April 3 -- Morning

Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one

day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a

thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack

concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.

My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways

my ways, saith the LORD. For [as] the heavens are higher than

the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts

than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow

from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,

. . . so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it

shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that

which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I

sent it.

God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have

mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and

knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his

ways past finding out!

2Pe 3:8,9 Isa 55:8-11 Ro 11:32,33


April 3 -- Evening

Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised

the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring

fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?--We

had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust

in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered

us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust

that he will yet deliver [us].--The wages of sin [is] death; but

the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

[It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living

God.--Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.

Be instant in season, out of season.--Others save with fear,

pulling [them] out of the fire.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD

of hosts.--Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto

the knowledge of the truth.

Am 4:11 Isa 33:14 2Co 1:9,10 Ro 6:23 Heb 10:31 2Co 5:11

2Ti 4:2 Jude 1:23 Zec 4:6 1Ti 2:4


April 4 -- Morning

I am the first and the last.

Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and

that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and

tempest, . . . but ye are come unto mount Sion, . . . to God the

Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and

to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.--Jesus the author and

finisher of [our] faith.--We have not an high priest which

cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was

in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. Let us

therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may

obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the

LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside

me [there is] no God.--The mighty God, The everlasting Father,

The Prince of Peace.

[Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy

One?--Who [is] God, save the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save

our God?

Re 1:17 Heb 12:18,22-24 12:2 4:15,16 Isa 44:6 9:6 Hab 1:12

2Sa 22:32


April 4 -- Evening

Lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and

supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known

unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,

shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest

my path.--He knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried

me, I shall come forth as gold.--Lord, thou hast been our

dwelling place in all generations.--Thou hast been a strength to

the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from

the storm, a shadow from the heat.

Who [is] a rock save our God?--They shall never perish,

neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.--Uphold me

according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be

ashamed of my hope.--Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the

soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that

within the veil.

Ps 61:2 Php 4:6,7 Ps 142:3 Job 23:10 Ps 90:1 Isa 25:4 Ps 18:31

Joh 10:28 Ps 119:116 Heb 6:19


April 5 -- Morning

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace

with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.

O woman, great [is] thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou

wilt.--According to your faith be it unto you.--Let him ask in

faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of

the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man

think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

They drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and

[Jesus] made as though he would have gone further. But they

constrained him, saying, Abide with us: . . . he vanished out of

their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart

burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he

opened to us the scriptures?--I pray thee, if I have found grace

in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I

may find grace in thy sight.--My presence shall go [with thee],

and I will give thee rest.

Ge 32:26 Isa 27:5 Mt 15:28 9:29 Jas 1:6,7 Lu 24:28,29,31,32

Ex 33:13,14


April 5 -- Evening

Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the

Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the

Almighty.--Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the

generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with

the last; I [am] he.

Sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ,

[and] called.--The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I

pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved

blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful

[is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it].--He which hath

begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of

Jesus Christ.--Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit,

are ye now made perfect by the flesh?--The LORD will perfect

[that which] concerneth me.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of

[his] good pleasure.

Heb 12:2 Re 1:8 Isa 41:4 Jude 1:1 1Th 5:23,24 Php 1:6 Ga 3:3

Ps 138:8 Php 2:13


April 6 -- Morning

He ever liveth to make intercession.

Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, . . .

who also maketh intercession for us.--Christ is not entered into

the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the

true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of

God for us.

If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus

Christ the righteous.--[There is] one God, and one mediator

between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Seeing . . . that we have a great high priest, that is passed

into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our]

profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be

touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all

points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. Let us

therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may

obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.--Through

him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Heb 7:25 Ro 8:34 Heb 9:24 1Jo 2:1 1Ti 2:5 Heb 4:14-16 Eph 2:18


April 6 -- Evening

They that know thy name will put their trust in thee.

This [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR

RIGHTEOUSNESS.--I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I

will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.

His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor.--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 mighty God, The everlasting Father.--I know whom I have

believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I

have committed unto him against that day.

The Prince of Peace.--He is our peace.--Being justified by

faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous

runneth into it, and is safe.--Woe to them that go down to Egypt

for help.--As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend

Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing over

he will preserve it.

Ps 9:10 Jer 23:6 Ps 71:16 Isa 9:6 Jer 10:23 Isa 9:6 2Ti 1:12

Isa 9:6 Eph 2:14 Ro 5:1 Pr 18:10 Isa 31:1,5


April 7 -- Morning

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many

rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.

We . . . rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only

[so], but we glory in tribulations also. I am filled with

comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.--

Believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and

their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

--Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this

grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the

unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all [men] see what

[is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of

the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus

Christ.

Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and

heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love

him?--God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that

ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to

every good work.

2Co 6:10 Ro 5:2,3 2Co 7:4 1Pe 1:8 2Co 8:2 Eph 3:8,9 Jas 2:5

2Co 9:8


April 7 -- Evening

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:

thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of

his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed

them; and he bare them, and carried them.--He whom thou lovest

is sick.--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.--I can do all things

through Christ which strengtheneth me.

We faint not; . . . though our outward man perish, yet the

inward [man] is renewed day by day.

In him we live, and move, and have our being.--He giveth

power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he

increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon

the LORD shall renew [their] strength.--The eternal God [is thy]

refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms.

Ps 41:3 Isa 63:9 Joh 11:3 2Co 12:9 Php 4:13 2Co 4:16 Ac 17:28

Isa 40:29-31 De 33:27


April 8 -- Morning

In every thing ye are enriched by him.

When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died

for the ungodly.--He that spared not his own Son, but delivered

him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us

all things?

In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye

are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and

power.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of

itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye

abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that

abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:

for without me ye can do nothing.--To will is present with me;

but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.--Unto every

one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of

Christ.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask

what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.--Let the word of

Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.

1Co 1:5 Ro 5:6 8:32 Col 2:9,10 Joh 15:4,5 Ro 7:18 Eph 4:7

Joh 15:7 Col 3:16


April 8 -- Evening

They shall see his face.

I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. . . . And he said, Thou

canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

--No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which

is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].

Every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him:

and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.--I

shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh.

I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand

at the latter [day] upon the earth: and [though] after my skin

[worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God.--

I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied,

when I awake, with thy likeness.--We shall be like him; for we

shall see him as he is.--The Lord himself shall descend from

heaven . . . the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which

are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in

the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be

with the Lord.

Re 22:4 Ex 33:18,20 Joh 1:18 Re 1:7 Nu 24:17 Job 19:25,26

Ps 17:15 1Jo 3:2 1Th 4:16,17


April 9 -- Morning

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee.

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou

confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt

forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the

reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker [is] thine

husband; the LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the

Holy One of Israel.--I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy

transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I

have redeemed thee.--With the precious blood of Christ, as of a

lamb without blemish and without spot.

Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name:

he shall throughly plead their cause.--My Father, which gave

[them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck

[them] out of my Father's hand.

Grace [be] to you and peace from God the Father, and [from]

our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he

might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the

will of God and our Father: to whom [be] glory for ever and

ever. Amen.

Isa 43:1 54:4,5 44:22 1Pe 1:19 Jer 50:34 Joh 10:29 Ga 1:3-5


April 9 -- Evening

I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD,

[and] the praises of the LORD, according to all

that the LORD hath bestowed on us.

He brought me up . . . out of an horrible pit, out of the

miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my

goings.--The Son of God, . . . loved me, and gave himself for

me.--He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us

all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?--

God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet

sinners, Christ died for us.

Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit

in our hearts.--Which is the earnest of our inheritance until

the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of

his glory.

God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he

loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us

together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised

[us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly

[places] in Christ Jesus.

Isa 63:7 Ps 40:2 Ga 2:20 Ro 8:32 5:8 2Co 1:22 Eph 1:14 2:4-6


April 10 -- Morning

I [am] black, but comely.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother

conceive me.--Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy

beauty: for it [was] perfect through my comeliness, which I had

put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

I am a sinful man, O Lord.--Behold, thou [art] fair, my love;

behold, thou [art] fair.

I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.--Thou [art]

all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.

When I would do good, evil is present with me.--Be of good

cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good

thing.--Ye are complete in him.--Perfect in Christ Jesus.

Ye are washed, . . . ye are sanctified, . . . ye are

justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of

our God.--That ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath

called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

So 1:5 Ps 51:5 Eze 16:14 Lu 5:8 So 4:1 Job 42:6 Ca 4:7 Ro 7:21

Mt 9:2 Ro 7:18 Col 2:10 1:28 1Co 6:11 1Pe 2:9


April 10 -- Evening

All that will live godly in Christ Jesus

shall suffer persecution.

I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and

the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against

her mother in law. And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own

household.--Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is

the enemy of God.--Love not the world, neither the things [that

are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the

Father is not in him. For all that [is] in the world, the lust

of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,

is not of the Father, but is of the world.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it

hated] you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his

own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you

out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the

word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his

lord.--I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated

them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the

world.

2Ti 3:12 Mt 10:35,36 Jas 4:4 1Jo 2:15,16 Joh 15:18-20 17:14


April 11 -- Morning

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin:

but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.

My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to

speak, slow to wrath.--[He that is] slow to anger [is] better

than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that

taketh a city.--In many things we offend all. If any man offend

not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to

bridle the whole body.--By thy words thou shalt be justified,

and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.--Set a watch, O LORD,

before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also

suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow

his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered,

he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth

righteously.--Consider him that endured such contradiction of

sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your

minds.

In their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault

before the throne of God.

Pr 10:19 Jas 1:19 Pr 16:32 Jas 3:2 Mt 12:37 Ps 141:3

1Pe 2:21-23 Heb 12:3 Re 14:5


April 11 -- Evening

Teach me thy way, O LORD.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou

shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.--Good and upright

[is] the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The

meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his

way.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,

and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:

no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.--Having. . . boldness

to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and

living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil,

that is to say, his flesh; and [having] an high priest over the

house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full

assurance of faith.

Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD.--All

the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep

his covenant and his testimonies.

Ps 27:11 32:8 25:8,9 Joh 10:9 14:6 Heb 10:19-22 Ho 6:3

Ps 25:10


April 12 -- Morning

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.

The law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the

very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which

they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto

perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?--By

him all that believe are justified from all things, from which

ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and

blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that

through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,

that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death

were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took

not on [him the nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the seed

of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made

like unto [his] brethren.

Ro 8:3 Heb 10:1,2 Ac 13:39 Heb 2:14-17


April 12 -- Evening

All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

There is none righteous, no, not one. . . . there is none

that doeth good, no, not one.--[There is] not a just man upon

earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.--How can he be clean

[that is] born of a woman?

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of

entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of

it.

I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before

me.--Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother

conceive me.

The LORD . . . hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.--

Whom he justified, them he also glorified.--We all, with open

face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed

into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit

of the Lord.--If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled,

and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel.

Walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and

glory.

Ro 3:23,10,12 Ec 7:20 Job 25:4 Heb 4:1 Ps 51:3,5 2Sa 12:13

Ro 8:30 2Co 3:18 Col 1:23 1Th 2:12


April 13 -- Morning

Honour the LORD with thy substance,

and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.

He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he

which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.--Upon the

first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in

store, as [God] hath prospered him.

God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of

love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have

ministered to the saints, and do minister.

I beseech you, . . . brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye

present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto

God, [which is] your reasonable service.--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

which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto

him which died for them, and rose again.--Whether therefore ye

eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Pr 3:9 2Co 9:6 1Co 16:2 Heb 6:10 Ro 12:1 2Co 5:14,15 1Co 10:31


April 13 -- Evening

There shall be no night there.

The LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God

thy glory.

The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to

shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb

[is] the light thereof.--They need no candle, neither light of

the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light.

Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy

nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises

of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous

light.--Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet

to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who

hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath

translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son.--Ye were

sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as

children of light.

We are not of the night, nor of darkness.

The path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth

more and more unto the perfect day.

Re 21:25 Isa 60:19 Re 21:23 22:5 1Pe 2:9 Col 1:12,13 Eph 5:8

1Th 5:5 Pr 4:18


April 14 -- Morning

My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness;

and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:

when I remember thee upon my bed,

[and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.

How precious . . . are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great

is the sum of them!--How sweet are thy words unto my taste!

[yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!--Let him kiss me with the

kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] better than wine.

Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon

earth [that] I desire beside thee.--Thou art fairer than the

children of men.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my

beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great

delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste. He brought me to

the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love.--His

countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth

[is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my

beloved, and this [is] my friend.

Ps 63:5,6 139:17 119:103 Ca 1:2 Ps 73:25 45:2 Ca 2:3,4 5:15,16


April 14 -- Evening

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him

also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though

your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though

they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.--Return, ye

backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings.

Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.--I

will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace

unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again

to folly.

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy

diseases.--He restoreth my soul.--O LORD, I will praise thee:

though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and

thou comfortedst me.

Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.

I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for

mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Ps 51:12 Isa 57:18 1:18 Jer 3:22 Ps 85:8 103:2,3 23:3

Isa 12:1 Ps 119:117 Isa 43:25


April 15 -- Morning

Their Redeemer [is] strong.

I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins.--I

have laid help upon [one that is] mighty.--Thy Saviour and thy

Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.--Mighty to save.--Able to

keep you from falling.--Where sin abounded, grace did much more

abound.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that

believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed

in the name of the only begotten Son of God.--He is able . . .

to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing

he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? . . . I am

persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor

principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to

come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall

be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ

Jesus our Lord.

Jer 50:34 Am 5:12 Ps 89:19 Isa 49:26 63:1 Jude 1:24 Ro 5:20

Joh 3:18 Heb 7:25 Isa 50:2 Ro 8:35,38,39


April 15 -- Evening

Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and

lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.--Let

this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being

in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of

a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found

in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient

unto death, even the death of the cross.

He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not

worthy of me.--Christ . . . suffered for us, leaving us an

example, that ye should follow his steps:

Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought

nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry

nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith

content.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be

content.

Jer 45:5 Mt 11:29 Php 2:5-8 Mt 10:38 1Pe 2:21 1Ti 6:6-8

Php 4:11


April 16 -- Morning

I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:

nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications

when I cried unto thee.

I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come

into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.--Waters flowed

over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy

name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice:

hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near

in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no

more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail

for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in

anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This [is] my

infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of

the most High. I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I

will remember thy wonders of old.--[I had fainted], unless I had

believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the

living.

Ps 31:22 69:2 Lam 3:54-57 Ps 77:7-11 27:13


April 16 -- Evening

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:

I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him.

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou

wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine

hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep [me] from

evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which

he requested.--Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said unto

God, . . . give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out

and come in before this people.--And God gave Solomon wisdom and

understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as

the sand that [is] on the sea shore.

Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is]

nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that

have no power. . . . O LORD, thou [art] our God; let not man

prevail against thee. So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before

Asa.

O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

Ps 91:15 1Ch 4:10 2Ch 1:7,8,10 1Ki 4:29 2Ch 14:11,12 Ps 65:2


April 17 -- Morning

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me.

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.

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of

the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.--

Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy

nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises

of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous

light.--Ye, . . . as lively stones, are built up a spiritual

house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,

acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.--By him . . . let us offer

the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit

of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall

hear [thereof], and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let

us exalt his name together.

Ps 50:23 Col 3:16,17 1Co 6:20 1Pe 2:9,5 Heb 13:15 Ps 34:2,3


April 17 -- Evening

Draw me, we will run after thee.

I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with

lovingkindness have I drawn thee.--I drew them with cords of a

man, with bands of love.--I, if I be lifted up from the earth,

will draw all [men] unto me.--Behold the Lamb of God!--As Moses

lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of

man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not

perish, but have eternal life.

Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon

earth [that] I desire beside thee.--We love him, because he

first loved us.

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair

one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is

over [and] gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of

the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is

heard in our land; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs,

and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell.

Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

So 1:4 Jer 31:3 Ho 11:4 Joh 12:32 1:36 3:14,15 Ps 73:25

1Jo 4:19 So 2:10-13


April 18 -- Morning

I will raise them up a Prophet from

among their brethren, like unto thee.

[Moses] stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew

you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid.--[There is] one

God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which

[were] upon the face of the earth.--Take my yoke upon you, and

learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find

rest unto your souls.--Let this mind be in you, which was also

in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not

robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation,

and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the

likeness of men.

Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant,

for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

but 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

unto the end.

De 18:18 5:5 1Ti 2:5 Nu 12:3 Mt 11:29 Php 2:5-7 Heb 3:5,6


April 18 -- Evening

Everlasting consolation.

I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy

youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are

sanctified.--He is able also to save them to the uttermost that

come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession

for them.--I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he

is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against

that day.

The gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance.--Who

shall separate us from the love of Christ?--The Lamb which is in

the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them

unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all

tears from their eyes.--So shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

This [is] not [your] rest.--Here have we no continuing city,

but we seek one to come.

2Th 2:16 Eze 16:60 Heb 10:14 7:25 2Ti 1:12 Ro 11:29 8:35

Re 7:17 1Th 4:17,18 Mic 2:10 Heb 13:14


April 19 -- Morning

Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the

bottom.--Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for

the unjust, that he might bring us to God.--The way into the

holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first

tabernacle was yet standing.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,

and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.--Through him we

both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye

are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with

the saints, and of the household of God.--Having, . . .

brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of

Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated

for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.--We have

peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we

have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and

rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Joh 10:7 Mt 27:51 1Pe 3:18 Heb 9:8 Joh 10:9 14:6 Eph 2:18,19

Heb 10:19,20 Ro 5:1,2


April 19 -- Evening

[His word] was in mine heart as a burning fire

shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing,

and I could not [stay].

Necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach

not the gospel! . . . What is my reward then? [Verily] that,

when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ

without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.--They

called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in

the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto

them, . . . We cannot but speak the things which we have seen

and heard.--The love of Christ constraineth us.

I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth. . . .

[Thou] wicked and slothful servant, . . . thou oughtest

therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at

my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

Go . . . to thy friends, and tell them how great things the

Lord hath done for thee.

Jer 20:9 1Co 9:16,18 Ac 4:18-20 2Co 5:14 Mt 25:25-27 Mr 5:19


April 20 -- Morning

There shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand.

Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,

and touch not the unclean [thing].--Dearly beloved, I beseech

[you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts,

which war against the soul.--Hating even the garment spotted by

the flesh.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet

appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,

we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every

man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is

pure.--The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to

all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly

lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this

present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious

appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who

gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity,

and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good

works.

De 13:17 2Co 6:17 1Pe 2:11 Jude 1:23 1Jo 3:2,3 Tit 2:11-14


April 20 -- Evening

Who art thou, Lord? . . . I am Jesus.

It is I; be not afraid.--When thou passest through the

waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they

shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire,

thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon

thee. For I [am] the LORD thy God, . . . thy Saviour.

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.--Emmanuel, . . . God with us.

Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people

from their sins.--If any man sin, we have an advocate with the

Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.--Who [is] he that

condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen

again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh

intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of

Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or

famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Ac 26:15 Mt 14:27 Isa 43:2,3 Ps 23:4 Mt 1:23,21 1Jo 2:1

Ro 8:34,35


April 21 -- Morning

Stand fast in the Lord.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not

declined.

The LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they

are preserved for ever.--The LORD shall preserve thee from all

evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

The just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my

soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who

draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving

of the soul.--If they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have

continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made

manifest that they were not all of us.

If ye continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed.

--He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.--

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

--Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.--

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;

and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life.

Php 4:1 Job 23:11 Ps 37:28 121:7 Heb 10:38,39 1Jo 2:19

Joh 8:31 Mt 24:13 1Co 16:13 Re 3:11,5


April 21 -- Evening

Enoch walked with God.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Having made peace through the blood of his cross, . . . You,

that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by

wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his

flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and

unreproveable in his sight.--In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes

were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the

death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved

by his life. And not only [so], but we also joy in God through

our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus

Christ.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and

the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen.

Ge 5:22 Am 3:3 Col 1:20-22 Eph 2:13 Ro 5:10,11 1Jo 1:3

2Co 13:14


April 22 -- Morning

If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd,

let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer

it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle

of the congregation before the LORD. And he shall put

his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall

be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.--Behold

the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.--We are

sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once

[for all].--A ransom for many.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have

power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.-- I

will love them freely. The Son of God . . . loved me and gave

himself for me.

He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we

might be made the righteousness of God in him.--He hath made us

accepted in the beloved.

Le 1:3,4 Ge 22:8 Joh 1:29 Heb 10:10 Mt 20:28 Joh 10:18 Ho 14:4

Ga 2:20 2Co 5:21 Eph 1:6


April 22 -- Evening

Great [is] thy mercy toward me:

and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by

thy name; thou [art] mine. . . . I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and

beside me [there is] no saviour. . . . I, [even] I, [am] he that

blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not

remember thy sins.--They that trust in their wealth, and boast

themselves in the multitude of their riches; none [of them] can

by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for

him: for the redemption of their soul [is] precious.--I have

found a ransom.--God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love

wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath

quickened us together with Christ.

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none

other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be

saved.

Ps 86:13 Mt 10:28 Isa 43:1,11,25 Ps 49:6-8 Job 33:24 Eph 2:4,5

Ac 4:12


April 23 -- Morning

The LORD was my stay.

Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and

from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is]

the salvation of Israel.--The LORD [is] my rock, and my

fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will

trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high

tower.--Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great

[is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear

him, and delivereth them.--[The righteous] cry, and the LORD

heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.--The

eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the

everlasting arms.--So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my

helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.--For who

[is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God? [It is]

God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

By the grace of God I am what I am.

Ps 18:18 Jer 3:23 Ps 18:2 Isa 12:6 Ps 34:7,17 De 33:27

Heb 13:6 Ps 18:31,32 1Co 15:10


April 23 -- Evening

All we like sheep have gone astray.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the

truth is not in us.--There is none righteous, no, not one: There

is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after

God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become

unprofitable.

Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the

Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.--I have gone astray like a

lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy

commandments.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of

righteousness for his name's sake.--My sheep hear my voice, and

I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal

life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck

them out of my hand.

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of

them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and

go after that which is lost, until he find it?

Isa 53:6 1Jo 1:8 Ro 3:10-12 1Pe 2:25 Ps 119:176 23:3

Joh 10:27,28 Lu 15:4


April 24 -- Morning

The LORD visited Sarah as he had said,

and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart

before him: God [is] a refuge for us.--David encouraged himself

in the LORD his God.--God will surely visit you, and bring you

out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to

Isaac, and to Jacob.--I have seen, I have seen the affliction of

my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning,

and am come down to deliver them. . . . He brought them out,

after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt,

and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.--There

failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken

unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

He [is] faithful that promised.--Hath he said, and shall he

not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?--

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass

away.--The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of

our God shall stand for ever.

Ge 21:1 Ps 62:8 1Sa 30:6 Ge 50:24 Ac 7:34,36 Jos 21:45

Heb 10:23 Nu 23:19 Mt 24:35 Isa 40:8


April 24 -- Evening

The eyes of all wait upon thee.

He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.--The LORD

[is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over all his

works.--Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither

do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father

feedeth them.

The same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh

my help.--Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand

of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of

her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God.

The LORD [is] a God of judgment.--And it shall be said in

that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he

will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we

will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.--If we hope for that

we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].

Ps 145:15 Ac 17:25 Ps 145:9 Mt 6:26 Ro 10:12 Ps 121:1 123:2

Isa 30:18 25:9 Ro 8:25


April 25 -- Morning

Thou shalt call his name JESUS:

for he shall save his people from their sins.

Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins.--That

we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.--He is

able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by

him.

He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for

our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him;

and with his stripes we are healed. . . . The LORD hath laid on

him the iniquity of us all.--Thus it behoved Christ to suffer, .

. . that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in

his name among all nations.--He appeared to put away sin by the

sacrifice of himself.

Him hath God exalted with his right hand [to be] a Prince and

a Saviour, . . . to give repentance.--Through this man is

preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that

believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not

be justified by the law of Moses.--Your sins are forgiven you

for his name's sake.

Mt 1:21 1Jo 3:5 1Pe 2:24 Heb 7:25 Isa 53:5,6 Lu 24:46,47

Heb 9:26 Ac 5:31 13:38,39 1Jo 2:12


April 25 -- Evening

Our Lord Jesus Christ, . . . though he was rich, . . .

became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

It pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell.

--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 purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of

the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels,

as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than

they.--Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to

be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air [have] nests;

but the Son of man hath not where to lay [his] head.

All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or

the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to

come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.

2Co 8:9 Col 1:19 Heb 1:3,4 Php 2:6,7 Mt 8:20 1Co 3:21-23


April 26 -- Morning

His left hand [is] under my head,

and his right hand doth embrace me.

Underneath [are] the everlasting arms.--When [Peter] 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 unto him, O thou of little

faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?--The steps of a [good] man

are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Though he

fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth

[him with] his hand.

The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; [and

the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell

between his shoulders.--Casting all your care upon him; for he

careth for you.--He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his

eye.

They shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them

out of my hand. My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than

all.

So 2:6 De 33:27 Mt 14:30,31 Ps 37:23,24 De 33:12 1Pe 5:7

Zec 2:8 Joh 10:28,29


April 26 -- Evening

Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning,

fair as the moon, clear as the sun,

[and] terrible as [an army] with banners?

The church of God, which he hath purchased with his own

blood.

Christ . . . loved the church, and gave himself for it; that

he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by

the word, 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.

There appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with

the sun.--The marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath

made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be

arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is

the righteousness of saints.--The righteousness of God [which

is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that

believe.

The glory which thou gavest me I have given them.

So 6:10 Ac 20:28 Eph 5:25-27 Re 12:1 19:7,8 Ro 3:22 Joh 17:22


April 27 -- Morning

Brethren, the time [is] short.

Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of

trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he

fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.--The world passeth

away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God

abideth for ever.-As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall

all be made alive.--Death is swallowed up in victory.--Whether

we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto

the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

--To live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.

Cast not away . . . your confidence, which hath great

recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after

ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For

yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will

not tarry.--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.--The end of all things is at hand: be ye

therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

1Co 7:29 Job 14:1,2 1Jo 2:17 1Co 15:22,54 Ro 14:8 Php 1:21

Heb 10:35-37 Ro 13:12 1Pe 4:7


April 27 -- Evening

A new name.

The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.--Let

every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.--

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the

affections and lusts.--Ye are bought with a price: therefore

glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord

Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto

the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any

thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children; and walk in

love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for

us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling

savour. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,

let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.--Now

[are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light.

Re 2:17 Ac 11:26 2Ti 2:19 Ga 5:24 1Co 6:20 Ga 6:14,15

Eph 5:1-3,8


April 28 -- Morning

Behold the Lamb of God.

[It is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats

should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world,

he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body

hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for

sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the

volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

--He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his

mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep

before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,

[as] silver and gold, . . . but with the precious blood of

Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: . . .

manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in

God, . . . that your faith and hope might be in God.

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and

riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and

blessing.

Joh 1:29 Heb 10:4-7 Isa 53:7 1Pe 1:18-21 Re 5:12


April 28 -- Evening

I will hope continually,

and will yet praise thee more and more.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already

perfect.--Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let

us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of

repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.--The path

of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and

more unto the perfect day.

I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my

supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,

therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live.--I will

bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be]

in my mouth.

Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion.--They rest not day

and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.--Whoso

offereth praise glorifieth me.--Rejoice evermore. Pray without

ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God

in Christ Jesus concerning you.--Rejoice in the Lord alway:

[and] again I say, Rejoice.

Ps 71:14 Php 3:12 Heb 6:1 Pr 4:18 Ps 116:1,2 34:1 65:1

Re 4:8 Ps 50:23 1Th 5:16-18 Php 4:4


April 29 -- Morning

Consider how great [things] he hath done for you.

Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led

thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and]

to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou

wouldest keep his commandments, or no. . . . Thou shalt also

consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so]

the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that]

thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.--[It is] good for me

that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.--

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy

word.--The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me

over unto death.--He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor

rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is

high above the earth, [so] great is his mercy toward them that

fear him.--He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are]

dust.

1Sa 12:24 De 8:2,5 Ps 119:75,71,67 118:18 103:10,11,14


April 29 -- Evening

That blessed hope, . . . the glorious appearing

of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and

stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither

the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus.--Whom the heaven

must receive until the times of restitution of all things.--When

he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired

in all them that believe.

The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together

until now. And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have

the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within

ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of

our body.--Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not

yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall

appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.--

When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also

appear with him in glory.

Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Tit 2:13 Heb 6:19,20 Ac 3:21 2Th 1:10 Ro 8:22,23 1Jo 3:2

Col 3:4 Re 22:20


April 30 -- Morning

Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love

of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord

Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of

the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to

do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his

sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and

ever. Amen.

Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his

commandments.--If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my

Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our

abode with him.--Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever

sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children,

let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is

righteous, even as he is righteous.--Herein is our love made

perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment:

because as he is, so are we in this world.

1Jo 2:5 Heb 13:20,21 1Jo 2:3 Joh 14:23 1Jo 3:6,7 4:17


April 30 -- Evening

[He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding.

The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The

LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering.--The Lord is not

slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but

is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,

but that all should come to repentance.

Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children; and walk in

love.--The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,

longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,

temperance: against such there is no law.--This [is]

thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief,

suffering wrongfully. For what glory [is it], if, when ye be

buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if,

when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this

[is] acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called:

because Christ . . . suffered for us, leaving us an example,

that ye should follow his steps. . . . who, when he was reviled,

reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but

committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously.

Be ye angry, and sin not.

Pr 14:29 Ex 34:6 2Pe 3:9 Eph 5:1,2 Ga 5:22,23 1Pe 2:19-21,23

Eph 4:26


May 1 -- Morning

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . peace.

To be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.

God hath called us to peace.--Peace I leave with you, my

peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.--The

God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that

ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able

to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.--

Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed

[on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.

The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of

righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people

shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,

and in quiet resting places.--Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall

dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Great peace have they which love thy law.

Ga 5:22 Ro 8:6 1Co 7:15 Joh 14:27 Ro 15:13 2Ti 1:12

Isa 26:3 32:17,18 Pr 1:33 Ps 119:165


May 1 -- Evening

Jehovahshammah: The LORD [is] there.

Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will

dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself

shall be with them, [and be] their God.

I saw no temple . . .: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb

are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun,

neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did

lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.--Whom

have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth

[that] I desire beside thee.

Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to

generation. For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not

cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.--Sing and rejoice, O

daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst

of thee, saith the LORD.--There shall be no more curse: but the

throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants

shall serve him.

Eze 48:35 Re 21:3,22,23 Ps 17:15 73:25 Joe 3:20,21 Zec 2:10

Re 22:3


May 2 -- Morning

Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am

I in the midst of them.--Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto

the end of the world.--My presence shall go [with thee], and I

will give thee rest.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee

from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there:

if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].--[Am] I a

God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any

hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith

the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;

how much less this house that I have builded?--Thus saith the

high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is]

Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that

is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the

humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.--Ye are

the temple of 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.

Ge 28:16 Mt 18:20 28:20 Ex 33:14 Ps 139:7,8 Jer 23:23,24

1Ki 8:27 Isa 57:15 2Co 6:16


May 2 -- Evening

Keep yourselves from idols.

My son, give me thine heart.--Set your affection on things

above, not on things on the earth.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart,

and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:

should I be enquired of at all by them?--Mortify . . . your

members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness,

inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness,

which is idolatry.--They that will be rich fall into temptation

and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which

drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is

the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have

erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many

sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things.

If riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].--My fruit

[is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than

choice silver.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.--The

LORD looketh on the heart.

1Jo 5:21 Pr 23:26 Col 3:2 Eze 14:3 Col 3:5 1Ti 6:9-11

Ps 62:10 Pr 8:19 Mt 6:21 1Sa 16:7


May 3 -- Morning

Be ye . . . perfect,

even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

--Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and have

severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine.

Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your

body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality

and power.--Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us

from all iniquity.--Be diligent that ye may be found of him in

peace, without spot, and blameless.

Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law

of the LORD.--Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and

continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a

doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.--Search

me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and

see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way

everlasting.

Mt 5:48 Ge 17:1 Le 20:26 1Co 6:20 Col 2:10 Tit 2:14 2Pe 3:14

Ps 119:1 Jas 1:25 Ps 139:23,24


May 3 -- Evening

Perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness

of the flesh and spirit.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the

hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.--Teaching us

that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live

soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.--Let

your light so shine before men, that they may see your good

works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.--Not as

though I had already attained, either were already perfect.

Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even

as he is pure.

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God,

who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.--For the

perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the

edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of

the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a

perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of

Christ.

2Co 7:1 Ps 51:6 Tit 2:12 Mt 5:16 Php 3:12 1Jo 3:3 2Co 5:5

Eph 4:12,13


May 4 -- Morning

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;

neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, [and]

strengthenedst me [with] strength in my soul.--Whiles I [was]

speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the

vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me

about the time of the evening oblation.

Hide not thy face [far] from me; put not thy servant away in

anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me,

O God of my salvation.--Be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my

strength, haste thee to help me.

Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth

by thy great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing

too hard for thee.--Who delivered us from so great a death, and

doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us].--

Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto

him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will

avenge them speedily.

Isa 59:1 Ps 138:3 Da 9:21 Ps 27:9 22:19 Jer 32:17 2Co 1:10

Lu 18:7,8


May 4 -- Evening

I have glorified thee on the earth.

My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish

his work.--I must work the works of him that sent me, while it

is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? And

they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.--This

sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the

Son of God might be glorified thereby.--Said I not unto thee,

that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of

God?

Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God

and man.--Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.--

All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which

proceeded out of his mouth.

Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals

thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy

blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall

reign on the earth.

Joh 17:4 4:34 9:4 Lu 2:49,50 Joh 11:4,40 Lu 2:52 3:22 4:22

Re 5:9,10


May 5 -- Morning

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?

or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be

clothed? For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye

have need of all these things.

O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to

them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger:

but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].--

No good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee.

I would have you without carefulness.--Be careful for

nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with

thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them

shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very

hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye

are of more value than many sparrows.--Why are ye so fearful?

how is it that ye have no faith?--Have faith in God.

Mt 6:31,32 Ps 34:9,10 84:11,12 1Co 7:32 Php 4:6 Mt 10:29-31

Mr 4:40 11:22


May 5 -- Evening

He spread a cloud for a covering;

and fire to give light in the night.

Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD

pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he

remembereth that we [are] dust.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.--

There shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the

heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and

from rain.

The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy

right hand.--The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy

coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.--The LORD

went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the

way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go

by day and night: he took not away the pillar of the cloud by

day, nor the pillar of fire by night, [from] before the people.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Ps 105:39 103:13,14 121:6 Isa 4:6 Ps 121:5,8 Ex 13:21,22

Heb 13:8


May 6 -- Morning

Mercy and truth are met together;

righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].

A just God and a Saviour.

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will

magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not

imputing their trespasses unto them.--Whom God hath set forth

[to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare

his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,

through the forbearance of God; to declare, [I say], at this

time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier

of him which believeth in Jesus.--He [was] wounded for our

transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the

chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes

we are healed.--Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's

elect? [It is] God that justifieth.--To him that worketh not,

but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is

counted for righteousness.

Ps 85:10 Isa 45:21 42:21 2Co 5:19 Ro 3:25,26 Isa 53:5

Ro 8:33 4:5


May 6 -- Evening

How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, . . . 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.--As we have

borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of

the heavenly.

The Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: . . . shall change our

vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,

according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all

things unto himself.

Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto

them, Peace [be] unto you. But they were terrified and

affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.--He was

seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: after that, he was seen of

above five hundred brethren at once.

If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell

in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also

quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1Co 15:35 1Jo 3:2 1Co 15:49 Php 3:20,21 Lu 24:36,37 1Co 15:5,6

Ro 8:11


May 7 -- Morning

Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:

see that ye be not troubled.

God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in

trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be

removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of

the sea; [though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled,

[though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.--Come,

my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors

about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until

the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of

his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their

iniquity.-- In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge,

until [these] calamities be overpast.--Your life is hid with

Christ in God.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,

trusting in the LORD.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might

have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of

good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Mt 24:6 Ps 46:1-3 Isa 26:20,21 Ps 57:1 Col 3:3 Ps 112:7

Joh 16:33


May 7 -- Evening

They persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten.

It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe [unto

him], through whom they come!--Him, being delivered by the

determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and

by wicked hands have crucified and slain.--Then did they spit in

his face, and buffeted him; and others smote [him] with the

palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who

is he that smote thee?--Likewise also the chief priests mocking

[him], with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others;

himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now

come down from the cross.--Of a truth against thy holy child

Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate,

with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered

together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel

determined before to be done.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet

we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Ps 69:26 Lu 17:1 Ac 2:23 Mt 26:67,68 27:41,42 Ac 4:27,28

Isa 53:4


May 8 -- Morning

It pleased the LORD to bruise him;

he hath put [him] to grief.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save

me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven,

[saying], I have both glorified [it], and will glorify [it]

again.--Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me:

nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. And there appeared

an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and

became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.--

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,

that I might take it again.--For I came down from heaven, not to

do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.--The cup

which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

The Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those

things that please him.--My beloved Son, in whom I am well

pleased.--Mine elect, [in whom] my soul delighteth.

Is 53:10 Joh 12:27,28 Lu 22:42,43 Php 2:8

Joh 10:17 6:38 18:11 8:29 Mt 3:17 Isa 42:1


May 8 -- Evening

Ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.

Thou . . . hast made us unto our God kings and priests.--The

sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and

they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your

generations. And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy

that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the

trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God,

and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.--Their

voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy dwelling

place, [even] unto heaven.--The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the

righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their cry.--Pray one for

another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of

a righteous man availeth much.

Come, Lord Jesus.--Make no tarrying, O my God.--Looking for

and hasting unto the coming of the day of God.

Isa 62:6 Re 5:9,10 Nu 10:8,9 Isa 45:19 2Ch 30:27 Ps 34:15

Jas 5:16 Re 22:20 Ps 40:17 2Pe 3:12


May 9 -- Morning

Faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all

men most miserable.

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.--After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that

holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance

until the redemption of the purchased possession.

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou

hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet]

have believed.--Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though

now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy

unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith,

[even] the salvation of [your] souls.

We walk by faith, not by sight.--Cast not away therefore your

confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Heb 11:1 1Co 15:19 1Co 2:9 Eph 1:13,14 Joh 20:29 1Pe 1:8,9

2Co 5:7 Heb 10:35


May 9 -- Evening

It is I; be not afraid.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his

right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and

the last: I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am

alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of

death.--I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy

transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy

sins.

Woe [is] me! for I am undone; . . . mine eyes have seen the

King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me,

having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the

tongs from off the altar: and he laid [it] upon my mouth, and

said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is

taken away, and thy sin purged.--I have blotted out, as a thick

cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return

unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus

Christ the righteous.

Joh 6:20 Re 1:17,18 Isa 43:25 6:5-7 44:22 1Jo 2:1


May 10 -- Morning

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,

that he might destroy the works of the devil.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against

principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the

darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high

[places].--Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of

flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same;

that through death he might destroy him that had the power of

death, that is, the devil.--[And] having spoiled principalities

and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them.

--I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation,

and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his

Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which

accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him

by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;

and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through

our Lord Jesus Christ.

1Jo 3:8 Eph 6:12 Heb 2:14 Col 2:15 Re 12:10,11 1Co 15:57


May 10 -- Evening

Vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.

We spend our years as a tale [that is told]. The days of our

years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of

strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength

labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all

men most miserable.--Here have we no continuing city, but we

seek one to come.--I [am] the LORD, I change not.--Our

conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we

look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change

our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious

body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue

all things unto himself.--The creature was made subject to

vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected

[the same] in hope.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.--

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is

to come.

Ec 1:2 Ps 90:9,10 1Co 15:19 Heb 13:14 Mal 3:6 Php 3:20,21

Ro 8:20 Heb 13:8 Re 4:8


May 11 -- Morning

Awake to righteousness, and sin not.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the

day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us

not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.

[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.--Wherefore take

unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to

withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.--Cast

away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have

transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit.--Lay

apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive

with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your

souls.--Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall

appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at

his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every

one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

1Co 15:34 1Th 5:5,6 Ro 13:11,12 Eph 6:13 Eze 18:31 Jas 1:21

1Jo 2:28,29


May 11 -- Evening

My sheep hear my voice.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my

voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup

with him, and he with me.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved

that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my

dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my

locks with the drops of the night.--I opened to my beloved; but

my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed

when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called

him, but he gave me no answer.

Speak; for thy servant heareth.--When Jesus came to the

place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus,

make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.

And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.--I

will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace

unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again

to folly.

Joh 10:27 Re 3:20 So 5:2,6 1Sa 3:10 Lu 19:5,6 Ps 85:8


May 12 -- Morning

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God;

and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy

Ghost which is given unto us.--Ye have not received the spirit

of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of

adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself

beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of

God.--He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in

himself.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because

that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we

might live through him.--In whom we have redemption through his

blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his

grace.--That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding

riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ

Jesus.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one

another.

1Jo 4:7 Ro 5:5 8:15,16 1Jo 5:10 4:9 Eph 1:7 2:7 1Jo 4:11


May 12 -- Evening

Reproach hath broken my heart.

Is not this the carpenter's son?--Can there any good thing

come out of Nazareth?--Say we not well that thou art a

Samaritan, and hast a devil?--He casteth out devils through the

prince of the devils.--We know that this man is a sinner.--He

deceiveth the people.--This [man] blasphemeth.--Behold a man

gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and

the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the

house Beelzebub, how much more [shall they call] them of his

household?--This [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience

toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. . . . For even

hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us,

leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did

no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was

reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not;

but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously.--If ye

be 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.

Ps 69:20 Mt 13:55 Joh 1:46 8:48 Mt 9:34 Joh 9:24 7:12

Mt 9:3 11:19 10:25 1Pe 2:19,21-23 4:14


May 13 -- Morning

Pray every where, lifting up holy hands,

without wrath and doubting.

The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and

in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God [is] a

Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit

and in truth.--Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer;

thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am].--When ye stand

praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any.

Without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that

cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a

rewarder of them that diligently seek him.--Let him ask in

faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of

the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man

think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear

[me].--My little children, these things write I unto you, that

ye sin not. And if any man sin, 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.

1Ti 2:8 Joh 4:23,24 Isa 58:9 Mr 11:25 Heb 11:6 Jas 1:6,7

Ps 66:18 1Jo 2:1,2


May 13 -- Evening

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me.

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of

the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed:

lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.

He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my

strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will

I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may

rest upon me. . . . For when I am weak, then am I strong.

When [Peter] 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 unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou

doubt?--[If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength

[is] small.--He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that

have] no might he increaseth strength.--The eternal God [is thy]

refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms.--Strengthened

with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all

patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.

Ps 38:10 61:1,2 2Co 12:9,10 Mt 14:30,31 Pr 24:10 Isa 40:29

De 33:27 Co 1:11


May 14 -- Morning

The fellowship of his sufferings.

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and

the servant as his lord.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and

acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from

him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.--In the world ye

shall have tribulation.--Because ye are not of the world, but I

have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth

you.

I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none.--At

my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air [have] nests;

but the Son of man hath not where to lay [his] head.--Here have

we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who

for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising

the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of

God.

Php 3:10 Mt 10:25 Isa 53:3 Joh 16:33 15:19 Ps 69:20 2Ti 4:16

Mt 8:20 Heb 13:14 12:1,2


May 14 -- Evening

They overcame . . . by the blood of the Lamb.

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.--It [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the

soul.--I [am] the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a

token upon the houses where ye [are]: and when I see the blood,

I will pass over you.

[There is] . . . now no condemnation to them which are in

Christ Jesus.

What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence

came they? . . . These are they which came out of great

tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in

the blood of the Lamb.

Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his

own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his

Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Re 12:11 Ro 8:33,34 Le 17:11 Ex 12:12,13 Ro 8:1

Re 7:13,14 1:5,6


May 15 -- Morning

God shall wipe away all tears: . . .

there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, . . .

for the former things are passed away.

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will

wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people

shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath

spoken [it].--Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy

moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting

light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.--The

inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell

therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.--The voice of

weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

--Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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.--The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed

[is] death.--Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is

written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

The things which are not seen [are] eternal.

Re 21:4 Isa 25:8 Isa 60:20 33:24 65:19 35:10 Ho 13:14

1Co 15:26,54 2Co 4:18


May 15 -- Evening

Raised up together . . . in Christ Jesus.

Fear not; . . . I [am] he that liveth.--Father, I will that

they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.

We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.--

He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,

the firstborn from the dead.--Ye are complete in him, which is

the head.

Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of flesh and

blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that

through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,

that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death

were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal

[must] put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have

put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on

immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is

written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Eph 2:6 Re 1:17,18 Joh 17:24 Eph 5:30 Col 1:18 2:10

Heb 2:14,15 1Co 15:53,54


May 16 -- Morning

A servant of Jesus Christ.

Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for [so] I am.

--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.--Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am

meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.

What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

--Being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have

your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth

not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all

things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto

you.--Thou art no more a servant, but a son.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath

made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of

bondage.--For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only

[use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh.

Ro 1:1 Joh 13:13 Joh 12:26 Mt 11:29,30 Php 3:7 Ro 6:22

Joh 15:15 Ga 4:7 Ga 5:1,13


May 16 -- Evening

I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel.

His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor.--Counsel [is]

mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength.--

Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.--

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine

own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall

direct thy paths.

O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it

is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.--Thine ears

shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk

ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to

the left.--Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts

shall be established.--He knoweth the way that I take.--Man's

goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own

way?

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive

me [to] glory.--This God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will

be our guide [even] unto death.

Ps 16:7 Isa 9:6 Pr 8:14 Ps 119:105 Pr 3:5,6 Jer 10:23

Isa 30:21 Pr 16:3 Job 23:10 Pr 20:24 Ps 73:24 48:14


May 17 -- Morning

I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes,

and keep my judgments, and do them.

As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all

manner of conversation.--He that saith he abideth in him ought

himself also so to walk, even as he walked.--If ye know that he

is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is

born of him.--Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is

nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.--Whosoever

shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is

guilty of all.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as

of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God.--Teach me, O

LORD, the way of thy statutes.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it

is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good

pleasure.--The God of peace, . . . make you perfect in every

good work to do his will, working in you that which is

wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ.

Eze 20:19 1Pe 1:15 1Jo 2:6,29 1Co 7:19 Jas 2:10 2Co 3:5

Ps 119:33 Php 2:12,13 Heb 13:20,21


May 17 -- Evening

I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.

Verily he took not on [him the nature of] angels; but he took

on [him] the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved

him to be made like unto [his] brethren.--Upon the likeness of

the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above

upon it.--The Son of man which is in heaven.--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.

[He] made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the

form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and

being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became

obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 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.--Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that

are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before

God.

Ps 89:19 Heb 2:16,17 Eze 1:26 Joh 3:13 Lu 24:39 Php 2:7-10

Re 3:2


May 18 -- Morning

As the Father hath life in himself;

so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.

Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . hath abolished death, and hath

brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.--I am

the resurrection, and the life.--Because I live, ye shall live

also.--We are made partakers of Christ.--Partakers of the Holy

Ghost.--Partakers of the divine nature.--The first man Adam was

made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening

spirit.--Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,

but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an

eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the

dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and

is to come.--Who liveth for ever and ever.--The blessed and only

Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath

immortality.--Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the

only wise God, [be] honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Joh 5:26 2Ti 1:10 Joh 11:25 14:19 Heb 3:14 6:4 2Pe 1:4

1Co 15:45,51,52 Re 4:8,9 1Ti 6:15,16 1:17