July 6 -- Evening

Thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes. The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.--That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.-- Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently.--The love of Christ constraineth us. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Ps 26:3 145:8 Mt 5:45 Eph 5:1,2 4:32 1Pe 1:22 2Co 5:14 Lu 6:35,36


Samuel Bagster
Robert Bagster
Jonathan Bagster Jr.
James Bagster

July 7 -- Morning

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. In the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.--We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].-- My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Mt 4:1 Heb 5:7-9 4:15 1Co 10:13 2Co 12:9


July 7 -- Evening

The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.--I lay down my life for the sheep.--No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. The life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.-- Without shedding of blood is no remission. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Mt 20:28 Heb 9:13,14 Isa 53:7 Joh 10:15,18 Le 17:11 Heb 9:22 Ro 5:8,9


July 8 -- Morning

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.--I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.--Your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.--God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.--That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean.--They shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. 1Jo 1:9 Ps 51:3,4 Lu 15:20 Isa 44:22 1Jo 2:12 Eph 4:32 Ro 3:26 Eze 36:25 Re 3:4 1Jo 5:6


July 8 -- Evening

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee? Truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.--Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.--An high priest . . . holy, harmless, undefiled. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].--The prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. [And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. Ps 94:20 1Jo 1:3 3:2,3 Joh 14:30 Heb 7:26 Eph 6:12 2:2 1Jo 5:18,19


July 9 -- Morning

I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.--We are all as an unclean [thing].--I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not. As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.--Ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.--Not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but . . . the righteousness which is of God by faith. Bring forth the best robe, and put [it] on him.--The fine linen is the righteousness of saints.--I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness. Zec 3:4 Ps 32:1 Isa 64:6 Ro 7:18 Ga 3:27 Col 3:9,10 Php 3:9 Lu 15:22 Re 19:8 Isa 61:10


July 9 -- Evening

The day shall declare it. Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way. God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.--The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. . . and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. The Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, [is] his name, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes [are] open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 1Co 3:13 1Co 4:5 Ro 14:10,12,13 Ro 2:16 Joh 5:22,27 Jer 32:18,19


July 10 -- Morning

The disciple is not above [his] master. Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for [so] I am. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.--If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.--I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.--Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.--Forasmuch . . . as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind. Mt 10:24 Joh 13:13 Mt 10:25 Joh 15:20 17:14 Heb 12:3,4,1,2 1Pe 4:1


July 10 -- Evening

My son, give me thine heart. O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.--Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. [They] . . . first gave their own selves to the Lord.--In every work that [Hezekiah] began . . . to seek his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life. Whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord.--As the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. Pr 23:26 De 5:29 Ac 8:21 Ro 8:7,8 2Co 8:5 2Ch 31:21 Pr 4:23 Col 3:23 Eph 6:6,7 Ps 119:32


July 11 -- Morning

I [am] with thee to save thee. Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.--Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.--In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.-- The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand. Jer 15:20 Isa 49:24-26 Isa 41:10 Heb 4:15 2:18 Ps 37:23,24


July 11 -- Evening

He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. Ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious. O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory. --My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.-- Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.--They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.--They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.--My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. Ps 107:9 1Pe 2:3 Ps 63:1,2 84:2 Php 1:23 Ps 17:15 Re 7:16,17 Ps 36:8 Jer 31:14


July 12 -- Morning

My presence shall go [with thee], and I will give thee rest. Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. . . . The LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. --Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest.--In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.--Our sufficiency [is] of God. Lead us not into temptation.--O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.--My times [are] in thy hand. Ex 33:14 De 31:6,8 Jos 1:9 Pr 3:6 Heb 13:5,6 2Co 3:5 Mt 6:13 Jer 10:23 Ps 31:15


July 12 -- Evening

Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. How forcible are right words!--I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance. They that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.--If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. The LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone.--Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him up. Let . . . no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.--Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.--Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Heb 10:24 Job 6:25 2Pe 3:1 Mal 3:16 Mt 18:19 Ge 2:18 Ec 4:9,10 Ro 14:13 Ga 6:2,1


July 13 -- Morning

I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me. I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.-- I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.--Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost. The LORD taketh pleasure in his people.--My delights [were] with the sons of men.--His great love wherewith he loved us.-- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.--Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. So 7:10 2Ti 1:12 Ro 8:38,39 Joh 17:12 Ps 149:4 Pr 8:31 Eph 2:4 Joh 15:13 1Co 6:20 Ro 14:8


July 13 -- Evening

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.--This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.--By the word of thy lips I have kept [me from] the paths of the destroyer.--Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. We have . . . a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.--That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Isa 34:16 De 11:18 Jos 1:8 Ps 37:31 17:4 119:11 2Pe 1:19 Ro 15:4


July 14 -- Morning

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.--Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue.--The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.--Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. --I believed, therefore have I spoken. Whosoever . . . shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.--With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Mt 12:34 Col 3:16 Pr 4:23 18:21 Ps 37:30,31 Eph 4:29 Ac 4:20 Ps 116:10 Mt 10:32 Ro 10:10


July 14 -- Evening

I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down!--As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?-- Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.--Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.--God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, [which is] our hope.--Whom having not seen, ye love. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.--It shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 3Jo 1:14 Isa 64:1 Ps 42:1,2 So 8:14 Php 3:20 Tit 2:13 1Ti 1:1 1Pe 1:8 Re 22:20 Isa 25:9


July 15 -- Morning

Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven. Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his, that do his pleasure. I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.--I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.--O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.--Not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.-- If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.--To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin. Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Mt 6:10 Ps 103:20,21 Joh 6:38 Ps 40:8 Mt 26:42 7:21 Ro 2:13 Joh 13:17 Jas 4:17 Ro 12:2


July 15 -- Evening

The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.--Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.--I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.--Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith.--He that is spiritual judgeth all things. Take heed what ye hear.--I know thy works, . . . and how . . . thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.--Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. Job 34:3 1Jo 4:1 Joh 7:24 1Co 10:15 Col 3:16 Re 2:29 1Co 2:15 Mr 4:24 Re 2:2 1Th 5:21 Joh 10:3-5


July 16 -- Morning

Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests.--Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God.--Priests of God and of Christ. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.--By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.--The temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are. Ex 19:6 Re 5:9,10 1Pe 2:9 Isa 61:6 Re 20:6 Heb 3:1 13:15 Eph 2:10 1Co 3:17


July 16 -- Evening

We made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.--Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.--Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith. Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?--Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Neh 4:9 Mt 26:41 Col 4:2 1Pe 5:7-9 Lu 6:46 Jas 1:22 Ex 14:15 Php 4:6,7


July 17 -- Morning

Thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation]. O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.--O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.--We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. Jon 4:2 Nu 14:17,18 Ps 79:8,9 Jer 14:7,20 Ps 130:3,4


July 17 -- Evening

Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out. Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge!-- Fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth; proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. The Father . . . shall give you another Comforter.--The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 2Th 2:13 So 4:16 2Co 7:11 Eph 5:9,10 Joh 14:16 Ro 5:5 Ga 5:22 2Co 8:2 1Co 12:11


July 18 -- Morning

He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.--Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.--The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.--Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm.--The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. Joh 10:3 2Ti 2:19 Mt 7:22,23 Ps 1:6 Isa 49:16 So 8:6 Na 1:7 Joh 14:2,3


July 18 -- Evening

She hath done what she could. This poor widow hath cast in more than they all.--Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.--If there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath, [and] not according to that he hath not. Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.--If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?-- But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. Mr 14:8 Lu 21:3 Mr 9:41 2Co 8:12 1Jo 3:18 Jas 2:15,16 2Co 9:6,7 Lu 17:10


July 19 -- Morning

He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy [is] his name. Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?--Among the gods [there is] none like unto thee, O Lord; neither [are there any works] like unto thy works.--Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for [thou] only [art] holy.--Hallowed be thy name. Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.--I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, . . . [be] glory. Lu 1:49 Ex 15:11 Ps 86:8 Re 15:4 Mt 6:9 Lu 1:68 Isa 63:1 Ps 89:19 Eph 3:20,21


July 19 -- Evening

The dew of Hermon. Mount Sion, which [is] Hermon.--There the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.--I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.--As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. God giveth not the Spirit by measure [unto him].--And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.--[It is] like the precious ointment upon the head, . . . [even] Aaron's . . . that went down to the skirts of his garments. Ps 133:3 De 4:48 Ps 133:3 Ho 14:5 De 32:2 Isa 55:10,11 Joh 3:34 1:16 Ps 133:2


July 20 -- Morning

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.--That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Jesus of Nazareth . . . who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.--As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith. [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.--Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. . . . Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Joh 17:16 Isa 53:3 Joh 16:33 Heb 7:26 Php 2:15 Ac 10:38 Ga 6:10 Joh 1:9 Mt 5:14,16


July 20 -- Evening

He that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast. The joy of the LORD is your strength.--The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.--Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. By him . . . let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.-- Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.--We glory in tribulations also. Pr 15:15 Ne 8:10 Ro 14:17 Eph 5:18-20 Heb 13:15 Hab 3:17,18 2Co 6:10 Ro 5:3


July 21 -- Morning

What profit [is there] of circumcision? Much every way.--Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart.--If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember. Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers.--In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.--You, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses. Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and . . . put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ro 3:1,2 Jer 4:4 Le 26:41,42 Ro 15:8 Col 2:11,13 Eph 4:22-24


July 21 -- Evening

The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. The Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.--The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. . . . He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. . . . When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? [What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. . . .Let us draw near. Mt 27:51 1Co 11:23,24 Joh 6:51,53,54,56,57,61-63 Heb 10:20,22


July 22 -- Morning

In that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. He was numbered with the transgressors.--Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.--Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. --By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. This [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.--While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Forasmuch . . . as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. Ro 6:10 Isa 53:12 Heb 9:28 1Pe 2:24 Heb 10:14 7:24,25 Ro 5:8,9 1Pe 4:1,2


July 22 -- Evening

Keep yourselves in the love of God. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. The fruit of the Spirit is love. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.--Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.--God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.--God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Jude 1:21 Joh 15:4,5 Ga 5:22 Joh 15:8-10 1Jo 2:5 Joh 15:12 Ro 5:8 1Jo 4:16


July 23 -- Morning

Then [cometh] the end. Of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. --And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.--The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.--The coming of the Lord draweth nigh. . . . The judge standeth before the door. --Surely I come quickly. [Seeing] . . . [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness. The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.--Let your loins be girded about, and [your] lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 1Co 15:24 Mr 13:32,33,37 2Pe 3:9 Jas 5:8,9 Re 22:20 2Pe 3:11 1Pe 4:7 Lu 12:35,36


July 23 -- Evening

Brethren, pray for us. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him. . . . And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. . . . Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; Without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.-- Always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 1Th 5:25 Jas 5:14-18 Eph 6:18 Ro 1:9 Col 4:12


July 24 -- Morning

Patient in tribulation. It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.--Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.--The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.--What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? Jesus wept.--A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.-- Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.--Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.--Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.--In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Ro 12:12 1Sa 3:18 Job 9:15 1:21 2:10 Joh 11:35 Isa 53:3,4 Heb 12:6,11 Col 1:11 Joh 16:33


July 24 -- Evening

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. Have faith in God. . . . Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them].--Without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. He that had received the promises offered up his only begotten [son], of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead.--Being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Is any thing too hard for the LORD?--With God all things are possible.--Lord, Increase our faith. Ro 4:20 Mr 11:22-24 Heb 11:6,17-19 Ro 4:21 Ge 18:14 Mt 19:26 Lu 17:5


July 25 -- Morning

We know that we have passed from death unto life. He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.--He that hath the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is] God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.--Hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. . . . Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God. --We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. You [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins.--Quickened . . . together with Christ.--Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son. 1Jo 3:14 Joh 5:24 1Jo 5:12 2Co 1:21,22 1Jo 3:19,21 5:19 Eph 2:1,5 Col 1:13


July 25 -- Evening

Thou wilt shew me the path of life. Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.--I will teach you the good and the right way.--I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.--Follow me. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.--Wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. An highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [therein].--Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD. In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. Ps 16:11 Jer 21:8 1Sa 12:23 Joh 14:6 Mt 4:19 Pr 14:12 Mt 7:13,14 Isa 35:8 Ho 6:3 Joh 14:2


July 26 -- Morning

By faith Abraham, . . . called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed. He shall choose our inheritance for us.--He led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: [so] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him. I [am] the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go.--Who teacheth like him? We walk by faith, not by sight.--Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.--Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.--Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction. Heb 11:8 Ps 47:4 De 32:10-12 Isa 48:17 Job 36:22 2Co 5:7 Heb 13:14 1Pe 2:11 Mic 2:10


July 26 -- Evening

Give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. The heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?--Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, [that is] a worm? Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness.--Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts. As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.--Partakers of his holiness. The temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.--What manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness, . . . without spot, and blameless. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Ps 97:12 Job 15:15,16 25:5,6 Ex 15:11 Isa 6:3 1Pe 1:15,16 Heb 12:10 1Co 3:17 2Pe 3:11,14 Eph 4:29,30


July 27 -- Morning

Christ, who is the image of God. The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together.--No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].--And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.--He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.--The brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person.--God was manifest in the flesh. In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.--Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 2Co 4:4 Isa 40:5 Joh 1:18,14 14:9 Heb 1:3 1Ti 3:16 Col 1:14,15 Ro 8:29 1Co 15:49


July 27 -- Evening

Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle. When I am weak, then am I strong. Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God; let not man prevail against thee.--Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him. [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.--There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. An horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver [any] by his great strength. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God. Ps 18:39 2Co 12:10 2Ch 14:11 18:31 Ps 118:8,9 33:16,17 Eph 6:12,13


July 28 -- Morning

Walk in love. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.--Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.--Love covereth all sins. When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.--Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again.--Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.--Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.--If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. Eph 5:2 Joh 13:34 1Pe 4:8 Pr 10:12 Mr 11:25 Lu 6:35 Pr 24:17 1Pe 3:9 Ro 12:18 Eph 4:32 1Jo 3:18


July 28 -- Evening

Let your requests be made known unto God. Abba, Father, all things [are] possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.--There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.--Hannah . . . [was] in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, . . . and wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life. . . . The LORD remembered her. We know not what we should pray for as we ought.--He shall choose our inheritance for us. Php 4:6 Mr 14:36 2Co 12:7-9 Ps 142:2 1Sa 1:9-11,19 Ro 8:26 Ps 47:4


July 29 -- Morning

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down. Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.--We ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.--Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. --Unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.--It shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.--That blessed hope, . . . the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.--Our conversation is in heaven. Isa 64:1 So 8:14 Ro 8:23 Ps 144:5 Ac 1:11 Heb 9:28 Isa 25:9 Re 22:20 Tit 2:13 Php 3:20


July 29 -- Evening

Thou hast given [me] the heritage of those that fear thy name. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD.--The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].--The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage. Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.--He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Ps 61:5 Isa 54:17 Ps 34:7-10 16:6 Mal 4:2 Ro 8:32


July 30 -- Morning

Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Get wisdom, get understanding.--The wisdom that is from above.--The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.--We are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.--God . . . hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus. They that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.--Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness. Col 3:1 Pr 4:5 Jas 3:17 Job 28:14 Ro 6:4,5 Heb 12:1 Eph 2:4-6 Heb 11:14 Zep 2:3


July 30 -- Evening

Nicodemus . . . he that came to Jesus by night. Peter followed him afar off.--Among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.--The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe. Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.--A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.--Faith as a grain of mustard seed. God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.--Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.--Whosoever . . . shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. Joh 7:50 Mt 26:58 Joh 12:42,43 Pr 29:25 Joh 6:37 Isa 42:3 Mt 17:20 2Ti 1:7,8 1Jo 2:28 Mt 10:32


July 31 -- Morning

Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.--It became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.--We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God.--We do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds). The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you]. 2Ti 2:3 Isa 55:4 Heb 2:10 Ac 14:22 Eph 6:12,13 2Co 10:3,4 1Pe 5:10


July 31 -- Evening

The unity of the Spirit. [There is] one body, and one Spirit.--Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity! [It is] like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, [even] Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently. Eph 4:3,4 2:18-22 Ps 133:1,2 1Pe 1:22


August 1 -- Morning

The fruit of the Spirit is . . faith. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God.--Without faith [it is] impossible to please [him].--He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.--Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.--Faith which worketh by love.--Faith without works is dead? We walk by faith, not by sight.--I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.--Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls. Ga 5:22 Eph 2:8 Heb 11:6 Joh 3:18 Mr 9:24 1Jo 2:5 Ga 5:6 Jas 2:20 2Co 5:7 Ga 2:20 1Pe 1:8,9


August 1 -- Evening

The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.--The LORD [is] gracious and full of compassion. He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.--As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him. His compassions fail not. [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness. Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.--The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. The very hairs of your head are all numbered. . . . Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. . . . Fear ye not therefore. Jas 5:11 Ps 103:13 111:4,5 121:3,4 De 32:11,12 La 3:22,23 Mt 14:14 Heb 13:8 Mt 10:30,29,31


August 2 -- Morning

The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: . . . and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike [it] on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. . . . and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.--The blood of sprinkling.--Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.--Being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.--According to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. Re 13:8 Ex 12:5-7,13 Heb 12:24 1Co 5:7 Ac 2:23 2Ti 1:9 Eph 1:7 1Pe 4:1,2


August 2 -- Evening

I have trodden the winepress alone. Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?--He saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.--Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.--Being made a curse for us. O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.--Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.--He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.--We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.--They overcame . . . by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. Isa 63:3 Ex 15:11 Isa 59:16 1Pe 2:24 Ga 3:13 Ps 98:1 Col 2:15 Isa 53:11 Jud 5:21 Ro 8:37 Re 12:11


August 3 -- Morning

His mercy [is] on them that fear him. [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear.--The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, . . . in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, . . . and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.--To this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.--The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Lu 1:50 Ps 31:19,20 1Pe 1:17 Ps 145:18,19 2Ki 22:19 Isa 66:2 Ps 34:18


August 3 -- Evening

Them that honour me I will honour. Whosoever . . . shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.--He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. . . . Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory.--Praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 1Sa 2:30 Mt 10:32,37-39 Jas 1:12 Re 2:10 2Co 4:17 1Pe 1:7


August 4 -- Morning

It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith.--I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.--We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all]. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.--Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.--Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Joh 19:30 Heb 12:2 Joh 17:4 Heb 10:10-14 Col 2:14 Joh 10:17,18 15:13


August 4 -- Evening

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. He brought me up . . . out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.--You [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world. . . . We all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh. Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed.-- Out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.--We went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy [place]. When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. Ps 18:16 40:2 Eph 2:1-3 Ps 61:1,2 Jon 2:2,3 Ps 66:12 Isa 43:2


August 5 -- Morning

Walk in newness of life. As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.--I beseech you, . . . brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. If any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.--In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy.--This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.--But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.--Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ro 6:4,19 12:1,2 2Co 5:17 Ga 6:15,16 Eph 4:17,20,21,24


August 5 -- Evening

Thy will be done. O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.--Not as I will, but as thou [wilt].--Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child. We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God. Ye know not what ye ask.--He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.--These things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. I would have you without carefulness.--Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee. Mt 26:42 Jer 10:23 Mt 26:39 Ps 131:2 Ro 8:26,27 Mt 20:22 Ps 106:15 1Co 10:6 1Co 7:32 Isa 26:3


August 6 -- Morning

Whom the LORD loveth he correcteth. See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.--I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.--My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.--As a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.--Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.--Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Pr 3:12 De 32:39 Jer 29:11 Isa 55:8 Ho 2:14 De 8:5 Heb 12:11 1Pe 5:6 Ps 119:75


August 6 -- Evening

The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof. She did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax. All things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding. O LORD our God, all this store . . . [cometh] of thine hand, and [is] all thine own.--Of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen. The living God . . . giveth us richly all things to enjoy.-- Every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Ps 24:1 Ho 2:8,9 1Ch 29:14-16 Ro 11:36 1Ti 6:17 4:4,5 Php 4:19


August 7 -- Morning

The Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name. If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.--If ye, . . . being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?--Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give [it] you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.--Ye have not, because ye ask not. When . . . the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew [it] unto you. They rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them. Joh 14:26 4:10 Lu 11:13 Joh 16:23,24 Jas 4:2 Joh 16:13,14 Isa 63:10


August 7 -- Evening

What think ye of Christ? Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he [is] the King of glory.--He hath on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Unto you . . . which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner.--Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ.--Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Mt 22:42 Ps 24:9,10 Re 19:16 1Pe 2:7 1Co 1:23,24 Php 3:8 Joh 21:17


August 8 -- Morning

The path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.--Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.--We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.--For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.--Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Pr 4:18 Php 3:12 Ho 6:3 Mt 13:43 2Co 3:18 1Co 13:10,12 1Jo 3:2,3


August 8 -- Evening

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.--Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.--What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion [on them], and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him. If ye . . . being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?--I will put my spirit within you. . . . Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet [for] this be enquired of. This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. Ro 10:13 Joh 6:37 Lu 23:42,43 Mt 20:32-34 Lu 11:13 Eze 36:27,37 1Jo 5:14,15


August 9 -- Morning

Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.--We are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags.--I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. Ye are washed, . . . ye are sanctified, . . . ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.--The king's daughter [is] all glorious within.--Perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD. Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us. These are they which . . . have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.--A glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but . . . holy and without blemish.--Ye are complete in him. So 4:7 Isa 1:5,6 64:6 Ro 7:18 1Co 6:11 Ps 45:13 Eze 16:14 Ps 90:17 Re 7:14 Eph 5:27 Col 2:10


August 9 -- Evening

Broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Eve . . . bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven. . . . The LORD scattered them.--Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; . . . it [was] well watered every where, . . . [even] as the garden of the LORD. . . . But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.--I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards. . . I gathered me also silver and gold. . . . Then I looked on all, . . . and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit. If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.--He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Jer 2:13 Ge 4:1 11:4,8 Ge 13:11,10,13 Ec 1:17,18 2:4,8,11 Joh 7:37 Ps 107:9 Col 3:2


August 10 -- Morning

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.--Ye are the salt of the earth . . . the light of the world.--Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. I also withheld thee from sinning against me. The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep [you] from evil.--So did not I, because of the fear of God.--Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.--Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Joh 17:15 Php 2:15 Mt 5:13,14,16 Ge 20:6 2Th 3:3 Ne 5:15 Ga 1:4 Jude 1:24,25


August 10 -- Evening

Whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe. The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high.--The LORD [is] high above all nations, [and] his glory above the heavens. . . . He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; that he may set [him] with princes. God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? . . . For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Pr 29:25 Isa 33:5 Ps 113:4,7,8 Eph 2:4-6 Ro 8:32,38,39


August 11 -- Morning

That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death. Our Saviour Jesus Christ, . . . hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.-- He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].--When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory? The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law. But thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.--Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Heb 2:14 2Ti 1:10 Isa 25:8 1Co 15:54-57 2Ti 1:7 Ps 23:4


August 11 -- Evening

Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.--As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. The Father . . . hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.--Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. . . . Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Job 38:19 1Jo 1:5 Joh 9:5 1Jo 1:6,7 Col 1:12-14 1Th 5:5 Mt 5:14,16


August 12 -- Morning

For the Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion. Fear thou not, . . . saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; . . . I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure.--For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. . . . For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness. Lam 3:31,32 Jer 46:28 Isa 54:7,8,10,11 Mi 7:9


August 12 -- Evening

God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. When the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud, . . . a man lefthanded. . . . After him was Shamgar . . . . which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. The LORD looked upon [Gideon], and said, Go in this thy might: . . . have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my father's house. And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me, . . . lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.--My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 1Co 1:27 Jud 3:15,31 6:14,15 7:2 Zec 4:6 Eph 6:10


August 13 -- Morning

He hath prepared for them a city. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.--An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.--Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. --Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.--Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. We which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Heb 11:16 Joh 14:3 1Pe 1:4 Heb 13:14 Ac 1:11 Jas 5:7,8 Heb 10:37 1Th 4:17,18


August 13 -- Evening

Base things of the world . . . hath God chosen. Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. You [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world; . . . among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour. My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 1Co 1:28 6:9-11 Eph 2:1-3 Tit 3:5,6 Isa 55:8


August 14 -- Morning

The joy of the LORD is your strength. Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.--Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation. --The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.--My soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels. I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.--We . . . joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.--I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Ne 8:10 Isa 49:13 Isa 12:2 Ps 28:7 Isa 61:10 Ro 15:17 5:11 Hab 3:18


August 14 -- Evening

He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure. I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 2Sa 23:5 2Ti 1:12 Eph 1:3-5 Ro 8:28-30


August 15 -- Morning

The God of peace . . . make you perfect in every good work to do his will. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.--Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.--Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.--Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.-- Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God. Heb 13:20,21 2Co 13:11 Eph 2:8,9 Jas 1:17 Php 2:12,13 Ro 12:2 Php 1:11 2Co 3:5


August 15 -- Evening

I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.--Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Jesus, . . . that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. Mark 6:31 [Jesus] said, . . . Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while.--The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Ho 2:14 2Co 6:17,18 2Co 7:1 Heb 13:12,13 Mr 6:31 Ps 23:1-3


August 16 -- Morning

The house [that is] to be builded for the LORD [must be] exceeding magnifical. Ye . . . as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house.-- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.--Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.--What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.--Ye . . . are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. 1Ch 22:5 1Pe 2:5 1Co 3:16,17 1Co 6:19,20 2Co 6:16 Eph 2:19-22


August 16 -- Evening

He is before all things. The Amen, . . . the beginning of the creation of God.--The beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence. The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. . . . When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment. . . . I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him.--Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.--The author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Col 1:17 Re 3:14 Col 1:18 Pr 8:22,23,27-30 Isa 43:13 Re 13:8 Heb 12:2


August 17 -- Morning

Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it]. Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.--Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.--Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.--Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. Jas 5:16 Ge 18:27,28 Lu 23:34 Mt 5:44 Joh 17:9,20 Ga 6:2 Jas 5:16,17


August 17 -- Evening

[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.--What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Surely the people [is] grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.--The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 2 Corinthians 6:2 Behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.--Use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the fashion of this world passeth away.--Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Ps 103:15,16 90:12 Mr 8:36 Isa 40:7,8 1Jo 2:17 2Co 6:2 1Co 7:31 Heb 10:24,25


August 18 -- Morning

What God [is there] in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? Who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? . . . O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?--Among the gods [there is] none like unto thee, O Lord; neither [are there any works] like unto thy works.--For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know [them]. Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for [there is] none like thee, neither [is there any] God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit.--The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children. De 3:24 Ps 89:6,8 86:8 2Sa 7:21,22 1Co 2:9,10 De 29:29


August 18 -- Evening

He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD. I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ.--I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.--I have . . . whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire beside thee.--My heart rejoiceth in the LORD. . . . I rejoice in thy salvation. Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake. 1Co 1:31 Jer 9:23,24 Php 3:8 Ro 1:16 15:17 Ps 73:25 1Sa 2:1 Ps 115:1


August 19 -- Morning

As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. Ye know how we exhorted . . . and charged every one of you, . . . that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.--Ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (for the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].--Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.--Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1Pe 1:15 1Th 2:11,12 1Pe 2:9 Eph 5:8-11 Php 1:11 Mt 5:16 1Co 10:31


August 19 -- Evening

Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. A new heart . . . will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. . . . Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet [for] this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do [it] for them. If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Isa 45:11 Eze 36:26,27,37 Mt 18:19,20 Mr 11:22,23


August 20 -- Morning

God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent. The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.--Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. His truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler. God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.--All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.--Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God: which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever. Nu 23:19 Jas 1:17 Heb 13:8 Ps 91:4 Heb 6:17,18 De 7:9 Ps 25:10 146:5,6


August 20 -- Evening

[If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small. He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.--My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.--He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.--The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee. I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none. Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, . . . who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; . . . so also Christ . . . though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.-- Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Pr 24:10 Isa 40:29 2Co 12:9 Ps 91:15 De 33:27 Ps 69:20 Heb 5:1,2,5,8,9 Isa 53:4


August 21 -- Morning

[Thou art] my portion, O LORD. All things are yours. . . . and ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . gave himself for us. [God] gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church.--Christ . . . loved the church, and gave himself for it; . . . that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD.--I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness. Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.--[O my soul], thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee.--The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage. Ps 119:57 1Co 3:21,23 Tit 2:13,14 Eph 1:22 5:25,27 Ps 34:2 Isa 61:10 Ps 73:25,26 Ps 16:2,5,6