Samuel Bagster
Robert Bagster
Jonathan Bagster Jr.
James Bagster

January 1 -- Morning

[This] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, . . . I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Father, I will that they . . . whom thou hast given to me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given to me.-- I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him until that day.-- He who hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ. Know ye not that they who run in a race all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. Wherefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses.--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 to Jesus. Php 3:13,14 Joh 17:24 2Ti 1:12 Php 1:6 1Co 9:24,25 He 12:1,2


January 1 -- Evening

The LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee. If thy presence shall not attend [me], conduct us not from here.--O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps. The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Though he should fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand. I [am] continually with thee: thou hast held [me] by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory.--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 creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. De 31:8 Ex 33:15 Jer 10:23 Ps 37:23,24 73:23,24 Ro 8:38,39


January 2 -- Morning

Sing to the LORD a new song. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. Take a psalm, and strike the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.--He hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise to our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee wherever thou goest.--The joy of the LORD is your strength.--Paul . . . thanked God, and took courage. Knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in immorality and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the lusts of flesh. Isa 42:10 Ps 81:1,2 40:3 Jos 1:9 Ne 8:10 Ac 28:15 Ro 13:11-14


January 2 -- Evening

Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice. Thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: . . . and thou shalt put it before the veil that [is] by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that [is] over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. And Aaron shall burn upon it sweet incense every morning: . . . and when Aaron lighteth the lamps at the evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. [Jesus] is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.--The smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God out of the angel's hand. Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Pray without ceasing. Ps 141:2 Ex 30:1,6-8 Heb 7:25 Re 8:4 1Pe 2:5 1Th 5:17


January 3 -- Morning

He led them forth by the right way. He found [Jacob] in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; 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.--[Even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to gray hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you]. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. The LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.--For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] to death.--Who teacheth like him? Ps 107:7 De 32:10-12 Isa 46:4 Ps 23:3,4 Isa 58:11 Ps 48:14 Job 36:22


January 3 -- Evening

What wilt thou that I shall do to thee? . . . Lord, that I may receive my sight. Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.--The Comforter, [who is] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, . . . shall teach you all things.--Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights. The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, . . . give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power. Lu 18:41 Ps 119:18 Lu 24:45 Joh 14:26 Jas 1:17 Eph 1:17-19


January 4 -- Morning

Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you. This [is] not [your] rest.--There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.--Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that Within the veil; where the forerunner hath for us entered, [even] Jesus. In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. --With Christ; which is far better. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away.--There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.--Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. De 12:9 Mic 2:10 Heb 4:9 6:19,20 Joh 14:2,3 Php 1:23 Re 21:4 Job 3:17 Mt 6:20,21 Col 3:2


January 4 -- Evening

O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory? The sting of death [is] sin.--But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for him he shall appear the second time without sin to salvation. Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. 1Co 15:55,56 Heb 9:26-28 2:14,15 2Ti 4:6-8


January 5 -- Morning

We who have believed do enter into rest. They . . . weary themselves to commit iniquity.--I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Come to me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.--Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. He that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works.--Not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.--This [is] the rest [with which] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing. Heb 4:3 Jer 9:5 Ro 7:23,24 Mt 11:28 Ro 5:1,2 Heb 4:10 Php 3:9 Isa 28:12


January 5 -- Evening

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?--They provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. A whisperer separateth chief friends.--There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment.--The tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. . . . Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Put off . . . anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds.--This is the will of God, [even] your sanctification.--In their mouth was found no guile. Ps 141:3 130:3 106:33 Mt 15:11 Pr 16:28 12:18,19 Jas 3:8,10 Col 3:8,9 1Th 4:3 Re 14:5


January 6 -- Morning

Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands. Thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for it [was] perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.--We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--The spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you. Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands: happy [shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.--Commit thy works to the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.--Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work. Ps 90:17 Eze 16:14 2Co 3:18 1Pe 4:14 Ps 128:1,2 Pr 16:3 Php 2:12,13 2Th 2:16,17


January 6 -- Evening

The apostles assembled themselves to Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. There is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.--The LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend.--Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. When ye shall have done all the things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants. Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father. By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.--The prayer of the upright [is] his delight. Mr 6:30 Pr 18:24 Ex 33:11 Joh 15:14,15 Lu 17:10 Ro 8:15 Php 4:6 Pr 15:8


January 7 -- Morning

Think upon me, my God, for good. Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness.--I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant.--I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you.--For 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. [As] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.--I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause: who doeth great things and unsearchable; wonderful things without number.--Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered. Ne 5:19 Jer 2:2 Eze 16:60 Jer 29:10,11 Isa 55:9 Job 5:8,9 Ps 40:5


January 7 -- Evening

I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. There failed nothing of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.--God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoke, and shall he not make it good? The LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him.--He will ever be mindful of his covenant. Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. Jos 1:5 21:45 Nu 23:19 De 7:9 Ps 111:5 Isa 49:15,16 Zep 3:17


January 8 -- Morning

They that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.--I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation. I have been young, and [now] am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.--For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. --The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.-- Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us]. [Be] content with such things as ye have: for 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 to me. Ps 9:10 Pr 18:10 Isa 12:2 Ps 37:25 37:28 1Sa 12:22 2Co 1:10 Heb 13:5,6


January 8 -- Evening

They are without fault before the throne of God. The iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall be] none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.--Who [is] a God like thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. He hath made us accepted in the beloved.--To present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to God the only wise, our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Re 14:5 Jer 50:20 Mic 7:18,19 Eph 1:6 Col 1:22 Jude 1:24,25


January 9 -- Morning

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Jehovahnissi: that is, The LORD my banner.--When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up [our] banners.--The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.--We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.--Thanks [be] to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.--The captain of our salvation. My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.--Valiant for the truth.--Fight the LORD'S battles.--Be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: . . . fear ye not.--Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.--Yet a little while, and he that is coming will come, and will not tarry. Ps 60:4 Ex 17:15 Isa 59:19 Ps 20:5 Jer 51:10 Ro 8:37 1Co 15:57 Heb 2:10 Eph 6:10 Jer 9:3 1Sa 18:17 Hag 2:4,5 Joh 4:35 Heb 10:37


January 9 -- Evening

One thing is needful. [There are] many that say, Who will show us [any] good? LORD, lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time when their grain and their wine increased. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul panteth after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God.--O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.--Lord, evermore give us this bread.--Mary . . . sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.--One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. Lu 10:42 Ps 4:6,7 Ps 42:1,2 63:1 Joh 6:35,34 Lu 10:39 Ps 27:4


January 10 -- Morning

[I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ also 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.--Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. The peace of God . . . passeth all understanding.--Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye are called in one body. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.--Who shall also confirm you to the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Th 5:23 Eph 5:25,27 Col 1:28 Php 4:7 Col 3:15 2Th 2:16,17 1Co 1:8


January 10 -- Evening

Will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.-- I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the tabernacle] shall be sanctified by my glory. . . . And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell [among them]. 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.--Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [which is] in you.--Ye . . . are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. The nations shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever. 2Ch 6:18 Ex 25:8 29:43,45 Ps 68:18 2Co 6:16 1Co 6:19 Eph 2:22 Eze 37:28


January 11 -- Morning

Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion. To us [there is but] one God, the Father, from whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.--All [men] should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.--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.--Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] conduct [aright] will I show the salvation of God. I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and languages, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb.--Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, [be] to our God for ever and ever. Amen. Ps 65:1 1Co 8:6 Joh 5:23 Heb 13:15 Ps 50:23 Re 7:9,10,12


January 11 -- Evening

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction. Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name. --I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.--When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired by all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. Ps 103:4 Jer 50:34 Ho 13:14 Heb 2:14,15 Joh 3:36 Col 3:3,4 2Th 1:10


January 12 -- Morning

God the only wise, our Saviour. Christ Jesus, who from God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.--Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world to our glory.--The mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that now to the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him.--The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. Jude 1:25 1Co 1:30 Job 11:7,8 1Co 2:7 Eph 3:9,10 Jas 1:5 3:17


January 12 -- Evening

When shall I arise, and the night be gone? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh. Yet a little while, and he that is coming will come, and will not tarry.--[He shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds. 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 to myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.--Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard that I said to you, I go away, and come [again] to you. Let all thy enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.--Ye are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. There shall be no night there. Job 7:4 Isa 21:11,12 Heb 10:37 2Sa 23:4 Joh 14:2,3,27,28 Jud 5:31 1Th 5:5 Re 21:25


January 13 -- Morning

Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]. Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never allow the righteous to be moved.--I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation. Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?--Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.--In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. The righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.--Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world giveth, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.--Peace, from him who is, and who was, and who is to come. Isa 26:3 Ps 55:22 Isa 12:2 Mt 8:26 Php 4:6,7 Isa 30:15 32:17 Joh 14:27 Re 1:4


January 13 -- Evening

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. . . . Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith to him, I say not to thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.--When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have any thing against any: that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, tender mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man hath a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith. Eph 4:26 Mt 18:15,21,22 Mr 11:25 Col 3:12,13 Eph 4:32 Lu 17:5


January 14 -- Morning

My Father is greater than I. When ye pray, say, Our Father who art in heaven.-- My Father, and your Father; . . . my God, and your God. As the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.--The words that I speak to you I speak not from myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.--Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?--I and [my] Father are one.--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. Joh 14:28 Lu 11:2 Joh 20:17 14:31 14:10 3:35 17:2 14:8-10 Joh 10:30 15:9,10


January 14 -- Evening

[The woman's seed] shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men.--He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. This is your hour, and the power of darkness.--Thou couldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from above. The Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.--He . . . cast out many demons; and permitted not the demons to speak, because they knew him. All authority is given to me in heaven and upon earth.--In my name shall they cast out demons. The God of peace shall soon bruise Satan under your feet. Ge 3:15 Isa 52:14 53:5 Lu 22:53 Joh 19:11 1Jo 3:8 Mr 1:34 Mt 28:18 Mr 16:17 Ro 16:20


January 15 -- Morning

My soul cleaveth to the dust: revive thou me according to thy word. If ye then be raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For . . . your life is hid with Christ in God.--Our citizenship is in heaven; from which also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our lowly body, that it may be fashioned like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.--Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. --Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Ps 119:25 Col 3:1-3 Php 3:20,21 Ga 5:17 Ro 8:12,13 1Pe 2:11


January 15 -- Evening

The measure of faith. Him that is weak in the faith.--Strong in faith, giving glory to God. O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? Great [is] thy faith: be it to thee even as thou wilt. Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yea, Lord. . . . According to your faith be it to you. Lord, Increase our faith.--Building up yourselves on your most holy faith.--Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith.--He who establisheth us with you in Christ, . . . [is] God.--The God of all grace . . . after ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you]. We . . . that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.--Let us not . . . judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way. Ro 12:3 14:1 4:20 Mt 14:31 15:28 9:28,29 Lu 17:5 Jude 1:20 Col 2:7 2Co 1:21 1Pe 5:10 Ro 15:1 14:13


January 16 -- Morning

It pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.--God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] on earth, and [things] under the earth; and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.--Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.--By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are upon earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him. Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.--And ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power.--Of his fulness have we all received, and grace for grace. Col 1:19 Joh 3:35 Php 2:9-11 Eph 1:21 Col 1:16 Ro 14:9 Col 2:10 Joh 1:16


January 16 -- Evening

Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be after this. Holy men of God spoke [as they were] moved by the Holy Spirit.--That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them [his] hands and [his] feet.--He that saw [it] testified, and his testimony is true: and he knoweth that he speaketh truth, that ye may believe. We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.--That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Re 1:19 2Pe 1:21 1Jo 1:3 Lu 24:39,40 Joh 19:35 2Pe 1:16 1Co 2:5


January 17 -- Morning

Thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption. God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. Who [is] a God like thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.--O LORD my God, I cried to thee, and thou hast healed me. O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.--When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.--I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry. He brought me up . . . out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock. Isa 38:17 1Jo 4:9,10 Mic 7:18,19 Ps 30:2,3 Jon 2:7 Ps 40:1,2


January 17 -- Evening

The things which are. Now we see in a mirror, darkly.--Now we see not yet all things subjected to him. We have . . . a more sure word of prophecy; to which ye do well that ye take heed, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.--Thy word [is] a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. Beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; that they told you there would be mockers in the last time, who would walk after their own ungodly lusts.--The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons. Little children, it is the last time.--The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Re 1:19 1Co 13:12 Heb 2:8 2Pe 1:19 Ps 119:105 Jude 1:17,18 1Ti 4:1 1Jo 2:18 Ro 13:12


January 18 -- Morning

Him that was to come. Jesus . . . made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, . . . that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.--One died for all.--As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a living spirit.--That [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.--God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. . . . So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him.--God hath in these last days spoken to us by [his] Son, the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person.--Thou hast given him power over all flesh. The first man [is] from the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven. As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are heavenly. Ro 5:14 Heb 2:9 2Co 5:14 Ro 5:19 1Co 15:45,46 Ge 1:26,27 Heb 1:1-3 Joh 17:2 1Co 15:47,48


January 18 -- Evening

The things which shall be after this. It is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed [them] to us by his Spirit.--The Spirit of truth . . . will show you things to come. Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] who pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. . . . For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we who 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. Re 1:19 1Co 2:9,10 Joh 16:13 Re 1:7 1Th 4:13,14,16,17


January 19 -- Morning

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.--I say, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.--When ye shall have done all the things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which it was our duty to do. Our rejoicing is this, . . . that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have behaved ourselves in the world We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not from us. Ac 20:19 Mt 20:26-28 Ga 6:3 Ro 12:3 Lu 17:10 2Co 1:12 2Co 4:7


January 19 -- Evening

We have turned every one to his own way. Noah . . . planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunk.--[Abram] said to Sarai his wife, . . . Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake.--Isaac said to Jacob, . . . [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said, I [am].--Moses . . . spoke unadvisedly with his lips.--The men took of their provisions, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD. And Joshua made peace with them.-- David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. These all . . . obtained a good report through faith.-- Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ.--The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Not for your sakes do I [this], saith the Lord GOD, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways. Isa 53:6 Ge 9:20,21 12:11,13 27:21,24 Ps 106:32,33 Jos 9:14,15 1Ki 15:5 Heb 11:39 Ro 3:24 Isa 53:6 Eze 36:32


January 20 -- Morning

His name shall be called Wonderful. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.--Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.--JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.--That all [men] should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. God . . . hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name.--Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and put all [things] under his feet.-- He had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself . . . KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [As for] the Almighty, we cannot find him out.--What [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell? Isa 9:6 Joh 1:14 Ps 138:2 Mt 1:23,21 Joh 5:23 Php 2:9 Eph 1:21,22 Re 19:12,16 Job 37:23 Pr 30:4


January 20 -- Evening

For the LORD'S portion [is] his people. And ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.--I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.--I [am] his. The Son of God . . . loved me, and gave himself for me. Ye are not your own. . . . Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.--The LORD hath taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, [even] from Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as [ye are] this day. Ye are God's field, [ye are] God's building.--Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.--A spiritual house, an holy priesthood. They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels.--All mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.--The glory of his inheritance in the saints. De 32:9 1Co 3:23 So 7:10 2:16 Ga 2:20 1Co 6:19,20 De 4:20 1Co 3:9 Heb 3:6 1Pe 2:5 Mal 3:17 Joh 17:10 Eph 1:18


January 21 -- Morning

Every [branch] that beareth fruit, he trimmeth it. He [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: and he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness. We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.--If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised by it. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees. Joh 15:2 Mal 3:2,3 Ro 5:3-5 Heb 12:7,8,11,12


January 21 -- Evening

Now we call the proud happy. Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.--Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination to him: a proud look, etc.--Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the LORD. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if [there is any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.--Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Mal 3:15 Isa 57:15 Pr 16:19 Mt 5:3 Pr 6:16,17 16:5 Ps 139:23,24 Php 1:2,3 Mt 5:5


January 22 -- Morning

This God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] to death. O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.--The LORD [is] the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.--Thou hast held [me] by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory. Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.--Our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.--The LORD will perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works of thy own hands. Ps 48:14 Isa 25:1 Ps 16:5 23:3,4 73:23-26 33:21 138:8


January 22 -- Evening

In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I. O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.--Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to go out or come in.--If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, . . . and it shall be given to him. Who [is] sufficient for these things?--I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.--My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven thee.--Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee well. My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; . . . when I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches. Ps 94:19 61:2 Isa 38:14 Ps 55:22 1Ki 3:7 Jas 1:5 2Co 2:16 Ro 7:18 2Co 12:9 Mt 9:2,22 Ps 63:5,6


January 23 -- Morning

Hope maketh not ashamed. I [am] the LORD: . . . they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.--Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.--Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD GOD [is] everlasting strength.--My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from him. He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defence; I shall not be moved.-- I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed. God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil where the forerunner hath for us entered, [even] Jesus. Ro 5:5 Isa 49:23 Jer 17:7 Isa 26:3,4 Ps 62:5,6 2Ti 1:12 Heb 6:17-20


January 23 -- Evening

The offence of the cross ceased. If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.--We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.--To you therefore who believe [he is] precious: but to them who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence. May it never be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.--I am crucified with Christ.--They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny [him], he also will deny us. Ga 5:11 Mt 16:24 Jas 4:4 Ac 14:22 Ro 9:33 1Pe 2:7,8 Ga 6:14 2:20 5:24 2Ti 2:12


January 24 -- Morning

The Lord [is] at hand. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.--He who testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found by him in peace, without spot, and blameless.--Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it]. Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth near. Php 4:5 1Th 4:16-18 Re 22:20 2Pe 3:14 1Th 5:22-24 Jas 5:8


January 24 -- Evening

The choice vine. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he dug it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, . . . and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.--Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me? Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: . . . but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he trimmeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Abide in me, and I in you. . . . In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. Ge 49:11 Isa 5:1,2 Jer 2:21 Ga 5:19,21-23 Joh 15:1,2,4,8


January 25 -- Morning

The righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all them that believe. He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.--Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.--Who from God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.--Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour. I count all things [to be] loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [to be] dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. Ro 3:22 2Co 5:21 Ga 3:13 1Co 1:30 Tit 3:5,6 Php 3:8,9


January 25 -- Evening

The Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father. Jesus . . . lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father.--Holy Father. . . . O righteous Father.--He said, Abba, Father.--Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.--For through him we both have an access by one Spirit to the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; Doubtless thou [art] our father, . . . thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting. I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children. Ro 8:15 Joh 17:1,11,25 Mr 14:36 Ga 4:6 Eph 2:18,19 Isa 63:16 Lu 15:18-20 Eph 5:1


January 26 -- Morning

Let us go forth therefore to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you: but rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.--As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation. If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye]; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. They departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.-- Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect to the recompence of the reward. Heb 13:13,14 1Pe 4:12,13 2Co 1:7 1Pe 4:14 Ac 5:41 Heb 11:25,26


January 26 -- Evening

The Lord Jesus Christ . . . shall change our lowly body, that it may be fashioned like his glorious body. Upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire around within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness on all sides. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness around. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more.--They sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. Php 3:20,21 Eze 1:26-28 2Co 3:18 1Jo 3:2 Re 7:16 15:3


January 27 -- Morning

Ye know that he was revealed to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. God, . . . hath in these last days spoken to us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.-- He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain manner of life [received] by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for you.--The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and [that] he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again. 1Jo 3:5 Heb 1:1-3 2Co 5:21 1Pe 1:17-20 2Co 5:14,15


January 27 -- Evening

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life. For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [ye], and live. If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. That servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not [himself], neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes]. The wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.--He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.--Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will [my] Father honour. De 30:19 Eze 18:32 Joh 15:22 Lu 12:47 Ro 6:23 Joh 3:36 Ro 6:16 Joh 12:26


January 28 -- Morning

As thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be]. When they shall lead [you], and deliver you up, be not anxious beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.--Be not anxious for to morrow: for to morrow will be anxious for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day [is] its own evil. The God of Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power to [his] people. Blessed [be] God.--He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength. My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.--I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.--O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. De 33:25 Mr 13:11 Mt 6:34 Ps 68:35 Isa 40:29 2Co 12:9,10 Php 4:13 Jud 5:21


January 28 -- Evening

Awake, O north wind; and . . . blow upon my garden, [that] its spices may flow out. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised by it.--The fruit of the Spirit. He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him. Though our outward man is wasted, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. Though [Jesus] was a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.--In all points tempted as [we are, yet] without sin. So 4:16 Heb 12:11 Ga 5:22 Isa 27:8 Ps 103:13 2Co 4:16-18 Heb 5:8 4:15


January 29 -- Morning

Thou God seest me. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. Thou knowest my down sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou comprehend my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways. For [there is] not a word on my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. . . . [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] to it. The eyes of the LORD [are] in every place, beholding the evil and the good.--The ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.--God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.--For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him. Jesus . . . knew all [men], and needed not that any should testify concerning man: for he knew what was in man.--Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Ge 16:13 Ps 139:1-4,6 Pr 15:3 Pr 5:21 Lu 16:15 2Ch 16:9 Joh 2:24,25 21:17


January 29 -- Evening

I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me.--[It is a] good [thing] to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to thy name, O Most High: To show forth thy loving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. I beseech you, . . . brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your reasonable service.--Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.--By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.--Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Ps 86:12 50:23 92:1,2 150:6 Ro 12:1 Heb 13:12,15 Eph 5:20 Re 5:12


January 30 -- Morning

Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith. If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.--Whoever he is of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.-- Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.-- Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD. Heb 12:1,2 Lu 9:23 14:33 Ro 13:12 1Co 9:25-27 Php 3:13,14 Ho 6:3


January 30 -- Evening

[It is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. We have had fathers of our flesh who corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness. Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. . . . [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. --Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. La 3:27 Pr 22:6 Heb 12:9,10 Ps 119:67,71 Jer 29:11 1Pe 5:6


January 31 -- Morning

If ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; . . . those which ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land in which ye dwell. Fight the good fight of faith.--The weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, . . . and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.--I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.--We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Nu 33:55 1Ti 6:12 2Co 10:4,5 Ro 8:12,13 Ga 5:17 Ro 7:23 8:37


January 31 -- Evening

If a man shall sin against the LORD, who shall plead for him? If any man sinneth, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.--Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus. He is gracious to him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. What shall we then say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us? . . . Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, or rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 1Sa 2:25 1Jo 2:1,2 Ro 3:25,26 Job 33:24 Ro 8:31,33,34


February 1 -- Morning

Whom having not seen, ye love. We walk by faith, not by sight.--We love him, because he first loved us.--We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.--In whom ye also [trusted], after ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.--God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. If a man saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? Jesus saith to him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed.--Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him. 1Pe 1:8 2Co 5:7 1Jo 4:19,16 Eph 1:13 Col 1:27 1Jo 4:20 Joh 20:29 Ps 2:12


February 1 -- Evening

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. We are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags. I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.--I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels. Bring forth the best robe, and put [it] on him.--To her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. I count all things [to be] loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord . . . that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. Jer 23:6 Isa 64:6 Ps 71:16 Isa 61:10 Lu 15:22 Re 19:8 Php 3:8,9


February 2 -- Morning

Oh that thou wouldest keep [me] from evil. Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.-- The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak. Two [things] have I required of thee; deny [them] not to me before I die: remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain]. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.--I will deliver thee from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee from the hand of the terrible.--He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.--The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations. 1Ch 4:10 Lu 22:46 Mt 26:41 Pr 30:7-9 Ps 121:7 Jer 15:21 1Jo 5:18 Re 3:10 2Pe 2:9


February 2 -- Evening

[One] star differeth from [another] star in glory. By the way they had disputed among themselves, who [should be] the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith to them, If any man desireth to be first, [the same] shall be last of all, and servant of all.--Be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who . . . made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.--Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. They that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 1Co 15:41 Mr 9:34,35 1Pe 5:5,6 Php 2:5-7,9,10 Da 12:3


February 3 -- Morning

Be strong, . . . and work: for I [am] with you, saith the LORD of hosts. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.--I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.--Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.--The joy of the LORD is your strength. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets.--Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not.--Go in this thy might. If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?--Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not. Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.--Thanks [be] to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Hag 2:4 Joh 15:5 Php 4:13 Eph 6:10 Ne 8:10 Zec 8:9 Isa 35:3,4 Jud 6:14 Ro 8:31 2Co 4:1 Ga 6:9 1Co 15:57


February 3 -- Evening

The darkness hideth not from thee. His eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.--Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? . . . Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness. . . . Because thou hast made the LORD, [who is] my refuge, [even] the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come near thy dwelling.--He that keepeth thee will not slumber.--The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me. Ps 139:12 Job 34:21,22 Jer 23:24 Ps 91:5,6,9,10 121:3,5-7 Ps 23:4


February 4 -- Morning

Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. Truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from which they came, they might have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.--Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.--The just shall live by faith: but if [any man] shall draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.--No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. May it never be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.--Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you. He who hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ: De 17:16 Heb 11:15,16,25,26 10:38,39 Lu 9:62 Ga 6:14 2Co 6:17 Php 1:6


February 4 -- Evening

They talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. He who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.-- Encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all [men]. Let us not . . . judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.--We . . . that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Charity . . . rejoiceth not in iniquity. Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Ps 69:26 Zec 1:15 Ga 6:1 Jas 5:20 1Th 5:14 Ro 14:13 15:1 1Co 13:4,6 10:12


February 5 -- Morning

I am come that they may have life, and that they may have [it] more abundantly. In the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt surely die.--She took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate. The wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.--If by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.--Since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.--For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him may be saved. Joh 10:10 Ge 2:17 3:6 Ro 6:23 5:17 1Co 15:21,22 2Ti 1:10 1Jo 5:11,12 Joh 3:17


February 5 -- Evening

The judgment seat. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth.-- When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep from the goats. Then shall the righteous shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.--Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, or rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.--[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus. We are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 2Co 5:10 Ro 2:2 Mt 25:31,32 13:43 Ro 8:33,34 8:1 1Co 11:32


February 6 -- Morning

The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.--Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Not by works, lest any man should boast.--Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.--According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour. 1Ti 1:14 2Co 8:9 Ro 5:20 Eph 2:7,9 Ga 2:16 Tit 3:5,6


February 6 -- Evening

I am . . . the bright and morning star. There shall come a Star out of Jacob. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.--Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. I am the light of the world.--I will give him the morning star. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. [For the Son of man is] as a man taking a long journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore. . . . Lest coming suddenly he should find you sleeping. And what I say to you I say to all, Watch. Re 22:16 Nu 24:17 Ro 13:12 So 2:17 Isa 21:11,12 Joh 8:12 Re 2:28 Mr 13:33-37


February 7 -- Morning

When thou hast eaten and art full, . . . thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God.--One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on [his] face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where [are] the nine? There are not found returning to give glory to God, except this stranger. For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.--He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks.--The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, . . . who forgiveth all thy iniquities; . . . who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies. De 8:10,11 Lu 17:15-18 1Ti 4:4,5 Ro 14:6 Pr 10:22 Ps 103:1-4


February 7 -- Evening

Jesus . . . was moved with compassion toward them. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.-- We have not an high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but who was in all points tempted as [we are, yet] without sin.--Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is beset with infirmity.--He cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly [is] ready, but the flesh [is] weak. Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust. Thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth. O turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid. Mt 14:14 Heb 13:8 4:15 5:2 Mr 14:37,38 Ps 103:13,14 86:15,16


February 8 -- Morning

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends. The LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?--It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.--God hath revealed [them] to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, even, the deep things of God.-- [Even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world to our glory. Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [to thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.--The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.--I have given to them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received [them], and have known surely that I came from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. Joh 15:15 Ge 18:17 Mt 13:11 1Co 2:10,7 Ps 65:4 25:14 Joh 17:8 15:14


February 8 -- Evening

Thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. Ye are no more strangers and sojourners, 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 to an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.--If indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious. To whom coming, [as to] a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, [and] precious, ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion. Isa 60:18 Re 21:14 Eph 2:19-22 1Pe 2:3-5 Ps 65:1


February 9 -- Morning

Now he is comforted. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thy everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.--He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he remove from all the earth.--These are they who came out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them to living fountains of waters.--God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away. Lu 16:25 Isa 60:20 25:8 Re 7:14-17 21:4


February 9 -- Evening

The night cometh, when no man can work. Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: Verily, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works follow them.--There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest.--Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where thou goest.--The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his. Joh 9:4 Re 14:13 Job 3:17 1Sa 28:15 Ec 9:10 Ps 115:17 2Ti 4:6-8 Heb 4:9,10


February 10 -- Morning

The lamp of the body is the eye: therefore when thy eye is sound, thy whole body also is full of light. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.--Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.--We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image . . . [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shone into our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, . . . give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: . . . that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. Lu 11:34 1Co 2:14 Ps 119:18 Joh 8:12 2Co 3:18 4:6 Eph 1:17,18


February 10 -- Evening

He smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. All our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.--One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately came out blood and water.--He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.--My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. If any man thirsteth, let him come to me, and drink.--Whoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Ps 78:20 1Co 10:1-4 Joh 19:34 Isa 53:5 Joh 5:40 Jer 2:13 Joh 7:37 Re 22:17


February 11 -- Morning

They that feared the LORD spoke 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. It came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.--Where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them.--My fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of life. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. --Exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.--Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom. Mal 3:16 Lu 24:15 Mt 18:20 Php 4:3 Col 3:16 Heb 3:13 Mt 12:36,37 Isa 65:6


February 11 -- Evening

The trees of the LORD are full [of sap]. I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.--Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing. Ps 104:16 Ho 14:5,6 Jer 17:7,8 Eze 17:24 Ps 92:12-14


February 12 -- Morning

They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels. I have revealed thy name to the men whom thou gavest to me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.--I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given to me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.--Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given to me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given to me: for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world. I will come again, and receive you to myself.--He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired by all them that believe . . . in that day.--We who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.--Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Mal 3:17 Joh 17:6,9,10,24 14:3 2Th 1:10 1Th 4:17 Isa 62:3


February 12 -- Evening

I beseech thee, show me thy glory. God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shone into our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.--The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. . . . No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him]. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?--[When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said to thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given to me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given to me: for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world. Ex 33:18 2Co 4:6 Joh 1:14,18 Ps 42:2 27:8 2Co 3:18 Joh 17:24


February 13 -- Morning

Upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. The man Christ Jesus.--Made in the likeness of men. . . . found in fashion as a man.--Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death. I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore.--Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.-- [What] if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?--He raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places].--In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God. Eze 1:26 1Ti 2:5 Php 2:7,8 Heb 2:14 Re 1:18 Ro 6:9,10 Joh 6:62 Eph 1:20 Col 2:9 2Co 13:4


February 13 -- Evening

Thy word hath revived me. The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a living spirit. As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.--I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. . . . As many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.--The word of God [is] living, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Ps 119:50 1Co 15:45 Joh 5:26 11:25,26 1:4,12,13 6:63 Heb 4:12


February 14 -- Morning

Permit [it to be so] now: for thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness. I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say to you, Till heaven and earth shall pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.--The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.--Except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no way enter into the kingdom of heaven. What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.--Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. Mt 3:15 Ps 40:8 Mt 5:17,18 Isa 42:21 Mt 5:20 Ro 8:3,4 10:4


February 14 -- Evening

I [am] thy part and thy inheritance. Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.--The LORD [is] the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage. The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they [are] the rejoicing of my heart. O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. . . . Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his. Nu 18:20 Ps 73:25,26 16:5,6 La 3:24 Ps 119:111 63:1,7 So 2:16


February 15 -- Morning

Who can say, I have made my heart clean? The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God. They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.--Then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. To will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.--We are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. --That God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Pr 20:9 Ps 14:2,3 Ro 8:8 7:18,19 Isa 64:6 Ga 3:22 2Co 5:19 1Jo 1:8,9


February 15 -- Evening

The floods lift their waves. The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters, [yea, than] the mighty waves of the sea.--O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like thee? or to thy faithfulness around thee? Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when its waves arise, thou stillest them. Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. Peter . . . walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth [his] hand, and caught him, and said to him, O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? When I am afraid, I will trust in thee. Ps 93:3,4 89:8,9 Jer 5:22 Isa 43:2 Mt 14:29-31 Ps 56:3


February 16 -- Morning

Thy name [is as] ointment poured forth. Christ . . . hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.-- To you therefore who believe [he is] precious.--God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.--In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. If ye love me, keep my commandments.--The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.-- The house was filled with the odour of the ointment.--They took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.--Emmanuel . . . God with us.--His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.-- The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. So 1:3 Eph 5:2 1Pe 2:7 Php 2:9,10 Col 2:9 Joh 14:15 Ro 5:5 Joh 12:3 Ac 4:13 Ps 8:1 Mt 1:23 Isa 9:6 Pr 18:10


February 16 -- Evening

We that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened. Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. . . . My iniquities have gone over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.--O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only [they], but ourselves . . ., who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, . . . groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [that is], the redemption of our body. --Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through various temptations. Shortly I must put off [this] my tabernacle.--For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 2Co 5:4 Ps 38:9,4 Ro 7:24 8:22,23 1Pe 1:6 2Pe 1:14 1Co 15:53,54