October 2 -- Evening

Who maketh thee to differ [from another]?

and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?

By the grace of God I am what I am.--Of his own will begat he

us with the word of truth.--[It is] not of him that willeth, nor

of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.--Where [is]

boasting then? It is excluded.--Christ Jesus . . . is made unto

us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and

redemption: . . . He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

You [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and

sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of

this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the

spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among

whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts

of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the

mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

--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.

1Co 4:7 15:10 Jas 1:18 Ro 9:16 3:27 1Co 1:30,31 Eph 2:1-3

1Co 6:11


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Robert Bagster
Jonathan Bagster Jr.
James Bagster

October 3 -- Morning

Unto him that loved us,

and washed us from our sins in his own blood.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown

it.--Love [is] strong as death.--Greater love hath no man than

this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,

that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by

whose stripes ye were healed.--In whom we have redemption

through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the

riches of his grace.

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

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

our God.--Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an

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

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

marvellous light.--I beseech you . . . brethren, by the mercies

of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,

acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.

Re 1:5 So 8:7,6 Joh 15:13 1Pe 2:24 Eph 1:7 1Co 6:11 1Pe 2:9

Ro 12:1


October 3 -- Evening

There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

Over the king's treasures [was] Azmaveth the son of Adiel:

and over the storehouses . . . Jehonathan the son of Uzziah: and

over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the

ground [was] Ezri the son of Chelub: and over the vineyards

[was] Shimei the Ramathite. . . . All these [were] the rulers of

the substance which [was] king David's.

God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily

prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of

healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.--All these

worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man

severally as he will.

As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the

same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of

God. If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if

any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God

giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus

Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.

1Co 12:5 1Ch 27:25-27,31 1Co 12:28,11 1Pe 4:10,11


October 4 -- Morning

Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone

while he talked with him.

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give

glory.--Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or

thirsty, and gave [thee] drink?--In lowliness of mind let each

esteem other better than themselves.--Be clothed with humility.

[Jesus] was transfigured before them: and his face did shine

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

sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as

it had been the face of an angel.--The glory which thou gavest

me I have given them.--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.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill

cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a

bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that

are in the house.

Ex 34:29 Ps 115:1 Mt 25:37 Php 2:3 1Pe 5:5 Mt 17:2 Ac 6:15

Joh 17:22 2Co 3:18 Mt 5:14,15


October 4 -- Evening

There are diversities of operations,

but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

There fell [some] of Manasseh to David. . . . And they helped

David against the band [of the rovers]: for they [were] all

mighty men of valour.--The manifestation of the Spirit is given

to every man to profit withal.

Of the children of Issachar, [which were men] that had

understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.--To

one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the

word of knowledge by the same Spirit.

Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with

all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank:

[they were] not of double heart.--A double minded man [is]

unstable in all his ways.

There should be no schism in the body; but . . . the members

should have the same care one for another. And whether one

member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be

honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

1Co 12:6 1Ch 12:19,21 1Co 12:7 1Ch 12:32 1Co 12:8 1Ch 12:33

Jas 1:8 1Co 12:25,26 Eph 4:5


October 5 -- Morning

Call upon me in the day of trouble:

I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou

disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise

him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.--LORD,

thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare

their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.--For thou, Lord,

[art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto

all them that call upon thee.

Jacob said unto his household, . . . Let us arise, and go up

to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered

me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I

went.--Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his

benefits.

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. The sorrows

of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I

found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the

LORD.

Psa 50:15 Ps 42:11 10:17 86:5 Ge 35:2,3 Ps 103:2 116:1-4


October 5 -- Evening

Yet a little while,

and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he

may run that readeth it. For the vision [is] yet for an

appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:

though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it

will not tarry.

Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is]

with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one

day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men

count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing

that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

--Thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious,

longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.--Oh that thou

wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down.-- For

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.

Heb 10:37 Hab 2:2,3 2Pe 3:8,9 Ps 86:15 Isa 64:1,4


October 6 -- Morning

The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

I know that thou canst do every [thing].--The things which

are impossible with men are possible with God.--He doeth

according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the

inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say

unto him, What doest thou?--[There is] none that can deliver out

of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?--Abba, Father,

all things [are] possible unto thee.

Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him,

Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your

faith be it unto you.--Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me

clean. And Jesus put forth [his] hand, and touched him, saying,

I will; be thou clean.--The mighty God.--All power is given unto

me in heaven and in earth.

Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will

remember the name of the LORD our God.--Be strong and

courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed, . . . [there be] more

with us than with him.

Re 19:6 Job 42:2 Lu 18:27 Da 4:35 Isa 43:13 Mr 14:36

Mt 9:28,29 8:2,3 Isa 9:6 Mt 28:18 Ps 20:7 2Ch 32:7


October 6 -- Evening

What [is] the thing that [the LORD] hath said unto thee?

He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the

LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and

to walk humbly with thy God?--To keep the commandments of the

LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy

good?

As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:

for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in

all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it

is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.--It was added

because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the

promise was made.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time

past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days

spoken unto us by [his] Son.

Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth.

1Sa 3:17 Mic 6:8 De 10:13 Ga 3:10,11,19 Heb 1:1,2 1Sa 3:9


October 7 -- Morning

The meek will he teach his way.

Blessed [are] the meek.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to

the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to

the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour

to men of skill.--A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD

directeth his steps.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the

heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of

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

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

me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul

unto thee.

O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might

against this great company that cometh against us; neither know

we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to

all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given

him.

When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into

all truth.

Ps 25:9 Mt 5:5 Ec 9:11 Pr 16:9 Ps 123:1,2 143:8 2Ch 20:12

Jas 1:5 Joh 16:13


October 7 -- Evening

O Lord GOD, . . . with thy blessing

let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.

Thou blessest, O LORD, and [it shall be] blessed for ever.--

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no

sorrow with it.

Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more

blessed to give than to receive.--When thou makest a feast, call

the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be

blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be

recompensed at the resurrection of the just.--Come, ye blessed

of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the

foundation of the world: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me

meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and

ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye

visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will

deliver him in time of trouble.

The LORD God [is] a sun and shield.

2Sa 7:29 1Ch 17:27 Pr 10:22 Ac 20:35 Lu 14:13,14 Mt 25:34-36

Ps 41:1 84:11


October 8 -- Morning

I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall]

tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or

nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we

are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have

no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall

fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast

into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness'

sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when

[men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all

manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and

be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven.--None

of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto

myself, so that I might finish my course with joy.--I will speak

of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

Heb 13:6 Ro 8:35,37 Lu 12:4,5 Mt 5:10-12 Ac 20:24 Ps 119:46


October 8 -- Evening

He . . . set my feet upon a rock.

That Rock was Christ.--Simon Peter . . . said, Thou art the

Christ, the Son of the living God. . . . Upon this rock I will

build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against

it.--Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none

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

saved.

Full assurance of faith, . . . faith without wavering.--

Faith, nothing wavering. . . . He that wavereth is like a wave

of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall]

tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or

nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we

are more than conquerors through him that loved us. . . . Nor

height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to

separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our

Lord.

Ps 40:2 1Co 10:4 Mt 16:16,18 Ac 4:12 Heb 10:22,23 Jas 1:6

Ro 8:35,37,39


October 9 -- Morning

Thou [art] a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men

count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing

that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

--The longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation.

For this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus

Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them

which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.--

Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our

learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures

might have hope.

Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and

longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee

to repentance?--Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn

unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow

to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Ne 9:17 2Pe 3:9,15 1Ti 1:16 Ro 15:4 2:4 Joe 2:13


October 9 -- Evening

The words of the LORD [are] pure words.

Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.--

The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the

commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.--Every

word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their

trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee,

and thou be found a liar.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin

against thee.--I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect

unto thy ways.--Brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever

things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever

things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever

things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if

[there be] any praise, think on these things.--As newborn babes,

desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.

We are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of

sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in

Christ.--Nor handling the word of God deceitfully.

Ps 12:6 119:140 19:8 Pr 30:5,6 Ps 119:11,15 Php 4:8 1Pe 2:2

2Co 2:17 4:2


October 10 -- Morning

The whole family in heaven and earth.

One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through

all, and in you all.--Ye are all the children of God by faith in

Christ Jesus.--That in the dispensation of the fulness of times

he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which

are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him.

He is not ashamed to call them brethren.--Behold my mother

and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father

which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and

mother.--Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my

Father, and your Father.

I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for

the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: . . .

and white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was

said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,

until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should

be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled.--That they

without us should not be made perfect.

Eph 3:15 4:6 Ga 3:26 Eph 1:10 Heb 2:11 Mt 12:49,50 Joh 20:17

Re 6:9-11 Heb 11:40


October 10 -- Evening

After this manner . . . pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Jesus . . . lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father.--

My Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God.

Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.--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.

Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his

Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art

no more a servant, but a son.

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.

I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye

shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Mt 6:9 Joh 17:1 20:17 Ga 3:26 Ro 8:15,16 Ga 4:6,7

Joh 16:23,24 2Co 6:17,18


October 11 -- Morning

Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near.

How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt

thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my

soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily?--Hide not thy face

[far] from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been

my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my

salvation.

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

with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.--The

LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that

call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that

fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.--Lo, I

am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.

God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in

trouble.--Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my

salvation.--My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation

[is] from him.

Ps 22:11 13:1,2 27:9 91:15 145:18,19 Joh 14:18 Mt 28:20

Ps 46:1 62:1,5


October 11 -- Evening

Hallowed be thy name.

Thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name

[is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God.

Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is]

like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing

wonders?--Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.

Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.--I saw . . . the

Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train

filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had

six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he

covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto

another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the

whole earth [is] full of his glory. . . . Woe [is] me! for I am

undone.--I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now

mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor [myself].

The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all

sin.--That [we] might be partakers of his holiness.--Having

therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the

blood of Jesus, . . . Let us draw near with a true heart.

Mt 6:9 Ex 34:14 15:11 Re 4:8 1Ch 16:29 Isa 6:1-3,5 Job 42:5,6

1Jo 1:7 Heb 12:10 10:19,22


October 12 -- Morning

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,

not imputing their trespasses unto them.

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

and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to

reconcile all things unto himself.--Mercy and truth are met

together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].

I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,

thoughts of peace, and not of evil.--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.

Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity?

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace.--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.--

LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought

all our works in us.

2Co 5:19 Col 1:19,20 Ps 85:10 Jer 29:11 Isa 1:18 Mic 7:18

Job 22:21 Php 2:12,13 Isa 26:12


October 12 -- Evening

Thy kingdom come.

In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a

kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall

not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and

consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.--A

stone . . . cut out without hands.--Not by might, nor by power,

but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.--The kingdom of God

cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here!

or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of

God.--So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed

into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and

the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. . . .

But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in

the sickle, because the harvest is come.

Be ye . . . ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the

Son of man cometh.

The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth

say, Come.

Mt 6:10 Da 2:44,34 Zec 4:6 Lu 17:20,21 Mr 4:11,26,27,29

Mt 24:44 Re 22:17


October 13 -- Morning

From the first day that thou didst set thine heart

to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God,

thy words were heard.

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.--The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a

broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.--

Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:

but the proud he knoweth afar off.--Humble yourselves therefore

under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

--God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Submit yourselves therefore to God.

Thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous

in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. Give ear, O LORD,

unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. In

the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt

answer me.

Da 10:12 Isa 57:15 Ps 51:17 138:6 1Pe 5:6 Jas 4:6,7 Ps 86:5-7


October 13 -- Evening

Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.

Understanding what the will of the Lord [is].

It is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that

one of these little ones should perish.

This is the will of God, [even] your sanctification.--That he

no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the

lusts of men, but to the will of God.--Of his own will begat he

us with the word of truth; . . . wherefore lay apart all

filthiness.

Be ye holy; for I am holy.--[Jesus] said . . . Whosoever

shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister,

and mother.--Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth

them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house

upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and

the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for

it was founded upon a rock.--The world passeth away, and the

lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for

ever.

Mt 6:10 Eph 5:17 Mt 18:14 1Th 4:3 1Pe 4:2 Jas 1:18,21

1Pe 1:16 Mr 3:34,35 Mt 7:24,25 1Jo 2:17


October 14 -- Morning

Christ both died, and rose, and revived,

that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to

grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he

shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the

pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of

the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his

knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall

bear their iniquities.--Ought not Christ to have suffered these

things, and to enter into his glory?--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.

Let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath

made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and

Christ.--Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of

the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by

him do believe in God.

Ro 14:9 Isa 53:10,11 Lu 24:26 2Co 5:14,15 Ac 2:36 1Pe 1:20,21


October 14 -- Evening

Give us this day our daily bread.

I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the

righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.--[His] bread

shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.--The ravens

brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh

in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

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

glory by Christ Jesus.--[Be] content with such things as ye

have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake

thee.

He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee

with manna, . . . that he might make thee know that man doth not

live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of

the mouth of the LORD doth man live.--Jesus said unto them,

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread

from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from

heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from

heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him,

Lord, evermore give us this bread.

Mt 6:11 Ps 37:25 Isa 33:16 1Ki 17:6 Php 4:19 Heb 13:5 De 8:3

Joh 6:32-34


October 15 -- Morning

God [is] my defence.

The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; the

God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the

horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour.

--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.

When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the

LORD shall lift up a standard against him.--We may boldly say,

The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do

unto me.

The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be

afraid?

As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD

[is] round about his people from henceforth even for ever.--

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy

wings will I rejoice.

For thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Ps 59:9 2Sa 22:2,3 Ps 28:7 Isa 59:19 Heb 13:6

Ps 27:1 125:2 63:7 31:3


October 15 -- Evening

Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, 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.--O thou wicked servant, 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? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to

the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So

likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from

your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one

another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.--You

. . . hath he quickened, . . . 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.--Even as Christ forgave you, so

also [do] ye.

Mt 6:12 18:21,22,32-35 Eph 4:32 Col 2:13,14 3:13


October 16 -- Morning

Not slothful in business;

fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might;

for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,

in the grave, whither thou goest.--Whatsoever ye do, do [it]

heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the

Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye

serve the Lord Christ.--Whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the

same shall he receive of the Lord.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:

the night cometh, when no man can work.--Wist ye not that I must

be about my Father's business?--The zeal of thine house hath

eaten me up.

Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election

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

that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full

assurance of hope unto the end: that ye be not slothful, but

followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the

promises.--So run, that ye may obtain.

Ro 12:11 Ec 9:10 Col 3:23,24 Eph 6:8 Joh 9:4 Lu 2:49

Joh 2:17 2Pe 1:10 Heb 6:11,12 1Co 9:24


October 16 -- Evening

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso

walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for

God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust,

and enticed.--Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye

separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and

I will receive you.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan,

that it [was] well watered every where, . . . [even] as the

garden of the LORD. . . . Then Lot chose him all the plain of

Jordan; . . . but the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners

before the LORD exceedingly.

[The Lord] delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy

conversation of the wicked. . . . The Lord knoweth how to

deliver the godly out of temptations.--Yea, he shall be holden

up: for God is able to make him stand.

Mt 6:13 Pr 28:26 Jas 1:13,14 2Co 6:17 Ge 13:10,11,13

2Pe 2:7,9 Ro 14:4


October 17 -- Morning

In thy name shall they rejoice all the day:

and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

In the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him

shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be

ashamed. In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified,

and shall glory.--Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye

righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in

heart.

The righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being

witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of

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

them that believe.--To declare . . . at this time his

righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him

which believeth in Jesus.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.--Whom

having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not,

yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of

glory.

Psa 89:16 Isa 45:24,25 Ps 32:11 Ro 3:21,22,26 Php 4:4 1Pe 1:8


October 17 -- Evening

For thine is the kingdom,

and the power, and the glory, for ever.

The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; . . . thy

throne [is] established of old: thou [art] from everlasting.

The LORD [is] . . . great in power.--If God [be] for us, who

[can be] against us?--Our God whom we serve is able to deliver

us.--My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and

no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand.--

Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give

glory.--Thine, O LORD, [is] the greatness, and the power, and

the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all [that is]

in the heaven and in the earth [is thine]; thine [is] the

kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. . . .

Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious

name. But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be

able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things

[come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

Mt 6:13 Ps 93:1,2 Na 1:3 Ro 8:31 Da 3:17 Joh 10:29 1Jo 4:4

Ps 115:1 1Ch 29:11,13,14


October 18 -- Morning

One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side,

and forthwith came there out blood and water.

Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made

with you.--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] not possible that the blood of bulls and of

goats should take away sins.

[Jesus] said unto them, This is my blood of the new

testament, which is shed for many.--By his own blood he entered

in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption

[for us].--Peace through the blood of his cross.

Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,

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

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

manifest in these last times for you.

. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be

clean: . . . from all your idols, will I cleanse you.--Let us

draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having

our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

Joh 19:34 Ex 24:8 Le 17:11 Heb 10:4 Mr 14:24 Heb 9:12

Col 1:20 1Pe 1:18-20 Eze 36:25 Heb 10:22


October 18 -- Evening

Amen.

Amen: the LORD God . . . say so [too].--He who blesseth

himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth;

and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of

truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because

they are hid from mine eyes.

When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by

no greater, he sware by himself.--For men verily swear by the

greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all

strife. Wherein 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.

These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness.--

For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen,

unto the glory of God by us.

Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth

wondrous things. And blessed [be] his glorious name for ever.

. . . Amen, and Amen.

Mt 6:13 1Ki 1:36 Isa 65:16 Heb 6:13,16-18 Re 3:14 2Co 1:20

Ps 72:18,19


October 19 -- Morning

The LORD shall be thy confidence,

and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of

wrath shalt thou restrain.--The king's heart [is] in the hand of

the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever

he will.--When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his

enemies to be at peace with him.

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I

hope. My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch

for the morning: [I say, more than] they that watch for the

morning.--I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me

from all my fears.

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

everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before

thee; and shall say, Destroy [them].--Blessed [is] the man that

trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us,

who [can be] against us?

Pr 3:26 Ps 76:10 Pr 21:1 16:7 Ps 130:5,6 34:4 De 33:27

Jer 17:7 Ro 8:31


October 19 -- Evening

Consolation in Christ, . . .

comfort of love, . . . fellowship of the Spirit.

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

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

fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.--My flesh and my

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

portion for ever.

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

may abide with you for ever.--The Holy Ghost, whom the Father

will send in my name.--Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our

Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all

comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may

be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort

wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them

also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. And so shall

we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with

these words.

Php 2:1 Job 14:1,2 Ps 73:26 Joh 14:16,26 2Co 1:3,4

1Th 4:14,17,18


October 20 -- Morning

I delight in the law of God after the inward man.

O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.--Thy

words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me

the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.--I sat down under his

shadow with great delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my

taste.--I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my

necessary [food].

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within

my heart.--My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to

finish his work.

The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart:

the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.

. . . More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much

fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.--Be ye

doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own

selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he

is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass.

Ro 7:22 Ps 119:97 Jer 15:16 So 2:3 Job 23:12 Ps 40:8 Joh 4:34

Ps 19:8,10 Jas 1:22,23


October 20 -- Evening

The LORD thy God accept thee.

Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself

before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt

offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased

with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of

oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit

of my body [for] the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O

man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but

to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy

God?

We are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses

[are] as filthy rags.--There is none righteous, no, not one.--

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being

justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in

Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation

through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the

remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

to declare . . . at this time his righteousness: that he might

be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Accepted in the beloved.--Ye are complete in him.

2Sa 24:23 Mic 6:6-8 Isa 64:6 Ro 3:10,23-26 Eph 1:6 Col 2:10


October 21 -- Morning

Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.--Behold,

what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we

should be called the sons of God.

[His] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things.--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.

I and [my] Father are one.--The Father [is] in me, and I in

him.--My Father, and your Father; . . . my God, and your God.--I

in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.

The church, which is his body, the fulness of him that

filleth all in all.

Having . . . these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse

ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,

perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Joh 1:16 Mt 17:5 1Jo 3:1 Heb 1:2 Ro 8:17

Joh 10:30,38 20:17 17:23 Eph 1:22,23 2Co 7:1


October 21 -- Evening

The servant is not greater than his lord;

neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

There was . . . a strife among them, which of them should be

accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the

Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise

authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not

[be] so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the

younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For

whether [is] greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that

serveth? [is] not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as

he that serveth.--Even as the Son of man came not to be

ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom

for many.

Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his

hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; he riseth

from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and

girded himself. After that he poureth water into a bason, and

began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe [them] with the

towel wherewith he was girded.

Joh 13:16,17 Lu 22:24-27 Mt 20:28 Joh 13:3-5


October 22 -- Morning

O God, my heart is fixed.

The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be

afraid?

Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is]

stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.--He shall not be

afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the

LORD. His heart [is] established, he shall not be afraid, until

he see [his desire] upon his enemies.

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.--In the time of

trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his

tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And

now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about

me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;

I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

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]. To him [be]

glory and dominion for ever and ever.

Ps 108:1 27:1 Isa 26:3 Ps 112:7,8 56:3 27:5,6 1Pe 5:10,11


October 22 -- Evening

The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens;

and his kingdom ruleth over all.

The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof

[is] of the LORD.--Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD

hath not done [it]?

I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God

beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: that

they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,

that [there is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD, and [there is]

none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace,

and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

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

[among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his

hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?--If God [be] for us, who

[can be] against us?

He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.--

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to

give you the kingdom.

Ps 103:19 Pr 16:33 Am 3:6 Isa 45:5-7 Da 4:35 Ro 8:31

1Co 15:25 Lu 12:32


October 23 -- Morning

A man's life consisteth not

in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the

riches of many wicked.--Better [is] little with the fear of the

LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.--Godliness with

contentment is great gain. . . . Having food and raiment let us

be therewith content.

Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food

convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who

[is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name

of my God [in vain].--Give us this day our daily bread.

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?--When I sent

you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing?

And they said, Nothing.--[Let your] conversation [be] without

covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for

he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Lu 12:15 Ps 37:16 Pr 15:16 1Ti 6:6,8 Pr 30:8,9 Mt 6:11,25

Lu 22:35 Heb 13:5


October 23 -- Evening

It is the spirit that quickeneth.

The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was

made] a quickening spirit.--That which is born of the flesh is

flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.--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.

If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin;

but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. But if the

Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,

he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your

mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

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.--Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but

alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Joh 6:63 1Co 15:45 Joh 3:6 Tit 3:5 Ro 8:9-11 Ga 2:20 Ro 6:11


October 24 -- Morning

I am cast out of thy sight;

yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath

forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she

should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may

forget, yet will I not forget thee.

I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is

perished from the LORD.--Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?

arise, cast [us] not off for ever.--Why sayest thou, O Jacob,

and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my

judgment is passed over from my God?--In a little wrath I hid my

face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will

I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou

disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him,

[who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.--[We are]

troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed,

but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but

not destroyed.

Jon 2:4 Isa 49:14,15 La 3:17,18 Ps 44:23 Isa 40:27 54:8

Ps 43:5 2Co 4:8,9


October 24 -- Evening

[When] the poor and needy seek water,

and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst,

I the LORD will hear them.

[There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good?--What

hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart,

wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days [are]

sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest

in the night.--All [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.--They

have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them

out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.--I will

pour water upon him that is thirsty.--Blessed [are] they which

do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be

filled.

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

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

thirsty land, where no water is.

Isa 41:17 Ps 4:6 Ec 2:22,23,17 Jer 2:13 Joh 6:37 Isa 44:3

Mt 5:6 Ps 63:1


October 25 -- Morning

Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.

If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that

they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is

in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my

name, there am I in the midst of them.--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.

Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and

not unto the world? . . . If a man love me, he will keep my

words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him,

and make our abode with him.

Unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to

present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with

exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and

majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Mt 28:20 Mt 18:19,20 Joh 14:21-23 Jude 1:24,25


October 25 -- Evening

The end of all things is at hand.

I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from

whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.--The heavens and

the earth, which are now, . . . are kept in store, reserved unto

fire against the day of judgment.

God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in

trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be

removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of

the sea; [though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled,

[though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.--Ye

shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not

troubled.

We have a building of God, an house not made with hands,

eternal in the heavens.--We . . . 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.

1Pe 4:7 Re 20:11 2Pe 3:7 Ps 46:1-3 Mt 24:6 2Co 5:1

2Pe 3:13,14


October 26 -- Morning

The LORD reigneth.

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my

presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea

by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the

waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though

they roar, yet can they not pass over it?--Promotion [cometh]

neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up

another.

He changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and

setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge

to them that know understanding.--Ye shall hear of wars and

rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled.

If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?--Are not two

sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on

the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head

are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value

than many sparrows.

Ps 99:1 Jer 5:22 Ps 75:6,7 Da 2:21 Mt 24:6 Ro 8:31 Mt 10:29-31


October 26 -- Evening

Take heed to your spirit.

Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we

forbad him, because he followeth not with us. And Jesus said

unto him, Forbid [him] not: for he that is not against us is for

us.--Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from

heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he . . .

rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are

of.

Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son

of Nun . . . answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. And

Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that

all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would

put his spirit upon them!

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.--And 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. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one

another, envying one another.

Mal 2:15 Lu 9:49,50,54,55 Nu 11:27-29 Ga 5:22-26


October 27 -- Morning

Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] sicknesses.

Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be

cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and

scarlet, and hyssop: and the priest shall command that one of

the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: as

for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and

the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living

bird in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the running

water: and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed

from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and

shall let the living bird loose into the open field.

Behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on [his]

face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst

make me clean.--And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth

[his] hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou

clean. And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy

departed from him, and he was cleansed.

Mt 8:17 Le 14:4-7 Lu 5:12 Mr 1:41,42


October 27 -- Evening

Whom thou blessest [is] blessed.

Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of

heaven. Blessed [are] they that mourn: for they shall be

comforted. Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the

earth. Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after

righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed [are] the

merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed [are] the pure in

heart: for they shall see God. Blessed [are] the peacemakers:

for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed [are]

they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is

the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile

you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil

against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding

glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted

they the prophets which were before you.--Blessed [are] they

that hear the word of God, and keep it.

Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may

have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the

gates into the city.

Nu 22:6 Mt 5:3-12 Lu 11:28 Re 22:14


October 28 -- Morning

He saw that [there was] no man,

and wondered that [there was] no intercessor:

therefore his arm brought salvation unto him.

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast

thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not

required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it

is] written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy

law [is] within my heart.--I lay down my life, that I might take

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

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

[There is] no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour;

[there is] none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all

the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.

--There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby

we must be saved.

Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he

was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his

poverty might be rich.

Isa 59:16 Ps 40:6-8 Joh 10:17,18 Isa 45:21,22 Ac 4:12 2Co 8:9


October 28 -- Evening

The Enemy.

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

roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.--Resist

the devil, and he will flee from you.

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]. Wherefore take unto you the whole

armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day,

and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your

loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of

righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the

gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith,

wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the

wicked.

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall

arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto

me.

Lu 10:19 1Pe 5:8 Jas 4:7 Eph 6:11-16 Mic 7:8


October 29 -- Morning

He [is] altogether lovely.

My meditation of him shall be sweet.--My beloved [is] . . .

the chiefest among ten thousand.--A chief corner stone, elect,

precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

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

thy lips.--God . . . hath highly exalted him, and given him a

name which is above every name.--It pleased [the Father] that in

him should all fulness dwell.

Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see

[him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and

full of glory.

I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the

knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the

loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win

Christ, 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.

So 5:16 Ps 104:34 So 5:10 1Pe 2:6 Ps 45:2 Php 2:9 Col 1:19

1Pe 1:8 Php 3:8,9


October 29 -- Evening

David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal

life.--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.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God:

he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him,

[even] into his ears.--They prevented me in the day of my

calamity: but the LORD was my stay. He brought me forth also

into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall]

continually [be] in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in

the LORD: the humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad. O

magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. I

sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my

fears.--O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is]

the man [that] trusteth in him.

1Sa 30:6 Joh 6:68 2Ti 1:12 Ps 18:6,18,19 Ps 34:1-4,8


October 30 -- Morning

[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait

for the salvation of the LORD.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up

his tender mercies?--I said in my haste, I am cut off from

before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my

supplications when I cried unto thee.

Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night

unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will

avenge them speedily.--Wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

--Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself

because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who

bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set

yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD.

Let us not be weary in well doing: . . . in due season we

shall reap, if we faint not.--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.

La 3:26 Ps 77:9 Ps 31:22 Lu 18:7,8 Pr 20:22 Ps 37:7 2Ch 20:17

Ga 6:9 Jas 5:7


October 30 -- Evening

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines:

for our vines [have] tender grapes.

Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret

[faults].--Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of

God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and

thereby many be defiled.--Ye did run well; who did hinder you

that ye should not obey the truth?

He which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it]

until the day of Jesus Christ.--Only let your conversation be as

it becometh the gospel of Christ.--The tongue is a little

member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a

little fire kindleth! And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of

iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth

the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it

is set on fire of hell. . . . The tongue can no man tame; [it

is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.m-Let your speech [be]

alway with grace, seasoned with salt.

So 2:15 Ps 19:12 Heb 12:15 Ga 5:7 Php 1:6,27 Jas 3:5,6,8

Col 4:6


October 31 -- Morning

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit,

saith the LORD of hosts.

Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his

counsellor hath taught him?

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound

the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to

confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the

world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea],

and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

that no flesh should glory in his presence.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound

thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it

goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.--Born, not of

blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but

of God.

My spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.--The battle [is]

not yours, but God's.

The LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle [is]

the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.

Zec 4:6 Isa 40:13 1Co 1:27-29 Joh 3:8 1:13 Hag 2:5 2Ch 20:15

1Sa 17:47


October 31 -- Evening

Do as thou hast said.

Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy

fear.--So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth

me: for I trust in thy word.--Remember the word unto thy

servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.--Thy statutes

have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.--The law of

thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and

silver.--For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy

faithfulness [is] unto all generations.

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: which

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

and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the

forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus.

Exceeding great and precious promises.

2Sa 7:25 Ps 119:38,42,49,54,72,89,90 Heb 6:17-20 2Pe 1:4


November 1 -- Morning

Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily

at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their

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

mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that

he have mercy upon us.

A continual burnt offering throughout your generations [at]

the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD:

where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.--In all places

where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless

thee.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name,

there am I in the midst of them.

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall

worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father

seeketh such to worship him. God [is] a Spirit: and they that

worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the

Spirit.--Pray without ceasing.

Pr 8:34 Ps 123:2 Ex 29:42 Ex 20:24 Mt 18:20 Joh 4:23,24

Eph 6:18 1Th 5:17


November 1 -- Evening

His name shall be called . . . Counsellor.

The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of

wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the

spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; and shall make

him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD.

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?--

Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons of man. O

ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an

understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things;

and the opening of my lips [shall be] right things.--Counsel

[is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have

strength.

The LORD of hosts . . . is wonderful in counsel, [and]

excellent in working.--If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of

God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and

it shall be given him.--Trust in the LORD with all thine heart;

and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways

acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Isa 9:6 11:2,3 Pr 8:1,4-6,14 Isa 28:29 Jas 1:5 Pr 3:5,6


November 2 -- Morning

Ever follow that which is good.

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also

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

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

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; . . . but committed

[himself] to him that judgeth righteously.--Consider him that

endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye

be wearied and faint in your minds.

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

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

set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of

[our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the

cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of

the throne of God.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever

things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever

things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever

things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if

[there be] any praise, think on these things.

1Th 5:15 1Pe 2:21-23 Heb 12:3,1,2 Php 4:8


November 2 -- Evening

The mighty God.

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

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

thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O [most] mighty, with thy glory and

thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously. . . . Thy

throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy

kingdom [is] a right sceptre.--Thou spakest in vision to thy

holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon [one that is]

mighty.--The man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts.

Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be

afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he

also is become my salvation.--Thanks [be] unto God, which always

causeth us to triumph in Christ.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to

present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with

exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and

majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.

Isa 9:6 Ps 45:2-4,6 89:19 Zec 13:7 Isa 12:2 2Co 2:14

Jude 1:24,25


November 3 -- Morning

The ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk

in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

Unto you . . . which believe [he is] precious: but unto them

which be disobedient, . . . and a stone of stumbling, and a rock

of offence.--The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright:

but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.--Whoso [is] wise,

and will observe these [things], even they shall understand the

lovingkindness of the LORD.--The light of the body is the eye:

if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full

of light.--If any man will do his will, he shall know of the

doctrine, whether it be of God.--Whosoever hath, to him shall be

given, and he shall have more abundance.

He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear

[them] not, because ye are not of God.--Ye will not come to me,

that ye might have life.--My sheep hear my voice, and I know

them, and they follow me.

Ho 14:9 1Pe 2:7,8 Pr 10:29 Mt 11:15 Ps 107:43 Mt 6:22

Joh 7:17 Mt 13:12 Joh 8:47 5:40 10:27


November 3 -- Evening

The everlasting Father.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD.

I and [my] Father are one.--The Father [is] in me, and I in

him.--If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.--

Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it

sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time

with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath

seen me hath seen the Father.--Behold I and the children which

God hath given me.--He shall see of the travail of his soul,

[and] shall be satisfied.--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.--Before Abraham was, I am.--God

said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou

say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Unto the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and

ever.--He is before all things, and by him all things consist.--

In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Isa 9:6 De 6:4 Joh 10:30,38 8:19 14:8,9 Heb 2:13 Isa 53:11

Re 1:8 Joh 8:58 Ex 3:14 Heb 1:8 Col 1:17 2:9


November 4 -- Morning

Now for a season, if need be,

ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial

which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto

you: but 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.--The exhortation which speaketh

unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the

chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.

--Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but

grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit

of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

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.--For in that he himself hath

suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are

tempted.--God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be

tempted above that ye are able.

1Pe 1:6 4:12,13 Heb 12:5,11 4:15 2:18 1Co 10:13


November 4 -- Evening

The Prince of Peace.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor

with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people,

and the little hills, by righteousness. . . . He shall come down

like rain upon the mown grass: as showers [that] water the

earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance

of peace so long as the moon endureth.--Glory to God . . . on

earth peace, good will toward men.

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring

from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in

darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into

the way of peace.--Peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all).

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.--Peace I leave with you, my

peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

--The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep

your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Isa 9:6 Ps 72:2,3,6,7 Lu 2:14 1:78,79 Ac 10:36 Joh 16:33 14:27

Php 4:7


November 5 -- Morning

Take thou also unto thee principal spices, . . .

and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment.

Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye

make [any other] like it, after the composition of it: it [is]

holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you.--One Spirit.--Diversities

of gifts, but the same Spirit.

Thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above

thy fellows.--God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost

and with power.--God giveth not the Spirit by measure [unto

him].

Of his fulness have all we received.--As the same anointing

teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and

even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.--He which

stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is]

God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the

Spirit in our hearts.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such

there is no law.

Ex 30:23,25,32 Eph 4:4 1Co 12:4 Ps 45:7 Ac 10:38 Joh 3:34 1:16

1Jo 2:27 2Co 1:21,22 Ga 5:22,23


November 5 -- Evening

The fashion of this world passeth away.

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine

years: and he died.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of

the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen

with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower

thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth:

so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.--For what [is]

your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little

time, and then vanisheth away.--The world passeth away, and the

lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for

ever.

LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,

what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].--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.

1Co 7:31 Ge 5:27 Jas 1:9-11 4:14 1Jo 2:17 Ps 39:4 1Th 5:3,4


November 6 -- Morning

When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear,

then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me,

though he were dead, yet shall he live.--God hath given to us

eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son

hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with

the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the

dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive [and]

remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to

meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

wherefore comfort one another with these words.--When he shall

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

It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in

weakness; it is raised in power.

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.

Col 3:4 Joh 11:25 1Jo 5:11,12 1Th 4:16-18 1Jo 3:2 1Co 15:43

Joh 14:3


November 6 -- Evening

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me.

When . . . the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you

into all truth.--Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye

know all things.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according

to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.--All

scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable

for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in

righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly

furnished unto all good works.--The holy scriptures . . . are

able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in

Christ Jesus.

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

shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.--The light of the

body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole

body shall be full of light.--If any man will do his will, he

shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God.--The wayfaring

men, though fools, shall not err [therein].

Ps 25:5 Joh 16:13 1Jo 2:20 Isa 8:20 2Ti 3:16,17 2Ti 3:15

Ps 32:8 Mt 6:22 Joh 7:17 Isa 35:8


November 7 -- Morning

Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness,

and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!

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

[that] trusteth in him.--[Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which

thou hast laid up for them that fear thee!

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth

my praise.--Having predestinated us unto the adoption of

children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good

pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace,

wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.--That we should

be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

How great [is] his goodness, and how great [is] his beauty!--

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

his works. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy

saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy

kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make known to the sons of men

his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

Ps 107:8 34:8 31:19 Isa 43:21 Eph 1:5,6,12 Zec 9:17

Ps 145:9-12


November 7 -- Evening

Behold, we count them happy which endure.

We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation

worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience,

hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is

shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto

us.--No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but

grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit

of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.--My

brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect

and entire, wanting nothing.--Blessed [is] the man that endureth

temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of

life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.--Most

gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the

power of Christ may rest upon me. . . . For when I am weak, then

am I strong.

Jas 5:11 Ro 5:3-5 Heb 12:11 Jas 1:2-4,12 2Co 12:9,10


November 8 -- Morning

Let us, who are of the day, be sober,

putting on the breastplate of faith and love;

and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

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.--Stand therefore, having your loins girt about

with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

. . . above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall

be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take

the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is

the word of God.

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will

wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people

shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath

spoken [it]. 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 will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of

things not seen.

1Th 5:8 1Pe 1:13 Eph 6:14,16,17 Isa 25:8,9 Heb 11:1


November 8 -- Evening

The children of Israel pitched before them like two

little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD

[is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys,

therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine

hand, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. And they pitched

one over against the other seven days. And [so] it was, that in

the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of

Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one

day.--Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:

because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the

world.

Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I

[am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;

yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

They shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail

against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver

thee.

1Ki 20:27-29 1Jo 4:4 Isa 41:10 Jer 1:19


November 9 -- Morning

I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty;

I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.

I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no

saviour.--[There is] one God, and one mediator between God and

men, the man Christ Jesus.--There is none other name under

heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

The mighty God.--[Who] made himself of no reputation, and

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

likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled

himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the

cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him

a name which is above every name.--We see Jesus, who was made a

little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned

with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste

death for every man.--Forasmuch . . . as the children are

partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part

of the same.

Ps 89:19 Isa 43:11 1Ti 2:5 Ac 4:12 Isa 9:6 Php 2:7-9

Heb 2:9,14


November 9 -- Evening

Gather my saints together unto me;

those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

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.--He is the mediator of the new testament,

that by means of death, . . . they which are called might

receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be

with me where I am.--Then shall he send his angels, and shall

gather together his elect from the four winds, from the

uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.--If

[any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of heaven,

from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence

will he fetch thee.

The dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive

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

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

with the Lord.

Ps 50:5 Heb 9:28,15 Joh 17:24 Mr 13:27 De 30:4 1Th 4:16,17


November 10 -- Morning

Fruitful in every good work,

and increasing in the knowledge of God.

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

present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto

God, [which is] your reasonable service. And be not conformed to

this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,

that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and

perfect, will of God.--As ye have yielded your members servants

to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield

your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.--In Christ

Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor

uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk

according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so

shall ye be my disciples.--I have chosen you, and ordained you,

that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit

should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my

name, he may give it you.

Col 1:10 Ro 12:1,2 6:19 Ga 6:15,16 Joh 15:8,16


November 10 -- Evening

I sought him, but I found him not.

Return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine

iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto

him, Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God. . . .

but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust,

and enticed. . . . Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good

gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from

the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither

shadow of turning.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen

thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.--[It is] good that [a

man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the

LORD.--Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and

night unto him, though he bear long with them?

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my

salvation.--My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation

[is] from him.

So 3:1 Ho 14:1,2 Jas 1:13,14,16,17 Ps 27:14 Lam 3:26 Lu 18:7

Ps 62:1,5


November 11 -- Morning

He led them on safely.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the

paths of judgment.

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,

and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.--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.

They got not the land in possession by their own sword,

neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and

thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst

a favour unto them.--So didst thou lead thy people, to make

thyself a glorious name.

Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine

enemies; make thy way straight before my face.--O send out thy

light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto

thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the

altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will

I praise thee, O God my God.

Ps 78:53 Pr 8:20 Ex 23:20 Isa 63:9 Ps 44:3 Isa 63:14

Ps 5:8 43:3,4


November 11 -- Evening

Ye are washed, . . .

ye are sanctified, . . . ye are justified.

The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

--The chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his

stripes we are healed.

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

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

the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,

not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it

should be holy and without blemish.--To her was granted that she

should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine

linen is the righteousness of saints.--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.

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is]

God that justifieth.--Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is]

forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered. Blessed [is] the man unto

whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there

is] no guile.

1Co 6:11 1Jo 1:7 Isa 53:5 Eph 5:25-27 Re 19:8 Heb 10:22

Ro 8:33 Ps 32:1,2


November 12 -- Morning

Godly sorrow worketh repentance

to salvation not to be repented of.

Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him,

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

out, and wept bitterly.--If we confess our sins, he is faithful

and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousness.--The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us

from all sin.

Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not

able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head:

therefore my heart faileth me. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver

me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

Turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on

thy God continually.

The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a

contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.--He healeth the

broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.--He hath shewed

thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of

thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly

with thy God?

2Co 7:10 Mt 26:75 1Jo 1:9,7 Ps 40:12,13 Ho 12:6

Ps 51:17 147:3 Mic 6:8


November 12 -- Evening

[Is it] well with thee? . . .

And she answered, [It is] well.

We having the same spirit of faith.

As chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway

rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and

[yet] possessing all things.

[We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are]

perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken;

cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body

the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might

be made manifest in our body.--For which cause we faint not; but

though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed

day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,

worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of

glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at

the things which are not seen.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and

be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

2Ki 4:26 2Co 4:13 2Co 6:9,10 4:8-10,16-18 3Jo 1:2


November 13 -- Morning

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

that he might sanctify and cleanse it

with the washing of water by the word.

Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given

himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a

sweetsmelling savour.

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of

incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for

ever.--Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.--

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

enter into the kingdom of God.--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.--

Thy word hath quickened me.

The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the

testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple. The

statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the

commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.

Eph 5:25,26,2 1Pe 1:23 Joh 17:17 3:5 Tit 3:5 Ps 119:50 19:7,8


November 13 -- Evening

Through him we both have access

by one Spirit unto the Father.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in

one.

Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the

Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in

my name, I will do [it]. . . . 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; whom the world cannot

receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye

know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.--[There

is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope

of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and

Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you

all.--When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven.

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the

holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, . . .

Let us draw near.

Eph 2:18 Joh 17:23 14:13,14,16,17 Eph 4:4-6 Lu 11:2

Heb 10:19,20,22


November 14 -- Morning

Thou [art] my help and my deliverer;

make no tarrying, O my God.

The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he

delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly

cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.--In the

fear of the LORD [is] strong confidence: and his children shall

have a place of refuge.--Who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be

afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which]

shall be made [as] grass; and forgettest the LORD thy maker?

I [am] with thee to deliver thee.--Be strong and of a good

courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God,

he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor

forsake thee.

I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy

in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the

day of my trouble.--Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt

preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs

of deliverance.

Ps 40:17 37:23,24 Pr 14:26 Isa 51:12,13 Jer 1:8 De 31:6

Ps 59:16 32:7


November 14 -- Evening

How wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

For Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest.

The priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD

stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the

Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were

passed clean over Jordan.

We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for

the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he

by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

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.--When thou passest through the waters, I [will

be] with thee.

Fear not; I am the first and the last: I [am] he that liveth,

and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and

have the keys of hell and of death.

Jer 12:5 Jos 3:15,17 Heb 2:9 Ps 23:4 Isa 43:2 Re 1:17,18


November 15 -- Morning

God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called

unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without

wavering; for he [is] faithful that promised.--God hath said, I

will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.--Truly our fellowship [is] with the

Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.--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.

That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to

comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length,

and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which

passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness

of God.

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God

dwelleth in him, and he in God.--And he that keepeth his

commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him.

1Co 1:9 Heb 10:23 2Co 6:16 1Jo 1:3 1Pe 4:13 Eph 3:17-19

1Jo 4:15 3:24


November 15 -- Evening

We are his workmanship.

They brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones,

to lay the foundation of the house.--The house, when it was in

building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought

thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe [nor] any tool

of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

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

Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus

Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; in whom all the

building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in

the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation

of God through the Spirit.--Which in time past [were] not a

people, but [are] now the people of God.

[Ye are] God's building.--Therefore if any man [be] in

Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away;

behold, all things are become new.--Now he that hath wrought us

for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the

earnest of the Spirit.

Eph 2:10 1Ki 5:17 6:7 1Pe 2:5 Eph 2:20-22 1Pe 2:10 1Co 3:9

2Co 5:17 2Co 5:5


November 16 -- Morning

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto

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

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed

[thereto] according to thy word. With my whole heart have I

sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is

pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee,

understanding shall keep thee.

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

declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his

lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my

necessary [food].--I have more understanding than all my

teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation.--If ye

continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed; and ye

shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Joh 17:17 15:3 Col 3:16 Ps 119:9,10 Pr 2:10,11 Job 23:11,12

Ps 119:99 Joh 8:31,32