May 18 -- Evening

Let us not be desirous of vain glory.

Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that

ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they

had golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.) And they

answered, We will willingly give [them]. And they spread a

garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his

prey. . . . And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his

city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring

after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his

house.

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

I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the

revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh.

[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in

lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

--Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not;

charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave

itself unseemly, seeketh not her own.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me.

Ga 5:26 Jud 8:24,25,27 Jer 45:5 2Co 12:7 Php 2:3 1Co 13:4,5

Mt 11:29


Samuel Bagster
Robert Bagster
Jonathan Bagster Jr.
James Bagster

May 19 -- Morning

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity.

I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they

have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities,

whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed

against me.--Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye

shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your

idols, will I cleanse you.

Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot

enter into the kingdom of God.--If the blood of bulls and of

goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,

sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh. How much more shall

the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered

himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead

works to serve the living God?

He saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his

mighty power to be known.--Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but

unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's

sake.

Ps 51:2 Jer 33:8 Eze 36:25 Joh 3:5 Heb 9:13,14 Ps 106:8 115:1


May 19 -- Evening

Fellowship in the gospel.

As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the

members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is]

Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,

whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free;

and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship

of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.--That which we have seen and

heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with

us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his

Son Jesus Christ.

If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have

fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his

Son cleanseth us from all sin.--These words spake Jesus, . . .

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall

believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as

thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be

one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Php 1:5 1Co 12:12,13 1:9 1Jo 1:3,7 Joh 17:1,20,21


May 20 -- Morning

Take heed unto thyself.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all

things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we

an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so

fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my

body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means,

when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.--

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand

against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh

and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against

the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual

wickedness in high [places].

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

affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk

in the Spirit.--For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,

they are the sons of God.--Meditate upon these things; give

thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

1Ti 4:16 1Co 9:25-27 Eph 6:11,12 Ga 5:24,25 Ro 8:14 1Ti 4:15


May 20 -- Evening

Jesus saith unto her, Mary.

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

thy name; thou [art] mine.--The sheep hear his voice: and he

calleth his own sheep by name. . . . And the sheep follow him:

for they know his voice.

Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy

walls [are] continually before me.

The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The

Lord knoweth them that are his.--We have a great high priest,

that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God.

Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names

of the children of Israel. . . And Aaron shall bear their names

before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial. . . . And

thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment. . . . And thou

shalt set in it . . . four rows of stones. . . . And the stones

shall be with the names of the children of Israel, . . . . they

shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD.

Joh 20:16 Isa 43:1 Joh 10:3,4 Isa 49:16 2Ti 2:19 Heb 4:14

Ex 28:9,12,15,17,21,30


May 21 -- Morning

My brethren, be strong in the Lord,

and in the power of his might.

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.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in

necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake:

for when I am weak, then am I strong.--I will go in the strength

of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness,

[even] of thine only.--The gospel of Christ . . . is the

power of God unto salvation.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.--

I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh

in me mightily.--We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that

the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

The joy of the LORD is your strength.--Strengthened with all

might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and

longsuffering with joyfulness.

Eph 6:10 2Co 12:9,10 Ps 71:16 Ro 1:16 Php 4:13 Col 1:29

2Co 4:7 Ne 8:10 Col 1:11


May 21 -- Evening

Jesus Christ our Lord.

JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.--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, of [things] in heaven, and [things]

in earth, and [things] under the earth.

Messias . . . which is called Christ.--The LORD hath anointed

me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind

up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives.

The last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. . . . The first

man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from

heaven.--My Lord and my God.--Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye

say well; for [so] I am. If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have

washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For

I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to

you.

1Co 1:9 Mt 1:21 Php 2:8-10 Joh 4:25 Isa 61:1 1Co 15:45,47

Joh 20:28 13:13-15


May 22 -- Morning

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:

not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

The world passeth away, and the lust thereof.--Surely every

man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain:

he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.--

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now

ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.

Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many

things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good

part, which shall not be taken away from her.--I would have you

without carefulness.

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.--The Lord of peace himself

give you peace always by all means.--The LORD bless thee, and

keep thee: the LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be

gracious unto thee: the LORD lift up his countenance upon thee,

and give thee peace.

Joh 14:27 1Jo 2:17 Ps 39:6 Ro 6:21 Lu 10:41,42 1Co 7:32

Joh 16:33 2Th 3:16 Nu 6:24-26


May 22 -- Evening

The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.

The Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost.--What? know ye not

that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in

you, which ye have of God?--It is God which worketh in you.

We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the

Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which

cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what

[is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for

the saints according to [the will of] God.

He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.--A

bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he

not quench.

The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.

The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to

lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still

waters.

Ro 8:26 Joh 14:26 1Co 6:19 Php 2:13 Ro 8:26,27 Ps 103:14

Isa 42:3 Mt 26:41 Ps 23:1,2


May 23 -- Morning

Thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod

[for] stones of memorial unto the children of Israel:

and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD.

[Jesus] because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable

priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the

uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to

make intercession for them.--Him that is able to keep you from

falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of

his glory.

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.

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.

Ex 28:12 Heb 7:24,25 Jude 1:24 Heb 4:14-16 De 33:12


May 23 -- Evening

On that night could not the king sleep.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking.--Who [is] like unto the LORD

our God, who dwelleth on high, who humbleth [himself] to behold

[the things that are] in heaven, and in the earth!

He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and

[among] the inhabitants of the earth.--Thy way [is] in the sea,

and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not

known.--Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder

of wrath shalt thou restrain.

The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole

earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose

heart [is] perfect toward him.--We know that all things work

together for good to them that love 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.

Es 6:1 Ps 77:4 113:5,6 Da 4:35 Ps 77:19 76:10 2Ch 16:9

Ro 8:28 Mt 10:29,30


May 24 -- Morning

Grieve not the holy Spirit of God,

whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

The love of the Spirit.--The Comforter, [which is] the Holy

Ghost.--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 all the days

of old. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore

he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he

hath given us of his Spirit.--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.--[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall

not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against

the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are

contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things

that ye would.

The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.

Eph 4:30 Ro 15:30 Joh 14:26 Isa 63:9,10 1Jo 4:13 Eph 1:13,14

Ga 5:16,17 Ro 8:26


May 24 -- Evening

I will go [and] return to my place,

till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face.

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and

your sins have hid [his] face from you.-- My beloved had

withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: . . . I sought him, but I

could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.--I

hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of

his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him.--Hast thou

not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the

LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

He arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great

way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and

fell on his neck, and kissed him.--I will heal their

backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned

away.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us

[our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ho 5:15 Isa 59:2 So 5:6 Isa 57:17,18 Jer 2:17 Lu 15:20

Ho 14:4 1Jo 1:9


May 25 -- Morning

How great [is] thy goodness,

which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee!

Since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor

perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside

thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.--Eye

hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the

heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that

love him. But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit.--

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness

of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.

How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the

children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy

house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy

pleasures. For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light

shall we see light.

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of

the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Ps 31:19 Isa 64:4 1Co 2:9,10 Ps 16:11 36:7-9 1Ti 4:8


May 25 -- Evening

The Son of God, . . . hath his eyes

like unto a flame of fire.

The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately

wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, [I] try

the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and]

according to the fruit of his doings.--Thou hast set our

iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy

countenance.--The Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter

remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him,

Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went

out, and wept bitterly.

Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all

[men], and needed not that any should testify of man: for he

knew what was in man.--He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that

we [are] dust.--A bruised reed shall he not break, and the

smoking flax shall he not quench.

The Lord knoweth them that are his.--I am the good shepherd,

and know my [sheep], and am known of mine.--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.

Re 2:18 Jer 17:9,10 Ps 90:8 Lu 22:61,62 Joh 2:24,25 Ps 103:14

Isa 42:3 2Ti 2:19 Joh 10:14,27,28


May 26 -- Morning

Our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep.

The chief Shepherd.--I am the good shepherd, and know my

[sheep], and am known of mine.--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.

The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to

lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still

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

righteousness for his name's sake.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one

to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us

all.--I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life

for the sheep.--I will seek that which was lost, and bring again

that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was]

broken, and will strengthen that which was sick.--Ye were as

sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and

Bishop of your souls.

Heb 13:20 1Pe 5:4 Joh 10:14,27,28 Ps 23:1-3 Isa 53:6 Joh 10:11

Eze 34:16 1Pe 2:25


May 26 -- Evening

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 saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of

the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with

me. . . . And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am

Jesus whom thou persecutest.--Jesus taketh Peter, James, and

John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain

apart, and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine

as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.--The sun

shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall

the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee

an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 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 God of all grace, . . . hath called us unto his eternal

glory by Christ Jesus.

Re 21:23 Ac 26:13,15 Mt 17:1,2 Isa 60:19,20 1Pe 5:10


May 27 -- Morning

The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;

and he knoweth them that trust in him.

Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his

mercy [endureth] for ever.--God [is] our refuge and strength, a

very present help in trouble.--I will say of the LORD, [He is]

my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.--Who

[is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of

thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency!--[As for]

God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he

[is] a buckler to all them that trust in him. For who [is] God,

save the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save our God?

If any man love God, the same is known of him.--The

foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord

knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the

name of Christ depart from iniquity.--The LORD knoweth the way

of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.--Thou

hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

Na 1:7 Jer 33:11 Ps 46:1 91:2 De 33:29 2Sa 22:31,32 1Co 8:3

2Ti 2:19 Ps 1:6 Ex 33:17


May 27 -- Evening

I would have you without carefulness.

He careth for you.--The eyes of the LORD run to and fro

throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf

of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him.

O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man

[that] trusteth in him.--The young lions do lack, and suffer

hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good

[thing].--Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your

life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for

your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat,

and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they

sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your

heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

--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.

1Co 7:32 1Pe 5:7 2Ch 16:9 Ps 34:8,10 Mt 6:25,26 Php 4:6,7


May 28 -- Morning

We look for the Saviour.

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.--We,

according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,

wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that

ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him

in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto

them that look for him shall he appear the second time without

sin unto salvation.--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.

Php 3:20 Tit 2:11-14 2Pe 3:13,14 Heb 9:28 Isa 25:9


May 28 -- Evening

So run, that ye may obtain.

The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall

be slain in the streets.--Let us lay aside every weight, and the

sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with

patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the

author and finisher of [our] faith.

Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and

spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

I press toward the mark.--I . . . so run, not as uncertainly;

I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that

by any means, . . . I myself should be a castaway.

The fashion of this world passeth away.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new

heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be

diligent.--Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to

the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the

revelation of Jesus Christ.

1Co 9:24 Pr 22:13 Heb 12:1,2 2Co 7:1 Php 3:14

1Co 9:26,27 7:31 2Pe 3:13,14 1Pe 1:13


May 29 -- Morning

The life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have

given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement

for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh

an atonement for the soul.

Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the

world.--The blood of the Lamb.--The precious blood of Christ, as

of a lamb without blemish and without spot.--Without shedding of

blood is no remission.--The blood of Jesus Christ his Son

cleanseth us from all sin.

By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,

having obtained eternal redemption [for us].--Having therefore,

brethren, 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. . . . Let us

draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.

Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your

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

Le 17:11 Joh 1:29 Re 7:14 1Pe 1:19 Heb 9:22 1Jo 1:7

Heb 9:12 10:19,20,22 1Co 6:20


May 29 -- Evening

Oh that I had wings like a dove!

[for then] would I fly away, and be at rest.

It came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God

prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of

Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said,

[It is] better for me to die than to live.

Job spake, and said, . . . Wherefore is light given to him

that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; which

long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than

for hid treasures?--Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous:

but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

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.--

In all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his]

brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest

in things [pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the

sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being

tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Ps 55:6 Jon 4:8 Job 3:2,20,21 Ps 34:19 Joh 12:27 Heb 2:17,18


May 30 -- Morning

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and

broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction: . . . because

strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth

unto life, and few there be that find it.--The kingdom of heaven

suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.--Labour

not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which

endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give

unto you.--Give diligence to make your calling and election

sure: for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly

into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus

Christ.--So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth

for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to

obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased

from his own works, as God [did] from his.--The LORD shall be

unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

Heb 4:11 Mt 7:13,14 11:12 Joh 6:27 2Pe 1:10,11 1Co 9:24,25

Heb 4:10 Isa 60:19


May 30 -- Evening

Thou hearest me always.

Jesus lifted up [his] eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee

that thou hast heard me.--Father, glorify thy name. Then came

there a voice from heaven, [saying], I have both glorified [it],

and will glorify [it] again.--Lo, I come . . . to do thy will, O

God.--Not my will, but thine, be done.

As he is, so are we in this world.--This is the confidence

that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his

will, he heareth us.

Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his

commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his

sight.

Without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that

cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a

rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

He ever liveth to make intercession for them.--We have an

advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Joh 11:42 11:41 12:28 Heb 10:7 Lu 22:42 1Jo 4:17 5:14 3:22

Heb 11:6 7:25 1Jo 2:1


May 31 -- Morning

Thy name shall be called . . . Israel: for as a prince

hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

By his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over

the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto

him.--[Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through

unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever

shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast

into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall

believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he

shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What

things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive

[them], and ye shall have [them].--If thou canst believe, all

things [are] possible to him that believeth.--Blessed [is] she

that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things

which were told her from the Lord.

Lord, Increase our faith.

Ge 32:28 Ho 12:3,4 Ro 4:20 Mr 11:22-24 9:23 Lu 1:45 17:5


May 31 -- Evening

Little children, abide in him.

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. A double minded man [is] unstable

in all his ways.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you

into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not

another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert

the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven,

preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have

preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are

justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.--Ye did run

well; who did hinder you?

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in

the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.--If ye abide in

me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it

shall be done unto you.--For all the promises of God in him

[are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

1Jo 2:28 Jas 1:6-8 Ga 1:6-8 5:4,7 Joh 15:4,7 2Co 1:20


June 1 -- Morning

The fruit of the Spirit is longsuffering, gentleness.

The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering,

and abundant in goodness and truth.

Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all

lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one

another in love.--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,

forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath

forgiven you.--The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then

peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and

good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.--Charity

suffereth long, [and] is kind.

In due season we shall reap, if we faint not.--Be patient

therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the

husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath

long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter

rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming

of the Lord draweth nigh.

Ga 5:22 Ex 34:6 Eph 4:1,2,32 Jas 3:17 1Co 13:4 Ga 6:9

Jas 5:7,8


June 1 -- Evening

Emmanuel, . . . God with us.

Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold,

heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. The Word

was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,

the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace

and truth.--Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest

in the flesh.

[God] hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son,

whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made

the worlds.

The first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where

the disciples were assembled . . . came Jesus and stood in the

midst. . . . Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the

Lord. . . .After eight days again his disciples were within, and

Thomas with them: [then] came Jesus, the doors being shut, and

stood in the midst, and said, Peace [be] unto you. Then saith he

to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and

reach hither thy hand, and thrust [it] into my side: and be not

faithless, but believing. And Thomas . . . said unto him, My

Lord and my God.--Unto us a son is given: The mighty God.

Mt 1:23 2Ch 6:18 Joh 1:14 1Ti 3:16 Heb 1:2 Joh 20:19,20,26-28

Isa 9:6


June 2 -- Morning

Thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, . . .

and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover.

Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest.--Here

have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.--There

remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Let your loins be girded about, and [your] lights burning;

and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when

he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and

knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed [are]

those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find

watching.--Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to

the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the

revelation of Jesus Christ.--[This] one thing [I do], forgetting

those things which are behind, . . . I press toward the mark for

the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us

therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.

Ex 12:11 Mic 2:10 Heb 13:14 4:9 Lu 12:35-37 1Pe 1:13

Php 3:13-15


June 2 -- Evening

The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup.

Heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.--All things are

yours.--My beloved [is] mine.--The Son of God, . . . loved me,

and gave himself for me.

The LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in

their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am]

thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

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

earth [that] I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart

faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion

for ever.

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.--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.

O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul

thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and

thirsty land.

Ps 16:5 Ro 8:17 1Co 3:21 So 2:16 Ga 2:20 Nu 18:20

Ps 73:25,26 23:4 2Ti 1:12 Ps 63:1


June 3 -- Morning

Watch . . . for ye know neither the day nor the hour

wherein the Son of man cometh.

Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be

overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this

life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare

shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole

earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be

accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to

pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For

when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction

cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they

shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that

that day should overtake you as a thief. 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.

Mt 25:13 Lu 21:34-36 1Th 5:2-6


June 3 -- Evening

I [am] the Almighty God;

walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already

perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for

which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count

not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do],

forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth

unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for

the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.

Grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour

Jesus Christ.--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.

These words spake Jesus, . . . I pray not that thou shouldest

take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them

from the evil. . . . I in them, and thou in me, that they may be

made perfect in one.

Ge 17:1 Php 3:12-14 Ge 5:24 2Pe 3:18 2Co 3:18 Joh 17:1,15,23


June 4 -- Morning

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than

of the former, . . . and in this place will I give peace.

The house [that is] to be builded for the LORD [must be]

exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all

countries.--The glory of the LORD . . . filled the LORD'S house.

Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

. . . He spake of the temple of his body.--That which was made

glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory

that excelleth.--The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,

(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of

the Father,) full of grace and truth.--God . . . hath in these

last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed

heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will

toward men.--The Prince of Peace.--He is our peace.--The peace

of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts

and minds through Christ Jesus.

Hag 2:9 1Ch 22:5 2Ch 7:2 Joh 2:19,21 2Co 3:10 Joh 1:14

Heb 1:1,2 Lu 2:14 Isa 9:6 Eph 2:14 Php 4:7


June 4 -- Evening

Let us put on the armour of light.

Put . . . on the Lord Jesus Christ. That I may win Christ,

and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is

of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the

righteousness which is of God by faith.--The righteousness of

God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all

them that believe: for there is no difference.

He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.--I will go

in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy

righteousness, [even] of thine only.

Ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the

Lord: walk as children of light.--Have no fellowship with the

unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them]. . . .

All things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for

whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith,

Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ

shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly.

Ro 13:12,14 Php 3:8,9 Ro 3:22 Isa 61:10 Ps 71:16

Eph 5:8,11,13-15


June 5 -- Morning

When ye shall have done all those things which

are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants.

Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of

works? Nay: but by the law of faith.--What hast thou that thou

didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou

glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?--By grace are ye

saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the

gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are

his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which

God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

By the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was

bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more

abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which

was with me.--For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all

things.--All things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we

given thee.

Enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight

shall no man living be justified.

Lu 17:10 Ro 3:27 1Co 4:7 Eph 2:8-10 1Co 15:10 Ro 11:36

1Ch 29:14 Ps 143:2


June 5 -- Evening

He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.

The LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and

breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a

living soul.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully

made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth

right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made

in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the

earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and

in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in

continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of

them.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?--In

him we live, and move, and have our being.--Like as a father

pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear

him.

He, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and

destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away,

and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they

[were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not

again.

Ps 103:14 Ge 2:7 Ps 139:14-16 Mal 2:10 Ac 17:28

Ps 103:13 78:38,39


June 6 -- Morning

He will rest in his love.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,

because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were]

the fewest of all people: but because the LORD loved you.--We

love him, because he first loved us.--You . . . hath he

reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present

you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,

and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.--God

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

sinners, Christ died for us.

Lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in

whom I am well pleased.--Therefore doth my Father love me,

because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.--[His]

Son, . . . who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the

express image of his person, and upholding all things by the

word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat

down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Zep 3:17 De 7:7,8 1Jo 4:19 Col 1:21,22 1Jo 4:10 Ro 5:8

Mt 3:17 Joh 10:17 Heb 1:2,3


June 6 -- Evening

A new and living way.

Cain went out from the presence of the LORD.--Your iniquities

have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid

[his] face from you.--Without [holiness], no man shall see the

Lord.

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the

Father, but by me.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ, . . . hath

abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light

through the gospel.

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

first tabernacle was yet standing.--He is our peace, who hath

made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition

[between us].--The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the

top to the bottom.

Strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth

unto life, and few there be that find it.--Thou wilt shew me the

path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right

hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.

Heb 10:20 Ge 4:16 Isa 59:2 Heb 12:14 Joh 14:6 2Ti 1:10 Heb 9:8

Eph 2:14 Mt 27:51 7:14 Ps 16:11


June 7 -- Morning

Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at

midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; for a

friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing

to set before him? And he from within shall answer and say,

Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with

me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto you, Though

he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet

because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as

he needeth.--Praying always with all prayer and supplication in

the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and

supplication for all saints.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.--As a prince

hast thou power with God and with men.--Continue in prayer, and

watch in the same with thanksgiving.

[Jesus] went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all

night in prayer to God.

Lu 18:1 11:5-8 Eph 6:18 Ge 32:26,28 Col 4:2 Lu 6:12


June 7 -- Evening

Forgive all my sins.

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.

Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.--I, [even] I,

[am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,

and will not remember thy sins.

The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.--In whom

we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,

according to the riches of his grace.--Not by works of

righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he

saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the

Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ

our Saviour.--Having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out

the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was

contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his

cross.

Bless the LORD, O my soul, . . . who forgiveth all thine

iniquities.

Ps 25:18 Isa 1:18 Mt 9:2 Isa 43:25 Mt 9:6 Eph 1:7 Tit 3:5,6

Col 2:13,14 Ps 103:2,3


June 8 -- Morning

The LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in

his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy

[shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.--Trust in

the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and

verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and

he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.--Have not I

commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid,

neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee

whithersoever thou goest.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and

all these things shall be added unto you.

As long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.--

Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his

commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I

command thee this day; . . . and thou say in thine heart, My

power and the might of [mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.

[Is] not the LORD your God with you? and hath he [not] given

you rest on every side?

Ge 39:3 Ps 128:1,2 37:3,4 Jos 1:9 Mt 6:33 2Ch 26:5 De 8:11,17

1Ch 22:18


June 8 -- Evening

Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now

dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the

deadness of Sara's womb: he staggered not at the promise of God

through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

Is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, [Thy] sins be

forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

--If thou canst believe, all things [are] possible to him that

believeth.

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.--Why are

ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?--Behold the

fowls of the air: . . . your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are

ye not much better than they?--Why reason ye among yourselves,

because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not . . . remember the

five loaves of the five thousand?

My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in

glory by Christ Jesus.

Mr 2:8 Ro 4:19,20 Mr 2:9 9:23 Mt 28:18 Mr 4:40 Mt 6:26 16:8,9

Php 4:19


June 9 -- Morning

Never man spake like this man.

Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured

into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.--The

Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should

know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary. His

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

my beloved, and this [is] my friend.

All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words

which proceeded out of his mouth.--For he taught them as [one]

having authority, and not as the scribes.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.--

The sword of the Spirit . . . is the word of God.--The word of

God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged

sword.--The weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty

through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down

imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against

the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought

to the obedience of Christ.

Joh 7:46 Ps 45:2 Isa 50:4 So 5:16 Lu 4:22 Mt 7:29 Col 3:16

Eph 6:17 Heb 4:12 2Co 10:4,5


June 9 -- Evening

The triumphing of the wicked [is] short.

Thou shalt bruise his heel.--This is your hour, and the power

of darkness.--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.--Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a

shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a

roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom

resist stedfast in the faith.--Resist the devil, and he will

flee from you.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him

with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that

his day is coming.--The God of peace shall bruise Satan under

your feet shortly.--The devil . . . was cast into the lake of

fire and brimstone, . . . and shall be tormented day and night

for ever and ever.

Job 20:5 Ge 3:15 Lu 22:53 Heb 2:14 Col 2:15 1Pe 5:8,9 Jas 4:7

Ps 37:12,13 Ro 16:20 Re 20:10


June 10 -- Morning

The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country,

and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

Such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are

sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus,

and by the Spirit of our God.--We were by nature the children of

wrath, even as others. But 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.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,

and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

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

sinners, Christ died for us. . . . 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.

Lu 15:13 1Co 6:11 Eph 2:3-6 1Jo 4:10 Ro 5:8,10


June 10 -- Evening

As Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.

There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one

owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had

nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.--I forgave thee

all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou

also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had

pity on thee?

When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any:

that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your

trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father

which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.--Put on, . . . as

the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness,

humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one

another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel

against any.

How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?

till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,

Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Charity, . . . is the bond of perfectness.

Col 3:13 Lu 7:41,42 Mt 18:32,33 Mr 11:25,26 Col 3:12,13

Mt 18:21,22 Col 3:14


June 11 -- Morning

He arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a

great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion,

and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and

plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he

keep [his anger] for ever. 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. As far as the east is from the west, [so]

far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father

pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear

him.

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.--Ye who sometimes were far off are

made nigh by the blood of Christ.--Now therefore ye are no more

strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints,

and of the household of God.

Lu 15:20 Ps 103:8-13 Ro 8:15,16 Eph 2:13,19


June 11 -- Evening

Behold, I make all things new.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

--If any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things

are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put

within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your

flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.--Purge out

therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump.--The new

man, which after God is created in righteousness and true

holiness.

Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the

LORD shall name.

Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former

shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.--[Seeing] then

[that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of

persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and

godliness?

Re 21:5 Joh 3:3 2Co 5:17 Eze 36:26 1Co 5:7 Eph 4:24

Isa 62:2 65:17 2Pe 3:11


June 12 -- Morning

Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make

[it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean.

The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the

LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.--He

shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall

purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that

they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.--

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall

declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire

shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy

dross, and take away all thy tin.--I will melt them, and try

them.

Thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is

tried.--Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went

through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into

a wealthy [place].

When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee;

and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.

Nu 31:23 De 13:3 Mal 3:3 1Co 3:13 Isa 1:25 Jer 9:7

Ps 66:10,12 Isa 43:2


June 12 -- Evening

We, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.

Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which

is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in

the spirit of your mind; and . . . put on the new man, which

after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.--As

Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,

even so we also should walk in newness of life. . . . Knowing

this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of

sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.--Likewise reckon ye also

yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in

your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of

unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as

those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as]

instruments of righteousness unto God.

1Pe 2:24 Eph 4:22-24 Col 3:3 Ro 6:4,6,7,11-13


June 13 -- Morning

Abide in me, and I in you.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,

but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the

flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and

gave himself for me.

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

thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that

which is good I find not. . . . O wretched man that I am! who

shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God

through Jesus Christ our Lord.--If Christ [be] in you, the body

[is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of

righteousness.--If ye continue in the faith grounded and

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

which ye have heard.

Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we

may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his

coming.--He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so

to walk, even as he walked.

Joh 15:4 Ga 2:20 Ro 7:18,24,25 8:10 Col 1:23 1Jo 2:28,6


June 13 -- Evening

Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe

on him?

The brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his

person.--The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and

Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light

which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can

see: to whom [be] honour and power everlasting. Amen.--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.

Lord, I believe.--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.

Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious:

and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you

therefore which believe [he is] precious.

Joh 9:35,36 Heb 1:3 1Ti 6:15,16 Re 1:8 Joh 9:38 2Ti 1:12

1Pe 2:6,7


June 14 -- Morning

As the sufferings of Christ abound in us,

so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

The fellowship of his sufferings.--Rejoice, inasmuch as ye

are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall

be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.--If we be

dead with [him], we shall also live with [him].--If children,

then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be

that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified

together.

God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of

promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an

oath: that by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible

for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have

fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.--Our

Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath

loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good

hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in

every good word and work.

2Co 1:5 Php 3:10 1Pe 4:13 2Ti 2:11 Ro 8:17 Heb 6:17,18

2Th 2:16,17


June 14 -- Evening

Martha, Martha, thou art careful

and troubled about many things.

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap. . . .

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not.

. . .Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,

neither be ye of doubtful mind. . . . Your Father knoweth that

ye have need of these things.

Having food and raiment let us be therewith content. . . .

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.

The cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and

the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it

becometh unfruitful.

Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so

easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is

set before us.

Lu 10:41 12:24,27,29,30 1Ti 6:8-10 Mr 4:19 Heb 12:1


June 15 -- Morning

The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God:

but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us.

LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither

do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for

me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is

weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.

The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he

will shew them his covenant.--There is a God in heaven that

revealeth secrets.--Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how

little a portion is heard of him?

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.--If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the

Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may

abide with you for ever; [even] the Spirit of truth.

De 29:29 Ps 131:1,2 25:14 Da 2:28 Job 26:14 Joh 15:15 14:15-17


June 15 -- Evening

The Spirit, . . . maketh intercession for the saints

according to [the will of] God.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the

Father in my name, he will give [it] you. Hitherto have ye asked

nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may

be full.--Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the

Spirit.

This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask

any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know

that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the

petitions that we desired of him.--This is the will of God,

[even] your sanctification.

God hath . . . called us . . . unto holiness . . . who hath

also given unto us his holy Spirit.

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give

thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning

you. Quench not the Spirit.

Ro 8:27 Joh 16:23,24 Eph 6:18 1Jo 5:14,15 1Th 4:3,7,8 5:16-19


June 16 -- Morning

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools,

but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which

Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your

God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments,

and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and

with all your soul.--Walk in wisdom toward them that are

without, redeeming the time. Let your speech [be] alway with

grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to

answer every man.--Abstain from all appearance of evil.

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom

cometh; go ye out to meet him.--Watch therefore, for ye know

neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election

sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.--Blessed

[are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find

watching.

Eph 5:15,16 Jos 22:5 Col 4:5,6 1Th 5:22 Mt 25:5,6,13 2Pe 1:10

Lu 12:37


June 16 -- Evening

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

If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.--Lord, if

thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. . . . I will; be thou

clean.--Faith as a grain of mustard seed.

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

recompence of reward.--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.

First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in

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

LORD.--The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent

take it by force.--So run, that ye may obtain.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I

have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown

of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall

give me at that day.

Re 3:11 Mt 9:21 Mt 8:2,3 17:20 Heb 10:35 Php 2:12,13 Mr 4:28

Ho 6:3 Mt 11:12 1Co 9:24 2Ti 4:7,8


June 17 -- Morning

In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving

let your requests be made known unto God.

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.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen

[do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much

speaking.--The Spirit . . . helpeth our infirmities: for we know

not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself

maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be

uttered.

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy

hands, without wrath and doubting.--Praying always with all

prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto

with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth

as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for

them of my Father which is in heaven.

Php 4:6 Ps 116:1,2 Mt 6:7 Ro 8:26 1Ti 2:8 Eph 6:18 Mt 18:19


June 17 -- Evening

All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD;

and thy saints shall bless thee.

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless]

his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his

benefits.--I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise

[shall] continually [be] in my mouth.--Every day will I bless

thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips

shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will

lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as

[with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with

joyful lips.

My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in

God my Saviour.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and

power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure

they are and were created.

Ps 145:10 103:1,2 34:1 145:2 63:3-5 Lu 1:46,47 Re 4:11


June 18 -- Morning

Thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark;

and there I will meet with thee.

The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest.--

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the

ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain

from the top to the bottom.

Having . . . brethren, 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.

. . . Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of

faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and

our bodies washed with pure water.--Let us therefore come boldly

unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find

grace to help in time of need.

Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation

[mercy seat] through faith in his blood, to declare his

righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through

the forbearance of God.--Through him we both have access by one

Spirit unto the Father.

Ex 25:21,22 Heb 9:8 Mt 27:50,51 Heb 10:19,20,22 4:16

Ro 3:24,25 Eph 2:18


June 18 -- Evening

Faith as a grain of mustard seed.

Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go:

but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go.--God

subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children

of Israel.--Gideon . . . feared his father's household, and the

men of the city, that he could not do [it] by day, . . . did

[it] by night. Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by

mine hand, as thou hast said, . . . let me prove, I pray thee.

. . . And God did so.

Thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast

not denied my name.--Who hath despised the day of small things?

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is

meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly.--Lord,

increase our faith.--I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall

grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His

branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive

tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

Mt 17:20 Jud 4:8,23 6:27,36,39,40 Re 3:8 Zec 4:10 2Th 1:3

Lu 17:5 Ho 14:5,6


June 19 -- Morning

Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

--There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that

defileth.--[There is] no spot in thee.

Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy.--As

obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the

former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you

is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it

is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on the

Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to

every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in

fear.--Put off concerning the former conversation the old man,

which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be

renewed in the spirit of your mind; and . . . put on the new

man, which after God is created in righteousness and true

holiness.--He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the

world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in

love.

Heb 12:14 Joh 3:3 Re 21:27 So 4:7 Le 19:2 1Pe 1:14-17

Eph 4:22-24 1:4


June 19 -- Evening

Gold tried in the fire.

There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or

sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands,

for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an

hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters,

and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in

the world to come eternal life.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial

which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto

you.--Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through

manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much

more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried

with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at

the appearing of Jesus Christ.

The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal

glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make

you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].--In the world

ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome

the world.

Re 3:18 Mr 10:29,30 1Pe 4:12 1:6,7 5:10 Joh 16:33


June 20 -- Morning

Take this child away, and nurse it for me,

and I will give [thee] thy wages.

Go ye . . . into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will

give you.--Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in

my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he

shall not lose his reward.--The liberal soul shall be made fat:

and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.--God [is]

not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, . . . in

that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own

labour.

Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or

thirsty, and gave [thee] drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and

took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]? . . . Inasmuch as

ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye

have done [it] unto me.--Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit

the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Ex 2:9 Mt 20:4 Mr 9:41 Pr 11:25 Heb 6:10 1Co 3:8

Mt 25:37,38,40,34


June 20 -- Evening

Thou compassest my path and my lying down.

Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD

is in this place; and I knew [it] not. And he was afraid, and

said, How dreadful [is] this place! this [is] none other but

the house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven.

The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole

earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart

[is] perfect toward him.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD,

only makest me dwell in safety.

Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even]

the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee,

neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall

give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

--When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou

shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.--So he giveth his

beloved sleep.

Ps 139:3 Ge 28:16,17 2Ch 16:9 Ps 4:8 91:9-11 Pr 3:24 Ps 127:2


June 21 -- Morning

Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,

that ye should follow his steps.

Even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to

minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.--Whosoever of

you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

Jesus of Nazareth . . . went about doing good.--Bear ye one

another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The meekness and gentleness of Christ.--In lowliness of mind

let each esteem other better than themselves.

Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.--Be ye

kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even

as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to

walk, even as he walked.--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.

1Pe 2:21 Mr 10:45,44 Ac 10:38 Ga 6:2 2Co 10:1 Php 2:3

Lu 23:34 Eph 4:32 1Jo 2:6 Heb 12:2


June 21 -- Evening

I sought him, but I could not find him;

I called him, but he gave me no answer.

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs

before their enemies! . . . And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get

thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? Israel hath

sinned, . . . for they have even taken of the accursed thing,

. . . and they have put [it] even among their own stuff.

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot

save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your

iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your

sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear

[me].

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we

confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,

because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are

pleasing in his sight.

So 5:6 Jos 7:8,10,11 Isa 59:1,2 Ps 66:18 1Jo 3:21,22


June 22 -- Morning

Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

--I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,

but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the

flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and

gave himself for me.--He died for all, that they which live

should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which

died for them, and rose again.--If any man [be] in Christ, [he

is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all

things are become new.

We are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ.--

As thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may

be one in us.--Ye are the body of Christ, and members in

particular.--Because I live, ye shall live also.

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden

manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new

name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth

[it].

Col 3:3 Ro 6:2 Ga 2:20 2Co 5:15,17 1Jo 5:20 Joh 17:21

1Co 12:27 Joh 14:19 Re 2:17


June 22 -- Evening

Behold how he loved.

He died for all.--Greater love hath no man than this, that a

man lay down his life for his friends.

He . . . liveth to make intercession for them.--I go to

prepare a place for you.

I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I

am, [there] ye may be also.--Father, I will that they also,

whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.--Having loved

his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

We love him, because he first loved us.--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.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even

as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Joh 11:36 2Co 5:15 Joh 15:13 Heb 7:25 Joh 14:2,3 17:24 13:1

1Jo 4:19 2Co 5:14,15 Joh 15:10


June 23 -- Morning

I will pray the Father, and he shall give you

another Comforter, . . . [even] the Spirit of truth.

It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away,

the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will

send him unto you.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we

are the children of God.--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 . . .

helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for

as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us

with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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.

--Hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed

abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he

hath given us of his Spirit.

Joh 14:16,17 16:7 Ro 8:16,15,26 15:13 5:5 1Jo 4:13


June 23 -- Evening

Shall I not seek rest for thee,

that it may be well with thee?

There remaineth . . . a rest to the people of God.--My people

shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,

and in quiet resting places.--There the wicked cease [from]

troubling; and there the weary be at rest.--They . . . rest from

their labours.

The forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high

priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I

will give you rest. 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.--In

returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in

confidence shall be your strength.

The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to

lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still

waters.

Ru 3:1 Heb 4:9 Isa 32:18 Job 3:17 Re 14:13 Heb 6:20

Mt 11:28-30 Isa 30:15 Ps 23:1,2


June 24 -- Morning

The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them

. . . to search out a resting place for them.

My times [are] in thy hand.--He shall choose our inheritance

for us.--Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness; . . . make thy

way straight before my face.

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall

bring [it] to pass.--In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he

shall direct thy paths.--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.

The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to

lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still

waters.--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.--Your heavenly Father knoweth

that ye have need of all these things.--Casting all your care

upon him; for he careth for you.

Nu 10:33 Ps 31:15 47:4 5:8 37:5 Pr 3:6 Isa 30:21

Ps 23:1,2 103:13,14 Mt 6:32 1Pe 5:7


June 24 -- Evening

Master, where dwellest thou?

He saith unto them, Come and see.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not

[so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and

receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be

also.--To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my

throne.

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.

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.

Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.--

How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the

children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Joh 1:38,39 Joh 14:2,3 Re 3:21 Isa 57:15 Re 3:20 Mt 28:20

Ps 36:7


June 25 -- Morning

When he shall appear, we shall be like him;

for we shall see him as he is.

As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the

sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name.--Whereby

are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by

these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped

the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor

perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside

thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:

now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am

known.--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.--As

for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be

satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

1Jo 3:2 Joh 1:12 2Pe 1:4 Isa 64:4 1Co 13:12 Php 3:20,21

Ps 17:15


June 25 -- Evening

The man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts.

In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.--I

have laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one]

chosen out of the people.--I have trodden the winepress alone;

and of the people [there was] none with me.

Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the

flesh.--Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the

government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be

called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting

Father, The Prince of Peace.

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.--Unto the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O

God, [is] for ever and ever.

Let all the angels of God worship him.

KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Zec 13:7 Col 2:9 Ps 89:19 Isa 63:3 1Ti 3:16 Isa 9:6

He 1:3,8,6 Re 19:16


June 26 -- Morning

Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, . . .

and that thou wouldest keep [me] from evil! . . .

And God granted him that which he requested.

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no

sorrow with it.--When he giveth quietness, who then can make

trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him?

Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon

thy people.--How great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid

up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them

that trust in thee before the sons of men!--I pray not that thou

shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest

keep them from the evil.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;

knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that

asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that

knocketh it shall be opened.--The LORD redeemeth the soul of his

servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

1Ch 4:10 Pr 10:22 Job 34:29 Ps 3:8 Ps 31:19 Joh 17:15

Mt 7:7,8 Ps 34:22


June 26 -- Evening

It [is] a night to be much observed unto the LORD

for bringing them out from the land of Egypt.

The Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took

bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said,

Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in

remembrance of me. After the same manner also [he took] the cup,

when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my

blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink [it], in remembrance of

me.

He . . . kneeled down, and prayed. . . . And being in an

agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were

great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

It was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth

hour: . . . they took Jesus, and led [him] away; . . . into a

place called Golgotha: where they crucified him.

Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us

keep the feast.

Ex 12:42 1Co 11:23-25 Lu 22:41,44 Joh 19:14,16-18 1Co 5:7,8


June 27 -- Morning

Who shall be able to stand?

Who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when

he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like

fullers' soap.

I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could

number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,

stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white

robes, and palms in their hands.--These are they which came out

of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them

white in the blood of the Lamb. . . . They shall hunger no more,

neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them,

nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne

shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of

waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in

Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the

Spirit.--Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ

hath made us free.

Re 6:17 Mal 3:2 Re 7:9,14,16,17 Ro 8:1 Ga 5:1


June 27 -- Evening

Enter not into judgment with thy servant:

for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

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.

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

with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.--Acquaint now

thyself with him, and be at peace.

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our

Lord Jesus Christ.--A man is not justified by the works of the

law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.--By the deeds of the law

there shall no flesh be justified in his sight.

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

which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our

Lord Jesus Christ.

Ps 143:2 Isa 1:18 27:5 Job 22:21 Ro 5:1 Ga 2:16 Ro 3:20

Ac 13:39 1Co 15:57


June 28 -- Morning

I know [that] my redeemer liveth.

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.--This [man], because he continueth ever, hath an

unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them

to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever

liveth to make intercession for them.

Because I live, ye shall live also.--If in this life only we

have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now

is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of

them that slept.

The Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from

transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.--We have redemption

through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the

riches of his grace.--Ye were not redeemed with corruptible

things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation

[received] by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious

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

Job 19:25 Ro 5:10 Heb 7:24,25 Joh 14:19 1Co 15:19,20

Isa 59:20 Eph 1:7 1Pe 1:18,19


June 28 -- Evening

The Spirit speaketh expressly,

that in the latter times some shall depart

from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.

Take heed therefore how ye hear.--Let the word of Christ

dwell in you richly in all wisdom.--Above all, taking the shield

of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery

darts of the wicked.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall

offend them.--How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea,

sweeter] than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get

understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

--I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy

testimonies [are] my meditation.

Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.--But

though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto

you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be

accursed.

1Ti 4:1 Lu 8:18 Col 3:16 Eph 6:16 Ps 119:165,103,104,105,99

2Co 11:14 Ga 1:8


June 29 -- Morning

His commandments are not grievous.

This is the will of him that sent me, that every one which

seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.

--Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his

commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his

sight.

My yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.--If ye love me,

keep my commandments.--He that hath my commandments, and keepeth

them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be

loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest

myself to him.

Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that]

getteth understanding.--Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and

all her paths [are] peace.--Great peace have they which love thy

law: and nothing shall offend them.--I delight in the law of God

after the inward man.

This is his commandment, That we should believe on the name

of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.--Love worketh no

ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the

law.

1Jo 5:3 Joh 6:40 1Jo 3:22 Mt 11:30 Joh 14:15,21 Pr 3:13,17

Ps 119:165 Ro 7:22 1Jo 3:23 Ro 13:10


June 29 -- Evening

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,

and, as a cloud, thy sins.--I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth

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

thy sins.--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.--I will

remember their sin no more.--Thou wilt cast all their sins into

the depths of the sea.

Thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of

corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.--Who

[is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity? . . . he

retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in]

mercy.--Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in

his own blood.

Ps 25:7 Isa 44:22 43:25 1:18 Jer 31:34 Mic 7:19 Is 38:17

Mic 7:18 Re 1:5


June 30 -- Morning

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.

My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor

faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he

chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.--For whom

the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in

whom] he delighteth.--He maketh sore, and bindeth up: he

woundeth, and his hands make whole.--Humble yourselves therefore

under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

--I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

--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. As far

as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our

transgressions from us. 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.

Re 3:19 Heb 12:5,6 Pr 3:12 Job 5:18 1Pe 5:6 Isa 48:10 La 3:33

Ps 103:10-14


June 30 -- Evening

God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth:

therefore let thy words be few.

When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]:

for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what

things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

They . . . called on the name of Baal from morning even

until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee,

and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus

with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men

[are], extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this

publican. . . . And the publican, standing afar off, would not

lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his

breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this

man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other.

Lord, teach us to pray.

Ec 5:2 Mt 6:7,8 1Ki 18:26 Lu 18:10,11,13,14 Lu 11:1


July 1 -- Morning

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . goodness.

Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children.--Love your

enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate

you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute

you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in

heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the

good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.--Be ye

therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

The fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and

righteousness and truth.

After that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward

man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done,

but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of

regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; ehich he shed on

us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.--The LORD [is]

good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over all his works.--

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?

Ga 5:22 Eph 5:1 Mt 5:44,45 Lu 6:36 Eph 5:9 Tit 3:4-6

Ps 145:9 Ro 8:32


July 1 -- Evening

Ebenezer, . . . Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

I was brought low, and he helped me.--Blessed [be] the LORD,

because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. The LORD

[is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I

am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my

song will I praise him.

[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in

man. [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence

in princes.--Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his

help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God.--He led them forth by

the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.--

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

spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked

ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.--Because thou hast been my

help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

1Sa 7:12 Ps 116:6 28:6,7 118:8,9 146:5 107:7 Jos 21:45

Lu 22:35 Ps 63:7


July 2 -- Morning

This [is] the ordinance of the passover:

There shall no stranger eat thereof.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which

serve the tabernacle.--Except a man be born again, he cannot see

the kingdom of--God. That at that time ye were without Christ,

being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from

the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the

world: but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are

made nigh by the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, . . . having

abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of

commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself

of twain one new man, [so] making peace.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but

fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

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.

Ex 12:43 Heb 13:10 Joh 3:3 Eph 2:12-15,19 Re 3:20


July 2 -- Evening

[Jesus] prayed the third time, saying the same words.

Who in the days of his flesh, . . . offered up prayers and

supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was

able to save him from death.

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

Continuing instant in prayer.--Praying always with all prayer

and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all

perseverance and supplication.--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.

Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].--This is the

confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing

according to his will, he heareth us.

Delight thyself . . . in the LORD; and he shall give thee the

desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also

in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.

Mt 26:44 Heb 5:7 Hos 6:3 Ro 12:12 Eph 6:18 Php 4:6,7 Mt 26:39

1Jo 5:14 Ps 37:4,5


July 3 -- Morning

If children, then heirs;

heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.

If ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs

according to the promise.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,

that we should be called the sons of God.--Thou art no more a

servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through

Christ.--Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children

by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of

his will.

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be

with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou

hast given me.

He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him

will I give power over the nations.--To him that overcometh will

I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame,

and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Ro 8:17 Ga 3:29 1Jo 3:1 Ga 4:7 Eph 1:5 Joh 17:24 Re 2:26 3:21