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 ## Morning
 
-**Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect</em>.
+**Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect**.
  
 I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. -- Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should he mine.
  

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 <p><i><u>Morning</u></i></p>
-<p><strong>Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect</em>.<br> <br>I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. -- Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should he mine.<br> <br>Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's<br> <br>Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. -- Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity. -- Be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.<br> <br>Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. -- Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. -- Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.  </p>
+<p><strong>Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect</strong>.<br> <br>I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. -- Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should he mine.<br> <br>Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's<br> <br>Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. -- Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity. -- Be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.<br> <br>Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. -- Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. -- Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.  </p>
 <p><strong>Matt 5:48; Gen 17:1; Lev 20:26; 1 Cor 6:20; Col 2:10; Tit 2:14; 2 Pet 3:14; Psa 119:1; Jas 1:25; Psa 139:23,24</strong></p><p><a id="daily-light-link" href="https://t.me/daily_light">Monday 03-May, 2021</a></p>

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 ## Morning
 
-**Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect</em>.
+**Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.**
  
 I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. -- Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should he mine.
  

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 April 30th|april-30|<strong>Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected.</strong>+ +The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.+ +Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. -- If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. -- Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. -- Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.  |1 John 2:5; Heb 13:20,21; 1 John 2:3; John 14:23; 1 John 3:6,7; 1 John 4:17|<strong>He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.</strong>+ +The Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering. -- The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us‑ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.+ +Be ye ... followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love. -- The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. -- This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. If, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. Christ ... suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.+ +Be ye angry, and sin not.  |Prov 14:29; Exo 34:6; 2 Pet 3:9; Eph 5:1; Gal 5:22,23; 1 Pet 2:19‑21,23; Eph 4:26
 May 1st|may-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is peace.</strong>+ +To be spiritually minded is life and peace.+ +God hath called us to peace. -- Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. -- The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.+ +I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. -- Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.+ +The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. -- Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.+ +Great peace have they which love thy law.  |Gal 5:22; Rom 8:6; 1 Cor 7:15; John 14:27; Rom 15:13; 2 Tim 1:12; Isa 26:3; Isa 32:17,18; Prov 1:33; Psa 119:165|<strong>Jehovah‑shammah (The Lord is there.)</strong>+ +Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.+ +I saw no temple: ... for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.+ +I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. -- Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.+ +Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion. -- Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. -- There shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.  |Ezek 48:35; Rev 21:3; Rev 21:22,23; Psa 17:5; Psa 73:25; Joel 3:20,21; Zech 2:10; Rev 22:3
 May 2nd|may-02|<strong>Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.</strong>+ +Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. -- Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. -- My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.+ +Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. -- Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord, Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.+ +Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house that I have builded? -- Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. -- Ye are the temple of living God.  |Gen 28:16; Matt 18:20; Matt 28:20; Exo 33:14; Psa 139:7,8; Jer 23:23,24; 1 Kgs 8:27; Isa 57:15; 2 Cor 6:16|<strong>Keep yourselves from idols.</strong>+ +My son, give me thine heart. -- Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.+ +Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? -- Mortify ... your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. -- They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things.+ +If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. -- My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.+ +Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. -- The Lord looketh on the heart.  |1 John 5:21; Prov 23:26; Gal 3:2; Ezek 14:3; Gal 3:5; 1 Tim 6:9-11; Psa 62:10; Prov 8:19; Matt 6:21; 1 Sam 16:7
-May 3rd|may-03|<strong>Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect</em>.+ +I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. -- Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should he mine.+ +Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's+ +Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. -- Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity. -- Be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.+ +Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. -- Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. -- Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.  |Matt 5:48; Gen 17:1; Lev 20:26; 1 Cor 6:20; Col 2:10; Tit 2:14; 2 Pet 3:14; Psa 119:1; Jas 1:25; Psa 139:23,24|<strong>Perfecting holiness in the fear of God.</strong>+ +Dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit.+ +Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. -- Teaching us that denying ungodliness and wordly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. -- Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect.+ +Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.+ +Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. -- For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledege of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.  |2 Cor 7:1; 2 Cor 7:1; Psa 51:6; Tit 2:12; Matt 5:16; Phl 3:12; 1 John 3:3; 2 Cor 5:5; Eph 4:12,13
+May 3rd|may-03|<strong>Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect</strong>.+ +I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. -- Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should he mine.+ +Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's+ +Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. -- Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity. -- Be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.+ +Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. -- Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. -- Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.  |Matt 5:48; Gen 17:1; Lev 20:26; 1 Cor 6:20; Col 2:10; Tit 2:14; 2 Pet 3:14; Psa 119:1; Jas 1:25; Psa 139:23,24|<strong>Perfecting holiness in the fear of God.</strong>+ +Dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit.+ +Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. -- Teaching us that denying ungodliness and wordly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. -- Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect.+ +Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.+ +Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. -- For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledege of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.  |2 Cor 7:1; 2 Cor 7:1; Psa 51:6; Tit 2:12; Matt 5:16; Phl 3:12; 1 John 3:3; 2 Cor 5:5; Eph 4:12,13
 May 4th|may-04|<strong>Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.</strong>+ +In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. -- While I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.+ +Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help, leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. -- Be not thou far from me, O Lord, O my strength, haste thee to help me.+ +Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. -- Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. -- Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.  |Isa 59:1; Psa 138:3 ‑dan 9:21; Psa 27:9; Psa 22:19; Jer 32:17; 2 Cor 1:10; Luke 18:7,8|<strong>I have glorified thee on the earth.</strong>+ +My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. -- I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.+ +Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. -- This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?+ +Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. -- Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well -- All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words, which proceeded out of his mouth.+ +Thou art worthy ... for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and peopIe, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.  |John 17:4; John 4:34; John 9:4; Luke 2:49,50; John 11:4,40; Luke 2:52; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:22; Rev 5:9,10
 May 5th|may-05|<strong>Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.</strong>+ +O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. -- No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.+ +I would have you without carefulness. -- Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.+ +Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. -- Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? -- Have faith in God.  |Matt 6:31,32; Psa 34:9,10; Psa 84:11,12; 1 Cor 7:32; Phl 4:6; Matt 10:29-31; Mark 4:40; Mark 11:22|<strong>He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.</strong>+ +Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.+ +The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. -- There shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain,+ +The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. -- The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.+ +Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.  |Psa 105:39; Psa 103:13,14; Psa 121:6; Isa 4:6; Psa 121:5,8; Exo 13:21,22; Heb 13:8
 May 6th|may-06|<strong>Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.</strong>+ +A just God and a Saviour.The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.+ +God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. -- Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forebearance of God; to declare I say at this time his righteousness: that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. -- He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed. -- Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. -- To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly; his faith is counted for righteousness.  |Psa 85:10; Isa 45:21; Isa 42:21; 2 Cor 5:19; Rom 3:25,26; Isa 53:5; Rom 8:33; Rom 4:5|<strong>How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?</strong>+ +Beloved, now are we the Sons of God; ... it doth not appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. -- As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of heavenly.+ +The Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.+ +Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. -- He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once.+ +If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.  |1 Cor 15:35; 1 John 3:2; 1 Cor 15:49; Phl 3:20,21; Luke 24:36,37; 1 Cor 15:5,6; Rom 8:11
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 May 29th|may-29|<strong>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.</strong>+ +Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. -- The blood of the Lamb. -- The precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. -- Without shedding of blood is no remission. -- The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.+ +By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. -- Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.+ +Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.  |Lev 17:11; John 1:29; Rev 7:14; 1 Pet 1:19; Heb 9:22; 1 John 1:7; Heb 9:12; Heb 10:19,20,22; 1 Cor 6:20|<strong>Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.</strong>+ +It came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.+ +Job spake, and said, Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures? -- Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.+ +Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. -- In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.  |Psa 55:6; Jon 4:8; Job 3:2,20,21; Psa 34:19; John 12:27; Heb 2:17,18
 May 30th|may-30|<strong>Let us labour to enter into that rest.</strong>+ +Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction: ... strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. -- The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. -- Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you. -- Give diligence to make your calling and election sure: ... for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. -- So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.+ +For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. -- The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.  |Heb 4:11; Matt 7:13,14; Matt 11:12; John 6:27; 2 Pet 1:10,11; 1 Cor 9:24,25; Heb 4:10; Isa 60:19|<strong>Thou hearest me always.</strong>+ +Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. -- Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. -- Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. -- Not my will, but thine, be done.+ +As he is, so are we in this world. -- This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us.+ +Whatsoever we ask. we receive of him, because we keep his command-ments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.+ +Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.+ +He ever liveth to make intercession for them. -- We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.  |John 11:42; John 11:41; John 1228; Heb 10:7; Luke 22:42; 1 John 4:17; 1 John 5:14; 1 John 3:22; Heb 11:6; Heb 7:25; 1 John 2:1
 May 31st|may-31|<strong>Thy name shall be called Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.</strong>+ +By his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him. -- Abraham stag-gered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.+ +Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. -- If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. -- Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.+ +Lord, increase our faith.  |Gen 32:28; Hos 12:3,4; Rom 4:20; Mark 11:22‑24; Mark 9:23; Luke 1:45; Luke 17:5|<strong>Little children, abide in him.</strong>+ +He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.+ +I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another. Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.+ +Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. Ye did run well; who did hinder you?+ +As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. -- For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him, Amen, unto the glory of God by us.  |1 John 2:28; Jas 1:6‑8; Gal 1:6‑8; Gal 5:4,7; John 15:4,7; 2 Cor 1:20
-June 01st|june-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is longsuffering, gentleness</em>.+ +The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abun-dant in goodness and truth.+ +Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. -- Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. -- The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. -- Charity suffereth long, and is kind.+ +In due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -- Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.  |Gal 5:22; Exo 34:6; Eph 4:1,2; Eph 4:32; Jas 3:17; 1 Cor 13:4; Gal 6:9; Jas 5:7,8|<strong>Emmanuel, ... God with us.</strong>+ +Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. -- The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. -- Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.+ +God hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.+ +The first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, ... came Jesus and stood in the midst. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. After eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then saith [Jesus] to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas ... said, My Lord and my God. -- Unto us a Son is given: the mighty God.  |Matt 1:23; 2 Chr 6:18; John 1:14; 1 Tim 3:16; Heb 1:2; John 20:19,20,26‑28; Isa 9:6
+June 01st|june-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is longsuffering, gentleness</strong>.+ +The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abun-dant in goodness and truth.+ +Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. -- Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. -- The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. -- Charity suffereth long, and is kind.+ +In due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -- Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.  |Gal 5:22; Exo 34:6; Eph 4:1,2; Eph 4:32; Jas 3:17; 1 Cor 13:4; Gal 6:9; Jas 5:7,8|<strong>Emmanuel, ... God with us.</strong>+ +Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. -- The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. -- Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.+ +God hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.+ +The first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, ... came Jesus and stood in the midst. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. After eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then saith [Jesus] to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas ... said, My Lord and my God. -- Unto us a Son is given: the mighty God.  |Matt 1:23; 2 Chr 6:18; John 1:14; 1 Tim 3:16; Heb 1:2; John 20:19,20,26‑28; Isa 9:6
 June 02nd|june-02|<strong>Thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.</strong>+ +Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest. -- Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. -- There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God.+ +Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediatety. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching. -- Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. -- This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, ... I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded,  |Exo 12:11; Mic 2:10; Heb 13:14; Heb 4:9; Luke 12:35‑37; 1 Pet 1:13; Phl 3:13‑15|<strong>The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup.</strong>+ +Heirs of God, and joint‑heirs with Christ. -- All things are your’s. -- My beloved is mine. -- The Son of God ... loved me, and gave himself for me.+ +The Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thy inheritance among the children of Israel.Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.+ +Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. -- I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.+ +O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land.  |Psa 16:5; Rom 8:17; 1 Cor 3:21; Song 2:16; Gal 2:20; Num 8:20; Psa 73:25,26; Psa 23:4; 2 Tim 1:12; Psa 63:1
 June 03rd|june-03|<strong>Watch, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.</strong>+ +Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.+ +The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.  |Matt 25:13; Luke 21:34‑36; 1 Thes 5:2‑6|<strong>I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.</strong>+ +Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect. I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.+ +Enoch walked with God and he was not; for God took him.+ +Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. -- We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.These words spake Jesus, I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.  |Gen 17:1; Phl 3:12‑14; Gen 5:24; 2 Pet 3:18; 2 Cor 3:18; John 17:1,15,23
 June 04th|june-04|<strong>The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, and in this place will I give peace.</strong>+ +The house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. -- The glory of the Lord ... filled the Lord's house.+ +Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. He spake of the temple of his body. -- That which was made glorious had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory that excelleth. -- The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. -- God ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.+ +Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. -- The Prince of Peace. -- He is our peace. -- The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  |Hag 2:9; 1 Chr 22:5; 2 Chr 7:2; John 2:19,21; 2 Cor 3:10; John 1:14; Heb 1:1,2; Luke 2:14; Isa 9:6; Eph 2:14; Phl 4:7|<strong>Let us put on the armour of light.</strong>+ +Put ... on the lord Jesus Christ. -- That I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. -- The righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.+ +He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness. -- I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.+ +Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children Light. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them. All things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Awake thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly.  |Rom 13:12; Rom 13:14; Phl 3:8,9; Rom 3:22; Isa 61:10; Psa 71:16; Eph 5:8,11,13-15
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ June 11th|june-11|<strong>He arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet
 June 12th|june-12|<strong>Everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shalI be clean.</strong>+ +The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. -- He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. -- Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.+ +I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin. -- I will melt them. and try them.+ +Thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. We went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.+ +When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.  |Num 31:23; Deut 13:3; Mal 3:3; 1 Cor 3:13; Isa 1:25; Jer 9:7; Psa 66:10,12; Isa 43:2|<strong>We, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.</strong>+ +Put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts: and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and ... put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.+ +Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. -- As Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.  |1 Pet 2:24; Eph 4:22-24; Col 3:3; Rom 6:4,6,7,11‑13
 June 13th|june-13|<strong>Abide in me, and I in you.</strong>+ +I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.+ +I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. -- If Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. -- If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard.+ +Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. -- He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.  |John 15:4; Gal 2:20; Rom 7:18,24,25; Rom 8:10; Col 1:23; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 2:6|<strong>Dost thou believe on the Son of God?</strong>+ +Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?+ +The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. -- The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen. -- I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.+ +Lord, I believe. -- I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.+ +Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious.  |John 9:35; John 9:36; Heb 1:3; 1 Tim 6:15,16; Rev 1:8; John 9:38; 2 Tim 1:12; 1 Pet 2:6,7
 June 14th|june-14|<strong>As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.</strong>+ +The fellowship of his sufferings. -- Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. -- For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. -- If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint‑heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.+ +God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the 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. -- Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.  |2 Cor 1:5; Phl 3:10; 1 Pet 4:13; 2 Tim 2:11; Rom 8:17; Heb 6:17,18; 2 Thes 2:16,17|<strong>Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things.</strong>+ +Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap. Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not. Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. Your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.+ +Having food and raiment let us be therewith content ... They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.+ +The cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.+ +Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.  |Luke 10:41; Luke 12:24,27,29,30; 1 Tim 6:8-10; Mark 4:19; Heb 12:1
-June 15th|june-15|<strong>The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those which are revealed belong unto us.</strong>+ +Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.+ +The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him: and he will shew them his covenant. -- There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets. -- Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?+ +Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. -- If ye love me, keep my com-mandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth.  |Deut 29:29; Psa 131:1,2; Psa 25:14; Dan 2:28; Job 26:14; John 15:15; John 14:15-17|<strong>The Spirit ... maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God</em>.+ +Verily, verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. -- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.+ +This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing ac-cording to his will, he heareth us; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. -- This is the will of God, even your sanctification.+ +God hath ... called us ... unto holiness: ... who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.+ +Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit.  |Rom 8:27; John 16:23,24; Eph 6:18; 1 John 5:14,15; 1 Thes 4:3; 1 Thes 4:7,8; 1 Thes 5:16-19
+June 15th|june-15|<strong>The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those which are revealed belong unto us.</strong>+ +Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.+ +The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him: and he will shew them his covenant. -- There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets. -- Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?+ +Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. -- If ye love me, keep my com-mandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth.  |Deut 29:29; Psa 131:1,2; Psa 25:14; Dan 2:28; Job 26:14; John 15:15; John 14:15-17|<strong>The Spirit ... maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God</strong>.+ +Verily, verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. -- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.+ +This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing ac-cording to his will, he heareth us; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. -- This is the will of God, even your sanctification.+ +God hath ... called us ... unto holiness: ... who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.+ +Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit.  |Rom 8:27; John 16:23,24; Eph 6:18; 1 John 5:14,15; 1 Thes 4:3; 1 Thes 4:7,8; 1 Thes 5:16-19
 June 16th|june-16|<strong>See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.</strong>+ +Take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. -- Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. -- Abstain from all appearance of evil.+ +While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. -- Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.+ +Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if we do these things, ye shall never fall. -- Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching.  |Eph 5:15,16; Josh 22:5; Col 4:5,6; 1 Thes 5:22; Matt 25:5,6; Matt 25:13; 2 Pet 1:10; Luke 12:37|<strong>Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.</strong>+ +If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. -- Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. I will; be thou clean. -- Faith as a grain of mustard seed.+ +Cast not away ... your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. -- Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.+ +First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. -- Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. -- The kingdom of heaven suf-fereth violence, and the violent take it by force. -- So run, that ye may obtain.+ +I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.  |Rev 3:11; Matt 9:21; Matt 8:2,3; Matt 17:20; Heb 10:35; Phl 2:12,13; Mark 4:28; Hos 6:3; Matt 11:12; 1 Cor 9:24; 2 Tim 4:7,8
 June 17th|june-17|<strong>In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.</strong>+ +I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.+ +When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. -- The Spirit ... helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.+ +I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. -- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.+ +If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.  |Phl 4:6; Psa 16:1,2; Matt 6:7; Rom 8:26; 1 Tim 2:8; Eph 6:18; Matt 18:19|<strong>All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee.</strong>+ +Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. -- I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. -- Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.+ +Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.+ +My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.+ +Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created.  |Psa 145:10; Psa 103:1,2; Psa 34:1; Psa 145:2; Psa 63:3-5; Luke 1:46,47; Rev 4:11
 June 18th|june-18|<strong>Thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and there I will meet with thee.</strong>+ +The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. -- Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.+ +Having ... brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ... let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. -- Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.+ +Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation [mercy seat] through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. -- Through him we have access by one Spirit unto the Father.  |Exo 25:21,22; Heb 9:8; Matt 27:50,51; Heb 10:19,20,22; Heb 4:16; Rom 3:24,25; Eph 2:18|<strong>Faith as a grain of mustard seed.</strong>+ +Barak said unto [Deborah], if thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go. God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan. -- Gideon ... feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, ... did it by night. And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand as thou hast said, ... let me prove, I pray thee. And God did so.+ +Thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. -- Who hath despised the day of small things?+ +We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly. -- Lord, increase our faith. -- I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.  |Matt 17:20; Judg 4:8,23; Judg 6:27,36,39,40; Rev 3:8; Zech 4:10; 2 Thes 1:3; Luke 17:5; Hos 14:5,6
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ July 27th|july-27|<strong>Christ, who is the image of God.</strong>+ +The glory
 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 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 31st|july-31|<strong>Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ</em>.+ +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
+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 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
@@ -238,9 +238,9 @@ August 24th|august-24|<strong>I know their sorrows.</strong>+ +A man of sorrows
 August 25th|august-25|<strong>Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.</strong>+ +Behold, I was shapen in iniquity. -- None eye pitied thee but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, Live.+ +He brought me up ... out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.+ +When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. -- God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.  |Isa 51:1; Psa 51:5; Ezek 16:5,6; Psa 40:2,3; Rom 5:6-8; Eph 2:4,5|<strong>I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God.</strong>+ +I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. -- The LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. -- Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.+ +Is any merry? let him sing psalms. -- Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the LORD; giving thanks always for all things. -- Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.+ +At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. -- Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again, I say, Rejoice.  |Isa 61:10; Psa 34:1-3; Psa 84:11,12; Psa 103:1; Jas 5:13; Eph 5:18-20; Col 3:16; Acts 16:25; Phl 4:4
 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</em>.+ +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 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 30th|august-30|<strong>The king held out ... the golden sceptre. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre</em>.+ +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 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
 September 2nd|september-02|<strong>Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart.</strong>+ +Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. -- Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. -- Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.+ +The trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. -- Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.  |Psa 27:14; Isa 40:28,29; Isa 41:10; Isa 25:4; Jas 1:3,4; Heb 10:35,36|<strong>He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.</strong>+ +The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.+ +Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. -- Rest in the LORD. -- He that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works.+ +Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace. -- That ... we be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.+ +I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.  |Psa 23:2; Isa 57:20,21; Matt 11:28; Psa 37:7; Heb 4:10; Heb 13:9; Eph 4:14,15; Song 2:3,4
@@ -249,13 +249,13 @@ September 4th|september-04|<strong>Sit still, my daughter.</strong>+ +Take heed,
 September 5th|september-05|<strong>As the body is one, and hath many members, ... so also is Christ.</strong>+ +He is the head of the body, the church. -- The head over things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. -- We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.+ +A body hast thou prepared me. -- Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in contin-uance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.+ +Thine they were, and thou gavest them me. -- He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world. -- Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.+ +Grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth ... maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.  |1 Cor 12:12; Col 1:18; Eph 1:22,23; Eph 5:30; Heb 10:5; Psa 139:16; John 17:6; Eph 1:4; Rom 8:29; Eph 4:15,16|<strong>The fountain of living waters.</strong>+ +How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life.+ +Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty. -- Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. -- This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.+ +Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. -- The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.  |Jer 2:13; Psa 36:7-9; Isa 65:13; John 4:14; John 7:39; Isa 55:1; Rev 22:17
 September 6th|september-06|<strong>Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.</strong>+ +Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! -- Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. -- I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.+ +Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. -- Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.+ +Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.  |Lam 3:41; Psa 113:5,6; Psa 25:1; Psa 143:6-8; Psa 63:3,4; Psa 86:4,5; John 14:13|<strong>Watchman, what of the night?</strong>+ +It is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.+ +Learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.+ +I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.+ +He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.+ +Watch, ... for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.  |Isa 21:11; Rom 13:11,12; Matt 24:32,33,35; Psa 130:5,6; Rev 22:20; Matt 25:13
 September 7th|september-07|<strong>Rejoicing in hope.</strong>+ +The hope which is laid up for you in heaven. -- If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. -- We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. -- Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me cannot be my disciple. -- No man should be moved by these afflictions, for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.+ +Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. -- The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. -- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. -- Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing. ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. -- By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  |Rom 12:12; Col 1:5; 1 Cor 15:19; Acts 14:22; Luke 14:27; 1 Thes 3:3; Phl 4:4; Rom 15:13; 1 Pet 1:3; 1 Pet 1:8; Rom 5:2|<strong>I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me.</strong>+ +I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil. -- My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.+ +How precious ... are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. -- LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. -- Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward.+ +Not many mighty, not many noble, are called. -- Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom? -- Having nothing, and yet possessing all things. -- The unsearchable riches of Christ.  |Psa 40:17; Jer 29:11; Isa 55:8,9; Psa 139:17,18; Psa 92:5; Psa 40:5; 1 Cor 1:26; Jas 2:5; 2 Cor 6:10; Eph 3:8
-September 8th|september-08|<strong>Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting</em>.+ +The LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him, actions are weighed. -- That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. -- The LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. -- Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting.+ +What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? -- What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.+ +Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts. -- Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing.  |Dan 5:27; 1 Sam 2:3; Luke 16:15; 1 Sam 16:7; Gal 6:7,8; Matt 16:26; Phl 3:7; Psa 51:6; Psa 17:3|<strong>Christ the firstfruits.</strong>+ +Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. -- If the firstfruit be holy the lump is also holy : and if the root be holy, so are the branches. -- Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. -- If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. -- The Lord Jesus Christ ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.+ +The firstborn from the dead. -- If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken our mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.+ +I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.  |1 Cor 15:23; John 12:24; Rom 11:16; 1 Cor 15:20; Rom 6:5; Phl 3:20,21; Col 1:18; Rom 8:11; John 11:25
+September 8th|september-08|<strong>Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting</strong>.+ +The LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him, actions are weighed. -- That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. -- The LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. -- Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting.+ +What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? -- What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.+ +Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts. -- Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing.  |Dan 5:27; 1 Sam 2:3; Luke 16:15; 1 Sam 16:7; Gal 6:7,8; Matt 16:26; Phl 3:7; Psa 51:6; Psa 17:3|<strong>Christ the firstfruits.</strong>+ +Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. -- If the firstfruit be holy the lump is also holy : and if the root be holy, so are the branches. -- Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. -- If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. -- The Lord Jesus Christ ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.+ +The firstborn from the dead. -- If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken our mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.+ +I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.  |1 Cor 15:23; John 12:24; Rom 11:16; 1 Cor 15:20; Rom 6:5; Phl 3:20,21; Col 1:18; Rom 8:11; John 11:25
 September 9th|september-09|<strong>He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.</strong>+ +Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent.+ +Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. -- When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. -- I am the Lord thy God ... open thy mouth wide and I will fill it.+ +Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. -- I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.  |Luke 1:53; Rev 3:17-19; Matt 5:6; Isa 41:17; Psa 81:10; Isa 55:2; John 6:35|<strong>My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.</strong>+ +When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.+ +The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.+ +A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. -- Although he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.+ +Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise: when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. -- He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.+ +If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. -- Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.  |Psa 73:2; Psa 94:18; Luke 22:31,32; Prov 24:16; Psa 37:24; Mic 7:8; Job 5:19; 1 John 2:1; Heb 7:25
 September 10th|september-10|<strong>I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them.</strong>+ +A new heart ... will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you. -- Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.+ +That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.+ +I ... beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, ... endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.  |Jer 32:39; Ezek 36:26; Psa 25:8-10; John 17:21; Eph 4:1-6|<strong>They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. (Or, change strength.)</strong>+ +When I am weak, then am I strong. -- God shall be my strength. -- He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. -- Let him take hold of my strength.+ +Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. -- The arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.+ +I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.+ +Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. -- Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.  |Isa 40:31; 2 Cor 12:10; Isa 49:5; 2 Cor 12:9; Isa 27:5; Psa 55:22; Gen 49:24; Gen 32:26; 1 Sam 17:45; Psa 35:1,2
 September 11th|september-11|<strong>Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.</strong>+ +Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.+ +Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.+ +What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what com-munion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? -- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. The world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.+ +In time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. -- Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, ... as the truth is in Jesus.  |Rom 12:2; Exo 23:2; Jas 4:4; 2 Cor 6:14-16; 1 John 2:15,17; Eph 2:2; Eph 4:20,21|<strong>Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.</strong>+ +In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground. -- We commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. -- Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands.+ +Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. -- The night cometh when no man can work.+ +Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -- Always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.+ +There remaineth ... a rest to the people of God. -- Unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. -- This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing.  |Psa 104:23; Gen 3:19; 2 Thes 3:10; 1 Thes 4:11; Eccl 9:10; John 9:4; Gal 6:9; 1 Cor 15:58; Heb 4:9; Matt 20:12; Isa 28:12
 September 12th|september-12|<strong>I have seen his ways, and will heal him.</strong>+ +I am the LORD that healeth thee.+ +O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. -- Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. -- All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.+ +Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -- He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. -- He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are healed. -- He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted. -- Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.  |Isa 57:18; Exo 15:26; Psa 139:1-3; Psa 90:8; Heb 4:13; Isa 1:18; Job 33:24; Isa 53:5; Isa 61:1; Mark 5:34|<strong>The Lord taketh my part.</strong>+ +The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion. We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.+ +When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. -- There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able: but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.+ +If God be for us, who can be against us? -- The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.+ +Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, and he will deliver us.  |Psa 118:7; Psa 20:1,2,5,7,8; Isa 59:19; 1 Cor 10:13; Rom 8:31; Psa 118:6; Dan 3:17
-September 13th|september-13|<strong>Ii any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.</strong>+ +My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. -- O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.+ +Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. -- The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. -- Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. -- My blood is drink indeed.+ +Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.  |John 7:37; Psa 84:2; Psa 63:1,2; Isa 55:1; Rev 22:17; John 4:14; John 6:55; Song 5:1|<strong>Ye are the salt of the earth</em>.+ +That which is not corruptible. -- Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. -- He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. -- The children of God, being the children of the resurrection. -- The uncorruptible God.+ +If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. -- It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.+ +Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. -- Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.  |Matt 5:13; 1 Pet 3:4; 1 Pet 1:23; John 11:25; Luke 20:36; Rom 1:23; Rom 5:9-11; 1 Cor 15:42; Mark 9:50; Eph 4:29
-September 14th|september-14|<strong>I, even I, am he that comforteth you.</strong>+ +Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. -- Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. -- As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. -- Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.+ +Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.+ +Another Comforter ... even the Spirit of truth. -- The Spirit ... helpeth our infirmities.+ +God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  |Isa 51:12; 2 Cor 1:3,4; Psa 103:3,14; Isa 66:13; 1 Pet 5:7; Psa 86:15; John 14:16,17; Rom 8:26; Rev 21:4|<strong>Ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son</em>.+ +He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. -- Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.+ +Be ye ... followers of God, as dear children. -- If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.+ +The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.+ +Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame. -- These things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. -- As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.  |1 Cor 1:9; 2 Pet 1:17; 1 John 3:1; Eph 5:1; Rom 8:17; Heb 1:3; Matt 5:16; Heb 12:2; John 17:13; 2 Cor 1:5
+September 13th|september-13|<strong>Ii any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.</strong>+ +My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. -- O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.+ +Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. -- The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. -- Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. -- My blood is drink indeed.+ +Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.  |John 7:37; Psa 84:2; Psa 63:1,2; Isa 55:1; Rev 22:17; John 4:14; John 6:55; Song 5:1|<strong>Ye are the salt of the earth</strong>.+ +That which is not corruptible. -- Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. -- He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. -- The children of God, being the children of the resurrection. -- The uncorruptible God.+ +If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. -- It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.+ +Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. -- Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.  |Matt 5:13; 1 Pet 3:4; 1 Pet 1:23; John 11:25; Luke 20:36; Rom 1:23; Rom 5:9-11; 1 Cor 15:42; Mark 9:50; Eph 4:29
+September 14th|september-14|<strong>I, even I, am he that comforteth you.</strong>+ +Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. -- Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. -- As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. -- Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.+ +Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.+ +Another Comforter ... even the Spirit of truth. -- The Spirit ... helpeth our infirmities.+ +God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  |Isa 51:12; 2 Cor 1:3,4; Psa 103:3,14; Isa 66:13; 1 Pet 5:7; Psa 86:15; John 14:16,17; Rom 8:26; Rev 21:4|<strong>Ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son</strong>.+ +He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. -- Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.+ +Be ye ... followers of God, as dear children. -- If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.+ +The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.+ +Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame. -- These things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. -- As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.  |1 Cor 1:9; 2 Pet 1:17; 1 John 3:1; Eph 5:1; Rom 8:17; Heb 1:3; Matt 5:16; Heb 12:2; John 17:13; 2 Cor 1:5
 September 15th|september-15|<strong>Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.</strong>+ +What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. -- My brethren, ye ... are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. -- Being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ. -- The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. -- Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. -- If the Son ... shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.+ +Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.  |Rom 6:14; Rom 6:15; Rom 7:4; 1 Cor 9:21; 1 Cor 15:56,57; Rom 8:2; John 8:34; John 8:36; Gal 5:1|<strong>A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.</strong>+ +No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.+ +He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. -- Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. -- What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.+ +Be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive: but speaking the truth in love, ... grow up into him in all things which is the head, even Christ.+ +Abide in me. -- Be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.  |Jas 1:8; Luke 9:62; Heb 11:6; Jas 1:6,7; Mark 11:24; Eph 4:14,15; John 15:4; 1 Cor 15:58
 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
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 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
-September 23rd|september-23|<strong>Our God hath not forsaken us.</strong>+ +Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. -- If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.+ +The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.+ +The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. -- Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. -- Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God.+ +Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.  |Ezra 9:9; 1 Pet 4:12; Heb 12:7,8; Deut 13:3; 1 Sam 12:22; Isa 49:15; Psa 146:5; Luke 18:7,8|<strong>He that overcometh shall inherit all things</em>.+ +If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. -- Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city. -- An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.+ +All things are your's; ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's. -- Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.+ +Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. -- Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.  |Rev 21:7; 1 Cor 15:19; Heb 11:16; 1 Pet 1:4; 1 Cor 3:21,22; 1 Cor 2:9,10; 2 John 8; Heb 12:1
+September 23rd|september-23|<strong>Our God hath not forsaken us.</strong>+ +Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. -- If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.+ +The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.+ +The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. -- Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. -- Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God.+ +Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.  |Ezra 9:9; 1 Pet 4:12; Heb 12:7,8; Deut 13:3; 1 Sam 12:22; Isa 49:15; Psa 146:5; Luke 18:7,8|<strong>He that overcometh shall inherit all things</strong>.+ +If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. -- Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city. -- An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.+ +All things are your's; ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's. -- Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.+ +Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. -- Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.  |Rev 21:7; 1 Cor 15:19; Heb 11:16; 1 Pet 1:4; 1 Cor 3:21,22; 1 Cor 2:9,10; 2 John 8; Heb 12:1
 September 24th|september-24|<strong>It is good for me to draw near to God.</strong>+ +LORD,  I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine  honour dwelleth. -- A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had  rather be a door keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the  tents of wickedness. -- Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and  causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall  be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.+ +The  LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.  -- Therefore will the LORD wait that he may be gracious unto you, and  therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: for the  LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.+ +Having  therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of  Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us: ...  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having  our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.  |Psa 73:28; Psa 26:8; Psa 84:10; Psa 65:4; Lam 3:25; Isa 30:18; Heb 10:19,20,22|<strong>Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +The  Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the  glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. --  Thou are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy  lips. -- All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which  proceeded out of his mouth.+ +Ye have tasted that the Lord is  gracious. -- He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in  himself. -- We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen.+ +O  taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth  in him. -- I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit  was sweet to my taste.+ +He said unto me, My grace is sufficient  for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. -- Unto every one  of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. --  As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to  another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.  |2 Cor 8:9; John 1:14; Psa 45:2; Luke 4:22; 1 Pet 2:3; 1 John 5:10; John 3:11; Psa 34:8; Song 2:3; 2 Cor 12:9; Eph 4:7; 1 Pet 4:10
 September 25th|september-25|<strong>It is good for me to draw near to God.</strong>+ +LORD,  I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine  honour dwelleth. - A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had  rather be a door keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the  tents of wickedness. - Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and  causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall  be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.+ +The  LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.  - Therefore will the LORD wait that he may be gracious unto you, and  therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: for the  LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.+ +Having  therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of  Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us: ...  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having  our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.  |Psa 73:28; Psa 26:8; Psa 84:10; Psa 65:4; Lam 3:25; Isa 30:18; Heb 10:19,20,22|<strong>Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +The  Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the  glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. -  Thou are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy  lips. - All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which  proceeded out of his mouth.+ +Ye have tasted that the Lord is  gracious. - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in  himself. - We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen.+ +O  taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth  in him. - I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit  was sweet to my taste.+ +He said unto me, My grace is sufficient  for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. - Unto every one  of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. -  As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to  another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.  |2 Cor 8:9; John 1:14; Psa 45:2; Luke 4:22; 1 Pet 2:3; 1 John 5:10; John 3:11; Psa 34:8; Song 2:3; 2 Cor 12:9; Eph 4:7; 1 Pet 4:10
 September 26th|september-26|<strong>A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.</strong>+ +Him that judgeth righteously. -- We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. -- Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. -- The soul that sinneth it shall die.+ +Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd. -- The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. -- Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. -- Mercy rejoiceth against judgment. -- The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.+ +A just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. -- Just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. -- Justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.  |Deut 32:4; 1 Pet 2:23; 2 Cor 5:10; Rom 14:12; Ezek 18:4; Zech 13:7; Isa 53:6; Psa 85:10; Isa 2:13; Rom 6:23; Isa 45:21; Rom 3:26; Rom 3:24|<strong>Death is swallowed up in victory.</strong>+ +Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +Forasmuch ... as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.+ +If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.+ +Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.+ +In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  |1 Cor 15:54; 1 Cor 15:57; Heb 2:14,15; Rom 6:8-10; Rom 6:11; Rom 8:37