2.2 KiB
Morning
Pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. -- Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. -- Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Jas 5:16; Gen 18:27,28; Luke 23:34; Matt 5:44; John 17:9,20; Gal 6:2; Jas 5:16,17
Evening
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place therof shall know it no more.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. -- What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. -- The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. -- Use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. -- Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Psa 103:15,16; Psa 90:12; Mark 8:36; Isa 40:7,8; 1 John 2:17; 2 Cor 6:2; 1 Cor 7:31; Heb"
Jonathan Bagster, the son of Samuel Bagster, created the Daily Light for his own family's daily devotion in 1875