For Every Morning & Evening
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DECEMBER 1st
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A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, and a cover from the tempest.
Inasmuch…as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same. ✝ “The Man who is My Companion,” says the Lord of hosts. ✝ I and My father are one. ✝ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ✝ There will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm, and rain. ✝ The Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. ✝ When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I. ✝ You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble. ✝ You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah 32:2, Hebrews 2:14, Zechariah 13:7, John 10:30, Psalm 91:1, Isaiah 4:6, Psalm 121:5-6, Psalm 61:2, Psalm 32:7, Isaiah 25:4
EVENING
Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.
The new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me. So shall your descendants and your name remain. ✝ We, according to His promise, look 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 had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”
Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, 2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21:1-5
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DECEMBER 2nd
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You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. ✝ It pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell. ✝ Of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. ✝ You anoint my head with oil. ✝ The anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will 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 things that I said to you. ✝ The Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered
1 John 2:20, Acts 10:38, Colossians 1:19, John 1:16, Psalm 23:5, 1 John 2:27, John 14:26, Romans 8:26
EVENING
Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
If the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ✝ The blood of sprinkling…speaks better that that of Abel. ✝ We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. ✝ When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people. Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
Hebrews 10:22, Hebrews 9:13-14, Hebrews 12:24, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 9:19,21-22
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DECEMBER 3rd
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I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.
Is anything too hard for the Lord? ✝ Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. ✝ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. ✝ [Cast] all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. ✝ Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord. ✝ “It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.” ✝ The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. ✝ I love the Lord, because He has heard my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
Job 5:8, Genesis 18:14, Psalm 37:5, Philippians 4:6, 1 Peter 5:7, Isaiah 37:14-15, Isaiah 65:24, James 5:16, Psalm 116:1-2
EVENING
Our bodies washed with pure water.
You shall…make a laver of bronze. You shall put it between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. And you shall put water in it, for Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in water from it. When they go into the tabernacle of meeting,…they shall wash with water, lest they die. So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. ✝ Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you. ✝ If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. ✝ In my flesh i shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. ✝ There shall by no means enter it anything that defiles. ✝ You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. ✝ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service
Hebrews 10:22, Exodus 30:18-21, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 3:17, Job 19:26-27, Revelation 21:27, Habakkuk 1:13, Romans 12:1
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DECEMBER 4th
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Where can wisdom be found?
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting. ✝ Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. ✝ God…alone is wise. ✝ Do not be wise in your own eyes. ✝ “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.” But the Lord said to me: “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord. ✝ Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. ✝ And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
Job 28:12, James 1:5-6, Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 Timothy 1:17, Proverbs 3:7, Jeremiah 1:6-8, John 16:23-24, Matthew 21:22
EVENING
I would not live forever.
And I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! For then I would fly away and be at rest. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.” ✝ In this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven. For we who are in this tent groan,, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. ✝ Having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. ✝ Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was 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 endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. ✝ Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Job 7:16, Psalm 55:6,8, 2 Corinthians 5:2,4, Philippians 1:23, Hebrews 12:1-3, John 14:27
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DECEMBER 5th
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.
Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. ✝ We suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us ✝ He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside. ✝ You shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
Psalm 119:71, Hebrews 5:8, Romans 8:17-18, Job 23:10-11, Deuteronomy 8:2,5-6
EVENING
By strength no man shall prevail.
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with 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 defied.” Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone. ✝ No king is saved by the multitude of an army; a mighty man is not delivered by great strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy. ✝ Both riches and honor come from You, and You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; in Your hand it is to make great and give strength to all. ✝ I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecution, in distress for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
1 Samuel 2:9, 1 Samuel 17:45,49-50, Psalm 33:16,18, 1 Chronicles 29:12, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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DECEMBER 6th
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It is God who works in you.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God. ✝ A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. ✝ No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. ✝ I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever. ✝ Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of 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, You will establish peace for us, for You have also done all our works in us.
Philippians 2:13, 2 Corinthians 3:5, John 3:27, John 6:44, Jeremiah 32:39, James 1:16-18, Ephesians 2:10, Isaiah 26:12
EVENING
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
In the way of Your judgments, O Lord, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You. With my soul I have desired You in the night, yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early. ✝ I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. ✝ The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ✝ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ✝ Our sufficiency is from God. ✝ My grace is sufficient for you/
Matthew 26:41, Isaiah 26:8-9, Romans 7:18,22-23, Galatians 5:17, Philippians 4:13, 2 Corinthians 3:5, 2 Corinthians 12:9
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DECEMBER 7th
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He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that might become the righteousness of God in Him.
The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. ✝ [He] Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness–by whose stripes you were healed. ✝ As by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. ✝ But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by his grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. ✝ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ✝ THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 53:6, 1 Peter 2:24, Romans 5:19, Titus 3:4-7, Romans 8:1, Jeremiah 23:6
EVENING
I will be like the dew to Israel.
The meekness and gentleness of Christ. ✝ A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench. ✝ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. ✝ And the lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” So Peter went out and wept bitterly. ✝ He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those who are with young.
Hosea 14:5, 2 Corinthians 10:1, Isaiah 42:3, Luke 4:18-19,21-22, Luke 22:61-62, Isaiah 40:11
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DECEMBER 8th
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Through love serve one another.
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ✝ Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. ✝ Since you have purified your souls i obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart. ✝ Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. ✝ Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. ✝ Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” ✝ We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Galatians 5:13, Galatians 6:1-2, James 5:19-20, 1 Peter 1:22, Romans 13:8, Romans 12:10, 1 Peter 5:5, Romans 15:1
EVENING
The dust will return to the earth as it was.
The body is sown in corruption. It is sown in dishonor. It is sown in weakness. It is sown a natural body. ✝ The first man was of the earth, made of dust. ✝ Dust you are, and to dust you shall return. ✝ One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and secure. Another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure. They lie down alike in the dust, and worms cover them. ✝ My flesh…will rest in hope. ✝ After my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God. ✝ The Lord Jesus Christ…will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, According to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. ✝ Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. ✝ So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 12:7, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, 1 Corinthians 15:47, Genesis 3:19, Job 21:23,25-26, Psalm 16:9, Job 19:26, Philippians 3:20-21, Psalm 39:4, Psalm 90:12
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DECEMBER 9th
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To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? ✝ Has the Lord as great 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, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. ✝ So you, by the help of your God, return; observe mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually. ✝ Mary…sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. One thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her. ✝ It is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
Proverbs 21:3, Micah 6:8, 1 Samuel 15:22, Mark 12:33, Hosea 12:6, Luke 10:39,42, Philippians 2:13
EVENING
The spirit will return to God who gave it.
The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. ✝ There is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding. ✝ The first man Adam became a living being. ✝ The spirit of the sons of men…goes upward. ✝ While we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. ✝ With Christ, which is far better. ✝ I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep 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.
Ecclesiastes 12:7, Genesis 2:7, Job 32:8, 1 Corinthians 15:45, Ecclesiastes 3:21, 2 Corinthians 5:6,8, Philippians 1:23, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, John 14:2-3
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DECEMBER 10th
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No one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. ✝ The Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. ✝ We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ✝ Your life is hidden with Christ in God. ✝ Has God not chosen the door of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? ✝ Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
John 10:29, 2 Timothy 1:12, 2 Timothy 4:18, Romans 8:37-39, Colossians 3:3, James 2:5 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
EVENING
The perfect law of liberty.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. ✝ Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ✝ Having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. ✝ For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. ✝ The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. ✝ I will walk at liberty, for I seek Your percepts.
James 1:25, John 8:32,34,36, Galatians 5:1,13-14, Romans 6:18, Romans 7:2, Romans 8:2, Psalm 119:45
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DECEMBER 11th
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Do not let your good be spoken of as evil.
Abstain from every form of evil. ✝ [Provide] honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. ✝ For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. ✝ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, and evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this mater. ✝ For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through the love serve one another. ✝ Beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak. ✝ Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. ✝ Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.
Romans 14:16, 1 Thessalonians 5:22, 2 Corinthians 8:21, 1 Peter 2:15, 1 Peter 4:15-16, Galatians 5:13, 1 Corinthians 8:9, Matthew 18:6, Matthew 25:40
EVENING
Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.
It is high time to awake out of sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. ✝ Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting 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 is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. ✝ Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ✝ Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master.
Ephesians 5:14, Romans 13:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8, Isaiah 60:1-2, 1 Peter 1:13, Luke 12:35-36
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DECEMBER 12th
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The Lord is in your midst.
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. ✝ Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are fearful-hearted, “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you.” ✝ The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you in His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. ✝ Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart. ✝ I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.” And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain.
Zephaniah 3:15, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 35:3-4, Zephaniah 3:17, Psalm 27:14, Revelation 21:3-4
EVENING
Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.
Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. And may the Lord do what is good in His sight. ✝ We made our prayer to our God, and…set a watch against them day and night. ✝ Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. ✝ If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God. ✝ Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. ✝ Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. ✝ Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. ✝ Not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. ✝ Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are fearful-hearted, “Be strong, do not fear!”
Exodus 14:15, 1 Chronicles 19:13, Nehemiah 4:9, Matthew 7:21, John 7:17, Hosea 6:3, Matthew 26:41, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Romans 12:11, Isaiah 25:3-4
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DECEMBER 13th
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Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
[Be] Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power. ✝ As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. ✝ They may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. ✝ Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place 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 give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. ✝ [Be] filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. ✝ Fight the good fight of faith. ✝ Not in any way terrified by your adversaries.
2 Timothy 2:1, Colossians 1:11, Colossians 2:6-7, Isaiah 61:3, Ephesians 2:19-22, Acts 20:32, Philippians 1:11, 1 Timothy 6:12, Philippians 1:28
EVENING
You render to each one according to his work.
For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. ✝ We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. ✝ When you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. ✝ After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them. ✝ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God. ✝ Lord, You will establish peace for us, for You have also done all our works in us.
Psalm 62:12, 1 Corinthians 3:11,14-15, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Matthew 6:3-4, Matthew 25:19, 2 Corinthians 3:5, Isaiah 26:12
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DECEMBER 14th
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Make His praise glorious.
This people I have formed for Myself; they shall 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 and by which they have transgressed against Me. Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth. ✝ Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. ✝ I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore. For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol. ✝ Who is like You, O Lord,…glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? ✝ I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. ✝ They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty!”
Psalm 66:2, Isaiah 43:21, Jeremiah 33:8-9, Hebrews 13:15, Psalm 86:12-13, Exodus 15:11, Psalm 69:30, Revelation 15:3
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By nature children of wrath, just as the others.
We ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and 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 vile; what shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.” ✝ The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” ✝ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. ✝ David…to whom also He gave testimony and said, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.” ✝ I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy. ✝ That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Ephesians 2:3, Titus 3:3, John 3:7, Job 40:3-4, Job 1:8, Psalm 51:5, Acts 13:22, 1 Timothy 1:13, John 3:6
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DECEMBER 15th
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Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who…made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant. ✝ 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 those who live should no longer for themselves, but for Him who did for them and rose again. ✝ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. Jesus wept. ✝ Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. ✝ All of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
Galatians 6:2, Philippians 2:4-7, Mark 10:45, 2 Corinthians 5:15, John 11:33,35, Romans 12:15, 1 Peter 3:8-9
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Son, go, work today in my vineyard.
Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. ✝ You also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ✝ As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” ✝ Sanctified and useful for 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 labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Matthew 21:28, Galatians 4:7, Romans 6:11-13, 1 Peter 1:14-16, 2 Timothy 2:21, 1 Corinthians 15:58
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DECEMBER 16th
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Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ✝ As the Father loved Me, I also loved you; abide in My love. ✝ Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do whatever I command you. ✝ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love another. ✝ He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. ✝ Christ…loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word.
John 13:1, John 17:9-10,15-16, John 15:9, John 15:13-14, John 13:34, Philippians 1:6, Ephesians 5:25-26
EVENING
The deep things of God.
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ✝ It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. ✝ We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. ✝ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might 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 width and length and depth and height–to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10, John 15:15, Matthew 13:11, 1 Corinthians 2:12, Ephesians 3:14-19
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DECEMBER 17th
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Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.
It is the Spirit who gives life. ✝ The Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. ✝ [Pray] always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance. ✝ I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have given me life. ✝ The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. ✝ The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. ✝ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ✝ This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. ✝ No one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 80:18, John 6:63, Romans 8:26-27, Ephesians 6:18, Psalm 119:93, John 6:63, 2 Corinthians 3:6, John 15:7, 1 John 5:14, 1 Corinthians 12:3
EVENING
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
Do to be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” ✝ Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven. I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. ✝ Become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. ✝ In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.
Ephesians 5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:33, 1 Corinthians 5:6-7,9-11, Philippians 2:15, 2 Timothy 2:20
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DECEMBER 18th
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Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and 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 understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ✝ You did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” ✝ I did not say to the seed of Jacob, “Seek Me in vain.” ✝ Therefore…having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ✝ We may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
Hebrews 4:16, Philippians 4:6-7, Romans 8:15, Isaiah 45:19, Hebrews 10:19-22, Hebrews 13:6
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ✝ The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. ✝ If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. ✝ Brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. ✝ Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. ✝ He who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. ✝ Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
John 8:32, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Romans 8:2, John 8:36, Galatians 4:31, Galatians 2:16, James 1:25, Galatians 5:1
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DECEMBER 19th
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Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness.
Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon his God. ✝ Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand. ✝ The commandment is a lamp, and the law a light. ✝ Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to 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 forth to the light; I will see His righteousness. ✝ The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, 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 that darkness!
Psalm 112:4, Isaiah 50:10, Psalm 37:24, Proverbs 6:23, Micah 7:8-9, Matthew 6:22-23
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He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead who are with young.
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way. ✝ We do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses. ✝ Then they brought little children to Him. Ad He took them up in His arms, laid His hands on them, and blessed them. ✝ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant. ✝ The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. ✝ You were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. ✝ Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ✝ “I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down,” says the Lord God.
Isaiah 40:11, Matthew 15:32, Hebrews 4:15, Mark 10:13,16, Psalm 119:176, Luke 19:10, 1 Peter 2:25, Luke 12:32, Ezekiel 34:15
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DECEMBER 20th
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He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.
That we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. ✝ God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you…for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ✝ Whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these he also called; whom He called, these He also glorified. ✝ Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. ✝ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take your heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ✝ God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
Ephesians 1:4, Ephesians 1:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, Romans 8:29-30, 1 Peter 1:2, Ezekiel 36:26, 1 Thessalonians 4:7
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If the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?
Have faith in God. ✝ Without faith it is impossible to please Him. ✝ With God all things are possible. ✝ Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? ✝ “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” ✝ “Try 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 such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.” ✝ Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. ✝ Lord, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power. ✝ We should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
2 Kings 7:2, Mark 11:22, Hebrews 11:6, Matthew 19:26, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 55:8-9, Malachi 3:10, Isaiah 59:1, 2 Chronicles 14:11, 2 Corinthians 1:9
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DECEMBER 21st
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The days of your mourning shall be ended.
In the world you will have tribulation. ✝ The whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. And not only they, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan with ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. ✝ We who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. ✝ These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Isaiah 60:20, John 16:33, Romans 8:22-23, 2 Corinthians 5:4, Revelation 7:14-17
EVENING
Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?
The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. ✝ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. ✝ While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. ✝ The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him. ✝ God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, 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 sin with water, and gave the lad a drink. ✝ Do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat/” or “what shall we drink?” For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ✝ Trust…in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
Mark 4:18, Psalm 145:9, Genesis 9:3, Genesis 8:22, Nahum 1:7, Genesis 21:17,19, Matthew 6:31-32, 1 Timothy 6:17
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DECEMBER 22nd
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Your work of faith.
This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent. ✝ Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ✝ Faith working through love. ✝ He who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. ✝ We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. ✝ [He] gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. ✝ We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other. Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power. ✝ It is God who works in you both to will and do for His good pleasure.
1 Thessalonians 1:3, John 6:29, James 2:17, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 6:8, Ephesians 2:10, Titus 2:14, 2 Thessalonians 1:3,11, Philippians 2:13
EVENING
Where is the promise of His coming?
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all.” ✝ Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. ✝ The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will 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 that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:4, Jude 14-15, Revelation 1:7, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Titus 2:11-13
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DECEMBER 23rd
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Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me.
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil. ✝ “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.” ✝ In Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought year by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace. ✝ It pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself,…having made peace through the blood of His cross. ✝ Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness…over the sins that were 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 just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ✝ Trust in the Lord forever, for in YAH, the Lord, is everlasting strength.
Isaiah 27:5, Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 48:22, Ephesians 2:13-14, Colossians 1:19-20, Romans 3:24-26, 1 John 1:9, Isaiah 26:4
EVENING
God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
As the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself. As the father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. ✝ I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. ✝ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down, and I have over to take it again. This command I have received from My father. ✝ No one comes to the Father except through Me. ✝ He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. ✝ For, you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
1 John 5:11, John 5:26,21, John 11:25-26, John 10:11,17-18, John 14:6, 1 John 5:12, Colossians 3:3-4
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DECEMBER 24th
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If you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication,,…and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ✝ The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed.
Romans 8:13, Galatians 5:19,21-25, Titus 2:11-14
EVENING
Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?”
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters. ✝ Do not let your good be spoken of as evil. ✝ [Have] your conduct honorable among the Gentiles. ✝ Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? You are the temple of the living God. Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate,” says the Lord. “Do not touch what is unclean.” ✝ You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
1 Samuel 29:3, 1 Peter 4:14-15, Romans 14:16, 1 Peter 2:12, 2 Corinthians 6:14,16-17, 1 Peter 2:9
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DECEMBER 25th
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The kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared.
I have loved you with an everlasting love. ✝ In this the love God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent HIs Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ✝ When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to 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, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. ✝ Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh. ✝ As the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil.
Titus 3:4, Jeremiah 31:3, 1 John 4:9-10, Galatians 4:4-5, John 1:14, 1 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 2:14
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Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.
Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. ✝ For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ✝ He…did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. ✝ Therefore still having one son, his beloved, he also sent him. ✝ Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! ✝ Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! ✝ My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
2 Corinthians 9:15, Psalm 100:1-2,4, Isaiah 9:6, Romans 8:32, Mark 12:6, Psalm 107:21, Psalm 103:1, Luke 1:46-47
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DECEMBER 26th
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Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.
Your labor is not in vain in the Lord. ✝ As you have…received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. ✝ He who endures to the end shall be saved. ✝ The ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience. ✝ By faith you stand. ✝ I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. ✝ He who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith
1 Corinthians 15:58, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Colossians 2:6-7, Matthew 24:13, Luke 8:15, 2 Corinthians 1:24, John 9:4, Galatians 6:8-10
EVENING
He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him.
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. ✝ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven 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 them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. ✝ He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. ✝ Is anything too hard for the Lord? ✝ Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
Hebrews 7:25, John 14:6, Acts 4:12, John 10:27-28, Philippians 1:6, Genesis 18:14, Jude 24-25
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DECEMBER 27th
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We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Here we have no continuing city. ✝ You have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. ✝ Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ✝ Now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials. ✝ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. ✝ We who are in this tent groan, being burdened. ✝ God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, now crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. ✝ The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. ✝ Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
2 Corinthians 4:18, Hebrews 13:14, Hebrews 10:34, Luke 12:32, 1 Peter 1:6, Job 3:17, 2 Corinthians 5:4, Revelation 21:4, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 4:17
EVENING
He Himself is our peace.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. ✝ [He] made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless. ✝ And you…He has made alive…,having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ✝ Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making 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, neither let it be afraid.
Ephesians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 5:19,21, Colossians 1:20-22, Colossians 2:13-14, Ephesians 2:15, John 14:27
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DECEMBER 28th
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Your sins are forgiven you.
I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. ✝ Who can forgive sins but God alone? ✝ I, even I, am He who blots 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. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity. ✝ Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity? ✝ God in Christ forgave you. ✝ The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just 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 have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Mark 2:5, Jeremiah 31:34, Mark 2:7, Isaiah 43:25, Psalm 32:1-2, Micah 7:18, Ephesians 4:32, 1 John 1:7-9, Psalm 103:12, Romans 6:14,18
EVENING
We wish to see Jesus.
O Lord, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You. ✝ The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth. ✝ Where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. ✝ I will not leave you 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, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of or faith. ✝ Now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. ✝ Having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. ✝ Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
John 12:21, Isaiah 26:8, Psalm 145:18, Matthew 18:20, John 14:18, Matthew 28:20, Hebrews 12:1-2, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Philippians 1:23, 1 John 3:2-3
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DECEMBER 29th
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Understand what the will of the Lord is.
This is the will of God, your sanctification. ✝ Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. ✝ This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. ✝ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may 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…do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. ✝ The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,…give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; 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 exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.
Ephesians 5:17, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, Job 22:21, John 17:3, 1 John 5:20, Colossians 1:9, Ephesians 1:17-19
EVENING
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
Enoch walked with God. ✝ Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? ✝ It is good for me to draw near to God. ✝ The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. When in their trouble [Israel] turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them. ✝ “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the Lord, “thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go 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.” ✝ Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way…and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
James 4:8, Genesis 5:24, Amos 3:3, Psalm 73:28, 2 Chronicles 15:2,4, Jeremiah 29:11-13, Hebrews 10:19-22
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DECEMBER 30th
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Blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight–if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel. ✝ That you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. ✝ Therefore, beloved, looking forward to theses things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless. ✝ Be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ. ✝ Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever.
1 Corinthians 1:8, Colossians 1:21-23, Philippians 2:15, 2 Peter 3:14, Philippians 1:10, Jude 24-25
EVENING
He will guard the feet of His saints.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. ✝ He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. ✝ I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hindered, and when you run, you will not stumble. Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn away from it and pass on. Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; remove your foot from evil. ✝ The Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!
1 Samuel 2:9, 1 John 1:6-7, John 13:10, Proverbs 4:11-12,14-15,25-27, 2 Timothy 4:18
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DECEMBER 31st
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The Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way you went until you came to this place.
I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. ✝ In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them and carried them all the days of old. ✝ As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so the Lord alone led them. ✝ Even to old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. ✝ This is our God, our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death. ✝ Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you. ✝ Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ✝ Thus far the Lord has helped us.
Deuteronomy 1:31, Exodus 19:4, Isaiah 63:9, Deuteronomy 32:11-12, Isaiah 46:4, Psalm 48:14, Psalm 55:22, Matthew 6:25,32, 1 Samuel 7:12
EVENING
There remains very much land yet to be possessed.
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. ✝ Therefore, you shall be perfect. ✝ Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge set-control,to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. ✝ I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment. ✝ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God revealed them to us through His Spirit. ✝ There remains…a rest for the people of God. ✝ Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; they will see the land that is very far off.
Joshua 13:1, Philippians 3:12, Matthew 5:48, 2 Peter 1:5-7, Philippians 1:9, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, Hebrews 4:9, Isaiah 33:17
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