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