  |Gal 5:22; Eph 2:8; Heb 11:6; John 3:18; Mark 9:24; 1 John 2:5; Gal 5:6; Jas 2:20; 2 Cor 5:7; Gal 2:20; 1 Pet 1:8,9|<strong>The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.</strong>+ +Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. -- The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. He will ever be mindful of his covenant.+ +He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. -- As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.+ +His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compas-sion toward them, and he healed their sick. -- The same yesterday, and today, and forever.+ +The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. Fear ye not therefore.  |Jas 5:11; Psa 103:13; Psa 111:4,5; Psa 121:3,4; Deut 32:11,12; Lam 3:22,23; Matt 14:14; Heb 13:8; Matt 10:30,29,31
+August 02nd|august-02|<strong>The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.</strong>+ +Your lamb shall be without blemish, ... and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it, ... and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. -- The blood of sprinkling. -- Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. -- Being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. -- According to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.+ +We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.  |Rev 13:8; Exo 12:5‑7,13; Heb 12:24; 1 Cor 5:7; Acts 2:23; 2 Tim 1:9; Eph 1:7; 1 Pet 4:1,2|<strong>I have trodden the winepress alone.</strong>+ +Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? -- He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. -- Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. -- Being made a curse for us.+ +O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. -- Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. -- He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.+ +O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. -- We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. -- They overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.  |Isa 63:3; Exo 15:11; Isa 59:16; 1 Pet 2:24; Gal 3:13; Psa 98:1; Col 2:15; Isa 53:11; Judg 5:21; Rom 8:37; Rev 12:11
 August 03rd|august-03|<strong>His mercy is on them that fear Him.</strong>+ +Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.+ +If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. -- The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.+ +Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, ... and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. -- To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. -- The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.  |Luke 1:50; Psa 31:19,20; 1 Pet 1:17; Psa 145:18,19; 2 Kgs 22:19; Isa 66:2; Psa 34:18|<strong>Them that honour me I will honour.</strong>+ +Whosoever ... shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. -- He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.+ +Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.+ +Fear none of these things which thou shalt suffer. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.+ +Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. -- Praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.  |1 Sam 2:30; Matt 10:32; Matt 10:37‑39; Jas 1:12; Rev 2:10; 2 Cor 4:17; 1 Pet 1:7
-August 04th|august-04|<strong>It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.</strong>+ +Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. -- I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. -- We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering an offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. -- Blotting out the handwriting of ordin-ances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.+ +I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. -- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  |John 19:30; Heb 12:2; John 17:4; Heb 10:10-14; Col 2:14; John 10:17,18; John 15:13|<strong>He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.</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. -- You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world. We all had our conversation in times past in the lusts our flesh.+ +Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed. -- Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. -- We went through fire and through water: thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.+ +When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.  |Psa 18:16; Psa 40:2; Eph 2:1,3; Psa 61:1,2; Jon 2:2,3; Psa 66:12; Isa 43:2
+August 04th|august-04|<strong>It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.</strong>+ +Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. -- I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. -- We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering an offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. -- Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.+ +I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. -- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  |John 19:30; Heb 12:2; John 17:4; Heb 10:10-14; Col 2:14; John 10:17,18; John 15:13|<strong>He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.</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. -- You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world. We all had our conversation in times past in the lusts our flesh.+ +Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed. -- Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. -- We went through fire and through water: thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.+ +When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.  |Psa 18:16; Psa 40:2; Eph 2:1,3; Psa 61:1,2; Jon 2:2,3; Psa 66:12; Isa 43:2
 August 05th|august-05|<strong>Walk in newness of life.</strong>+ +As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. -- I beseech you, ... brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.+ +If any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. -- In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy. -- This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind. -- Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.  |Rom 6:4; Rom 6:19; Rom 12:1,2; 2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15,16; Eph 4:17; Eph 4:20,21,24|<strong>Thy will be done.</strong>+ +O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. -- Not as I will, but as thou wilt. -- Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.+ +We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.+ +Ye know not what ye ask. -- He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. -- These things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.+ +I would have you without carefulness. -- Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.  |Matt 26:42; Jer 10:23; Matt 26:39; Psa 131:2; Rom 8:26,27; Matt 20:22; Psa 106:15; 1 Cor 10:6; 1 Cor 7:32; Isa 26:3
-August 06th|august-06|<strong>Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth.</strong>+ +See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. -- I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. -- My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.+ +I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. -- As a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. -- Now no chastening for the present, seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of right-eousness unto them which are exercised thereby. -- Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.+ +I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.  |Prov 3:12; Deut 32:39; Jer 29:11; Isa 55:8; Hos 2:14; Deut 8:5; Heb 12:11; 1 Pet 5:6; Psa 119:75|<strong>The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.</strong>+ +She did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and my flax.+ +All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O Lord our God, all this store ... cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. -- Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.+ +The living God ... giveth us richly all things to enjoy. -- Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.+ +My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  |Psa 24:1; Hos 2:8,9; 1 Chr 29:14‑16; Rom 11:36; 1 Tim 6:17; 1 Tim 4:4,5; Phl 4:19
-August 07th|august-07|<strong>The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name.</strong>+ +If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. -- If ye ... being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? -- Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. -- Ye have not, because ye ask not.+ +When ... the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.+ +They rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.  |John 14:26; John 4:10; Luke 11:13; John 16:23,24; Jas 4:2; John 16:13,14; Isa 63:10|<strong>What think ye of Christ?</strong>+ +Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. -- He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.+ +Unto you ... which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobed-ient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. -- Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.+ +I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. -- Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee.  |Matt 22:42; Psa 24:9,10; Rev 9:16; 1 Pet 2:7; 1 Cor 1:23,24; Phl 3:8; John 21:17
-August 08th|august-08|<strong>The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.</strong>+ +Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. -- Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.+ +Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. -- We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. -- When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. -- For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. -- Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.  |Prov 4:18; Phl 3:12; Hos 6:3; Matt 13:43; 2 Cor 3:18; 1 Cor 13:10,12; 1 John 3:2,3|<strong>Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.</strong>+ +Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. -- Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. -- What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.+ +If ye ... being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? -- I will put my Spirit within you. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of.+ +This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, what-soever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.  |Rom 10:13; John 6:37; Luke 23:42,43; Matt 20:32‑34; Luke 11:13; Eze 6:27,37; 1 John 5:14,15
-August 09th|august-09|<strong>Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.</strong>+ +The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mol-lified with ointment. -- We are all as an unclean thing, and all our right-eousnesses are as filthy rags. -- I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.+ +Ye are washed, ... ye are sanctified, ... ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. -- The King's daughter is all glorious within. -- Perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.+ +Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.+ +These are they which ... have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. -- A glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but ... holy and without blemish. -- Ye are complete in him.  |Song 4:7; Isa 1:5,6; Isa 64:6; Rom 7:18; 1 Cor 6:11; Psa 45:13; Ezek 16:14; Psa 90:17; Rev 7:14; Eph 5:27; Col 2:10|<strong>Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.</strong>+ +Eve ... bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.+ +Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. The Lord scattered them. -- Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.+ +I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. -- I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I gathered me also silver and gold. Then I looked on all, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.+ +If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. -- He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.+ +Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  |Jer 2:13; Gen 4:1; Gen 11:4,8; Gen 13:11,10,13; Eccl 1:17,18; Eccl 2:4,8,11; John 7:37; Psa 107:9; Col 3:2
+August 06th|august-06|<strong>Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth.</strong>+ +See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. -- I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. -- My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.+ +I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. -- As a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. -- Now no chastening for the present, seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. -- Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.+ +I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.  |Prov 3:12; Deut 32:39; Jer 29:11; Isa 55:8; Hos 2:14; Deut 8:5; Heb 12:11; 1 Pet 5:6; Psa 119:75|<strong>The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.</strong>+ +She did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and my flax.+ +All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O Lord our God, all this store ... cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. -- Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.+ +The living God ... giveth us richly all things to enjoy. -- Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.+ +My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  |Psa 24:1; Hos 2:8,9; 1 Chr 29:14‑16; Rom 11:36; 1 Tim 6:17; 1 Tim 4:4,5; Phl 4:19
+August 07th|august-07|<strong>The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name.</strong>+ +If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. -- If ye ... being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? -- Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. -- Ye have not, because ye ask not.+ +When ... the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.+ +They rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.  |John 14:26; John 4:10; Luke 11:13; John 16:23,24; Jas 4:2; John 16:13,14; Isa 63:10|<strong>What think ye of Christ?</strong>+ +Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. -- He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.+ +Unto you ... which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. -- Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.+ +I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. -- Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee.  |Matt 22:42; Psa 24:9,10; Rev 9:16; 1 Pet 2:7; 1 Cor 1:23,24; Phl 3:8; John 21:17
+August 08th|august-08|<strong>The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.</strong>+ +Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. -- Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.+ +Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. -- We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. -- When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. -- For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. -- Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.  |Prov 4:18; Phl 3:12; Hos 6:3; Matt 13:43; 2 Cor 3:18; 1 Cor 13:10,12; 1 John 3:2,3|<strong>Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.</strong>+ +Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. -- Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. -- What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.+ +If ye ... being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? -- I will put my Spirit within you. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of.+ +This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.  |Rom 10:13; John 6:37; Luke 23:42,43; Matt 20:32‑34; Luke 11:13; Eze 6:27,37; 1 John 5:14,15
+August 09th|august-09|<strong>Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.</strong>+ +The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. -- We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. -- I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.+ +Ye are washed, ... ye are sanctified, ... ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. -- The King's daughter is all glorious within. -- Perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.+ +Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.+ +These are they which ... have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. -- A glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but ... holy and without blemish. -- Ye are complete in him.  |Song 4:7; Isa 1:5,6; Isa 64:6; Rom 7:18; 1 Cor 6:11; Psa 45:13; Ezek 16:14; Psa 90:17; Rev 7:14; Eph 5:27; Col 2:10|<strong>Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.</strong>+ +Eve ... bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.+ +Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. The Lord scattered them. -- Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.+ +I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. -- I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I gathered me also silver and gold. Then I looked on all, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.+ +If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. -- He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.+ +Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  |Jer 2:13; Gen 4:1; Gen 11:4,8; Gen 13:11,10,13; Eccl 1:17,18; Eccl 2:4,8,11; John 7:37; Psa 107:9; Col 3:2
 August 10th|august-10|<strong>I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but thou shouldest keep them from the evil.</strong>+ +Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. -- Ye are the salt of the earth, ... the light of the world. -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is heaven.+ +I also withheld thee from sinning against me.+ +The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. -- So did not I, because of the fear of God. -- Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. -- Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.  |John 17:15; Phl 2:15; Matt 5:13,14; Matt 5:16; Gen 20:6; 2 Thes 3:3; Neh 5:15; Gal 1:4; Jude 24,25|<strong>Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. (Or, set on high)</strong>+ +The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high. -- The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; that he may set him with princes.+ +God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.+ +He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  |Prov 29:25; Isa 33:5; Psa 113:4,7,8; Eph 2:4‑6; Rom 8:32,38,39
 August 11th|august-11|<strong>That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death.</strong>+ +Our Saviour Jesus Christ ... hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. -- He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD shall wipe away the tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. -- Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.  |Heb 2:14; 2 Tim 1:10; Isa 25:8; 1 Cor 15:54‑57; 2 Tim 1:7; Psa 23:4|<strong>Where is the way that light dwelleth?</strong>+ +God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. -- As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.+ +If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. -- The Father ... hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son; in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.+ +Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. -- Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.  |Job 38:19; 1 John 1:5; John 9:5; 1 John 1:6,7; Col 1:12‑14; 1 Thes 5:5; Matt 5:14,16
 August 12th|august-12|<strong>The Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion.</strong>+ +Fear thou not, ... saith the LORD: for I am with thee; I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure. -- For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.+ +I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.  |Lam 3:31,32; Jer 46:28; Isa 54:7,8,10,11; Mic 7:9|<strong>God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.</strong>+ +When the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud, ... a man lefthanded. After him was Shamgar, ... which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.+ +The LORD looked upon [Gideon], and said, Go in this thy might: ... have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, O my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.+ +The LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me, ... lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.+ +Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. -- My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.  |1 Cor 1:27; Judg 3:15,31; Judg 7:2; Zech 4:6; Eph 6:10
-August 13th|august-13|<strong>He hath prepared for them a city.</strong>+ +If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. -- An inheritance incorrup-tible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. -- Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.+ +This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. -- Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. -- Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the the Lord draweth nigh. -- Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.+ +We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.  |Heb 11:16; John 14:3; 1 Pet 1:4; Heb 13:14; Acts 1:11; Jas 5:7,8; Heb 10:37; 1 Thes 4:17,18|<strong>Base things of the world hath God chosen.</strong>+ +Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covet-ous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.+ +You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world; among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind.+ +According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.+ +My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  |1 Cor 1:28; 1 Cor 6:9-11; Eph 2:1-3; Tit 3:5,6; Isa 55:8
+August 13th|august-13|<strong>He hath prepared for them a city.</strong>+ +If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. -- An inheritance incorrup-tible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. -- Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.+ +This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. -- Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. -- Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the the Lord draweth nigh. -- Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.+ +We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.  |Heb 11:16; John 14:3; 1 Pet 1:4; Heb 13:14; Acts 1:11; Jas 5:7,8; Heb 10:37; 1 Thes 4:17,18|<strong>Base things of the world hath God chosen.</strong>+ +Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.+ +You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world; among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind.+ +According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.+ +My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  |1 Cor 1:28; 1 Cor 6:9-11; Eph 2:1-3; Tit 3:5,6; Isa 55:8
 August 14th|august-14|<strong>The joy of the Lord is your strength.</strong>+ +Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth with singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people and will have mercy upon his afflicted. -- Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. -- The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. -- My soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.+ +I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ those things which pertain to God. -- We ... joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. -- I will joy in the God of my salvation.  |Neh 8:10; Isa 49:13; Isa 12:2; Psa 28:7; Isa 61:10; Rom 15:17; Rom 5:11; Hab 3:18|<strong>He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure.</strong>+ +I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.+ +Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.+ +We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Moreover whom be did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.  |2 Sam 23:5; 2 Tim 1:12; Eph 1:3-5; Rom 8:28-30
-August 15th|august-15|<strong>The God of peace make you perfect in every good work to do his will.</strong>+ +Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.+ +By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast. -- Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning.+ +Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. -- Be ye trans-formed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. -- Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.+ +Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.  |Heb 13:20,21; 2 Cor 13:11; Eph 2:8,9; Jas 1:17; Phl 2:12,13; Rom 12:2; Phl 1:11; 2 Cor 3:5|<strong>I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.</strong>+ +Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. -- Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.+ +Jesus, ... that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered with-out the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.+ +[Jesus] said, ... Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. -- The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.  |Hos 2:14; 2 Cor 6:17,15; 2 Cor 7:1; Heb 13:12,13; Mark 6:31; Psa 23:1-3
+August 15th|august-15|<strong>The God of peace make you perfect in every good work to do his will.</strong>+ +Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.+ +By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast. -- Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning.+ +Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. -- Be ye trans-formed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. -- Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.+ +Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.  |Heb 13:20,21; 2 Cor 13:11; Eph 2:8,9; Jas 1:17; Phl 2:12,13; Rom 12:2; Phl 1:11; 2 Cor 3:5|<strong>I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.</strong>+ +Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. -- Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.+ +Jesus, ... that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.+ +[Jesus] said, ... Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. -- The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.  |Hos 2:14; 2 Cor 6:17,15; 2 Cor 7:1; Heb 13:12,13; Mark 6:31; Psa 23:1-3
 August 16th|august-16|<strong>The house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical.</strong>+ +Ye ... as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house. -- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. -- Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. -- What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. -- Ye ... are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.  |1 Chr 22:5; 1 Pet 2:5; 1 Cor 3:16,17; 1 Cor 6:19,20; 2 Cor 6:16; Eph 2:19-22|<strong>He is before all things.</strong>+ +The Amen; the beginning of the creation of God. -- The beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre eminence.+ +The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment. I was daily his delight rejoicing always before him. -- Yea, before the day was I am he.+ +The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. -- The author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  |Col 1:17; Rev 3:14; Col 1:18; Prov 8:22,23,27,30; Isa 43:13; Rev 13:8; Heb 12:2
 August 17th|august-17|<strong>Pray one for another, that ye may be healed.</strong>+ +Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.+ +Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. -- Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.+ +I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. -- Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.+ +The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.  |Jas 5:16; Gen 18:27,28; Luke 23:34; Matt 5:44; John 17:9,20; Gal 6:2; Jas 5:16,17|<strong>As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place therof shall know it no more.</strong>+ +So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. -- What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?+ +Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. -- The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.+ +Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. -- Use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. -- Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.  |Psa 103:15,16; Psa 90:12; Mark 8:36; Isa 40:7,8; 1 John 2:17; 2 Cor 6:2; 1 Cor 7:31; Heb"
 August 18th|august-18|<strong>What God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?</strong>+ +Who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? -- Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. -- For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them. Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.+ +Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. -- The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those thing which are revealed belong unto us and to our children.  |Deut 3:24; Psa 89:6,8; Psa 86:8; 2 Sam 7:21,22; 1 Cor 2:9,10; Deut 29:29|<strong>He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.</strong>+ +Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD.+ +I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. -- I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. -- I have whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.+ +Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. -- My heart rejoiceth in the LORD. ... I rejoice in thy salvation.+ +Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.  |1 Cor 1:31; Jer 9:23,24; Phl 3:8; Rom 1:16; Rom 15:17; Psa 73:25; 1 Sam 2:1; Psa 115:1
 August 19th|august-19|<strong>As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.</strong>+ +Ye know how we exhorted ... and charged every one of you, that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. -- Ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.+ +Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. -- Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.+ +Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. -- Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.  |1 Pet 1:15; 1 Thes 2:11,12; 1 Pet 2:9; Eph 5:8-11; Phl 1:11; Matt 5:16; 1 Cor 10:31|<strong>Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.</strong>+ +A new heart ... will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.+ +If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.+ +Have faith in God. Verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.  |Isa 45:11; Ezek 36:26,27,37; Matt 18:19,20; Mark 11:22,23
-August 20th|august-20|<strong>God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent.</strong>+ +The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turn-ing. -- Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.+ +His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.+ +God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the im-mutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.+ +The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. -- All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testi-monies. -- Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God ... which keepeth truth for ever.  |Num 23:19; Jas 1:17; Heb 13:8; Psa 91:4; Heb 6:17,18; Deut 7:9; Psa 25:10; Psa 146:5,6|<strong>If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.</strong>+ +He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. -- My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. -- He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him. -- The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee.+ +I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.+ +Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things per-taining to God, ... who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way: so also Christ, ... though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. -- Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.  |Prov 24:10; Isa 40:29; 2 Cor 12:9; Psa 91:15; Deut 33:27; Psa 69:20; Heb 5:1,2,5,8,9; Isa 53:4
+August 20th|august-20|<strong>God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent.</strong>+ +The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. -- Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.+ +His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.+ +God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.+ +The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. -- All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. -- Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God ... which keepeth truth for ever.  |Num 23:19; Jas 1:17; Heb 13:8; Psa 91:4; Heb 6:17,18; Deut 7:9; Psa 25:10; Psa 146:5,6|<strong>If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.</strong>+ +He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. -- My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. -- He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him. -- The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee.+ +I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.+ +Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, ... who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way: so also Christ, ... though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. -- Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.  |Prov 24:10; Isa 40:29; 2 Cor 12:9; Psa 91:15; Deut 33:27; Psa 69:20; Heb 5:1,2,5,8,9; Isa 53:4
 August 21st|august-21|<strong>Thou art my portion, O Lord.</strong>+ +All things are yours; ... and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. -- Our Saviour Jesus Christ ... gave himself for us. -- God gave him to be the head over all things to the church. -- Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.+ +My soul shall make her boast in the LORD. -- I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.+ +Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. -- O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord. The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintamest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.  |Psa 119:57; 1 Cor 3:21,23; Tit 2:13,14; Eph 1:22; Eph 5:25,27; Psa 34:2; Isa 61:10; Psa 73:25,26; Psa 16:2,5,6|<strong>There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.</strong>+ +He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.+ +Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.+ +If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.+ +I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye.  |Prov 14:12; Psa 28:26; Psa 119:105; Psa 17:4; Deut 13:1-4; Psa 32:8
 August 22nd|august-22|<strong>None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.</strong>+ +Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. -- Let no man seek his own: but every man another's wealth. -- Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.+ +Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.+ +I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.  |Rom 14:7; Rom 14:8; 1 Cor 10:24; 1 Cor 6:20; Phl 1:20-23; Gal 2:19,20|<strong>God gave Solomon ... largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.</strong>+ +Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. -- The Prince of Peace.+ +Scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. -- Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. -- The love of Christ passeth knowledge.+ +Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. -- In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. -- The unsearchable riches of Christ. -- Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.  |1 Kgs 4:29; Matt 12:42; Isa 9:6; Rom 5:7,8; Phl 2:6-8; Eph 3:19; 1 Cor 1:24; Col 2:3; Eph 3:8; 1 Cor 1:33
 August 23rd|august-23|<strong>I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.</strong>+ +We are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. -- God ... hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. -- Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.+ +God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.+ +Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  |Jer 31:3; 2 Thes 2:13,14; 2 Tim 1:9; Psa 139:16; John 3:16; 1 John 4:10|<strong>I have made, and I will bear.</strong>+ +Thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. -- Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you.+ +As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him. -- He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.+ +Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. -- For I am persuaded, that neither ... height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.+ +Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.  |Isa 46:4; Isa 43:1,2; Isa 46:4; Deut 32:11,12; Isa 63:9; Heb 13:8; Rom 8:38,39; Isa 49:15
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ August 25th|august-25|<strong>Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the
 August 26th|august-26|<strong>Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD.</strong>+ +Holiness, without which no man can see the Lord. -- God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. -- But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. -- I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.+ +This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. -- Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.+ +For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. -- Seeing ... that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us ... come boldly unto the throne of grace. that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.  |Exo 28:36; Heb 12:14; John 4:24; Isa 64:6; Lev 10:3; Ezek 43:12; Psa 93:5; John 17:19; Heb 4:14,16|<strong>My cup runneth over.</strong>+ +O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. -- His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.+ +The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. -- Whether ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's. -- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.+ +I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. -- Godliness with contentment is great gain. -- My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  |Psa 23:5; Psa 34:8-10; Lam 3:22,23; Psa 16:5,6; 1 Cor 3:22; Eph 1:3; Phl 4:11; 1 Tim 6:6; Phl 4:19
 August 27th|august-27|<strong>Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.</strong>+ +By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. -- When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light. -- Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.+ +I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. -- We have also a sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. -- Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. -- They need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.  |Psa 119:105; Psa 17:4,5; Prov 6:22,23; Isa 30:21; John 8:12; 2 Pet 1:19; 1 Cor 13:12; Rev 22:5|<strong>What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise.</strong>+ +This is not your rest: ... it is polluted, it shall destroy you. -- Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. -- If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. -- Set your heart and your soul to seek your God: arise therefore.+ +Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. -- Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.+ +While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. -- Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. -- Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. -- Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he finds you sleeping.  |Jon 1:6; Mic 2:10; Col 3:2; Psa 62:10; 1 Chr 22:19; Luke 22:46; Luke 21:34; Matt 25:5; Heb 10:37; Rom 13:11; Mark 13:35,36
 August 28th|august-28|<strong>The accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.</strong>+ +They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. -- Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.+ +Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly. -- That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. -- In all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. -- Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. And take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. -- Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  |Rev 12:10; Rev 12:11; Rom 8:33,34; Col 2:15; Heb 2:14,15; Rom 8:37; Eph 6:11,17; 1 Cor 15:57|<strong>The tree of life</strong>.+ +God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. -- He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. -- As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.+ +To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. -- In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.+ +Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. Length of days is in her right hand. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. -- Christ Jesus, ... is made unto us wisdom.  |Gen 2:9; 1 John 5:11; John 3:16; John 5:21,26; Rev 2:7; Rev 22:2; Prov 3:13,16,18; 1 Cor 1:30
-August 29th|august-29|<strong>Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.</strong>+ +[Abrahaml 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 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 there-fore 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 them-selves, 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
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ September 15th|september-15|<strong>Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye
 September 16th|september-16|<strong>The Lord pondereth the hearts.</strong>+ +The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. -- The LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy. -- Thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.+ +Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. -- There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.+ +Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. -- When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. -- He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.+ +The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.  |Prov 21:2; Psa 1:6; Num 16:5; Matt 6:4; Psa 139:23,24; 1 John 4:18; Psa 38:9; Psa 142:3; Rom 8:27; 2 Tim 2:19|<strong>Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.</strong>+ +No man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation. -- In me ye ... have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.+ +I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. -- The night is far spent, the day is at hand. -- He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning withont clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.+ +He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. -- There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. -- We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.  |Psa 30:5; 1 Thes 3:3,4; John 16:33; Psa 17:15; Rom 13:12; 2 Sam 23:4; Isa 25:8; Rev 21:4; 1 Thes 4:17,18
 September 17th|september-17|<strong>A bruised reed shall he not break.</strong>+ +The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. -- He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. -- Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.+ +I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick. -- Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. -- Behold, your God ... will come and save you.  |Matt 12:20; Psa 51:17; Psa 147:3; Isa 57:15,16; Ezek 34:16; Heb 12:12,13; Isa 35:4|<strong>O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.</strong>+ +When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: he saith, ... Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.+ +The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. --I believed, and therefore have I spoken. -- I know whom I have believed. -- I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.+ +The goodness of God. -- He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?+ +As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.+ +Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy.  |Psa 34:8; John 2:9,10; Job 34:3; 2 Cor 4:13; 2 Tim 1:12; Song 2:3; Rom 2:4; Rom 8:32; 1 Pet 2:2,3; Psa 5:11
 September 18th|september-18|<strong>Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.</strong>+ +Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scrip-tures. -- It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. -- I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. -- We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. -- How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. -- O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? For of him, and through him, and to him are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.  |Psa 119:18; Luke 24:45; Matt 13:11; Matt 11:25,26; 1 Cor 2:12; Psa 139:17,18; Rom 11:33,34,36|<strong>En hakkore. (Or, The well of him that cried.)</strong>+ +If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. -- If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.+ +Prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. -- If ye, ... being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? -- Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find.+ +Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. -- Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.  |Judg 15:19; John 4:10; John 7:37,39; Mal 3:10; Luke 11:13; Luke 11:9; Gal 4:6; Rom 8:15
-September 19th|september-19|<strong>The God of all grace.</strong>+ +I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. -- He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. -- Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his right-eousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. -- Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.+ +By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. -- Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. -- Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. -- As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. -- He giveth more grace.+ +Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever.  |1 Pet 5:10; Exo 33:19; Job 33:24; Rom 3:24,25; John 1:17; Eph 2:8; 1 Tim 1:2; Eph 4:7; 1 Pet 4:10; Jas 4:6; 2 Pet 3:18|<strong>I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord.</strong>+ +As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.+ +Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. -- Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.+ +O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. -- Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. -- Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.  |Psa 121:1,2; Psa 125:2; Psa 123:1,2; Psa 63:7; 2 Chr 20:12; Psa 25:15; Psa 124:8
+September 19th|september-19|<strong>The God of all grace.</strong>+ +I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. -- He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. -- Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. -- Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.+ +By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. -- Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. -- Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. -- As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. -- He giveth more grace.+ +Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever.  |1 Pet 5:10; Exo 33:19; Job 33:24; Rom 3:24,25; John 1:17; Eph 2:8; 1 Tim 1:2; Eph 4:7; 1 Pet 4:10; Jas 4:6; 2 Pet 3:18|<strong>I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord.</strong>+ +As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.+ +Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. -- Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.+ +O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. -- Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. -- Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.  |Psa 121:1,2; Psa 125:2; Psa 123:1,2; Psa 63:7; 2 Chr 20:12; Psa 25:15; Psa 124:8
 September 20th|september-20|<strong>Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. </strong>+ +Whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.+ +Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might: ... but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD. -- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.+ +What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. -- In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. -- Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.+ +Christ Jesus, ... is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctifi-cation, and redemption.+ +He that winneth souls is wise.  |Prov 3:13; Prov 8:35; Jer 9:23,24; Prov 9:10; Phl 3:7,8; Col 2:3; Prov 8:14; 1 Cor 1:30; Prov 1:30|<strong>Poor, yet making many rich.</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 be rich. -- Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. -- My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. -- God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.+ +Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? -- Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.+ +We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.  |2 Cor 6:10; 2 Cor 8:9; John 1:16; Phl 4:19; 2 Cor 9:8; Jas 2:5; 1 Cor 1:26,27; 2 Cor 4:7
 September 21st|september-21|<strong>We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.</strong>+ +Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. -- Ye thought evil against me: but God meant it unto good.+ +All things are your's; whether ... 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. -- All things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.+ +My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.  |Rom 8:28; Psa 76:10; Gen 50:20; 1 Cor 3:21-23; 2 Cor 4:15-17; Jas 1:2-4|<strong>The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all.</strong>+ +I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. -- He shall not speak of himself. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.+ +The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.+ +He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. -- Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?+ +Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. -- The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we would pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.  |2 Cor 13:14; John 14:16,17; John 16:13,14; Rom 5:5; 1 Cor 6:17; 1 Cor 6:19; Eph 4:30; Rom 8:26
 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 obed-ience 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
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 October 20th|october-20|<strong>I delight in the law of God after the inward man.</strong>+ +O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. -- Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart. -- I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. -- I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.+ +I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. -- My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.+ +The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure enlightening the eyes. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. -- Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass.  |Rom 7:22; Psa 119:97; Jer 15:16; Song 2:3; Job 23:12; Psa 40:8; John 4:34; Psa 19:8,10; Jas 1:22,23|<strong>The Lord thy God accept thee.</strong>+ +Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?+ +We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. -- There is none righteous, no, not one. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemp-ion that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. To declare ... at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.+ +Accepted in the Beloved. -- Ye are complete in him.  |2 Sam 24:23; Mic 6:6-8; Isa 64:6; Rom 3:10,23-26; Eph 1:6; Col 2:10
 October 21st|october-21|<strong>Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.</strong>+ +This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. -- Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.+ +His Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things. -- If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.+ +I and my Father are one. The Father is in me, and I in him. -- My Father, and your Father; and ... my God, and your God. -- I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.+ +The Church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.+ +Having ... these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.  |John 1:16; Matt 17:5; 1 John 3:1; Heb 1:2; Rom 8:17; John 10:30,38; John 20:17; John 17:23; Eph 1:22,23; 2 Cor 7:1|<strong>The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.</strong>+ +There was ... a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. -- Even the Son man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.+ +Jesus riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.  |John 13:16,17; Luke 22:24-27; Matt 20:28; John 13:3-5
 October 22nd|october-22|<strong>O God, my heart is fixed.</strong>+ +The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?+ +Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. -- He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.+ +What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. -- In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy: I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.+ +The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strength-en, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.  |Psa 108:1; Psa 27:1; Isa 26:3; Psa 112:7,8; Psa 56:3; Psa 27:5,6; 1 Pet 5:10,11|<strong>The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.</strong>+ +The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. -- Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?+ +I am the LORD, and there is none else; there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.+ +He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the in-habitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? -- If God be for us, who can be against us?+ +He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. -- Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.  |Psa 103:19; Prov 16:33; Amos 3:6; Isa 45:5-7; Dan 4:35; Rom 8:31; 1 Cor 15:25; Luke 12:32
-October 23rd|october-23|<strong>A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.</strong>+ +A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. -- Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. -- Godliness with contentment is great gain. Having food and raiment let us be therewith content.+ +Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. -- Give us this day our daily bread.+ +Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? -- When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. -- Let your conversation be without covetousness: and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.  |Luke 12:15; Psa 37:16; Prov 15:16; 1 Tim 6:6,8; Prov 30:8,9; Matt 6:11; Matt 6:25; Luke 22:35; Heb 13:5|<strong>It is the spirit that quickeneth.</strong>+ +The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. -- That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. -- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.+ +If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of right-eousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.+ +I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God. -- Reckon ye ... yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  |John 6:63; 1 Cor 15:45; John 3:6; Tit 3:5; Rom 8:9-11; Gal 2:20; Rom 6:11
+October 23rd|october-23|<strong>A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.</strong>+ +A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. -- Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. -- Godliness with contentment is great gain. Having food and raiment let us be therewith content.+ +Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. -- Give us this day our daily bread.+ +Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? -- When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. -- Let your conversation be without covetousness: and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.  |Luke 12:15; Psa 37:16; Prov 15:16; 1 Tim 6:6,8; Prov 30:8,9; Matt 6:11; Matt 6:25; Luke 22:35; Heb 13:5|<strong>It is the spirit that quickeneth.</strong>+ +The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. -- That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. -- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.+ +If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.+ +I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God. -- Reckon ye ... yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  |John 6:63; 1 Cor 15:45; John 3:6; Tit 3:5; Rom 8:9-11; Gal 2:20; Rom 6:11
 October 24th|october-24|<strong>I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.</strong>+ +Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.+ +I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD. -- Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. -- Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? -- In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.+ +Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance. -- We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.  |Jon 2:4; Psa 49:14,15; Lam 3:17,18; Psa 44:23; Isa 40:27; Isa 54:8; Psa 43:5; 2 Cor 4:8,9|<strong>When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them.</strong>+ +There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? -- What hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. -- They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.+ +Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. -- I will pour water upon him that is thirsty. -- Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.+ +O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.  |Isa 41:17; Psa 4:6; Eccl 2:22,23,17; Jer 2:13; John 6:37; Isa 44:3; Matt 5:6; Psa 63:1
 October 25th|october-25|<strong>Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.</strong>+ +If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. -- He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.+ +Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? ... If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.+ +Unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.  |Matt 28:20; Mark 18:19,20; John 14:21; John 14:22,23; Jude 24,25|<strong>The end of all things is at hand.</strong>+ +I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. -- The heavens and the earth, which are now, ... are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment.+ +God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. -- Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled.+ +We have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. -- We ... look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.  |1 Pet 4:7; Rev 20:11; 2 Pet 3:7; Psa 46:1-3; Matt 24:6; 2 Cor 5:1; 2 Pet 3:13,14
 October 26th|october-26|<strong>The Lord reigneth.</strong>+ +Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? -- Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.+ +He changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding. -- Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled.+ +If God be for us, who can be against us? -- Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.  |Psa 99:1; Jer 5:22; Psa 75:6,7; Dan 2:21; Matt 24:6; Rom 8:31; Matt 10:29-31|<strong>Take heed to your spirit.</strong>+ +Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us. Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he ... rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.+ +Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun ... answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!+ +The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. -- And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.  |Mal 2:15; Luke 9:49,50,54,55; Num 11:27-29; Gal 5:22,23; Gal 5:24-27
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ October 31st|october-31|<strong>Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, sa
 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 under-standing, 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 up-braideth 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 ack-nowledge 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: there-fore 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 trans-gressors shall fall therein.</strong>+ +Unto you ... which believe he is precious: but unto them which be dis-obedient, ... 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 right-eousness. 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 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, good-ness, 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 beat, 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
 November 6th|november-06|<strong>When Chrlst, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.</strong>+ +I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. -- God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.+ +The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. -- When he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. -- It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.+ +If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  |Col 3:4; John 11:25; 1 John 5:11,12; 1 Thes 4:16-18; 1 John 32; 1 Cor 15:43; John 14:3|<strong>Lead me in thy truth, and teach me</strong>+ +When ... the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth. -- Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.+ +To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. -- All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. -- The holy Scriptures ... are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.+ +I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. -- The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. -- If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. -- The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.  |Psa 25:5; John 16:13; 1 John 2:20; Isa 8:20; 2 Tim 3:16,17; 2 Tim 3:15; Psa 32:8; Matt 6:22; John 7:17; Isa 35:8
 November 7th|november-07|<strong>Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!</strong>+ +O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. -- How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee!+ +This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. -- Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.+ +How great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! -- The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.  |Psa 107:8; Psa 34:8; Psa 31:19; Isa 43:21; Eph 1:5,6,12; Zech 9:17; Psa 145:9-12|<strong>Behold, we count them happy which endure.</strong>+ +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. -- No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteous-ness unto them which are exercised thereby. -- My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. -- Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For when I am weak, then am I strong.  |Jas 5:11; Rom 5:3-5; Heb 12:11; Jas 1:2-4,12; 2 Cor 12:9,10