Morning
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.
How precious ... are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. -- How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! -- Thy love is better than wine.
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. -- Thou art fairer than the children of men.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. -- His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend.
Psa 63:5,6; Psa 139:17,18; Psa 119:103; Song 1:2; Psa 73:25; Psa 45:2; Song 2:3,4; Song 5:15,16
Sunday 14-April, 2024
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.
How precious ... are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. -- How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! -- Thy love is better than wine.
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. -- Thou art fairer than the children of men.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. -- His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend.
Psa 63:5,6; Psa 139:17,18; Psa 119:103; Song 1:2; Psa 73:25; Psa 45:2; Song 2:3,4; Song 5:15,16
Sunday 14-April, 2024
Evening
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -- Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God. -- I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. -- He restoreth my soul. -- O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Psa 51:12; Isa 57:18; Isa 1:18; Jer 3:22; Psa 85:8; Psa 103:2,3; Psa 23:3; Isa 12:1; Psa 119:117; Isa 43:25
Sunday 14-April, 2024
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -- Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God. -- I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. -- He restoreth my soul. -- O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Psa 51:12; Isa 57:18; Isa 1:18; Jer 3:22; Psa 85:8; Psa 103:2,3; Psa 23:3; Isa 12:1; Psa 119:117; Isa 43:25
Sunday 14-April, 2024
Morning
Their Redeemer is strong.
I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins. -- I have laid help upon one that is mighty. -- The Lord ... thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. -- Mighty to save. -- Able to keep you from falling. -- Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. -- He is able ... to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.
Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? ... I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jer 50:34; Amos 5:12; Psa 89:19; Isa 49:26; Isa 63:1; Jude 24; Rom 5:20; John 3:18; Heb 7:25; Isa 50:2; Rom 8:35,38,39
Monday 15-April, 2024
Their Redeemer is strong.
I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins. -- I have laid help upon one that is mighty. -- The Lord ... thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. -- Mighty to save. -- Able to keep you from falling. -- Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. -- He is able ... to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.
Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? ... I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jer 50:34; Amos 5:12; Psa 89:19; Isa 49:26; Isa 63:1; Jude 24; Rom 5:20; John 3:18; Heb 7:25; Isa 50:2; Rom 8:35,38,39
Monday 15-April, 2024
Evening
Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not.
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. -- Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. -- Christ ... suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Jer 45:5; Matt 11:29; Phl 2:5‑8; Matt 10:38; 1 Pet 2:21; 1 Tim 6:6‑8; Phl 4:11
Monday 15-April, 2024
Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not.
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. -- Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. -- Christ ... suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Jer 45:5; Matt 11:29; Phl 2:5‑8; Matt 10:38; 1 Pet 2:21; 1 Tim 6:6‑8; Phl 4:11
Monday 15-April, 2024
Morning
I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eves: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. -- Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. -- I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Psa 31:32; Psa 69:2; Lam 3:54‑57; Psa 77:7‑11; Psa 27:13
Tuesday 16-April, 2024
I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eves: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. -- Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. -- I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Psa 31:32; Psa 69:2; Lam 3:54‑57; Psa 77:7‑11; Psa 27:13
Tuesday 16-April, 2024
Evening
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him.
And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. -- Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said unto God, ... Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. -- And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power ... O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Psa 91:15; 1 Chr 4:10; 2 Chr 1:7,8,10; 1 Kgs 4:29; 2 Chr 14:11,12; Psa 65:2
Tuesday 16-April, 2024
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him.
And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. -- Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said unto God, ... Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. -- And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power ... O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Psa 91:15; 1 Chr 4:10; 2 Chr 1:7,8,10; 1 Kgs 4:29; 2 Chr 14:11,12; Psa 65:2
Tuesday 16-April, 2024
Morning
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me.
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. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. -- Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Ye are a royal priesthood ... that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. -- Ye ... as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. -- By him ... let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psa 50:23; Col 3:16,17; 1 Cor 6:20; 1 Pet 2:9; 1 Pet 2:5; Heb 13:15; Psa 34:2,3
Wednesday 17-April, 2024
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me.
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. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. -- Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Ye are a royal priesthood ... that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. -- Ye ... as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. -- By him ... let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psa 50:23; Col 3:16,17; 1 Cor 6:20; 1 Pet 2:9; 1 Pet 2:5; Heb 13:15; Psa 34:2,3
Wednesday 17-April, 2024
Evening
Draw me, we will run after thee.
I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. -- I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. -- I, if I be lifted up from the eaith, will draw all men unto me. -- Behold the Lamb of God. -- As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. -- We love him, because he first loved us.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song 1:4; Jer 31:3; Hos 11:4; John 12:32; John 1:36; John 3:14,15; Psa 73:25; 1 John 4:19; Song 2:10‑13
Wednesday 17-April, 2024
Draw me, we will run after thee.
I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. -- I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. -- I, if I be lifted up from the eaith, will draw all men unto me. -- Behold the Lamb of God. -- As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. -- We love him, because he first loved us.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song 1:4; Jer 31:3; Hos 11:4; John 12:32; John 1:36; John 3:14,15; Psa 73:25; 1 John 4:19; Song 2:10‑13
Wednesday 17-April, 2024
Morning
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
[Moses] stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for ye were afraid. -- There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. -- 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. -- Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Deut 18:18; Deut 5:5; 1 Tim 2:5; Num 12:3; Matt 11:29; Phl 2:57; Heb 3:5,6
Thursday 18-April, 2024
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
[Moses] stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for ye were afraid. -- There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. -- 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. -- Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Deut 18:18; Deut 5:5; 1 Tim 2:5; Num 12:3; Matt 11:29; Phl 2:57; Heb 3:5,6
Thursday 18-April, 2024
Evening
Everlasting consolation.
I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. -- He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. -- 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.
The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. -- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? -- 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. -- So shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore cormfort one another with these words.
This is not your rest. -- Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
2 Thes 2:16; Ezek 16:60; Heb 10:14; Heb 7:25; 2 Tim 1:12; Rom 11:29; Rom 8:35; Rev 7:17; 1 Thes 4:17,18; Mic 2:10; Heb 13:14
Thursday 18-April, 2024
Everlasting consolation.
I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. -- He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. -- 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.
The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. -- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? -- 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. -- So shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore cormfort one another with these words.
This is not your rest. -- Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
2 Thes 2:16; Ezek 16:60; Heb 10:14; Heb 7:25; 2 Tim 1:12; Rom 11:29; Rom 8:35; Rev 7:17; 1 Thes 4:17,18; Mic 2:10; Heb 13:14
Thursday 18-April, 2024
Morning
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. -- Christ ... hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. -- The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. -- Through him we ... have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. -- Having ... 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. -- We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
John 10:7; Matt 27:51; 1 Pet 3:18; Heb 9:8; John 10:9; John 14:6; Eph 2:15,19; Heb 10:19,20; Rom 5:1,2
Friday 19-April, 2024
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. -- Christ ... hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. -- The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. -- Through him we ... have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. -- Having ... 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. -- We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
John 10:7; Matt 27:51; 1 Pet 3:18; Heb 9:8; John 10:9; John 14:6; Eph 2:15,19; Heb 10:19,20; Rom 5:1,2
Friday 19-April, 2024
Evening
His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Necessity is laid upon me; yea woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. -- They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, ... We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. -- The love of Christ constraineth us.
I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth ... Thou wicked and slothful servant, ... thou oughtest ... to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Go ... to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.
Jer 20:9; 1 Cor 9:16,18; Acts 4:18‑20; 2 Cor 5:14; Matt 25:25‑27; Mark 5:19
Friday 19-April, 2024
His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Necessity is laid upon me; yea woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. -- They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, ... We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. -- The love of Christ constraineth us.
I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth ... Thou wicked and slothful servant, ... thou oughtest ... to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Go ... to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.
Jer 20:9; 1 Cor 9:16,18; Acts 4:18‑20; 2 Cor 5:14; Matt 25:25‑27; Mark 5:19
Friday 19-April, 2024
Morning
There shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand.
Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. -- Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. -- Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God ... And it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him: for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. -- The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Deut 13:1,7; 2 Cor 6:17; 1 Pet 2:11; Jude 23; 1 John 3:2,3; Tit 2:11‑14
Saturday 20-April, 2024
There shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand.
Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. -- Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. -- Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God ... And it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him: for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. -- The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Deut 13:1,7; 2 Cor 6:17; 1 Pet 2:11; Jude 23; 1 John 3:2,3; Tit 2:11‑14
Saturday 20-April, 2024
Evening
Who art thou Lord? I am Jesus.
It is I; be not afraid. -- When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee: and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, ... thy Saviour.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. -- Emmanuel, God with us.
Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. -- If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. -- Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Acts 26:15; Matt 14:27; Isa 43:2,3; Psa 23:4; Matt 1:23; Matt 1:21; 1 John 2:1; Rom 8:34,35
Saturday 20-April, 2024
Who art thou Lord? I am Jesus.
It is I; be not afraid. -- When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee: and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, ... thy Saviour.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. -- Emmanuel, God with us.
Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. -- If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. -- Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Acts 26:15; Matt 14:27; Isa 43:2,3; Psa 23:4; Matt 1:23; Matt 1:21; 1 John 2:1; Rom 8:34,35
Saturday 20-April, 2024
Morning
Stand fast in the Lord.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
The Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever. -- The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
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 into perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. -- If they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed. -- He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. -- Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. -- Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. -- He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life.
Phl 4:1; Job 23:11; Psa 37:28; Psa 121:7; Heb 10:38; John 2:19; John 8:31; Matt 24:13; 1 Cor 16:13; Rev 3:11; Rev 3:5
Sunday 21-April, 2024
Stand fast in the Lord.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
The Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever. -- The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
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 into perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. -- If they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed. -- He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. -- Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. -- Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. -- He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life.
Phl 4:1; Job 23:11; Psa 37:28; Psa 121:7; Heb 10:38; John 2:19; John 8:31; Matt 24:13; 1 Cor 16:13; Rev 3:11; Rev 3:5
Sunday 21-April, 2024
Evening
Enoch walked with God.
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Having made peace through the blood of his cross ... You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. -- In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
Gen 5:22; Amos 3:3; Col 1:20‑22; Eph 2:13; Rom 5:10,11; 1 John 1:3; 2 Cor 13:14
Sunday 21-April, 2024
Enoch walked with God.
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Having made peace through the blood of his cross ... You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. -- In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
Gen 5:22; Amos 3:3; Col 1:20‑22; Eph 2:13; Rom 5:10,11; 1 John 1:3; 2 Cor 13:14
Sunday 21-April, 2024
Morning
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. -- Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. -- We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. -- A ransom for many.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. -- I will love them freely. -- The Son of God ... loved me and gave himself for me.
He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. -- He hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Lev 1:3,4; Gen 22:8; John 1:29; Heb 10:10; Matt 20:28; John 10:18; Hos 14:4; Gal 2:20; 2 Cor 5:21; Eph 1:6
Monday 22-April, 2024
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. -- Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. -- We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. -- A ransom for many.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. -- I will love them freely. -- The Son of God ... loved me and gave himself for me.
He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. -- He hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Lev 1:3,4; Gen 22:8; John 1:29; Heb 10:10; Matt 20:28; John 10:18; Hos 14:4; Gal 2:20; 2 Cor 5:21; Eph 1:6
Monday 22-April, 2024
Evening
Great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins, -- They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: for the redemption of their soul is precious. -- I have found a ransom. -- God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Psa 86:13; Matt 10:28; Isa 43:1,11,25; Psa 49:6‑8; Job 33:24; Eph 2:4,5; Acts 4:12
Monday 22-April, 2024
Great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins, -- They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: for the redemption of their soul is precious. -- I have found a ransom. -- God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Psa 86:13; Matt 10:28; Isa 43:1,11,25; Psa 49:6‑8; Job 33:24; Eph 2:4,5; Acts 4:12
Monday 22-April, 2024
Morning
The Lord was my stay.
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. -- The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. -- Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. -- The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. -- So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
By the grace of God I am what I am.
Psa 18:8; Jer 3:23; Psa 18:2; Isa 12:6; Psa 34:7,17; Deut 33:27; Heb 13:6; Psa 18:31,32; 1 Cor 15:10
Tuesday 23-April, 2024
The Lord was my stay.
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. -- The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. -- Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. -- The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. -- So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
By the grace of God I am what I am.
Psa 18:8; Jer 3:23; Psa 18:2; Isa 12:6; Psa 34:7,17; Deut 33:27; Heb 13:6; Psa 18:31,32; 1 Cor 15:10
Tuesday 23-April, 2024
Evening
All we like sheep have gone astray.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. -- There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable.
Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. -- I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteous for his name's sake.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, either shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Isa 53:6; 1 John 1:8; Rom 3:10‑12; 1 Pet 2:25; Psa 119:176; Psa 23:3; John 10:27,28; Luke 15:4
Tuesday 23-April, 2024
All we like sheep have gone astray.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. -- There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable.
Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. -- I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteous for his name's sake.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, either shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Isa 53:6; 1 John 1:8; Rom 3:10‑12; 1 Pet 2:25; Psa 119:176; Psa 23:3; John 10:27,28; Luke 15:4
Tuesday 23-April, 2024