February 16 -- Evening

We that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened.

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

hid from thee. . . . My iniquities have gone over my head: as an

heavy burden they are too heavy for me.--O wretched man that I

am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together

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

the firstfruits of the Spirit, . . . groan within ourselves,

waiting for the adoption, [that is], the redemption of our body.

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

various temptations.

Shortly I must put off [this] my tabernacle.--For this

corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put

on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on

incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,

then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death

is swallowed up in victory.

2Co 5:4 Ps 38:9,4 Ro 7:24 8:22,23 1Pe 1:6 2Pe 1:14

1Co 15:53,54


February 17 -- Morning

The whole bull shall he carry forth outside the

camp to a clean place, where the ashes are

poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire.

They took Jesus, and led [him] away. And he bearing his cross

went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, which is

called in the Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified him.--The

bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the

sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the

camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people

with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth

therefore to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.--The

fellowship of his sufferings.

Rejoice, seeing 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 out for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of

glory.

Le 4:12 Joh 19:16-18 Heb 13:11-13 Php 3:10 1Pe 4:13 2Co 4:17


February 17 -- Evening

God created man in his [own] image.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that

the Godhead is like gold, or silver, or stone, formed by art and

man's device.

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

loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive

together with Christ. . . . We are his workmanship, created in

Christ Jesus to good works, which God hath before ordained that

we should walk in them.--For whom he did foreknow, he also did

predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he

might be the firstborn among many brethren.

We know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for

we shall see him as he is.--I shall be satisfied, when I awake,

with thy likeness.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be

his God, and he shall be my son. . . . If children, then heirs;

heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if we suffer with

[him], that we may be glorified together.

Ge 1:27 Ac 17:29 Eph 2:4,5,10 Ro 8:29 1Jo 3:2 Ps 17:15

Re 21:7 Ro 8:17


February 18 -- Morning

Thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.

[There are] many that say, Who will show us [any] good? LORD,

lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance.--I will sing of

thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning:

for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my

trouble.

In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.--I cried to

thee, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication. What profit

[is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the

dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O LORD, and

have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great

mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from

thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have

mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.--Sorrow shall be

turned into joy.--Weeping may endure for a night, but joy

[cometh] in the morning.

Jer 17:17 Ps 4:6 59:16 30:6,8-10 Isa 54:7,8 Joh 16:20 Ps 30:5


February 18 -- Evening

Adam . . . begat [a son] in his own likeness.

Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean?--Behold, I

was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Dead in trespasses and sins; . . . by nature the children of

wrath, even as others.--I am carnal, sold under sin. That which

I do I understand not: for what I would, that I do not; but what

I hate, that I do.--For I know that in me (that is, in my

flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.

By one man sin entered into the world, . . . by one man's

disobedience many were made sinners.--If through the offence of

one many are dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by

grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to

many.

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

free from the law of sin and death.

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

Lord Jesus Christ.

Ge 5:3 Job 14:4 Ps 51:5 EPh 2:1,3 Ro 7:14,15,18 5:12,19,15 8:2

1Co 15:57


February 19 -- Morning

The LORD giveth wisdom:

out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.

Trust in the LORD with all thy heart; and lean not to thy own

understanding.--If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of

God, who giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and

it shall be given to him.--The foolishness of God is wiser than

men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.--God hath

chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.--

That no flesh should glory in his presence.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth

understanding to the simple.--Thy word have I hid in my heart,

that I might not sin against thee.

All bore him testimony, and wondered at the gracious words

which proceeded out of his mouth.--Never man spoke like this

man.--Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God is made to us

wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

Pr 2:6 3:5 Jas 1:5 1Co 1:25,27,29 Ps 119:130,11 Lu 4:22

Joh 7:46 1Co 1:30


February 19 -- Evening

The year of my redeemed is come.

Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty

throughout [all] the land to all its inhabitants: it shall be a

jubilee to you; and ye shall return every man to his possession,

and . . . to his family.

Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall

they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew

[is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with

the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the

dead in Christ shall rise first: then we who 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.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will

redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave,

I will be thy destruction.

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

Isa 63:4 Le 25:10 Isa 26:19 1Th 4:16,17 Ho 13:14 Jer 50:34


February 20 -- Morning

He shall see of the travail of his soul,

[and] shall be satisfied.

Jesus . . . said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and

gave up the ghost.--He hath made him [to be] sin for us, who

knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in

him.

This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth

my praise.--To the intent that now to the principalities and

powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the

manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which

he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.--That in the ages to come

he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in [his]

kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

After ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your

salvation: in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with

that Holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our

inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to

the praise of his glory.--Ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal

priesthood, an holy nation, a special people; that ye should

show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of

darkness into his marvellous light.

Isa 53:11 Joh 19:30 2Co 5:21 Isa 43:21 Eph 3:10,11 2:7 1:13,14

1Pe 2:9


February 20 -- Evening

The day of temptation in the wilderness.

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

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

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

and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth

sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

[They] lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God

in the desert.

Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit . . . was led by the

Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted by the

devil. And in those days he ate nothing: and when they were

ended, he was afterward hungry. And the devil said to him, If

thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it be made

bread.

He himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to help

them that are tempted.--Simon, Simon, . . . Satan hath desired

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

prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.

Heb 3:8 Jas 1:13-15 Ps 106:14 Lu 4:1-3 Heb 2:18 Lu 22:31,32


February 21 -- Morning

I [am] the LORD who sanctify you.

I [am] the LORD your God, who have separated you from [other]

people.--And ye shall be holy to me: for I the LORD [am] holy,

and have separated you from [other] people, that ye should be

mine.

Sanctified by God the Father.--Sanctify them through thy

truth: thy word is truth.--The very God of peace sanctify you

wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body may

be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 13:12

Jesus . . . that he might sanctify the people with his own

blood, suffered without the gate.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ

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

iniquity, and purify to himself [his own] special people,

zealous of good works.--Both he that sanctifieth and they who

are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he is not

ashamed to call them brethren.--For their sakes I sanctify

myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth. . .

.Through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and

sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and

peace, be multiplied.

Le 20:8,24,26 Jude 1:1 Joh 17:17 1Th 5:23 Heb 13:12

Tit 2:13,14 Heb 2:11 Joh 17:19 1Pe 1:2


February 21 -- Evening

Light is sown for the righteous,

and gladness for the upright in heart.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth

and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless return with

rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].

That which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall

be.

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

according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a

living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

. . . In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if

need be, ye are in heaviness through various temptations: that

the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold

that perisheth, though tried with fire, might be found to praise

and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

Ps 97:11 126:5,6 1Co 15:37 1Pe 1:3,6,7


February 22 -- Morning

What man [is] he that feareth the LORD?

him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall choose.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thy eye be

good, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Thy word [is] a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.--Thy

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 will instruct thee and teach thee in the way

which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with my eye. Be ye not

as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding:

whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come

near to thee. Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he

that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall surround him. Be glad in

the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye

that are] upright in heart.

O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it

is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Ps 25:12 Mt 6:22 Ps 119:105 Isa 30:21 Ps 32:8-11 Jer 10:23


February 22 -- Evening

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid:

but, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

There arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into

the boat, so that it was now full. And he was in the stern of

the boat, asleep on a pillow.

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

supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known

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

shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

I will both lie down in peace, and sleep: for thou only,

LORD, makest me dwell in safety.--He giveth his beloved sleep.

They stoned Stephen, calling upon [God], and saying, Lord

Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a

loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he

had said this, he fell asleep. Absent from the body, . . .

present with the Lord.

Pr 3:24 Mr 4:37,38 Php 4:6,7 Ps 4:8 127:2 Ac 7:59,60 2Co 5:8


February 23 -- Morning

The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh

better things than [that of] Abel.

Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.

--The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.--[It is] not

possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away

sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,

Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou

prepared me.--By which will we are sanctified through the

offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

Abel . . . brought of the firstlings of his flock and of its

fat. And the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering.--

Christ . . . hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an

offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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.--Having . . . boldness to

enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.

Heb 12:24 Joh 1:29 Re 13:8 Heb 10:4,5,10 Ge 4:4 Eph 5:2

Heb 10:22,19


February 23 -- Evening

Who knoweth the power of thy anger?

Drom the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land to

the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud

voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My

God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?--The LORD hath laid on

him the iniquity of us all.

[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them who are in

Christ Jesus.--Being justified by faith, we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ.--Christ hath redeemed us from the

curse of the law, being made a curse for us.

God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might

live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but

that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for

our sins.--That he may be just, and the justifier of him who

believeth in Jesus.

Ps 90:11 Mt 27:45,46 Isa 53:6 Ro 8:1 5:1 Ga 3:13 1Jo 4:9,10

Ro 3:26


February 24 -- Morning

Thus saith the Lord GOD;

I will yet [for] this be enquired of.

Yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;

knock, and the door shall be opened to you: for every one that

asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that

knocketh the door shall be opened.--This is the confidence that

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

he heareth us: and if we know that he heareth us, whatever we

ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired from

him.--If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who

giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall

be given to him.--I [am] the LORD thy God, who brought thee out

of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.--

Men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears

[are open] to their cry.--[The righteous] cry, and the LORD

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

shall ask in my name: and I say not to you, that I will pray the

Father for you: for the Father himself loveth you, because ye

have loved me.-- Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be

full.

Eze 36:37 Jas 4:2 Mt 7:7,8 1Jo 5:14,15 Jas 1:5 Ps 81:10

Lu 18:1 Ps 34:15,17 Joh 16:26,27,24


February 24 -- Evening

Shall we receive good at the hand of God,

and shall we not receive evil?

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

thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.--O LORD, thou [art] our

father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are]

the work of thy hand.--It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth

him good.

Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let

me speak with thee of [thy] judgments.

He shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver.--Whom the

Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he

receiveth.--It is enough for the disciple that he should be as

his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called

the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more [shall they

call] them of his household?--Though he was a Son, yet he

learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

But rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings;

that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with

exceeding joy.--These are they who came out of the great

tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in

the blood of the Lamb.

Job 2:10 Ps 119:75 Isa 64:8 1Sa 3:18 Jer 12:1 Mal 3:3

Heb 12:6 Mt 10:25 Heb 5:8 1Pe 4:13 Re 7:14


February 25 -- Morning

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

LORD shall lift up a standard against him.--Be gone, Satan: for

it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only

shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold,

angels came and ministered to him.

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.--And have no fellowship with the

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

Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of

his devices.--Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the

devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may

devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the

same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in

the world.--This is the victory that overcometh the world,

[even] our faith.

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It

is] God that justifieth.

Jas 4:7 Isa 59:19 Mt 4:10,11 Eph 6:10,11 Eph 5:11 2Co 2:11

1Pe 5:8,9 1Jo 5:4 Ro 8:33


February 25 -- Evening

O that I knew where I might find him!

Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the

voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no

light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his

God.

Ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me

with all your heart.--Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the

door shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh

receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh

the door shall be opened.

Truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son

Jesus Christ.--Now in Christ Jesus ye who once were far off are

made near by the blood of Christ.--For through him we both have

an access by one Spirit to the Father.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in

darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

Lo, I am with you always.--I will never leave thee, nor

forsake thee.--The Comforter . . . dwelleth with you, and shall

be in you.

Job 23:3 Isa 50:10 Jer 29:13 Lu 11:9,10 1Joh 1:3 Eph 2:13,18

1Jo 1:6 Mt 28:20 Heb 13:5 Joh 14:16,17


February 26 -- Morning

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

--Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the

hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.--I thought on

my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies. I made haste,

and delayed not to keep thy commandments.--Let a man examine

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

cup.

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

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

an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.--Having

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

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

consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

and [having] an high priest over the house of God; 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.

La 3:40 Ps 26:2 Ps 51:6 Ps 119:59,60 1Co 11:28 1Jo 1:9 2:1

Heb 10:19-22


February 26 -- Evening

[There was] a rainbow around the throne,

in sight like an emerald.

This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me

and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for

perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud . . . will

look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant

between God and every living creature of all flesh that [is]

upon the earth.--An everlasting covenant, ordered in all

[things], and sure.--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.

Wwe declare to you the glad tidings, that the promise which

was made to the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same to us their

children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Re 4:3 Ge 9:12,13,16 2Sa 23:5 Heb 6:18 Ac 13:32,33 Heb 13:8


February 27 -- Morning

Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin,

but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,

hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but

hath passed from death to life.--I through the law am dead to

the law, that I may live to 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.

Because I live, ye shall live also.--I give to them eternal

life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them

out of my hand. My Father, who gave [them to] me, is greater

than all; and none is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's

hand. I and [my] Father are one.

If ye then be raised with Christ, seek those things which are

above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.--For ye

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

Ro 6:11 Joh 5:24 Ga 2:19,20 Joh 14:19 10:28-30 Col 3:1,3


February 27 -- Evening

God . . . giveth . . . liberally, and upbraideth not.

Woman, where are those thy accusers? hath no man condemned

thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do

I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

The grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one

man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to many. . . . The free gift

[is] of many offences to justification.

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

loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive

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

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

[places] in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might show

the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us

through Christ Jesus.

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

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

Jas 1:5 Joh 8:10,11 Ro 5:15,16 Eph 2:4-7 Ro 8:32


February 28 -- Morning

God so loved the world, that he gave his only

begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him

should not perish, but have everlasting life.

God . . . hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and

hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, that

God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing

their trespasses to them; and hath committed to us the word of

reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though

God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be

ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him [to be] sin for us,

who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God

in him.--God is love. In this was revealed the love of God toward

us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world,

that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we

loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the

propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought

also to love one another.

Joh 3:16 2Co 5:18-21 1Jo 4:8-11


February 28 -- Evening

The spirit of man [is] the lamp of the LORD.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone

at her. . . . And they who heard [it], being convicted by [their

own] conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest,

[even] to the last.

Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the

tree, of which I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it

is sin.--If our heart condemneth us, God is greater than our

heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart doth not

condemn us, [then] have we confidence toward God.

All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man

who eateth with offence. . . . Happy [is] he that condemneth not

himself in what he approveth.

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

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

me in the way everlasting.

Pr 20:27 Joh 8:7,9 Ge 3:11 Jas 4:17 1Jo 3:20,21 Ro 14:20,22

Ps 139:23,24


February 29 -- Morning

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou

knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day

of salvation.--Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk

while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he

that walketh in darkness knoweth not where he goeth. While ye

have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of

light.

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

[there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the

grave, where thou goest.

Soul, thou hast abundance of goods laid up for many years;

take thy ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry. . . . [Thou] fool,

this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall

those things be, which thou hast provided? So [is] he that

layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

What [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for

a little time, and then vanisheth away. . . . The world passeth

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

for ever.

Pr 27:1 2Co 6:2 Joh 12:35,36 Ec 9:10 Lu 12:19-21 Jas 4:14

1Jo 2:17


February 29 -- Evening

Thou [art] the same, and thy years shall have no end.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst

formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to

everlasting, thou [art] God.

I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are

not consumed.--The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and

cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no

variableness, neither shadow of turning.--The gifts and calling

of God [are] without repentance.

God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of

man, that he should repent.--[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that

we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

This [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable

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

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

intercession for them.--Fear not; I am the first and the last.

Ps 102:27 90:2 Mal 3:6 Heb 13:8 Jas 1:17 Ro 11:29 Nu 23:19

La 3:22 Heb 7:24,25 Re 1:17


March 1 -- Morning

The fruit of the Spirit is love.

God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,

and God in him.--The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by

the Holy Spirit which is given to us.--To you . . . who believe

[he is] precious.--We love him, because he first loved us.--The

love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if

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

all, that they who live should not henceforth live to

themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.

Ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.--This is

my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.--

Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for

charity shall cover a multitude of sins.--Walk in love, as

Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an

offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Ga 5:22 1Jo 4:16 Ro 5:5 1Pe 2:7 1Jo 4:19 2Co 5:14,15 1Th 4:9

Joh 15:12 1Pe 4:8 Eph 5:2


March 1 -- Evening

Jehovahnissi: The LORD my banner.

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

on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee.

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

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

afraid?--Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall

not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I

[be] confident.

Behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain.--The LORD

of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall

overcome them.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

--He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall

have them in derision.--Take counsel together, and it shall come

to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is]

with us.

Ex 17:15 Ro 8:31 Ps 118:6 60:4 27:1,3 2Ch 13:12 Ps 46:7

Re 17:14 Ps 2:1,4 Isa 8:10


March 2 -- Morning

God hath caused me to be fruitful

in the land of my affliction.

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

the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation; who

comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to

comfort them who are in any trouble, by the consolation with

which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings

of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by

Christ.

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

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

more precious than of gold that perisheth, though tried with

fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the

appearing of Jesus Christ.--The Lord stood with me, and

strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known,

and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out

of the mouth of the lion.

Let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the

keeping of their souls [to him] in well doing, as to a faithful

Creator.

Ge 41:52 2Co 1:3-5 1Pe 1:6,7 2Ti 4:17 1Pe 4:19


March 2 -- Evening

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary

be at rest. [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not

the voice of the oppressor.

Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:

. . . they . . . rest from their labours; and their works do

follow them.

Our friend Lazarus sleepeth. . . . Jesus spake of his death:

but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

We that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened.--

Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even

we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption,

[to wit], the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope:

but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why

doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, [then]

do we with patience wait for [it].

Heb 4:9 Job 3:17,18 Re 14:13 Joh 11:11,13 2Co 5:4 Ro 8:23-25


March 3 -- Morning

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.

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

before him: God [is] a refuge for us.

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

shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the

horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose

mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near

unto thee. Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that

trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.--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.

And he said unto him, If thy presence go not [with me], carry

us not up hence. For wherein shall it be known here that I and

thy people have found grace in thy sight? [is it] not in that

thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people,

from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth.

Pr 3:5,6 Ps 62:8 32:8-10 Isa 30:21 Ex 33:15,16


March 3 -- Evening

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

Thou shalt have treasure in heaven: . . . come [and] follow

me.--I [am] . . . thy exceeding great reward.

Well done, [thou] good and faithful servant: thou hast been

faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many

things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.--They shall reign

for ever and ever.

Ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.-- The

crown of life.--A crown of righteousness.-- An incorruptible

[crown].

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be

with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou

hast given me.--So shall we ever be with the Lord.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not

worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed

in us.

Php 3:14 Mt 19:21 Ge 15:1 Mt 25:21 Re 22:5 1Pe 5:4 Jas 1:12

2Ti 4:8 1Co 9:25 Joh 17:24 1Th 4:17 Ro 8:18


March 4 -- Morning

Set your affection on things above,

not on things on the earth.

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.--Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where

moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and

steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where

neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not

break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will

your heart be also.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.--We faint not; but though

our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by

day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,

worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of

glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at

the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen

[are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.

--To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that

fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.

Col 3:2 1Jo 2:15 Mt 6:19-21 2Co 5:7 4:16-18 1Pe 1:4


March 4 -- Evening

[He] bowed his shoulder to bear.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name

of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of

patience.--Now all these things happened unto them for

ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom

the ends of the world are come.

Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not

receive evil?--Aaron held his peace.--It [is] the LORD: let him

do what seemeth him good.

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

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

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

will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for

I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your

souls. For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.

Ge 49:15 Jas 5:10 1Co 10:11 Job 2:10 Le 10:3 1Sa 3:18

Ps 55:22 Isa 53:4 Mt 11:28-30


March 5 -- Morning

O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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.--Hear my

cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth

will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to

the rock [that] is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter

for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy

tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings.--

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

needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm.

Christ . . . suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye

should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found

in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when

he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him

that judgeth righteously.

Isa 38:14 Ps 123:1,2 61:1-4 Isa 25:4 1Pe 2:21-23


March 5 -- Evening

Fight the good fight of faith.

We were troubled on every side; without [were] fightings,

within [were] fears.--Fear not: for they that [be] with us [are]

more than they that [be] with them.--Be strong in the Lord, and

in the power of his might.

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.--God [is] my

strength [and] power . . . He teacheth my hands to war; so that

a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.--Our sufficiency [is] of

God.

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear

him, and delivereth them.--Behold, the mountain [was] full of

horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

The time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and [of those] who

through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained

promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of

fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made

strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of

the aliens.

1Ti 6:12 2Co 7:5 2Ki 6:16 Eph 6:10 1Sa 17:45 2Sa 22:33,35

2Co 3:5 Ps 34:7 2Ki 6:17 Heb 11:32-34


March 6 -- Morning

He . . . preserveth the way of his saints.

The LORD your God . . . went in the way before you, to search

you out a place to pitch your tents [in], in fire by night, to

shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.--As an

eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth

abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: [so]

the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with

him.--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.--Many

[are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth

him out of them all.--For the LORD knoweth the way of the

righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.--We know

that all things work together for good to them that love God, to

them who are the called according to [his] purpose.--With him

[is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD our God to help

us, and to fight our battles.

The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will

save, he will rejoice over thee with joy.

Pr 2:8 De 1:32,33 32:11,12 Ps 37:23,24 34:19 1:6 Ro 8:28

2Ch 32:8 Zep 3:17


March 6 -- Evening

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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

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

. . . and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

. . . For the transgression of my people was he stricken. . . .

It pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief.

Jesus our Lord . . . was delivered for our offences.--Christ

. . . hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that

he might bring us to God.--Who his own self bare our sins in his

own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live

unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

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

might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made

a curse for us.

Mt 27:46 Isa 53:5,6,8,10 Ro 4:24,25 1Pe 3:18 2:24 2Co 5:21

Ga 3:13


March 7 -- Morning

Thy Maker [is] thine husband;

the LORD of hosts [is] his name.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and

the church.

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken . . . but thou shalt be

called Hephzibah, . . . for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy

land shall be married. And [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over

the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.--He hath

sent me . . . to comfort all that mourn; to

appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them

beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of

praise for the spirit of heaviness.

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, . . . as a bridegroom decketh [himself] with

ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels.

I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth

thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in

lovingkindness, and in mercies.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Isa 54:5 Eph 5:32 Isa 62:4,5 61:1-3,10 Ho 2:19 Ro 8:35


March 7 -- Evening

My times [are] in thy hand.

All his saints [are] in thy hand.--The word of the LORD came

unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and

hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan. And

it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have

commanded the ravens to feed thee there.--8. And the word of the

LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which

[belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded

a widow woman there to sustain thee.

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye

shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.--Your

heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

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.--Casting all your care upon him; for he

careth for you.

Ps 31:15 De 33:3 1Ki 17:2-4,8,9 Mt 6:25,32 Pr 3:5,6 1Pe 5:7


March 8 -- Morning

Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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

passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he

retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in]

mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he

will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins

into the depths of the sea.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great

mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from

thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have

mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. I will forgive their

iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose]

sin [is] covered. Blessed [is] the man unto whom the LORD

imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.

The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Isa 38:17 Mic 7:18,19 Isa 54:7,8 Jer 31:34 Ps 32:1,2 1Jo 1:7


March 8 -- Evening

I know whom I have believed,

and am persuaded that he is able.

Able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or

think.

Able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always

having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good

work.

Able to succour them that are tempted.

Able . . . to save them to the uttermost that come unto God

by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless

before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

Able to keep that which I have committed unto him against

that day.

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like

unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is

able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Believe ye that I am able to do this? . . . According to your

faith be it unto you.

2Ti 1:12 Eph 3:20 2Co 9:8 Heb 2:18 7:25 Jude 1:24 2Ti 1:12

Php 3:21 Mt 9:28,29


March 9 -- Morning

The living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.

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

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

command thee this day: lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full,

and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein]; . . . then

thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God,

. . . for [it is] he that giveth thee power to get wealth.

Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that

build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh

[but] in vain. [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up

late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his

beloved sleep.--They got not the land in possession by their own

sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand,

and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou

hadst a favour unto them.--[There be] many that say, Who will

shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy

countenance upon us.

1Ti 6:17 De 8:11,12,14,18 Ps 127:1,2 44:3 4:6


March 9 -- Evening

They sung as it were a new song.

A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us.--Not

by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to

his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and

renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly

through Jesus Christ our Saviour.--By grace are ye saved through

faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: not

of works, lest any man should boast.

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

glory.--Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in

his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and

his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever.

Amen.--Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood

out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.--I

beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number,

. . . cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God

which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

Re 14:3 Heb 10:20 Tit 3:5,6 Eph 2:8,9 Ps 115:1

Re 1:5,6 5:9 7:9,10


March 10 -- Morning

Jehovahjireh: The Lord will provide.

God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot

save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.--There shall

come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness

from Jacob.

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

hope [is] in the LORD his God.--Behold, the eye of the LORD [is]

upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; to

deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

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

glory by Christ Jesus.--He hath said, I will never leave thee,

nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my

helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.--The LORD

[is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I

am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my

song will I praise him.

Ge 22:14,8 Isa 59:1 Ro 11:26 Ps 146:5 33:18,19 Php 4:19

Heb 13:5,6 Ps 28:7


March 10 -- Evening

He feedeth among the lilies.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am

I in the midst of them.--If a man love me, he will keep my

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

and make our abode with him.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even

as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant

fruits.--I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I

have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb

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

longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,

temperance.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so

shall ye be my disciples.--Every branch in me that beareth not

fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he

purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.--Being filled

with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ,

unto the glory and praise of God.

So 2:16 Mt 18:20 Joh 14:23 15:10 So 4:16 5:1 Ga 5:22,23

Joh 15:8,2 Php 1:11


March 11 -- Morning

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee.

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

sorrow with it.--Thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with

favour wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.

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.--The LORD shall preserve thee from

all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve

thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even

for evermore.--I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every

moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast

given me, that they may be one, as we [are]. While I was with

them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou

gavest me I have kept.

The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will

preserve [me] unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] glory for

ever and ever. Amen.

Nu 6:24 Pr 10:22 Ps 5:12 121:3-5,7,8 Isa 27:3 Joh 17:11,12

2Ti 4:18


March 11 -- Evening

Jesus wept.

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--We have not an

high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our

infirmities.--It became him, for whom [are] all things, and by

whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make

the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.--

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things

which he suffered.

I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my

back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the

hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Behold how he loved him!--He took not on [him the nature of]

angels; but he took on [him] the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in

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

that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things

[pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the

people.

Joh 11:35 Isa 53:3 He 4:15 2:10 5:8 Isa 50:5,6 Joh 11:36

Heb 2:16,17


March 12 -- Morning

The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious

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

and give thee peace.

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

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

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

person.--The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them

which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of

Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy

mercies' sake. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called

upon thee.--LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to

stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.--

Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall

walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will

bless his people with peace.

Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

Nu 6:25,26 Joh 1:18 Heb 1:3 2Co 4:4 Ps 31:16,17 30:7 89:15

Ps 29:11 Mt 14:27


March 12 -- Evening

Things that are pleasing in his sight.

Without faith [it is] impossible to please [him].--So then

they that are in the flesh cannot please God.--The LORD taketh

pleasure in his people.

This [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God

endure grief, suffering wrongfully.--If, when ye do well, and

suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with

God.--[The ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, . . . is in the

sight of God of great price.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth

[his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.--

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him

with thanksgiving. [This] also shall please the LORD better than

an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

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

present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto

God, [which is] your reasonable service.

1Jo 3:22 Heb 11:6 Ro 8:8 Ps 149:4 1Pe 2:19,20 3:4

Ps 50:23 69:30,31 Ro 12:1


March 13 -- Morning

For [there is] one God, and one mediator

between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

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

blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same.

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:

for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.

We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the

righteous.--In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are

made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace.--By his

own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having

obtained eternal redemption [for us].--And for this cause he is

the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for

the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first

testament, they which are called might receive the promise of

eternal inheritance.--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.

1Ti 2:5 Heb 2:14 Isa 45:22 1Jo 2:1 Eph 2:13,14

Heb 9:12,15 7:25


March 13 -- Evening

O my God, my soul is cast down within me.

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

stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the

LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting

strength.

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

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the

afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he

cried unto him, he heard.--Is any among you afflicted? let him

pray.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be

afraid.--Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or

what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put

on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they

reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth

them. Are ye not much better than they?--Be not faithless, but

believing.--Lo, I am with you alway.

Ps 42:6 Isa 26:3,4 Ps 55:22 22:24 Jas 5:13 Joh 14:27

Mt 6:25,26 Joh 20:27 Mt 28:20


March 14 -- Morning

Adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.

--Abstain from all appearance of evil.--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.--Be blameless and

harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a

crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in

the world.--Let your light so shine before men, that they may

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

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy

neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou

find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

--Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever

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

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

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

[there be] any praise, think on these things.

Tit 2:10 Php 1:27 1Th 5:22 1Pe 4:14,15 Php 2:15 Mt 5:16

Pr 3:3,4 Php 4:8


March 14 -- Evening

The words that I speak unto you,

[they] are spirit, and [they] are life.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth.--The

letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

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

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

the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,

not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed

[thereto] according to thy word.--Thy word hath quickened me.--

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

thee.--I will not forget thy word.--I trust in thy word.--The

law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and

silver.--I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou

hast quickened me.--How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea,

sweeter] than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get

understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

Joh 6:63 Jas 1:18 2Co 3:6 Eph 5:25-27

Ps 119:9,50,11,16,42,72,93,103,104


March 15 -- Morning

Perfect through sufferings.

My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye

here, and watch with me. And he went a little further, and fell

on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible,

let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as

thou [wilt].--And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly:

and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down

to the ground.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat

hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.--Reproach hath broken

my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to

take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found

none.--I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was]

no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my

soul.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and

acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from

him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Heb 2:10 Mt 26:38,39 Lu 22:44 Ps 116:3 69:20 142:4 Isa 53:3


March 15 -- Evening

The LORD made heaven and earth,

the sea, and all that in them [is].

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament

sheweth his handywork.--By the word of the LORD were the heavens

made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.--For

he spake, and it was [done]; he commanded, and it stood fast.--

Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted

as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles

as a very little thing.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by

the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of

things which do appear.

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?

Ex 20:11 Ps 19:1 33:6,9 Isa 40:15 Heb 11:3 Ps 8:3,4


March 16 -- Morning

For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that

appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

My days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no

good. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle

[that] hasteth to the prey.--Thou carriest them away as with a

flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like

grass [which] groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and

groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.--Man

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

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

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

doeth the will of God abideth for ever.--They shall perish, but

thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a

garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be

changed: but thou [art] the same, and thy years shall have no

end.--Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Jas 4:14 Job 9:25,26 Ps 90:5,6 Job 14:1,2 1Jo 2:17

Ps 102:26,27 Heb 13:8


March 16 -- Evening

I will sing with the spirit,

and I will sing with the understanding also.

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

in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms

and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts

to the Lord.

My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all

flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our

God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.--Sing unto

the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our

God.

I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and

as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of

harpers harping with their harps.

1Co 14:15 Eph 5:18,19 Col 3:16 Ps 145:21 147:1,7 Re 14:2


March 17 -- Morning

He shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering;

and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,

[as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by

tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of

Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.--Who his

own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.

He hath made us accepted in the beloved.

As lively stones, . . . built up a spiritual house, an holy

priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God

by Jesus Christ.--I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the

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

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

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to

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

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

majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.

Le 1:4 1Pe 1:18,19 2:24 Eph 1:6 1Pe 2:5 Ro 12:1 Jude 1:24,25


March 17 -- Evening

In all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.

When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food (the

lust of the flesh), and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes (the

lust of the eyes), and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise

(the pride of life), she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,

and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

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

God, command that these stones be made bread (the lust of the

flesh). But he answered, . . . It is written, Man shall not

live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of

the mouth of God.--The devil sheweth him all the kingdoms of the

world, and the glory of them (the lust of the eyes, and the

pride of life). Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence,

Satan.

In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to

succour them that are tempted.

Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation.

Heb 4:15 Ge 3:6 1Jo 2:16 Mt 4:3,4,8,10 1Jo 2:16 Heb 2:18

Jas 1:12


March 18 -- Morning

Mine eyes fail [with looking] upward.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me;

for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O

LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for

thy mercies' sake.--My heart is sore pained within me: and the

terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling

are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh

that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and

be at rest.

Ye have need of patience.

While they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up,

behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said,

Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same

Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in

like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.--Our

conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the

Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.--That blessed hope, and the

glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus

Christ.

Isa 38:14 Ps 6:2-4 Ps 55:4-6 Heb 10:36 Ac 1:10,11 Php 3:20

Tit 2:13


March 18 -- Evening

His name [shall be] in their foreheads.

I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep].--The foundation

of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them

that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ

depart from iniquity.

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

he knoweth them that trust in him.--Hurt not the earth, neither

the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our

God in their foreheads.

After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit

of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance.--Now he

which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us,

[is] God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the

Spirit in our hearts.

I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the

city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out

of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name.

--This [is the name] wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our

righteousness.

Re 22:4 Joh 10:14 2Ti 2:19 Na 1:7 Re 7:3 Eph 1:13,14

2Co 1:21,22 Re 3:12 Je 33:16


March 19 -- Morning

God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you,

in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

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.--Saved by his life.

Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . who gave himself for us, that

he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a

peculiar people, zealous of good works.--As he which hath called

you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . hath

blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in

Christ.--In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

And ye are complete in him.--Of his fulness have all we

received, and grace for grace.

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?

Ac 3:26 1Pe 1:3 Ro 5:10 Tit 2:13,14 1Pe 1:15,16 Eph 1:3

Col 2:9,10 Joh 1:16 Ro 8:32


March 19 -- Evening

Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast

caused me to hope.--O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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

away.--Ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that

not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD

your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you,

[and] not one thing hath failed thereof.

Fear not: peace [be] unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.

And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said,

Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.--Be strong, .

. . and work: for I [am] with you, saith the LORD of hosts.--

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

hosts.

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Ps 119:28,49 Isa 38:14 Lu 21:33 Jos 23:14 Da 10:19 Hag 2:4

Zec 4:6 Eph 6:10


March 20 -- Morning

The entrance of thy words giveth light.

This . . . is the message which we have heard of him, and

declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness

at all.--God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,

hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge

of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.--The Word was

God.--In him was life; and the life was the light of men.--If we

walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one

with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us

from all sin.

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

against thee.--Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken

unto you.

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

Lord: walk as children of light.--Ye [are] a chosen generation,

a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye

should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of

darkness into his marvellous light.

Ps 119:130 1Jo 1:5 2Co 4:6 Joh 1:1,4 1Jo 1:7 Ps 119:11

Joh 15:3 Eph 5:8 1Pe 2:9


March 20 -- Evening

Noah was a just man.

The just shall live by faith.--Noah builded an altar unto the

LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl,

and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a

sweet savour.--The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our

Lord Jesus Christ.

By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in

his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. But now the

righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being

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

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

them that believe: for there is no difference.

We . . . joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we

have now received the atonement.--[It is] God that justifieth.--

Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and

whom he called, them he also justified.

Ge 6:9 Ga 3:11 Ge 8:20,21 Re 13:8 Ro 5:1 3:20-22 5:11 8:33,30


March 21 -- Morning

Be watchful, and strengthen the things

which remain, that are ready to die.

The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and

watch unto prayer.--Be sober, be vigilant; because your

adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking

whom he may devour.--Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul

diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have

seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy

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

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

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

saving of the soul.

What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

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.

--I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand.

Re 3:2 1Pe 4:7 5:8 De 4:9 Heb 10:38,39 Mr 13:37 Isa 41:10,13


March 21 -- Evening

Is his mercy clean gone for ever?

His mercy [endureth] for ever.--The LORD [is] longsuffering,

and of great mercy.--Who [is] a God like unto thee, that

pardoneth iniquity? . . . he retaineth not his anger for ever,

because he delighteth [in] mercy. He will turn again, he will

have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou

wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.--Not by

works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his

mercy he saved us.

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.

Merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to

God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in

that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to

succour them that are tempted.

Ps 77:8 136:23 Nu 14:18 Mi 7:18,19 Tit 3:5 2Co 1:3,4

Heb 2:17,18


March 22 -- Morning

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

that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD

destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the

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

Just Lot . . . that righteous man.

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

soweth, that shall he also reap.--Remember Lot's wife.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what

fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what

communion hath light with darkness?--Wherefore come out from

among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not

the unclean [thing].--Be not ye . . . partakers with them. For

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

walk as children of light: proving what is acceptable unto the

Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of

darkness, but rather reprove [them].

Ge 13:10,11 2Pe 2:7,8 Ga 6:7 Lu 17:32 2Co 6:14,17

Eph 5:7,8,10,11


March 22 -- Evening

If so be the LORD [will be] with me,

then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So

that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not

fear what man shall do unto me.--I will go in the strength of

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

of thine only.

The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of

righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Stand . . . having your loins girt about with truth, and

having on the breastplate of righteousness.--For we wrestle not

against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against

powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,

against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. Wherefore take

unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to

withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.--The

LORD [is] with thee, . . . Go in this thy might.

Jos 14:12 Heb 13:5,6 Ps 71:16 Isa 32:17 Eph 6:14,12,13

Jud 6:12,14


March 23 -- Morning

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.

Thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of

Israel.--Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy

feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground.

. . . I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God

of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he

was afraid to look upon God.--To whom then will ye liken me, or

shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.--I [am] the LORD thy God,

the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.--I, [even] I, [am] the

LORD; and beside me [there is] no saviour.

As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all

manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I

am holy.--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?--Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath

said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be

their God, and they shall be my people.--Can two walk together,

except they be agreed?

Re 4:8 Ps 22:3 Ex 3:5,6 Isa 40:25 43:3,11 1Pe 1:15,16

1Co 6:19 2Co 6:16 Am 3:3


March 23 -- Evening

They constrained him, saying, Abide with us.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my

voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup

with him, and he with me.--Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,

where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at

noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the

flocks of thy companions?--I found him whom my soul loveth: I

held him, and would not let him go.

Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant

fruits.--I am come into my garden.--I said not unto the seed of

Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.

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

will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.--Where two or three are

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

The world seeth me no more; but ye see me.

Lu 24:29 Re 3:20 So 1:7 3:4 4:16 5:1 Isa 45:19 Mt 28:20

Heb 13:5 Mt 18:20 Joh 14:19


March 24 -- Morning

[Araham] believed in the LORD;

and he counted it to him for righteousness.

He 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. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed

to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we

believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.

The promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was]

not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the

righteousness of faith.

The just shall live by faith.--Let us hold fast the

profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is]

faithful that promised).--Our God [is] in the heavens: he hath

done whatsoever he hath pleased.--With God nothing shall be

impossible.--And blessed [is] she that believed: for there shall

be a performance of those things which were told her from the

Lord.

Ge 15:6 Ro 4:20-24 4:13 1:17 Heb 10:23 Ps 115:3 Lu 1:37,45


March 24 -- Evening

God . . . .who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this

world, then would my servants fight, . . . but now is my kingdom

not from hence.--Expecting till his enemies be made his

footstool.

The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our

Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.--

[Thou] hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall

reign on the earth.--I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and

judgment was given unto them; . . . and they lived and reigned

with Christ a thousand years.--Then shall the righteous shine

forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.--Fear not,

little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you

the kingdom.

I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed

unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom,

and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Thy kingdom come.

1Th 2:12 Joh 18:36 Heb 10:13 Re 11:15 5:10 20:4 Mt 13:43

Lu 12:32 22:29,30 Mt 6:10


March 25 -- Morning

I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I

will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places]

whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land;

for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have

spoken to thee of.--Be strong and of a good courage, fear not,

nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that

doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world.--At

my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me:

[I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge.

Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me.--

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take

me up.

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

I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for

evermore.--I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

--My peace I give unto you.

Heb 13:5,6 Ge 28:15 De 31:6 2Ti 4:10,16,17 Ps 27:10 Mt 28:20

Re 1:18 Joh 14:18,27


March 25 -- Evening

Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing:

nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye

therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of

the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: . . . and,

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

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into

the sea, and gathered of every kind:

Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for

necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not

the gospel!--I am made all things to all [men], that I might by

all means save some.

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

reap, if we faint not.--My word . . . shall not return unto me

void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.--So then

neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth;

but God that giveth the increase.

Lu 5:5 Mt 28:18-20 13:47 1Co 9:16,22 Ga 6:9 Isa 55:11 1Co 3:7


March 26 -- Morning

[The kingdom of heaven is] as a man travelling

into a far country, [who] called his own

servants, and delivered unto them his goods

. . . to every man according to his several ability.

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to

obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey?

All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing

to every man severally as he will.--The manifestation of the

Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.--As every man

hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to

another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.--It is

required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.--Unto

whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to

whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Who [is] sufficient for these things?--I can do all things

through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Mt 25:14,15 Ro 6:16 1Co 12:11,7 1Pe 4:10 1Co 4:2 Lu 12:48

2Co 2:16 Php 4:13


March 26 -- Evening

Distributing to the necessity of saints.

David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of

Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared

for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungred,

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

a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was

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

Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my

brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.--Whosoever shall give to

drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only

in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no

wise lose his reward.

To do good and to communicate forget not: for with such

sacrifices God is well pleased.--God [is] not unrighteous to

forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward

his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do

minister.

Ro 12:13 2Sa 9:1 Mt 25:34-36,40 10:42 Heb 13:16 6:10


March 27 -- Morning

To him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward.

After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and

reckoneth with them. And so he that had received five talents

came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou

deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside

them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done,

[thou] good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a

few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou

into the joy of thy lord.

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.

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

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

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

give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also

that love his appearing.

Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that

no man take thy crown.

Pr 11:18 Mt 25:19-21 2Co 5:10 2Ti 4:7,8 Re 3:11


March 27 -- Evening

God [is] faithful.

God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of

man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do

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

Lord sware and will not repent.

od, 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.--Wherefore let

them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping

of their souls [to him] in well doing, as unto a faithful

Creator.

I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able

to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.--

Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it].--All

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

glory of God by us.

1Co 10:13 Nu 23:19 Heb 7:21 6:17,18 1Pe 4:19 2Ti 1:12 1Th 5:24

2Co 1:20


March 28 -- Morning

Be strong and of a good courage.

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

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

afraid?--He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have]

no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and

be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that

wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall

mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;

[and] they shall walk, and not faint.--My flesh and my heart

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

for ever.

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

on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?--Through

thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we

tread them under that rise up against us.--We are more than

conquerors through him that loved us.

Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.

Jos 1:18 Ps 27:1 Isa 40:29-31 Ps 73:26 Ro 8:31 Ps 118:6 44:5

Ro 8:37 1Ch 22:16


March 28 -- Evening

Our friend . . . sleepeth.

I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning

them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which

have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,

even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if

Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your

sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are

perished.--Now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the

firstfruits of them that slept.

It came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over

Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, . . . Take you

hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the

priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, . . . and these stones

shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.--

This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.--

Witnesses chosen before of God, . . . who did eat and drink with

him after he rose from the dead.

Joh 11:11 1Th 4:13,14 1Co 15:16-18,20 Jos 4:1,3,7

Ac 2:32 10:41


March 29 -- Morning

Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom

prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

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

to give you the kingdom.--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?--Heirs of God, and joint-heirs

with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be

also glorified together.

The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me.--God

is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for

them a city.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be

his God, and he shall be my son.--There is laid up for me a

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

shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them

also that love his appearing.--He which hath begun a good work

in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ.

Mt 25:34 Lu 12:32 Jas 2:5 Ro 8:17 Joh 16:27 Heb 11:16 Re 21:7

2Ti 4:8 Php 1:6


March 29 -- Evening

Riches [are] not for ever:

and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are

disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who

shall gather them.--Set your affection on things above, not on

things on the earth.--Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon

earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break

through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in

heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where

thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure

is, there will your heart be also.

They [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an

incorruptible.--We look not at the things which are seen, but at

the things which are not seen.--To him that soweth righteousness

[shall be] a sure reward.--There is laid up for me a crown of

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

me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that

love his appearing.--A crown of glory that fadeth not away.

Pr 27:24 Ps 39:6 Col 3:2 Mt 6:19-21 1Co 9:25 2Co 4:18 Pr 11:18

2Ti 4:8 1Pe 5:4


March 30 -- Morning

Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be

acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

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?

--The works of the LORD [are] great, sought out of all them that

have pleasure therein.

Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the

ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the

seat of the scornful. But his delight [is] in the law of the

LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.--This book

of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt

meditate therein day and night.--My soul shall be satisfied as

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

joyful lips: when I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on

thee in the [night] watches.

Ge 24:63 Ps 19:14 8:3,4 111:2 1:1,2 Jos 1:8 Ps 63:5,6


March 30 -- Evening

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

how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and

cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no

variableness, neither shadow of turning.--But Zion said, The

LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a

woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have

compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet

will I not forget thee.

Thou shalt not be forgotten of me. I have blotted out, as a

thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins.

Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When he had

heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the

same place where he was.--A woman . . . cried unto him, saying,

Have mercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; my daughter is

grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word.

The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of

gold that perisheth.

Ps 13:1 Jas 1:17 Isa 49:14,15 44:21,22 Joh 11:5,6 Mt 15:22,23

1Pe 1:7


March 31 -- Morning

My God shall supply all your need according

to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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

all these things shall be added unto you.--He that spared not

his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not

with him also freely give us all things?--For all things are

yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or

life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are

yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.--As having

nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.

The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.--The LORD God

[is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no

good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.--

The living God . . . giveth us richly all things to enjoy.--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.

Php 4:19 Mt 6:33 Ro 8:32 1Co 3:21-23 2Co 6:10 Ps 23:1 84:11

1Ti 6:17 2Co 9:8


March 31 -- Evening

What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?

Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds

were evil.--Ye are all the children of light, and the children

of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Darkness hath blinded his eyes.--Thy word [is] a lamp unto my

feet, and a light unto my path.

The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of

cruelty.--Love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of

God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for

God is love.

The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what

they stumble.--The path of the just [is] as the shining light,

that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth

on me should not abide in darkness.

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

Lord: walk as children of light.

2Co 6:14 Joh 3:19 1Th 5:5 1Jo 2:11 Ps 119:105 Ps 74:20

1Joh 4:7,8 Pr 4:19,18 Joh 12:46 Eph 5:8


April 1 -- Morning

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . joy.

Joy in the Holy Ghost.--Unspeakable and full of glory.

Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing . . . exceeding joyful in all

our tribulation.--We glory in tribulations.

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

joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the

shame. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might

remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full.--As the

sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also

aboundeth by Christ.

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

joy of the LORD is your strength.

In thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there

are] pleasures for evermore.--For the Lamb which is in the midst

of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living

fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from

their eyes.

Ga 5:22 Ro 14:17 1Pe 1:8 2Co 6:10 7:4 Ro 5:3 Heb 12:2

Joh 15:11 2Co 1:5 Php 4:4 Ne 8:10 Ps 16:11 Re 7:17


April 1 -- Evening

Jehovahshalom: The LORD send peace.

Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of

rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about:

for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and

quietness unto Israel in his days.

Behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.--Unto us a child is

born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon

his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,

Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince

of Peace.--My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and

in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; when it shall

hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a

low place.

He is our peace.--This [man] shall be the peace, when the

Assyrian shall come into our land.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall

overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings.

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

Jud 6:24 1Ch 22:9 Mt 12:42 Isa 9:6 32:18,19 Eph 2:14 Mic 5:5

Re 17:14 Joh 14:27


April 2 -- Morning

If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, [then]

put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you,

and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.--Come out from

among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not

the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, and will be a

Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith

the Lord Almighty.--Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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

[is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God.--Serve him with a perfect

heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all

hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the

hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.--Man looketh on

the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.--

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence

toward God.

1Sa 7:3 1Jo 5:21 2Co 6:17,18 Mt 6:24 Ex 34:14 1Ch 28:9 Ps 51:6

1Sa 16:7 1Jo 3:21


April 2 -- Evening

When the Son of man cometh,

shall he find faith on the earth?

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.--The

Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall

depart from the faith.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;

reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For

the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but

after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,

having itching ears; and they shall turn away [their] ears from

the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the

angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

--Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh

shall find watching.--Looking for that blessed hope, . . . the

glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus

Christ.

Lu 18:8 Joh 1:11 1Ti 4:1 2Ti 4:2-4 Mr 13:32,33 Lu 12:37

Tit 2:13