complied by Samuel Bagster
August 1 morning
The fruit of the Spirit is ... faith.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. - Without faith it is impossible to please him. - He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. - Faith worketh by love. - Faith without works is dead.
We walk by faith, not by sight. - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
GAL. 5:22. Eph. 2:8. Heb. 11:6. John 3:18. -Mark. 9:24. I John 2:5. -Gal. 5:6. -Jas. 2:20. II Cor. 5:7. Gal. 2:20. I Pet. 1:8,9.
August 1 evening
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. - The LORD is gracious and full of compassion. He will ever be mindful of his covenant.
He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faith-fulness.
Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compas-sion toward them, and he healed their sick. - The same yesterday, and today, and forever.
The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. Fear ye not therefore.
JAS. 5:11. Psa. 103:13. Psa. 111:4,5. Psa. 121:3,4. Deut. 32:11,12. Lam. 3:22,23. Matt. 14:14. Heb. 13:8. Matt. 10:30,29,31.
August 2 morning
The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, ... and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it, ... and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. - The blood of sprinkling. - Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. - Being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. - According to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 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.
REV. 13:8. Exo. 12:5 7,13. Heb. 12:24. I Cor. 5:7. Acts 2:23. II Tim. 1:9. Eph. 1:7. I Pet. 4:1,2.
August 2 evening
I have trodden the winepress alone.
Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? - He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. - Being made a curse for us.
O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. - Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. - 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.
O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. - We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. - They overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.
ISA. 63:3. Exo. 15:11. Isa. 59:16. I Pet. 2:24. Gal. 3:13. Psa. 98:1. Col. 2:l5. Isa. 53:11. Judg. 5:21. Rom. 8:37. Rev. 12:11.
August 3 morning
His mercy is on them that fear Him.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. - The LORD is nigh unto all them 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.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, ... and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. - To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. - The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
LUKE 1:50. Psa. 31:19,20. I Pet. 1:17. -Psa. 145:18,19. II Kgs. 22:19. Isa. 66:2. -Psa. 34:18.
August 3 evening
Them that honour me I will honour.
Whosoever ... shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
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.
Fear none of these things which thou shalt suffer. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. - Praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
I SAM. 2:30. Matt. 10:32. Matt. 10:37 39. Jas. 1:12. Rev. 2:10. II Cor. 4:17. I Pet. 1:7.
August 4 morning
It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. - I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. - We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering an offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. - Blotting out the handwriting of ordin-ances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.
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. - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
JOHN 19:30. Heb. 12:2. -John 17:4. -Heb. 10:10-14. -Col. 2:14. John 10:17,18. John. 15:13.
August 4 evening
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
He brought me up ... out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. - You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world. We all had our conversation in times past in the lusts our flesh.
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed. - Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. - We went through fire and through water: thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.
PSA. 18:16. Psa. 40:2. -Eph. 2:1,3. Psa. 61:1,2. -Jon. 2:2,3. -Psa. 66:12. Isa. 43:2.
August 5 morning
Walk in newness of life.
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. - 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.
If any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. - In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy. - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind. - Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
ROM. 6:4. Rom. 6:19. -Rom. 12:1,2. II Cor. 5:17. -Gal. 6:15,16. Eph. 4:17. -Eph. 4:20,21,24.
August 5 evening
Thy will be done.
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. - Not as I will, but as thou wilt. - Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Ye know not what ye ask. - He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. - These things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
I would have you without carefulness. - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
MATT. 26:42. Jer. 10:23. -Matt. 26:39. -Psa. 131:2. Rom. 8:26,27. Matt. 20:22. -Psa. 106:15. -I Cor. 10:6. I Cor. 7:32. -Isa. 26:3.
August 6 morning
Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth.
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. - I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. - My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. - As a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. - Now no chastening for the present, seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of right-eousness unto them which are exercised thereby. - Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
PROV. 3:12. Deut. 32:39. Jer. 29:11. Isa. 55:8. Hos. 2:14. Deut. 8:5. Heb. 12:11. I Pet. 5:6. Psa. 119:75.
August 6 evening
The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
She did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and my flax.
All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O LORD our God, all this store ... cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. - Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
The living God ... giveth us richly all things to enjoy. - Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
PSA. 24:1. Hos. 2:8,9. I Chr. 29:14 16. Rom. 11:36. I Tim. 6:17. I Tim. 4:4,5. Phi. 4:19.
August 7 morning
The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name.
If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. - If ye ... being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? - 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. - Ye have not, because ye ask not.
When ... the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
They rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.
JOHN 14:26. John 4:10. -Luke 11:13. John 16:23,24. -Jas. 4:2. John 16:13,14. Isa. 63:10.
August 7 evening
What think ye of Christ?
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. - He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Unto you ... which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobed-ient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. - Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
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. - Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee.
MATT. 22:42. Psa. 24:9,10. Rev. 9:16. I Pet. 2:7. I Cor. 1:23,24. Phi. 3:8. John 21:17.
August 8 morning
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD.
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. - 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. - When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. - For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. - Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
PROV. 4:18. Phi. 3:12. -Hos. 6:3. Matt. 13:43. -II Cor. 3:18. -I Cor. 13:10,12. -I John. 3:2,3.
August 8 evening
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. - Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. - What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
If ye ... being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? - I will put my Spirit within you. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of.
This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, what-soever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
ROM. 10:13. John 6:37. -Luke 23:42,43. Matt. 20:32 34. Luke 11:13. -Eze. 6:27,37. I John 5:14,15.
August 9 morning
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mol-lified with ointment. - We are all as an unclean thing, and all our right-eousnesses are as filthy rags. - I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.
Ye are washed, ... ye are sanctified, ... ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. - The King's daughter is all glorious within. - Perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us.
These are they which ... have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. - A glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but ... holy and without blemish. - Ye are complete in him.
SONG 4:7. Isa. 1:5,6. Isa. 64:6. -Rom. 7:18. I Cor. 6:11. Psa. 45:13. Ezek. 16:14. Psa. 90:17. Rev. 7:14. Eph. 5:27. Col. 2:10.
August 9 evening
Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Eve ... bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. The LORD scattered them. - Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the LORD. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I gathered me also silver and gold. Then I looked on all, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. - He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
JER. 2:13. Gen. 4:1. Gen. 11:4,8. Gen. 13:11,10,13. Eccl. 1:17,18. -Eccl. 2:4,8,11. John 7:37. Psa. 107:9. Col. 3:2.
August 10 morning
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. - Ye are the salt of the earth, ... the light of the world. - Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is heaven.
I also withheld thee from sinning against me.
The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. - So did not I, because of the fear of God. - Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. - 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. Amen.
JOHN 17:15. Phi. 2:15. Matt. 5:13,14. -Matt. 5:16. Gen. 20:6. II Thes. 3:3. Neh. 5:15. Gal. 1:4. Jude 24,25.
August 10 evening
Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. (Or, set on high)
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high. - The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; that he may set him with princes.
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
PROV. 29:25. Isa. 33:5. Psa. 113:4,7,8. Eph. 2:4 6. Rom. 8:32,38,39.
August 11 morning
That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death.
Our Saviour Jesus Christ ... hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. - He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD shall wipe away the 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. When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
HEB. 2:14. II Tim. 1:10. Isa. 25:8. -I Cor. 15:54 57. II Tim. 1:7. Psa. 23:4.
August 11 evening
Where is the way that light dwelleth?
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. - As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. - The Father ... hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son; in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. - Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
JOB 38:19. I John 1:5. John 9:5. I John 1:6,7. Col 1:12 14. I Thes. 5:5. Matt. 5:14,16.
August 12 morning
The Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion.
Fear thou not, ... saith the LORD: for I am with thee; I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure. - For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 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. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
LAM. 3:31,32. Jer. 46:28. -Isa. 54:7,8,10,11. Mic. 7:9.
August 12 evening
God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
When the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud, ... a man lefthanded. After him was Shamgar, ... which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
The LORD looked upon [Gideon], and said, Go in this thy might: ... have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, O my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
The LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me, ... lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
I COR. 1:27. Judg. 3:15,31. Judg. 7:2. Zech. 4:6. -Eph. 6:10.
August 13 morning
He hath prepared for them a city.
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. - An inheritance incorrup-tible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. - Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. - Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the the Lord draweth nigh. - Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
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.
HEB. 11:16. John 14:3. I Pet. 1:4. Heb. 13:14. Acts 1:11. Jas. 5:7,8. Heb. 10:37. I Thes. 4:17,18.
August 13 evening
Base things of the world hath God chosen.
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covet-ous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world; 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.
According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
I COR. 1:28. I Cor. 6:9 11. Eph. 2:1 3. Tit. 3:5,6. Isa. 55:8.
August 14 morning
The joy of the Lord is your strength.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth with singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people and will have mercy upon his afflicted. - 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. - 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. - My soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ those things which pertain to God. - We ... joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. - I will joy in the God of my salvation.
NEH. 8:10. Isa. 49:13. Isa.12:2. Psa. 28:7. Isa. 61:10. Rom. 15:17. Rom. 5:11. -Hab. 3:18.
August 14 evening
He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure.
I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.
We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Moreover whom be did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
II SAM. 23:5. II Tim. 1:12. Eph. 1:3 5. Rom. 8:28 30.
August 15 morning
The God of peace make you perfect in every good work to do his will.
Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast. - 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.
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. - Be ye trans-formed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. - Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.
HEB. 13:20,21. II Cor. 13:11. Eph. 2:8,9. -Jas. 1:17. Phi. 2:12,13. -Rom. 12:2. -Phi. 1:11. II Cor. 3:5.
August 15 evening
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. - Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Jesus, ... that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered with-out the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
[Jesus] said, ... Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. - The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
HOS. 2:14: II Cor. 6:17,l5. -II Cor. 7:1. Heb. 13:12,13. Mark 6:31. Psa. 23:1-3.
August 16 morning
The house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical.
Ye ... as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house. - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. - Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. - What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. - Ye ... are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.
I CHR. 22:5. I Pet. 2:5. I Cor. 3:16,17. I Cor. 6:19,20. II Cor. 6:16. Eph. 2:19 22.
August 16 evening
He is before all things.
The Amen; the beginning of the creation of God. - The beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre eminence.
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment. I was daily his delight rejoicing always before him. - Yea, before the day was I am he.
The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. - 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.
COL. 1:17. Rev. 3:14. Col. 1:18. Prov. 8:22,23,27,30. Isa. 43:13. Rev. 13:8. Heb. 12:2.
August 17 morning
Pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. - Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. - Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
JAS. 5:16. Gen. 18:27,28. Luke 23:34. Matt. 5:44. John 17:9,20. Gal. 6:2. Jas. 5:16,17.
August 17 evening
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place therof shall know it no more.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. - What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. - The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. - Use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. - Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
PSA. 103:15,16. Psa. 90:12. Mark 8:36. Isa. 40:7,8. I John 2:17. II Cor. 6:2. I Cor. 7:31. Heb. 10:24,25.
August 18 morning
What God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
Who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? - Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. - For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them. Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those thing which are revealed belong unto us and to our children.
DEUT. 3:24. Psa. 89:6,8. Psa. 86:8. II Sam. 7:21,22. I Cor. 2:9,10. Deut. 29:29.
August 18 evening
He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD.
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. - I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. - I have whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. - My heart rejoiceth in the LORD. ... I rejoice in thy salvation.
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
I COR. 1:31. Jer. 9:23,24. Phi. 3:8. Rom. 1:16. Rom. 15:17. Psa. 73:25. -I Sam. 2:1. Psa. 115:1.
August 19 morning
As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.
Ye know how we exhorted ... and charged every one of you, that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. - Ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. - Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
I PET. 1:15. I Thes. 2:11,12. -I Pet. 2:9. Eph. 5:8-11. Phi. 1:11. Matt. 5:16. -I Cor. 10:31.
August 19 evening
Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
A new heart ... will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.
If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything 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.
Have faith in God. Verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
ISA. 45:11. Ezek. 36:26,27,37. Matt. 18:19,20. Mark 11:22,23.
August 20 morning
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent.
The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turn-ing. - Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.
His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the im-mutability 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.
The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. - All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testi-monies. - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God ... which keepeth truth for ever.
NUM. 23:19. Jas. 1:17. Heb. 13:8. Psa. 91:4. Heb. 6:17,18. Deut. 7:9. Psa. 25:10. Psa. 146:5,6.
August 20 evening
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. - He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him. - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee.
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things per-taining to God, ... who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way: so also Christ, ... though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
PROV. 24:10. Isa. 40:29. II Cor. 12:9. Psa. 91:15. Deut. 33:27. Psa. 69:20. Heb. 5:1,2,5,8,9. Isa. 53:4.
August 21 morning
Thou art my portion, O Lord.
All things are yours; ... and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ ... gave himself for us. - God gave him to be the head over all things to the church. - Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD. - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. - O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord. The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintamest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
PSA. 119:57. I Cor. 3:21,23. -Tit. 2:13,14. Eph. 1:22. Eph. 5:25,27. Psa. 34:2. Isa. 61:10. Psa. 73:25,26. Psa. 16:2,5,6.
August 21 evening
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. - Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye.
PROV. 14:12. Psa. 28:26. Psa. 119:105. Psa. 17:4. Deut. 13:1 4. Psa. 32:8.
August 22 morning
None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. - Let no man seek his own: but every man another's wealth. - Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.
I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
ROM. 14:7. Rom. 14:8. I Cor. 10:24. I Cor. 6:20. Phi. 1:20 23. Gal. 2:19,20.
August 22 evening
God gave Solomon ... largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. - The Prince of Peace.
Scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. - Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. - The love of Christ passeth knowledge.
Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. - In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. - The unsearchable riches of Christ. - Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
I KGS. 4:29. Matt. 12:42. Isa. 9:6. Rom. 5:7,8. Phi. 2:6 8. Eph. 3:19. I Cor. 1:24. Col. 2:3. Eph. 3:8. I Cor. 1:33.
August 23 morning
I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
We are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. - God ... hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
JER. 31:3. II Thes. 2:13,14. II Tim. 1:9. Psa. 139:16. John 3:16. I John 4:10.
August 23 evening
I have made, and I will bear.
Thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. - Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you.
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him. - He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. - For I am persuaded, that neither ... 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.
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.
ISA. 46:4. Isa. 43:1,2. Isa. 46:4. Deut. 32:11,12. Isa. 63:9. Heb. 13:8. Rom. 8:38,39. Isa. 49:15.
August 24 morning
I know their sorrows.
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. - Touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. - Jesus being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.
When Jesus ... saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. Jesus wept. - For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death. - He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. - When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.
He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. - In all their affliction he was afflicted; and the angel of his presence saved them.
EXO. 3:7. Isa. 53:3. Heb. 4:15. Matt. 8:17. -John 4:6. John 11:33,35. Heb. 2:18. Psa. 102:19,20. Job 23:10. Psa. 142:3. Zech. 2:8. Isa. 63:9.
August 24 evening
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. - He that watereth shall be watered.
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest: behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season. - Occupy till I come.
I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
JOHN 9:4. Prov. 13:4. Prov. 11:25. John 4:34-36. Matt. 20:1,2. II Tim. 4:2. Luke 19:13. I Cor. 15:10.
August 25 morning
Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity. - None eye pitied thee but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, Live.
He brought me up ... out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.
When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. - God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.
ISA 51:1. Psa. 51:5. Ezek. 16:5,6. Psa. 40:2,3. Rom. 5:6 8. -Eph. 2:4,5.
August 25 evening
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God.
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. - The LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. - Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Is any merry? let him sing psalms. - Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the LORD; giving thanks always for all things. - Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. - Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again, I say, Rejoice.
ISA. 61:10. Psa. 34:1 3. Psa. 84:11,12. -Psa. 103:1. Jas. 5:13. Eph. 5:18 20. -Col. 3:16. Acts 16:25. Phi. 4:4.
August 26 morning
Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
Holiness, without which no man can see the Lord. - God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. - I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.
This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. - Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. - Seeing ... that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us ... come boldly unto the throne of grace. that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
EXO. 28:36. Heb. 12:14. John. 4:24. Isa. 64:6. Lev. 10:3. Ezek. 43:12. Psa. 93:5. John 17:19. Heb. 4:14,16.
August 26 evening
My cup runneth over.
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. - His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. - Whether ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's. - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. - Godliness with contentment is great gain. - My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
PSA. 23:5. Psa. 34:8-10. Lam. 3:22,23. Psa. 16:5,6. I Cor. 3:22. Eph. 1:3. Phi. 4:11. I Tim. 6:6. -Phi. 4:19.
August 27 morning
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. - When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light. - Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. - We have also a sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. - Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. - They need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
PSA. 119:105. Psa. 17:4,5. Prov. 6:22,23. Isa. 30:21. John 8:12. II Pet. 1:19. I Cor. 13:12. Rev. 22:5.
August 27 evening
What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise.
This is not your rest: ... it is polluted, it shall destroy you. - Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. - If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. - Set your heart and your soul to seek your God: arise therefore.
Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. - Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. - Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. - Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he finds you sleeping.
JON. 1:6. Mic. 2:10. Col. 3:2. Psa. 62:10. I Chr. 22:19. Luke 22:46. Luke 21:34. Matt. 25:5. -Heb. 10:37. Rom. 13:11. Mark 13:35,36.
August 28 morning
The accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly. - That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. - In all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. And take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. - Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
REV. 12:10. Rev. 12:11. Rom. 8:33,34. Col. 2:15. Heb. 2:14,15. Rom. 8:37. Eph. 6:11,17. I Cor. 15:57.
August 28 evening
The tree of life.
God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. - He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. Length of days is in her right hand. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. - Christ Jesus, ... is made unto us wisdom.
GEN. 2:9. I John 5:11. John 3:16. John 5:21,26. Rev. 2:7. Rev. 22:2. Prov. 3:13,16,18. I Cor. 1:30.
August 29 morning
Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.
[Abrahaml staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. - The children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
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. - It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. - 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.
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
PROV. 16:20. Rom. 4:20,21. II Chr. 13:18. Psa. 46:1,2. Psa. 118:8,9. -Psa. 37:23,24. Psa. 34:8,9.
August 29 evening
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. - Even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings. - He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. - The darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? - Ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. - I will trust, and not be afraid.
PSA. 4:8. Psa. 91:5,4. -Matt. 23:37. Psa. 121:3 5. Psa. 61:4. Psa. 139:12. Rom. 8:32. I Cor. 3:23. Isa. 12:2.
August 30 morning
The king held out ... the golden sceptre. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
It shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.
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. - For through him we ... have access by one Spirit unto the Father. - We have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. - Let us there-fore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
ESTH. 5:2. Exo. 22:27. I John 4:16 19. Heb. 10:22. Eph. 2:18. Eph. 3:12. Heb. 4:16.
August 30 evening
They said, ... it is manna: for they wist not what it was.
Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh. - The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. - If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. - My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
The children of Israel ... gathered, some more, some less. He that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack. They gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating.
Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat: or, What shall we drink? Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
EXO. 16:15. I Tim. 3:16. John 6:33. John 6:49,51,55. Luke 16:17,18,21. Exo. 16:17,18,21. Matt. 6:31 33.
August 31 morning
The free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - Not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. - And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
ROM. 5:16. Isa. 1:18. Isa. 43:25,26. Isa. 44:22. John 3:16. Rom. 5:15. I Cor. 6:11.
August 31 evening
Occupy till I come.
The Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. - Unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
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? - Leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. - Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it. - Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
LUKE 19:13. Mark 13:34. Matt. 25:15. John 9:4. Luke 2:49. I Pet. 2:21. II Tim. 4:2. -I Cor. 3:13. I Cor. 15:58.
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