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.

1Co 1:31 Jer 9:23,24 Php 3:8 Ro 1:16 15:17 Ps 73:25 1Sa 2:1

Ps 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 sometimes 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.

1Pe 1:15 1Th 2:11,12 1Pe 2:9 Eph 5:8-11 Php 1:11 Mt 5:16

1Co 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 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.

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

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

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

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

shall have whatsoever he saith.

Isa 45:11 Eze 36:26,27,37 Mt 18:19,20 Mr 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 turning.--Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day,

and for ever.

His truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.

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.

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 testimonies.--Happy [is

he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is]

in the LORD his God: which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and

all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever.

Nu 23:19 Jas 1:17 Heb 13:8 Ps 91:4 Heb 6:17,18 De 7:9

Ps 25:10 146:5,6


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, and honour 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 [pertaining] 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.

Pr 24:10 Isa 40:29 2Co 12:9 Ps 91:15 De 33:27 Ps 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: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee.--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.

Ps 119:57 1Co 3:21,23 Tit 2:13,14 Eph 1:22 5:25,27 Ps 34:2

Isa 61:10 Ps 73:25,26 Ps 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,

and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder

come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, 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, or

that dreamer of dreams: 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.

Pr 14:12 28:26 Ps 119:105 17:4 De 13:1-4 Ps 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.

Ro 14:7,8 1Co 10:24 6:20 Php 1:20-23 Ga 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.

1Ki 4:29 Mt 12:42 Isa 9:6 Ro 5:7,8 Php 2:6-8 Eph 3:19

1Co 1:24 Col 2:3 Eph 3:8 1Co 1:30


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 an 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 2Th 2:13,14 2Ti 1:9 Ps 139:16 Joh 3:16 1Jo 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 to day, and for ever.--

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 43:1,2 46:4 De 32:11,12 Isa 63:9 Heb 13:8 Ro 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: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he

bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Ex 3:7 Isa 53:3 Heb 4:15 Mt 8:17 Joh 4:6 11:33,35 Heb 2:18

Ps 102:19,20 Job 23:10 Ps 142.3 Zec 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 also himself.

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.

Joh 9:4 Pr 13:4 Pr 11:25 Joh 4:34-36 Mt 20:1,2 2Ti 4:2

Lu 19:13 1Co 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 lothing

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 an 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 Ps 51:5 Eze 16:5,6 Ps 40:2,3 Ro 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 Ps 34:1-3 84:11,12 103:1 Jas 5:13 Eph 5:18-20

Col 3:16 Ac 16:25 Php 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 shall 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.

Ex 28:36 Heb 12:14 Joh 4:24 Isa 64:6 Le 10:3 Eze 43:12

Ps 93:5 Joh 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 yours.--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.

Ps 23:5 34:8-10 La 3:22,23 Ps 16:5,6 1Co 3:22 Eph 1:3 Php 4:11

1Ti 6:6 Php 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 17:4,5 Pr 6:22,23 Isa 30:21 Joh 8:12 2Pe 1:19

1Co 13:12 Re 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 the LORD 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 find you sleeping.

Jon 1:6 Mic 2:10 Col 3:2 Ps 62:10 1Ch 22:19 Lu 22:46 21:34

Mt 25:5 Heb 10:37 Ro 13:11 Mr 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, triumphing over them in it.--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 helmet of salvation, and the sword

of the Spirit, which is the word of God.--But thanks [be] to

God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Re 12:10,11 Ro 8:33,34 Col 2:15 Heb 2:14,15 Ro 8:37

Eph 6:11,17 1Co 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.

Ge 2:9 1Jo 5:11 Joh 3:16 5:21,26 Re 2:7 22:2 Pr 3:13,16,18

1Co 1:30


August 29 -- Morning

Whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy [is] he.

[Abraham] 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 Israel were brought under at

that time, and 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.

Pr 16:20 Ro 4:20,21 2Ch 13:18 Ps 46:1,2 118:8,9 37:23,24

Ps 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.

Ps 4:8 91:5,4 Mt 23:37 Ps 121:3-5 61:4 139:12 Ro 8:32 1Co 3:23

Isa 12:2


August 30 -- Morning

The king held out . . . the golden sceptre

that [was] in his hand. 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 therefore

come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy,

and find grace to help in time of need.

Es 5:2 Ex 22:27 1Jo 4:16-19 Heb 10:22 Eph 2:18 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 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.

Ex 16:15 1Ti 3:16 Joh 6:33,49,51,55 Ex 16:17,18,21 Mt 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.

Ro 5:16 Isa 1:18 43:25,26 44:22 Joh 3:16 Ro 5:15 1Co 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.

Lu 19:13 Mr 13:34 Mt 25:15 Joh 9:4 Lu 2:49 1Pe 2:21 2Ti 4:2

1Co 3:13 15:58


September 1 -- Morning

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . meekness.

The meek . . . shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and

the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.--

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall

not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall

humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the

kingdom of heaven.--[The ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit,

. . . is in the sight of God of great price.--Charity vaunteth

not itself, is not puffed up.

Follow after . . . meekness.--Take my yoke upon you, and

learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart.--He was

oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he

is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her

shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.--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.

Ga 5:22,23 Isa 29:19 Mt 18:3,4 1Pe 3:4 1Co 13:4 1Ti 6:11

Mt 11:29 Isa 53:7 1Pe 2:21-23


September 1 -- Evening

If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself,

and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report.--All

that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.--

--The offence of the cross ceased.

If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye];

. . . but let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief,

or [as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed;

but let him glorify God on this behalf.

Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to

believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.--If one died

for all, then were all dead: And [that] he died for all, that

they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but

unto him which died for them, and rose again.--If we suffer, we

shall also reign with [him].

Lu 9:23 2Co 6:8 2Ti 3:12 Ga 5:11 1:10 1Pe 4:14-16 Php 1:29

2Co 5:14,15 2Ti 2:12


September 2 -- Morning

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage,

and he shall strengthen thine heart.

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the

everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,

fainteth not, neither is weary? . . . He giveth power to the

faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.

--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.

--Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy

in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the

heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm

[against] the wall.

The trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience

have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,

wanting nothing.--Cast not away therefore your confidence, which

hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience,

that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the

promise.

Ps 27:14 Isa 40:28,29 41:10 25:4 Jas 1:3,4 Heb 10:35,36


September 2 -- Evening

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

The wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest.

. . . [There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I

will give you rest.--Rest in the LORD.--He that is entered into

his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For

[it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace.--

That we . . . be no more children, tossed to and fro, and

carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of

men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to

deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in

all things, which is the head, [even] Christ.

I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit

[was] sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house,

and his banner over me [was] love.

Ps 23:2 Isa 57:20,21 Mt 11:28 Ps 37:7 Heb 4:10 13:9

Eph 4:14,15 So 2:3,4


September 3 -- Morning

Neither shall there be leaven seen

with thee in all thy quarters.

The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil.--Abhor that which is

evil.--Abstain from all appearance of evil.--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.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear

[me].

Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,

as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed

for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,

neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the

unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.--Let a man examine

himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that]

cup.

Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from

iniquity.--Such an high priest became us, [who is] holy,

harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.--In him is no sin.

Ex 13:7 Pr 8:13 Ro 12:9 1Th 5:22 Heb 12:15 Ps 66:18

1Co 5:6-8 11:28 2Ti 2:19 Heb 7:26 1Jo 3:5


September 3 -- Evening

The serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

. . . your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,

knowing good and evil.

I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve

through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the

simplicity that is in Christ.

My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his

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

stand against the wiles of the devil.--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. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the

Spirit, which is the word of God.--Lest Satan should get an

advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Ge 3:4,5 2Co 11:3 Eph 6:10,11,13-17 2Co 2:11


September 4 -- Morning

Sit still, my daughter.

Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted.--

Be still, and know that I [am] God.--Said I not unto thee, that,

if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?--

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of

men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in

that day.

Mary, . . . sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.--Mary

hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from

her.--In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and

in confidence shall be your strength.--Commune with your own

heart upon your bed, and be still.

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.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,

trusting in the LORD. His heart [is] established.

He that believeth shall not make haste.

Ru 3:18 Isa 7:4 Ps 46:10 Joh 11:40 Isa 2:17 Lu 10:39,42

Isa 30:15 Ps 4:4 37:7 112:7,8 Isa 28:16


September 4 -- Evening

What I do thou knowest not now;

but thou shalt know hereafter.

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

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

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

wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

When I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time

[was] the time of love; . . . yea, I sware unto thee, and

entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou

becamest mine.--Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

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.--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.

Joh 13:7 De 8:2 Eze 16:8 Heb 12:6 1Pe 4:12,13 2Co 4:17,18


September 5 -- Morning

As the body is one, and hath many members,

. . . so also [is] Christ.

He is the head of the body, the church.--The head over all

[things] to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him

that filleth all in all.--We are members of his body, of his

flesh, and of his bones.

A body hast thou prepared me.--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.

Thine they were, and thou gavest them me.--He hath chosen us

in him before the foundation of the world.--Whom he did

foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the

image of his Son.

Grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even]

Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together and

compacted by that which every joint supplieth, . . . maketh

increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

1Co 12:12 Col 1:18 Eph 1:22,23 5:30 Heb 10:5 Ps 139:16

Joh 17:6 Eph 1:4 Ro 8:29 Eph 4:15,16


September 5 -- Evening

The fountain of living waters.

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

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

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy

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

pleasures. For with thee [is] the fountain of life.

Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but

ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye

shall be thirsty.--Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall

give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him

shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting

life.--This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on

him should receive.

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.--The

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

Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let

him take the water of life freely.

Jer 2:13 Ps 36:7-9 Isa 65:13 Joh 4:14 7:39 Isa 55:1 Re 22:17


September 6 -- Morning

Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands

unto God in the heavens.

Who [is] like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,

who humbleth [himself] to behold [the things that are] in

heaven, and in the earth!--Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my

soul.--I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth]

after thee, as a thirsty land. . . . Hide not thy face from me,

lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. Cause me to

hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust:

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

soul unto thee.

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

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

lift up my hands in thy name.--Rejoice the soul of thy servant:

for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord,

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

all them that call upon thee.

Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.

La 3:41 Ps 113:5,6 25:1 143:6-8 63:3,4 86:4,5 Joh 14:13


September 6 -- Evening

Watchman, what of the night?

[It is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our

salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent,

the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of

darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet

tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh:

so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it

is near, [even] at the doors.--Heaven and earth shall pass away,

but my words shall not pass away.

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.

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come

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

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

wherein the Son of man cometh.

Isa 21:11 Ro 13:11,12 Mt 24:32,33,35 Ps 130:5,6 Re 22:20

Mt 25:13


September 7 -- Morning

Rejoicing in hope.

The hope which is laid up for you in heaven.--If in this life

only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.--

We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

--Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot

be my disciple.--No man should be moved by these afflictions:

for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

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

God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that

ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.--

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which

according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a

lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.--

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.--By whom also we have access by faith into this grace

wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Ro 12:12 Col 1:5 1Co 15:19 Ac 14:22 Lu 14:27 1Th 3:3 Php 4:4

Ro 15:13 1Pe 1:3,8 Ro 5:2


September 7 -- Evening

I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me.

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

thoughts of peace, and not of evil.--My thoughts [are] not your

thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For

[as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways

higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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

is the sum of them! [If] I should count them, they are more in

number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.--O

LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very deep.

--Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou

hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward.

Not many mighty, not many noble, [are called].--Hath not God

chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the

kingdom?--Having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.--The

unsearchable riches of Christ.

Ps 40:17 Jer 29:11 Isa 55:8,9 Ps 139:17,18 92:5 40:5 1Co 1:26

Jas 2:5 2Co 6:10 Eph 3:8


September 8 -- Morning

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

The LORD [is] a God of knowledge, and by him actions are

weighed.--That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination

in the sight of God.--[The LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man

looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the

heart.--Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man

soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh

shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the

Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and

lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his

soul?--What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for

Christ.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts.--Thou hast

proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou

hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing.

Da 5:27 1Sa 2:3 Lu 16:15 1Sa 16:7 Ga 6:7,8 Mt 16:26 Php 3:7

Ps 51:6 17:3


September 8 -- Evening

Christ the firstfruits.

Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it

abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.--If

the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the

root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.--Now is Christ risen from

the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.--If

we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we

shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection.--The Lord

Jesus Christ . . . shall change our vile body, that it may be

fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working

whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

The firstborn from the dead.--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 am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me,

though he were dead, yet shall he live.

1Co 15:23 Joh 12:24 Ro 11:16 1Co 15:20 Ro 6:5 Php 3:20,21

Col 1:18 Ro 8:11 Joh 11:25


September 9 -- Morning

He hath filled the hungry with good things;

and the rich he hath sent empty away.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and

have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched,

and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to

buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich.

. . . As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous

therefore, and repent.

Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after

righteousness: for they shall be filled.--[When] the poor and

needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue

faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of

Israel will not forsake them.--I [am] the LORD thy God, . . .

open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread?

and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken

diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let

your soul delight itself in fatness.--I am the bread of life: he

that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on

me shall never thirst.

Lu 1:53 Re 3:17-19 Mt 5:6 Isa 41:17 Ps 81:10 Isa 55:2

Joh 6:35


September 9 -- Evening

My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired [to

have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat: but I have prayed

for thee, that thy faith fail not.

A just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again.--

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

upholdeth [him with] his hand.

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.--He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there

shall no evil touch thee.

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

Christ the righteous.--Wherefore he is able also to save them to

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

to make intercession for them.

Ps 73:2 94:18 Lu 22:31,32 Pr 24:16 Ps 37:24 Mic 7:8 Job 5:19

1Jo 2:1 Heb 7:25


September 10 -- Morning

I will give them one heart, and one way,

that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them.

A new heart . . . will I give you, and a new spirit will I

put within you.--Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will

he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment:

and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD

[are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his

testimonies.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I

in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may

believe that thou hast sent me.

I . . . beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation

wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, . . .

endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of

peace. [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.

Jer 32:39 Eze 36:26 Ps 25:8-10 Joh 17:21 Eph 4:1-6


September 10 -- Evening

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength.

When I am weak, then am I strong.--My God shall be my

strength.--He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for

my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore

will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ

may rest upon me.--Let him take hold of my strength.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee.--

The arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the

mighty [God] of Jacob.

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

Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a

shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the

God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.--Plead [my

cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against

them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and

stand up for mine help.

Isa 40:31 2Co 12:10 Isa 49:5 2Co 12:9 Isa 27:5 Ps 55:22

Ge 49:24 32:26 1Sa 17:45 Ps 35:1,2


September 11 -- Morning

Be not conformed to this world:

but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil.

Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with

God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the

enemy of God.

What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and

what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath

Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an

infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?--

Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world.

If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

. . . The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that

doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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.--Ye have not so

learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, . . . as the

truth is in Jesus.

Ro 12:2 Ex 23:2 Jas 4:4 2Co 6:14-16 1Jo 2:15,17

Eph 2:2 4:20,21


September 11 -- Evening

Man goeth forth unto his work

and to his labour until the evening.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou

return unto the ground.--We commanded you, that if any would not

work, neither should he eat.--Study to be quiet, and to do your

own business, and to work with your own hands.

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.--The night cometh, when no man

can work.

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

reap, if we faint not.--Always abounding in the work of the

Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in

the Lord.

There remaineth . . . a rest to the people of God.--Unto us,

which have borne the burden and heat of the day.--This [is] the

rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is]

the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

Ps 104:23 Ge 3:19 2Th 3:10 1Th 4:11 Ec 9:10 Joh 9:4 Ga 6:9

1Co 15:58 Heb 4:9 Mt 20:12 Isa 28:12


September 12 -- Morning

I have seen his ways, and will heal him.

I [am] the LORD that healeth thee.--O LORD, thou hast

searched me, and known [me]. Thou knowest my downsitting and

mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou

compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with]

all my ways.--Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our

secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.--All things [are]

naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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.--He is gracious

unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I

have found a ransom.--He [was] wounded for our transgressions,

[he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our

peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.--He

hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted.--Thy faith hath made

thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

Isa 57:18 Ex 15:26 Ps 139:1-3 90:8 Heb 4:13 Isa 1:18

Job 33:24 Isa 53:5 61:1 Mr 5:34


September 12 -- Evening

The LORD taketh my part.

The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God

of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and

strengthen thee out of Zion. . . .We will rejoice in thy

salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up [our]

banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions. . . . Some [trust]

in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name

of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we

are risen, and stand upright.

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

LORD shall lift up a standard against him.--There hath no

temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is]

faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye

are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to

escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].

If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?--The LORD [is]

on my side; I will not fear.

Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning

fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us].

Ps 118:7 20:1,2,5,7,8 Isa 59:19 1Co 10:13 Ro 8:31 Ps 118:6

Da 3:17


September 13 -- Morning

If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the

LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.--O

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

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

thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory,

so [as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he

that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine

and milk without money and without price.--The Spirit and the

bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him

that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water

of life freely.--Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall

give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him

shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting

life.--My blood is drink indeed.

Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Joh 7:37 Ps 84:2 63:1,2 Isa 55:1 Re 22:17 Joh 4:14 6:55

So 5:1


September 13 -- Evening

Ye are the salt of the earth.

That which is not corruptible.--Being born again, not of

corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God,

which liveth and abideth for ever.--He that believeth in me,

though he were dead, yet shall he live.--The children of God,

being the children of the resurrection.--The uncorruptible God.

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.--It is sown in

corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.--

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that

which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace

unto the hearers.

Mt 5:13 1Pe 3:4 1:23 Joh 11:25 Lu 20:36 Ro 1:23 8:9-11

1Co 15:42 Mr 9:50 Eph 4:29


September 14 -- Morning

I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you.

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.--Like as a father pitieth

[his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he

knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.--As one

whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.--Casting all

your care upon him; for he careth for you.

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

longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Another Comforter . . . [even] the Spirit of truth.--The

Spirit . . . helpeth our infirmities.

God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there

shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither

shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed

away.

Isa 51:12 2Co 1:3,4 Ps 103:13,14 Isa 66:13 1Pe 5:7 Ps 86:15

Joh 14:16,17 Ro 8:26 Re 21:4


September 14 -- Evening

Ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son.

He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there

came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, 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.

Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children.--If children,

then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.

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

person.--Let your light so shine before men, that they may see

your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy

that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame.

--These things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy

fulfilled in themselves.--As the sufferings of Christ abound in

us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

1Co 1:9 2Pe 1:17 1Jo 3:1 Eph 5:1 Ro 8:17 Heb 1:3 Mt 5:16

Heb 12:2 Joh 17:13 2Co 1:5


September 15 -- Morning

Sin shall not have dominion over you:

for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law,

but under grace? God forbid.--My brethren, ye . . . are become

dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married

to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we

should bring forth fruit unto God.--Being not without law to

God, but under the law to Christ.--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.

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me

free from the law of sin and death.--Whosoever committeth sin is

the servant of sin.--If the Son . . . shall make you free, ye

shall be free indeed.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath

made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of

bondage.

Ro 6:14,15 7:4 1Co 9:21 15:56,57 Ro 8:2 Joh 8:34,36 Ga 5:1


September 15 -- Evening

A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.

No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back,

is fit for the kingdom of God.

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

is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.--Let him ask in

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

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

think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.--What things

soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them],

and ye shall have [them].

Be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about

with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and]

cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but

speaking the truth in love, . . . grow up into him in all

things, which is the head, [even] Christ.

Abide in me.--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.

Jas 1:8 Lu 9:62 Heb 11:6 Jas 1:6,7 Mr 11:24 Eph 4:14,15

Joh 15:4 1Co 15:58


September 16 -- Morning

The LORD pondereth the hearts.

The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the

ungodly shall perish.--The LORD will shew who [are] his, and

[who is] holy.--Thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall

reward thee openly.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my

thoughts: and see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead

me in the way everlasting.--There is no fear in love; but

perfect love casteth out fear.

Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not

hid from thee.--When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then

thou knewest my path.--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.

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

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

the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Pr 21:2 Ps 1:6 Nu 16:5 Mt 6:4 Ps 139:23,24 1Jo 4:18

Ps 38:9 142:3 Ro 8:27 2Ti 2:19


September 16 -- Evening

Weeping may endure for a night,

but joy [cometh] in the morning.

No man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves

know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were

with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation.

In me ye . . . have peace. In the world ye shall have

tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.--The

night is far spent, the day is at hand.--[He shall be] as the

light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning

without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the

earth by clear shining after rain.

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will

wipe away tears from off all faces.--There shall be no more

death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any

more pain: for the former things are passed away.--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.

Ps 30:5 1Th 3:3,4 Joh 16:33 Ps 17:15 Ro 13:12 2Sa 23:4

Isa 25:8 Re 21:4 1Th 4:17,18


September 17 -- Morning

A bruised reed shall he not break.

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.--For 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. For I will

not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the

spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which

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

will strengthen that which was sick.--Wherefore lift up the

hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight

paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of

the way; but let it rather be healed.--Behold, your God . . .

will come and save you.

Mt 12:20 Ps 51:17 147:3 Isa 57:15,16 Eze 34:16 Heb 12:12,13

Isa 35:4


September 17 -- Evening

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

blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him.

When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was

made wine, and knew not whence it was: . . . [he] saith . . .

Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when

men have well drunk, then that which is worse: [but] thou hast

kept the good wine until now.

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.--I

believed, and therefore have I spoken.--I know whom I have

believed.--I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and

his fruit [was] sweet to my taste.

The goodness of God.--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?

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that

ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is]

gracious.

Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them

ever shout for joy.

Ps 34:8 Joh 2:9,10 Job 34:3 2Co 4:13 2Ti 1:12 So 2:3

Ro 2:4 8:32 1Pe 2:2,3 Ps 5:11


September 18 -- Morning

Open thou mine eyes,

that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might

understand the scriptures.--It is given unto you to know the

mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

--I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou

hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast

revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good

in thy sight.--We have received, not the spirit of the world,

but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things

that are freely given to us of God.--How precious also are thy

thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! [If] I

should count them, they are more in number than the sand.--O the

depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how

unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his

counsellor? . . . For of him, and through him, and to him, [are]

all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.

Psa 119:18 Lu 24:45 Mt 13:11 11:25,26 1Co 2:12 Ps 139:17,18

Ro 11:33,34,36


September 18 -- Evening

Enhakkore (The well of him that called, or cried).

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 any man thirst, let him

come unto me, and drink. . . . This spake he of the Spirit,

which they that believe on him should receive.

Prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not

open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing,

that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].--If ye

then, 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?--Ask, and it shall be given

you; seek, and ye shall find.

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

Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.--Ye have not

received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have

received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Jud 15:19 Joh 4:10 7:37,39 Mal 3:10 Lu 11:13,9 Ga 4:6 Ro 8:15


September 19 -- Morning

The God of all grace.

I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be

gracious to whom I will be gracious.--He is gracious unto him,

and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found

a ransom.--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.--Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of

yourselves: [it is] the gift of God.--Grace, mercy, [and] peace,

from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.--Unto every one

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

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

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

of God.--He giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth

the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

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

Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and for ever. Amen.

1Pe 5:10 Ex 33:19 Job 33:24 Ro 3:24,25 Joh 1:17 Eph 2:8

1Ti 1:2 Eph 4:7 1Pe 4:10 Jas 4:6 2Pe 3:18


September 19 -- Evening

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

cometh my help. My help [cometh] from the LORD.

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

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

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, until

that he have mercy upon us.--Because thou hast been my help,

therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

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.--Mine eyes [are]

ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

--Our help [is] in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and

earth.

Ps 121:1,2 125:2 123:1,2 63:7 2Ch 20:12 Ps 25:15 124:8


September 20 -- Morning

Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom,

and the man [that] getteth understanding.

Whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the

LORD.

Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his

wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, . . .

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.--The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom.

What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

Yea doubtless, and 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.--In whom are hid all the treasures

of wisdom and knowledge.--Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I

[am] understanding; I have strength.

Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and

righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

He that winneth souls [is] wise.

Pr 3:13 8:35 Jer 9:23,24 Pr 9:10 Php 3:7,8 Col 2:3 Pr 8:14

1Co 1:30 Pr 11:30


September 20 -- Evening

Poor, yet making many rich.

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.--Of his fulness have all we received, and

grace for grace.--My God shall supply all your need according to

his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.--God [is] able to make all

grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency

in all [things], may abound to every good work.

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

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

him?--Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not

many noble, [are called]: but 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.

We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency

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

2Co 6:10 8:9 Joh 1:16 Php 4:19 2Co 9:8 Jas 2:5 1Co 1:26,27

2Co 4:7


September 21 -- Morning

We know that all things work together

for good to them that love God.

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

wrath shalt thou restrain.--Ye thought evil against me; [but]

God meant it unto good.

All things are yours; whether . . . the world, or life, or

death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and

ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.--All things [are] for

your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the

thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 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.

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.

Ro 8:28 Ps 76:10 Ge 50:20 1Co 3:21-23 2Co 4:15-17 Jas 1:2-4


September 21 -- Evening

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

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.--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.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy

Ghost which is given unto us.

He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. . . . Know ye

not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in

you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto

the day of redemption.--The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:

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

Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which

cannot be uttered.

2Co 13:14 Joh 14:16,17 16:13,14 Ro 5:5 1Co 6:17,19 Eph 4:30

Ro 8:26


September 22 -- Morning

My meditation of him shall be sweet:

I will be glad in the LORD.

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

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

delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste.--For who in the

heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among the sons of

the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten

thousand.--One pearl of great price.--The prince of the kings of

the earth.

His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy,

[and] black as a raven.--The head over all [things].--The head

of the body, the church.

His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers.--He

could not be hid.

His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers.--

His lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.--Never

man spake like this man.

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

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant.--LORD, lift thou up the

light of thy countenance upon us.

Ps 104:34 So 2:3 Ps 89:6 So 5:10 Mt 13:46 Re 1:5 So 5:11

Eph 1:22 Col 1:18 So 5:13 Mr 7:24 So 5:13 Joh 7:46 So 5:15

Ps 31:16 4:6


September 22 -- Evening

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:

nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save

me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the

will of him that sent me.--He . . . became obedient unto death,

even the death of the cross.--In the days of his flesh, when he

had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and

tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was

heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he

obedience by the things which he suffered.

Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he

shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?--

Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to

rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and

remission of sins should be preached in his name among all

nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Mt 26:39 Joh 12:27 6:38 Php 2:8 Heb 5:7,8 Mt 26:53 Lu 24:46,47


September 23 -- Morning

Our God hath not forsaken us.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial

which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto

you.--If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with

sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if

ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are

ye bastards, and not sons.

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

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

The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's

sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.--

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.--Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of

Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God.

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.

Ezr 9:9 1Pe 4:12 Heb 12:7,8 De 13:3 1Sa 12:22 Isa 49:15

Ps 146:5 Lu 18:7,8


September 23 -- Evening

He that overcometh shall inherit all things.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all

men most miserable.--Now they desire a better [country], that

is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their

God: for he hath prepared for them a city.--An inheritance

incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved

in heaven for you.

All things are yours; . . . the world, or life, or death, or

things present, or things to come; all are yours.--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.

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we

have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.--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.

Re 21:7 1Co 15:19 Heb 11:16 1Pe 1:4 1Co 3:21,22 2:9,10

2Jo 1:8 Heb 12:1


September 24 -- Morning

[It is] good for me to draw near to God.

LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place

where thine honour dwelleth.--A day in thy courts [is] better

than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my

God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.--Blessed [is the

man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [unto thee,

that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the

goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.

The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul

[that] seeketh him.--Therefore will the LORD wait, that he may

be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he

may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment:

blessed [are] all they that wait for him.

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the

holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he

hath consecrated for us; . . . let us draw near with a true

heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled

from an evil conscience.

Ps 73:28 26:8 84:10 65:4 La 3:25 Isa 30:18 Heb 10:19,20,22


September 24 -- Evening

Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld

his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)

full of grace and truth.--Thou art fairer than the children of

men: grace is poured into thy lips.--All bare him witness, and

wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.

Ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.--He that believeth

on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.--We speak that we

do know, and testify that we have seen.

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

[that] trusteth in him.--I sat down under his shadow with great

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

He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my

strength is made perfect in weakness.--Unto every one of us is

given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.--As

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

one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

2Co 8:9 Joh 1:14 Ps 45:2 Lu 4:22 1Pe 2:3 1Jo 5:10 Joh 3:11

Ps 34:8 So 2:3 2Co 12:9 Eph 4:7 1Pe 4:10


September 25 -- Morning

Let patience have [her] perfect work,

that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through

manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much

more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried

with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at

the appearing of Jesus Christ.--We glory in tribulations also:

knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience,

experience; and experience, hope.

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

for the salvation of the LORD.--Ye have in heaven a better and

an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence,

which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of

patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might

receive the promise.--Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God,

even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us]

everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort

your hearts.

Jas 1:4 1Pe 1:6,7 Ro 5:3,4 La 3:26 Heb 10:34-36 2Th 2:16,17


September 25 -- Evening

God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.

Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both

will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make

manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man

have praise of God.--The Father judgeth no man, but hath

committed all judgment unto the Son: . . . because he is the Son

of man.--The Son of God, . . . hath his eyes like unto a flame

of fire.

They say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the

most High?--These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence;

thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself:

[but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine

eyes.--There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed;

neither hid, that shall not be known.

Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not

hid from thee.--Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins

and my heart.

Ro 2:16 1Co 4:5 Joh 5:22,27 Re 2:18 Ps 73:11 50:21 Lu 12:2

Ps 38:9 26:2


September 26 -- Morning

A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.

Him that judgeth righteously.--We must all appear before the

judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things

[done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether

[it be] good or bad.--Every one of us shall give account of

himself to God.--The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man

[that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the

shepherd.--The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.--

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have

kissed [each other].--Mercy rejoiceth against judgment.--The

wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

A just God and a Saviour; [there is] none beside me.--Just,

and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.--Justified

freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ

Jesus.

De 32:4 1Pe 2:23 2Co 5:10 Ro 14:12 Eze 18:4 Zec 13:7 Isa 53:6

Ps 85:10 Jas 2:13 Ro 6:23 Isa 45:21 Ro 3:26,24


September 26 -- Evening

Death is swallowed up in victory.

Thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our

Lord Jesus Christ.

Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of flesh and

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

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

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

were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live

with him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth

no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he

died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth

unto God.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto

sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

In all these things we are more than conquerors through him

that loved us.

1Co 15:54,57 Heb 2:14,15 Ro 6:8-11 8:37


September 27 -- Morning

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,

that he may exalt you in due time.

Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the

LORD: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou

our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand. Be not wroth

very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold,

see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.--Thou hast

chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to

the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art]

the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and

after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was

ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach

of my youth.--[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in

his youth.

Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble

spring out of the ground; yet man is born unto trouble, as the

sparks fly upward.

1Pe 5:6 Pr 16:5 Isa 64:8,9 Jer 31:18,19 La 3:27 Job 5:6,7


September 27 -- Evening

Yea, hath God said?

When the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son

of God.--[Jesus] said, It is written, . . . it is written, . . .

it is written.--Then the devil leaveth him.

I may not return with thee. . . . For it was said to me by

the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water

there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. He

said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an angel

spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back

with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink

water. [But] he lied unto him. So he went back with him. . . .

The man of God, . . . was disobedient unto the word of the LORD:

therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath

torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD.--

Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto

you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be

accursed.--Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not

sin against thee.

Ge 3:1 Mt 4:3,4,7,10,11 1Ki 13:16-19,26 Ga 1:8 Ps 119:11


September 28 -- Morning

They shall put my name upon the children of Israel;

and I will bless them.

O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had dominion

over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.--

We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them; they were not

called by thy name.

All people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the

name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.--The LORD

will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because

it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer

not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people

are called by thy name.--Help us, O God of our salvation, for

the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins,

for thy name's sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where

[is] their God?

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

runneth into it, and is safe.

Nu 6:27 Isa 26:13 63:19 De 28:10 1Sa 12:22 Da 9:19 Ps 79:9,10

Pr 18:10


September 28 -- Evening

The heavens declare the glory of God;

and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

The invisible things of him from the creation of the world

are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,

[even] his eternal power and Godhead.--He left not himself

without witness.--Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto

night sheweth knowledge. [There is] no speech nor language,

[where] their voice is not heard.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the

moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that

thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest

him?

[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the

moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth

from [another] star in glory. So also [is] the resurrection of

the dead.--They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of

the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the

stars for ever and ever.

Ps 19:1 Ro 1:20 Ac 14:17 Ps 19:2,3 8:3,4 1Co 15:41,42 Da 12:3


September 29 -- Morning

Hereby perceive we the love [of God],

because he laid down his life for us.

The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.--Greater love

hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his

friends.--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.--Beloved, if God so loved us,

we ought also to love one another.--Be ye kind one to another,

tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's

sake hath forgiven you.--Forbearing one another, and forgiving

one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as

Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.--For even the Son of man

came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his

life a ransom for many.--Christ . . . suffered for us, leaving

us an example, that ye should follow his steps.

Ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given

you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.--We

ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.

1Jo 3:16 Eph 3:19 Joh 15:13 2Co 8:9 1Jo 4:11 Eph 4:32 Col 3:13

Mr 10:45 1Pe 2:21 Joh 13:14,15 1Jo 3:16


September 29 -- Evening

What things soever [the Father] doeth,

these also doeth the Son likewise.

The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge

and understanding.--I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which

all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen

thine heart.--My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength

is made perfect in weakness.

Them that are sanctified by God the Father.--He that

sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for

which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.

Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.--The fulness

of him that filleth all in all.

I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no

saviour.--This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and the Lord

Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Joh 5:19 Pr 2:6 Lu 21:15 Ps 27:14 2Co 12:9 Jude 1:1 Heb 2:11

Jer 23:24 Eph 1:23 Isa 43:11 Joh 4:42 Tit 1:4


September 30 -- Morning

He knoweth the way that I take:

[when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

He knoweth our frame.--He doth not afflict willingly nor

grieve the children of men.

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

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

the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house

there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of

wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a

vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use,

[and] prepared unto every good work.

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

shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and

silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in

righteousness.--I . . . will refine them as silver is refined, .

. . they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will

say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, The LORD [is] my

God.

Job 23:10 Ps 103:14 La 3:33 2Ti 2:19-21 Mal 3:3 Zec 13:9


September 30 -- Evening

Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

Moses said unto the LORD, . . . I pray thee, if I have found

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

that I may find grace in thy sight. . . . My presence shall go

[with thee], and I will give thee rest.--He made known his ways

unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he

teach his way.--What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him

shall he teach in the way [that] he shall choose.--

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.

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

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

evermore.--I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which

thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.--The path of the

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

the perfect day.

Ps 25:4 Ex 33:12-14 Ps 103:7 25:9,12 Pr 3:5,6 Ps 16:11 32:8

Pr 4:18


October 1 -- Morning

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . temperance.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all

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

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

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

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

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

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with

the Spirit.

If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and

take up his cross, and follow me.

Let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be

sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be

drunken are drunken in the night. But 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.--Denying ungodliness and

worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly,

in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the

glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus

Christ.

Ga 5:22,23 1Co 9:25-27 Eph 5:18 Mt 16:24 1Th 5:6-8 Tit 2:12,13


October 1 -- Evening

Grow up into him in all things,

which is the head, [even] Christ.

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

the ear.--Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the

knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the

measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

They measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing

themselves among themselves, are not wise. . . . But he that

glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth

himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

The body [is] of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your

reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,

intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly

puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from

which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment

ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of

God.

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

Jesus Christ.

Eph 4:15 Mr 4:28 Eph 4:13 2Co 10:12,17,18 Col 2:17-19

2Pe 3:18


October 2 -- Morning

The goat shall bear upon him

all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited:

and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed

our transgressions from us.--In those days, and in that time,

saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and

[there shall be] none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not

be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.--Thou wilt cast

all their sins into the depths of the sea.--Who [is] a God like

unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity.

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

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

all.--He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide

him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil

with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death:

and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin

of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.--The Lamb

of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Le 16:22 Ps 103:12 Jer 50:20 Mic 7:19,18 Isa 53:6,11,12

Joh 1:29


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