Each
will be like a refuge from the wind, And a shelter from the
storm
Since
then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise
also partook of the same --The man, My Associate, Declares the
LORD of hosts.--I and my Father are one.
He who dwells in the
shelter of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty
--There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and
refuge and protection from the storm and the rain --The LORD is
your shade on your right hand. The sun will not smite you by day,
nor the moon by night.
When my heart is faint;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I .--Thou art my
hiding place; thou dost preserve me from trouble --Thou hast been
a defense for the helpless, a defense for the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; for the
breath of the ruthless is like a rain storm against a wall.
Is 32.2. Heb.
2.14.--Zec. 13.7.
John 10.30. Ps. 91.1.--Isa. 4.6.--
Ps121:5,6 . Ps. 61.2.--Ps. 32.7.--
Isa. 25.4.
Behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth
THE
new heavens and the new earth, which I make will endure before Me,
declares the LORD, So your offspring and your name will endure.
According to His promise
we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which
righteousness dwells.
I saw a new heaven and a
new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away,
and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a
bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the
throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He
shall dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God
Himself shall be among them, and He shall wipe away every tear
from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there
shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first
things have passed away. And He who sits on the throne said,
Behold, I am making all things new. And He said, Write, for these
words are faithful and true.
Is 65.17. Isa. 66.22.
2 Pe. 3.13.
Rev. 21.1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
December
2,
MORNING
December
2, EVENING
You
have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
GOD anointed Him with the Holy Spirit
and with power.--It was the Father's good pleasure for all the
fulness to dwell in Him --Of His fulness we have all received, and
grace upon grace.
Thou hast anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows.--The
anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have
no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you
about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has
taught you, you abide in Him.
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My
name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
all that I said to you.
The Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to
pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with
groanings too deep for words
1Jn 2.20. Ac. 10.38.--Col. 1.19.--
John 1.16. Ps. 23.5.--1 Jo. 2.27.
John 14.26. Ro. 8.26.
Having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience
IF the blood of goats and bulls and
the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled,
sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God?--The sprinkled blood...speaks better than
the blood of Abel.
We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our
trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
When every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the
people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and
the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled
both the book itself and all the people. And in the same way he
sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry
with the blood. And according to the Law, one may almost say, all
things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood
there is no forgiveness.
He 10.22. Heb 9.13, 14.--Heb 12.24.
Ep. 1.7. Heb 9.19, 21, 22.
December
3,
MORNING
December 3,
EVENING
I
would seek God, and I would place my cause before God
Is
anything too difficult for the LORD?-Commit your way to the LORD,
trust also in Him, and He will do it.--Be anxious for nothing, but
in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let
your requests be made known to God --Casting all your anxiety upon
Him, because He cares for you.
Hezekiah took the letter
from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the
house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. And Hezekiah
prayed to the LORD
It will also come to pass
that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still
speaking, I will hear.--The effective prayer of a righteous man
can accomplish much.
I love the LORD, because
He hears My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined
His ear to me, therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.
Job 5.8. Ge.
18.14.--Ps. 37.5.--Phil 4.6.--
1 Pe. 5.7. Isa 37.14, 15. Isa. 65.24.--
Jas. 5.16. Ps. 116.1, 2.
Our bodies
washed with pure water.
THOU shalt . . . make a laver of bronze...and you shall put
it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put
water in it. And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and
their feet from it when they enter the tent of meeting, they shall
wash with water, that they may not die... they shall wash their
hands and their feet, that they may not die...--Your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you --If any man destroys the
temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is
holy, and that is what you are.
From my flesh I shall see
God: Whom I myself shall behold, and Whom my eyes shall see and
not another.-- Nothing unclean and no one who practices
abomination and lying, shall ever come into it.--Thine eyes are
too pure to approve evil, And Thou canst not look on wickedness
--I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to
present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to
God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
IF
any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, Who gives to all men
generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But
let him ask in faith without any doubting --Trust in the LORD with
all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all
your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight
--The only wise God.--Be not wise in your own eyes.
Alas, Lord GOD! Behold, I
do not know how to speak, because I am a youth. But the LORD said
to me, Do not say, I am a youth, because everywhere I send you,
you shall go, and all that I command you, you shall speak. Do not
be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the
LORD.
If you shall ask the
Father for anything, He will give it to you in My name. Until now
you have asked for nothing in My name; ask, and you will receive,
that your joy may be made full --All things you ask in prayer,
believing, you shall receive.
Job 28.12. Jas 1.5,
6.--Pr. 3.5, 6.--
1 Ti. 1.17.--Pr. 3.7. Je. 1.6-8.
John 16.23, 24.--Mat. 21.22.
I
will not live forever.
A
ND
I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be
at rest. I would hasten to my place of refuge from the stormy wind
and tempest.
In this house we groan,
longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven...for indeed
while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do
not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is
mortal may be swallowed up by life.--Having the desire to depart
and be with Christ, for that is very much better
Let us run with endurance
the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the
Author and Perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the
right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured
such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not
grow weary and lose heart.
Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
It
is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Thy
statutes
Although
He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He
suffered.--We suffer with Him in order that we may also be
glorified with Him. For I consider that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is
to be revealed to us.
He knows the way I take.
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held
fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
You shall remember all
the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness
these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know
what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or
not. You are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was
disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. Therefore, you
shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His
ways and to fear Him.
HEN
David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, a
spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of
hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, Whom you have taunted. And
David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung
it. Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a
stone.
The king is not saved by
a mighty army. A warrior is not delivered by great strength.
Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, on those who
hope for His lovingkindness--Both riches and honor come from Thee, and Thou dost rule over
all, and in Thy hand is power and might; and it lies in Thy hand
to make great, and to strengthen everyone.
I will rather boast about
my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore
I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses,
with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when
I am weak, then I am strong.
OT
that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming
from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God --A man can receive
nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven --No one can
come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will
raise him up on the last day --And I will give them one heart and
one way, that they may fear Me always
Do not be deceived, my
beloved brethren. Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift
is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom
there is no variation, or shifting shadow. In the exercise of His
will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might
be, as it were, the first fruits among His creatures.
For we are His
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
LORD,
Thou wilt establish peace for us, since Thou hast also performed
for us all our works.
Php 2.13. 2 Co.
3.5.--John 3.27.--
John 6.44.--Je. 32.39. Jas 1.16, 17, 18.
Ep. 2.10. Isa 26.12.
The
spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
While
following the way of Thy judgments, O LORD, we have waited for
Thee eagerly. Thy Name, even Thy memory, is the desire of our
souls. At night my soul longs for Thee. Indeed, my spirit within
me seeks Thee diligently
I know that nothing good
dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in
me, but the doing of the good is not.
For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I
see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against
the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin
which is in my members.--The flesh sets its desire against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in
opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that
you please.
I can do all things
through Him who strengthens me .--Our adequacy is from God --My
grace is sufficient for you.
Mt 26.41. Isa
26.8, 9. Ro 7.18, 22, 23.-- Ga. 5.17. Phil 4.13.--2Co. 3.5.-- 2Co
12.9.
December
7,
MORNING
December 7,
EVENING
He
made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we
might become the righteousness of God in Him.
T
HE
LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To
fall on Him --He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross,
that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His
wounds you were healed --For as through the one man's disobedience
the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the
One the many will be made righteous.
But when the kindness of
God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not
on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but
according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and
renewing by the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out upon us richly
through Jesus Christ our Savior, that being justified by His grace
we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life--There
is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus.
The LORD
our Righteousness.
2Co 5.21 Is
53.6--1Pe 2.24--
Ro 5.19 Titus 3.4, 5, 6, 7--Ro 8.1 Jer 23.6
I
will be like the dew to Israel
T
HE
meekness and gentleness of Christ.
A bruised reed He will
not break, And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish
The Spirit of the Lord
is upon Me, because he anointed Me to preach the gospel to the
poor. He hath sent Me to proclaim release to the captives and
recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are
downtrodden, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. And he
began to say to them, Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in
your hearing. And all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at
the gracious words which were falling from His lips
And the Lord turned, and
looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He
had told him, Before a cock crows today, you will deny Me three
times. And he went out and wept bitterly.
He will tend His flock,
in His arm He will gather the lambs, and carry them in His bosom;
He will gently lead the nursing ewes.
Ho 14.5. 2Co 10.1.
Isa 42.3.
Lk 4.18, 19, 21, 22. Lk. 22.61, 62.
Isa 40.11.
December
8,
MORNING
December 8,
EVENING
Through love serve one another
B
RETHREN,
even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual,
restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to
yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and
thus fulfill the law of Christ.
My brethren, if any among
you strays from the truth, and one turns him back, let him know
that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his
soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins --Since you
have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere
love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart
--Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who
loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law -Be devoted to one
another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor
--all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another,
for GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.
We who are strong ought
to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just
please ourselves.
Ga 5.13 Ga
6.1, 2 Jas 5.19, 20-- 1Pe 1.22--Ro 13.8--- Ro 12.10--1Pe 5.5 Ro
15.1
The
dust will return to the earth as it was
I
T
is sown a perishable body... it is sown in dishonor... it is sown
in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural
body.--The first man is of the earth, earthy.
You are dust, And to dust
you shall return --One dies in his full strength, being wholly at
ease and satisfied...while another dies with a bitter soul, never
even tasting anything good. Together they lie down in the dust,
and worms cover them.
My flesh also will dwell
securely -- Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I
shall see God --A Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ... will transform
the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His
glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject
all things to Himself.
LORD,
make me to know my end, and what is the extent of my days, Let me
know how transient I am --So teach us to number our days, That we
may present to Thee a heart of wisdom.
To do righteousness and
justice Is desired by the LORD rather than sacrifice.
HE
has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require
of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly
with your God?-- Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to
obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of
rams.--To love Him with all the heart, and with all the
understanding, and with all the strength and to love one's
neighbor as himself, is more than all burnt offerings and
sacrifices.
Therefore return to your God, Observe kindness and justice,
And wait for your God continually --Mary... was listening to the
Lord's word, seated at His feet... only a few things are
necessary, really only one, for Mary has chosen the good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.
It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work
for His good pleasure.
Pr. 21.3.
Mic. 6.8.--1Sa 15.22.--
Mk 12.33. Ho. 12.6.--Lk. 10.39, 42.
Phil 2.13.
The
spirit will return to God who gave it.
THE
LORD God formed man of dust from the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living being --It is a spirit in man, and the breath of
the Almighty gives them understanding --The first man Adam became
a living soul.--The breath (spirit) of man ascends upward.
While we are at home in the body we are absent from the
Lord-- We are of good courage... and prefer rather to be absent
from the body and to be at home with the Lord --With Christ, for
that is very much better --We do not want you to be uninformed,
brethren, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve, as
do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died
and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have
fallen asleep in Jesus.
I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that
where I am, there you may be also.
Eccl. 12.7.
Ge. 2.7.--Job 32.8.--
1 Co. 15.45.--Eccl 3.21. 2Co. 5.6, 8.--
Phil 1.23.--1Th. 4.13, 14. John 14.2, 3.
December 10,
MORNING
December 10,
EVENING
No
one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
I
KNOW whom I have believed and I
am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him
until that day.--The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed,
and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom --in all these
things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I
am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall
be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.--Your life is is hidden with Christ in God.
Did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in
faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love
Him?
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father,
who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by
grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and
word.
YOU
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They
answered Him, We are Abraham's offspring, and have never yet been
enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, You shall become free?
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who
commits sin is the slave of sin. If therefore the Son shall make
you free, you shall be free indeed.
Keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of
slavery you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn
your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love
serve one another. For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in
the statement, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.-- Having
been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.--For the
married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living;
but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning
the husband.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you
free from the law of sin and of death --I will walk at liberty,
for I seek Thy precepts.
Jas 1.25.
John 8.32, 33, 34, 36.
Ga. 5.1, 13, 14.--Ro. 6.18.--Ro. 7.2.
Ro. 8.2.--Ps. 119.45.
December
11,
MORNING
December 11,
EVENING
Do
not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil
ABSTAIN
from every form of evil --Have regard for what is honorable, not
only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men--For
such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the
ignorance of foolish men.
By no means let any of you suffer as a murderer,
or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler but if anyone
suffers as a Christian, let him not feel ashamed, but in that name
let him glorify God.
You were called to freedom, brethren; only do not
turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through
love serve one another.--Take care lest this liberty of yours
somehow become a stumbling block to the weak --Whoever causes one
of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better
for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that
he be drowned in the depth of the sea-- To the extent that you did
it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you
did it to Me.
Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will
shine on you.
IT is already the hour for you to
awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we
believed .--so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be
alert and sober. For those who sleep do their sleeping at night,
and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of
the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith
and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the
glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will
cover the earth, and deep darkness the peoples; but the LORD will
rise upon you, and His glory will appear upon you.
Therefore, gird your minds for action, keep
sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be
brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ -- Be dressed in
readiness, and keep your lamps alight. And be like men who are
waiting for their master
Ep 5.14. Ro
13.11.--1Th 5.6, 7, 8.
Isa 60.1,2. 1Pe 1.13.--Lk 12.35, 36.
December
12, MORNING
December 12,
EVENING
The
LORD,
is in your midst
Do
not fear, for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you, for
I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you.
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.--Encourage
the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble. Say to those with
anxious heart, Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come
with vengeance. The recompense of God will come, but He will save
you.--The LORD your God is in your midst, a
victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be
quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy
--Wait for the LORD; Be strong, and let your heart take courage.
I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall dwell
among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be
among them and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and
there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any
mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.
Why
are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go
forward.
BE
strong, and let us show ourselves courageous for the sake of our
people and for the cities of our God and may the LORD do what is
good in His sight --We prayed to our God, and because of them we
set up a guard against them day and night.
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of
heaven but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.--If any man
is willing to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether
it is of God or whether I speak from Myself --So let us know, let
us press on to know the LORD.
Keep watching and praying, that you may not
enter into temptation.--Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith,
act like men, be strong --Not lagging behind in diligence, fervent
in spirit, serving the Lord
Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the
feeble. Say to those with anxious heart, take courage, fear not.
Ex 14.15. 1Ch
19.13.--Neh 4.9.
Mt 7.21.-- Jn 7.17.--Ho. 6.3.
Mt. 26.41.--1Co 16.13.--Ro 12.11.
Isa 35.3, 4.
December 13,
MORNING
December 13,
EVENING
Be
strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus
STRENGTHENED
with all power according to his glorious might.--As you therefore
have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been
firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in
your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with
gratitude.
-- Oaks of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be
glorified.-- Having been built upon the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom
the whole building, being fitted together is growing into a holy
temple in the Lord in whom you also are being built together into
a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
I commend you to God and to the word of His grace,
which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance
among all those who are sanctified -- Having been filled with the
fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the
glory and praise of God.
Fight the good fight of faith.--In no way alarmed
by your opponents
2Ti 2.1. Col.
1.11.--Col. 2.6, 7.--
Isa 61.3.--Ep. 2.20, 21, 22. Ac 20.32.--
Phil 1.11. 1Ti. 6.12.--Phil 1.28.
Thou
dost recompense a man according to his work
NO
man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which
is Jesus Christ.--If any man's work which he has built upon it
remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work is burned
up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as
through fire --We must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the
body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad
When when you give alms, do not let your left
hand know what your right hand is doing that your alms may be in
secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you .--After
a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts
with them.
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider
anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God --LORD,
Thou wilt establish peace for us, since Thou hast also performed
for us all our works.
THE
people whom I formed for Myself, will declare My praise--I will
cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned
against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they
have sinned against Me, and by which they have transgressed
against Me. And it shall be to Me a name of joy, praise, and glory
before all the nations of the earth --Through Him then, let us
continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the
fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.
I will
give thanks to Thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And will
glorify Thy name forever. For Thy lovingkindness toward me is
great, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.--Who is
like Thee... O LORD...majestic in holiness,
Awesome in praises, working wonders? --I will praise
the name of God with song, And shall magnify Him with thanksgiving
--They sang the song of Moses the bond-servant of God and the song
of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Thy works, O Lord
God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Thy ways, Thou King of
the nations.
Ps 66.2. Is
43.21.--Jer 33.8, 9.--
Heb 13.15. Ps. 86.12, 13.-Ex 15.11.--
Ps. 69.30.--Rev 15.3.
By nature
children of wrath, even as the rest
WE
also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved
to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and
envy, hateful, hating one another --Do not marvel that I said to
you, You must be born again.
Job answered the LORD and said, Behold, I am
insignificant; what can I reply to Thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.--The LORD
said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no
one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing
God and turning away from evil.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in
sin my mother conceived me.--David...concerning whom He also
testified and said, 'I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN
AFTER MY HEART, who will do all My will.
Even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a
persecutor and a violent aggressor. And yet I was shown mercy.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Ep 2.3. Titus
3.3.--John 3.7.
Job 40.3, 4.--Job 1.8. Ps 51.5
Ac 13.22 1Ti. 1.13 John 3.6
December
15,
MORNING
December 15,
EVENING
Bear
one another's burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.
DO
not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for
the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which
was also in Christ Jesus... taking the form of a bond-servant, and
being made in the likeness of men --Even the Son of Man did not
come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for
many --He died for all, that they who live should no longer live
for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their
behalf.
When Jesus...saw her
weeping, and the Jews who came with her, also weeping, He was
deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled. Jesus wept.--Rejoice
with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
Let all be harmonious, sympathetic,
brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil
for evil, or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for
you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a
blessing.
Ga 6.2. Phil
2.4, 5, 7.--Mk 10.45.--
2Co. 5.15. John 11.33, 35.--Ro. 12.15.
1Pe3.8, 9
Son,
go work today in the vineyard
YOU
are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir
through God.
Consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive
to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your
mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on
presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of
unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from
the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God-- As obedient children,
do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your
ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy
yourselves also in all your behavior because it is written, YOU
SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY --Sanctified, useful to the Master,
prepared for every good work.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that
your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to
the end.
I ask on their behalf; I do not
ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom Thou hast given Me;
for they are Thine and all things that are Mine are Thine, and
Thine are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. I do not ask
Thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil
one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you;
abide in My love --Greater love has no one than this, that one lay
down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do what
I command you --A new commandment I give to you, that you love one
another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the
day of Christ Jesus --Christ . . . loved the church, and gave
Himself up for her; that He might sanctify her, having cleansed
her by the washing of water with the word
No
longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his
master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things
that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.--To you
it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven, but to them it has not been granted.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given
to us by God
For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom
every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He
would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man...
that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to
comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and
height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses
knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fulness of God.
1Co 2.10.
John 15.15.--Mt. 13.11.
1Co. 2.12. Ep 3.14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
December 17,
MORNING
December 17,
EVENING
Revive us
and we will call upon Thy name
IT
is the Spirit who gives life --The Spirit also helps our weakness;
for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit
Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words and He
who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is,
because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God
.--With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit,
and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance
I will never forget Thy precepts, For by them Thou hast
revived me --The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and
are life --The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life --If you
abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and
it shall be done for you --This is the confidence which we have
before Him that, if we ask anything according to His will, He
hears us.
No one can say, Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.
Do
not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but
instead even expose them;
Do
not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.
Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump
of dough? Clean out the old leaven. I wrote you in my letter
not to associate with immoral people I did not at all mean with
the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and
swindlers, or with idolaters; for then you would have to go out of
the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any
so-called brother if he should be an immoral person, or covetous,
or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler-- not
even to eat with such a one.--That you may prove yourselves to be
blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the
midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear
as lights in the world
Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver
vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to
honor and some to dishonor.
Let
us . . . draw near with confidence to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time
of need.
BE
anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the
peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your
hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus --You have not received a
spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a
spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba! Father!
I have not spoken in secret, In some dark land --Since
therefore...we have confidence to enter the holy place by the
blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He inaugurated for
us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great
priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere
heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure
water --We confidently say, THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE
AFRAID. WHAT SHALL MAN DO TO ME?
Heb
4.16. Php 4.6, 7.--Ro. 8.15.
Isa 45.19.--Heb 10.19- 22.--Heb 13.6.
You
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
WHERE
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.--For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free
from the law of sin and of death --If therefore the Son shall make
you free, you shall be free indeed.
Brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the
free woman --Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of
the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed
in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and
not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall
no flesh be justified.
One who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of
liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer
but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does
--It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep
standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery
WHO
is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of His
servant, that walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in
the name of the LORD and rely on his God -- When he falls, he
shall not be hurled headlong, because the LORD is the One who
holds his hand --The commandment is a lamp, and the teaching is
light.
Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall
I will rise. Though I dwell in darkness, the LORD is a light for
me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned
against Him, until He pleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the light, and I will see His
righteousness.
The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore
your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if
your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If
therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the
darkness!
Ps 112.4. Is 50.10.--Ps 37.24.--
Pr 6.23. Mic 7.8, 9. Mt. 6.22, 23.
Like
a shepherd He will tend His flock, in His arm He will gather
the lambs, and carry them in His bosom. He will gently lead
the nursing ewes.
I feel
compassion for the multitude, because they have remained with Me
now three days and have nothing to eat... I do not wish to send
them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.--We do not have a
high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who
has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
They were bringing children to Him so that He
might touch them... and He took them in His arms and began
blessing them, laying His hands upon them.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant --The
of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost --You were
continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the
Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your
Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom --I will feed My
flock and I will lead them to rest, declares the Lord GOD.
Is. 40.11. Mt.
15.32.--He. 4.15.
Mk 10.13,16. Ps 119.176.--Lk 19.10.--
1Pe 2.25. Lk 12.32. Ezek 34.15.
December
20,
MORNING
December 20,
EVENING
He
chose us in Him before the foundation of the world
THAT
we should be holy and blameless before Him.
God has chosen you from the beginning for
salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the
truth. And it was for this He called you through our gospel, that
you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.--Whom He
foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of
His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren; and
whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called,
these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also
glorified.--Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the
Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey
Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood
I will give you a new heart and put a new
spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your
flesh and give you a heart of flesh--God has not called us for the
purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.
If
the LORD should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?
HAVE
faith in God.--Without faith it is impossible to please
Him--With men this is impossible
Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom? Or
have I no power to deliver?
My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are
your ways My ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and
My thoughts than your thoughts --Test Me now in this, says the
LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven,
and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not so short that it
cannot save. Neither is His ear so dull that it cannot hear--LORD,
there is no one besides Thee to help in the battle between the
powerful and those who have no strength
We should not trust in ourselves, but in God who
raises the dead
2Ki.7:2. Mk
11.22.--He 11.6.--
Mt 19.26. Is 50.2. Is 55.8, 9.--
Mal. 3.10. Is 59.1.--2Ch 14.11.
2Co 1.9.
December
21,
MORNING
December 21,
EVENING
The
days of your mourning will be finished
IN the
world you have tribulation --The whole creation groans and suffers
the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but
also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption
as sons, the redemption of our body --While we are in this tent,
we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed,
but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed
up by life.
These are the ones who come out of the great
tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb. For this reason, they are before the
throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and
He who sits on the throne shall spread His tabernacle over them.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; neither shall
the sun beat down on them, nor any heat for the Lamb in the center
of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them to
springs of the water of life; and God shall wipe every tear from
their eyes.
Is 60.20. Jn
16.33.--Ro 8.22, 23.--
2Co. 5.4. Re 7.14, 15, 16, 17
Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?
THE
LORD is good to all, and His mercies are
over all His works.
Every moving thing that is alive shall be food
for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant --While the
earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer
and winter, and day and night shall not cease
The LORD is
good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and He knows those who
take refuge in Him --God heard the lad crying; and the angel of
God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What is the
matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice
of the lad where he is. Then God opened her eyes and she saw a
well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water, and
gave the lad a drink.
Do not be anxious then, saying, What shall we
eat? or What shall we drink?... For all these things the Gentiles
eagerly seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all
these things --To fix their hope... on God, who richly supplies us
with all things to enjoy.
Mk 4.38. Ps.
145.9. Ge 9.3.--
Ge 8.22. Nahum 1.7--Ge. 21.17, 19.
Mt. 6.31, 32.--1Ti. 6.17
December
22,
MORNING
December 22,
EVENING
Your work of faith.
THIS
is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.
Faith, faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself --Faith
working through love -- The one who sows to his own flesh shall
from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit
shall from the Spirit reap eternal life --We are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them --Who gave Himself for us,
that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for
Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
We ought always to give thanks to God for you,
brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly
enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows
ever greater. To this end also we pray for you always that our God
may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for
goodness and the work of faith with power -- It is God who is at
work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
ENOCH,
in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold,
the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute
judgment upon all -- BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and
every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the
tribes of the earth will mourn over Him.
The Lord Himself will 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 thus we shall always be
with the Lord.
The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation
to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires
and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,
looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our
great God and Savior, Christ Jesus
Let
him rely on My protection, let him make peace with Me, let
him make peace with Me.
I
KNOW the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for
welfare and not for calamity--There is no peace for the wicked,
says the LORD.
In
Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near
by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace
It it was the Father's good pleasure for all the
fulness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things
to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross
--Christ Jesus Whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in
His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His
righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over
the sins previously committed...that He might be just and the
justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus --If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Trust in the LORD forever, for in GOD the LORD,
we have an everlasting Rock.
Is 27.5. Je
29.11.--Is 48.22.
Ep 2.13, 14. Col 1.19, 20.--Ro 3.24, 25,26.--
1Jn 1.9. Is 26.4
God
has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son
AS
the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to
have life in Himself --For just as the Father raises the dead and
gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He
wishes.
I am the resurrection and the life; he who
believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and everyone who lives
and believes in Me shall never die -- I am the good shepherd; the
good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep -- I lay down My
life that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me,
but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it
down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I
received from My Father. --No
one comes to the Father, but through Me --He who has the Son has
the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the
life --For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in
God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will
be revealed with Him in glory.
If
you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if
by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the
body, you will live
NOW
the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality,
impurity, sensuality...and things like these, of which I forewarn
you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such
things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there
is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the
flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let
us also walk by the Spirit.
The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to
all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires
and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,
looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our
great God and Savior, Christ Jesus Who gave Himself for us, that
He might redeem us from every lawless deed
Ro 8.13. Ga
5.19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. Titus 2.11, 12, 13, 14.
Then
the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these
Hebrews doing here?
IF
you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because
the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. By no means let any
of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a
troublesome meddler
Do not let what is for you a good thing be
spoken of as evil --Keep your behavior excellent among the
Gentiles
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for
what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what
fellowship has light with darkness? Or what agreement has the
temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God;
just as God said, I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I
WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. Therefore, COME
OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE, says the Lord. AND DO NOT
TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN
You are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY
NATION, a PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim
the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into
His marvelous light
The
kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared
I
HAVE loved you with an everlasting love
By this the love of God was manifested in us,
that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so 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.
When the fulness of the time came, God sent
forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, in order that
He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might
receive the adoption as sons.--The
Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,
glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and
truth --Great is the mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in
the flesh
Since then the children share in flesh and blood,
He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death
He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is,
the devil
Titus 3.4.
Je. 31.3. 1Jn 4.9, 10.
Ga 4.4, 5.--Jn 1.14.--1Ti. 3.16.
He2.14.
Thanks
be to God for His indescribable gift!
SHOUT
joyfully to the LORD, all the earth. Serve the LORD with gladness.
Come before Him with joyful singing. Enter His gates with
thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him;
bless His name --For a child will be born to us, a Son will be
given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders and His
name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal
Father, Prince of Peace.
He...did not spare His own Son, but delivered
Him up for us all -- He had one more to send, a beloved son; he
sent him
Let them give thanks to the LORD for His
lovingkindness, and for His wonders to the sons of men!--Bless the
LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name.
My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has
rejoiced in God my Savior.
Be
steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the
Lord
Knowing
that your toil is not in vain in the Lord....As you therefore have
received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly
rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your
faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude
-- The one who endures to the end, he shall be saved --The seed in
the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an
honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with
perseverance.
In your faith you are standing firm.
We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as
long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.
The one who sows to his own flesh shall from the
flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall
from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not lose heart in
doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.
So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and
especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
He is able
. . . to save forever those who draw near to God
through Him
I
AM the way, and the truth, and
the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me -- And there
is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under
heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they
follow Me and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never
perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand --He who began
a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus
--Is anything too difficult for the LORD?
Now to Him who is able to keep you from
stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory
blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through
Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority,
before all time and now and forever. Amen.
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
HERE
we do not have a lasting city --You have for yourselves a better
possession and an abiding one.
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father
has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom.
Now for a little while, if necessary, you
have been distressed by various trials --There the wicked cease
from raging and there the weary are at rest.
We are in this tent, we groan, being burdened
--He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall
no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning, or
crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.
The sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us
--Momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal
weight of glory far beyond all comparison
GOD
was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their
trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of
reconciliation. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our
behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him --Through
Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through
the blood of His cross...And although you were formerly alienated
and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now
reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to
present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--
Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees
against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of
the way, having nailed it to the cross --By abolishing in His
flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in
ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new
man, thus establishing peace
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you,
not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be
troubled, nor let it be fearful.
Ep 2.14.
2Co. 5.19, 21.--Col. 1.20, 21, 22.--
Col 2.14.--Ep 2.15. Jn 14.27
December 28,
MORNING
December 28,
EVENING
Your
sins are forgiven
I WILL
forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more -Who
can forgive sins but God alone?
I, even I, am the one who wipes out your
transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins --Blessed
is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! How
blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity.--Who is
a God like Thee, who pardons iniquity
God in Christ also has forgiven you --The
blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we
have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in
us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
As far as the east is from the west, So far has
He removed our transgressions from us --Sin shall not be master
over you, for you are not under law, but under grace -- Having
been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Mk 2.5. Je.
31.34.--Mk 2.7.
Is 43.25.--Ps. 32.1, 2.--Mic 7.18.
Ep. 4.32.--1Jn 1.7-9. Ps. 103.12.--
Ro. 6.14, 18.
We
wish to see Jesus
O LORD,
we have waited for Thee eagerly; Thy name, even Thy memory, is the
desire of our souls
The LORD is
near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.
Where two or three have gathered together in
My name, there I am in their midst --I will not leave you as
orphans; I will come to you --Lo, I am with you always, even to
the end of the age.
Let us run with endurance the race that is set
before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of
faith
Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face
to face --Having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that
is very much better
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has
not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He
appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He
is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself,
just as He is pure.
Jn 12.21. Is
26.8. Ps. 145.18.
Mt. 18.20.--Jn. 14.18.--Mt. 28.20.
He 12.1, 2. 1Co. 13.12.--Phil 1.23.
1Jn 3.2, 3.
December 29,
MORNING
December 29,
EVENING
Understand what the will of the Lord is
THIS
is the will of God, your sanctification -- Yield now and be at
peace with Him. Thereby good will come to you --This is eternal
life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ
whom Thou hast sent --We know that the Son of God has come, and
has given us understanding, in order that we might know Him who is
true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This
is the true God and eternal life.
We...have not ceased to pray for you and to
ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all
spiritual wisdom and understanding.--The God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom
and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the
hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of
His power toward us who believe.
ENOCH
walked with God.--Do two men walk together unless they have made
an appointment? --As for me, the nearness of God is my good
The LORD is with you when you are with Him. And
if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him,
He will forsake you....in their distress they turned to the LORD
God of Israel, and they sought Him, and He let them find Him.
For I know the plans that I have for you,'
declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give
you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and
pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and
find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to
enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living
way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His
flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let
us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith,
Jas 4.8. Ge.
5.24.--Am. 3.3.--
Ps. 73.28. 2Ch. 15.2, 4. Je 29.11, 12, 13.
He 10.19-22.
December
30,
MORNING
December 30,
EVENING
Blameless in the day
of our Lord Jesus Christ
YOU
were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil
deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through
death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and
beyond reproach--if indeed you continue in the faith firmly
established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the
gospel--That you may prove yourselves to be blameless and
innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked
and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the
world
Therefore, beloved, since you look for these
things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and
blameless
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and
to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with
great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our
Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time
and now and forever. Amen.
IF
we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the
darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth but if we walk in
the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with
one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all
sin --He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is
completely clean
I have directed you in the way of wisdom; I have
led you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be
impeded; And if you run, you will not stumble. Do not enter the
path of the wicked, and do not proceed in the way of evil men.
Avoid it, do not pass by it. Turn away from it and pass on. Let
your eyes look directly ahead, and let your gaze be fixed straight
in front of you. Watch the path of your feet, and all your ways
will be established. Do not turn to the right nor to the left.
Turn your foot from evil.
The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed,
and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the
glory forever and ever. Amen.
The
LORD your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in
all the way which you have walked, until you came to this
place
I
bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to Myself --In
His love and in His mercy He redeemed them; And He lifted them and
carried them all the days of old --Like an eagle that stirs up its
nest, that hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught
them, He carried them on His pinions. The LORD alone guided him Even to your old age, I shall be the
same, and even to your graying years I shall bear you! I have done
it, and I shall carry you; and I shall bear you, and I shall
deliver you --For such is God, our God forever and ever; He will
guide us until death.
Cast your burden upon the LORD, and He will
sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken-- Do
not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what
you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on
--For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things
Thus far the LORD has helped us.
Dt 1.31. Ex
19.4.--Is 63.9.--
Dt 32.11, 12. Is. 46.4.--Ps. 48.14.
Ps. 55.22.--Mt. 6.25, 32. 1Sa. 7.12.
Very
much of the land remains to be possessed
NOT
that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect,
but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also
I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
You are to be perfect, as your heavenly
Father is perfect.--applying all diligence, in your faith supply
moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge and in
your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control,
perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness and in your
godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness,
love.
I pray, that your love may abound still more and
more in real knowledge and all discernment
EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND
which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED
FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM. For to us God revealed them through the
Spirit
There remains...a Sabbath rest for the people
of God --Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; they will
behold a far-distant land.
Josh 13.1.
Phil 3.12. Mt. 5.48.--
2Pe. 1.5, 6, 7. Phil 1.9. 1Co. 2.9, 10.
Heb 4.9.--Isa. 33.17.