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September 2019

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Monday, September 30, 2019

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These only are my fellow workers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me. Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. (Col. 4:11‑12,14‑15)
Giver of strong desire that bringeth
Brethren to Thee in faithful prayer,
Praise we the love that far out-wingeth
All that our utmost thought could dare;
Now unto Thee do we commit them,
Brethren beloved, everywhere.

Sunday, September 29, 2019

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Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. (Rev. 4:8)
Gather us together … that we may give thanks to Thy holy name, and glory in Thy praise. (1 Chron. 16:35)
Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy. (Psa. 99:9)
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory. (Isa. 6:3)
O God! Thou now hast glorified
   Thy holy, blest, eternal Son;
The Nazarene, the crucified,
   Now sits exalted on Thy throne!
To Him in faith we cry aloud,
Worthy art Thou, O Lamb of God!

Saturday, September 28, 2019

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As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted. (Isa. 66:13)
This is my comfort in my affliction: for Thy word hath quickened me. (Psa. 119:50)
In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul. (Psa. 94:19)
O Thou, whose compassionate care
Forbids my sad heart to complain,
Now graciously teach me to bear
The weight of affliction and pain;
Though cheerless my days seem to flow,
Though weary and wakeful my nights,
What comfort it gives me to know
No hand is so healing as Thine.

Friday, September 27, 2019

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He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. (Psa. 126:6)
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace. (Rom. 10:15)
Your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. (Eph. 6:15)
Oh for a genuine passion for souls!
   Oh for a pity that yearns!
Oh for the love that loves unto death!
   Oh for the fire that burns!
Oh for the fervent prayer that prevails,
   That pours itself out for the lost;
Oh for a love like unto Christ’s,
   That giveth, no matter the cost.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

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Lord, Lord, open to us. But He answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. (Matt. 25:11‑12)
Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. (Luke 16:25)
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. (Psa. 52:7)
Life at best is very brief,
Like the falling of a leaf,
Like the binding of a sheaf: Be in time!
Fleeting days are telling fast
That the die will soon be cast,
And the fatal line be past: Be in time!

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

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A King, against whom there is no rising up. (Prov. 30:31)
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His Anointed. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. (Psa. 2:2,4)
The heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Thy glory. (Psa. 102:15)
Take heed, tyrannical kings of earth,
   For your doom is near at hand;
Long have ye drenched the world with blood
   And long laid waste the land.
For the Ruler of kings has set His King
   Upon His holy hill,
And your counsels all shall come to naught
   And your wrath shall work His will.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

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A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! (Prov. 15:23)
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. (Prov. 25:11)
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth. (Eccl. 9:17)
’Tis the little kindly acts you do
   That heartens one along,
And sends the friend away from you
   With glad and happy song.
’Tis the little word you’re led to say
   Which touched that other life,
And gave it nerve and strength again
   To conquer in the strife.

Monday, September 23, 2019

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What thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God? (1 Thess. 3:9)
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth. (2 Thess. 1:3)
Wherever in the world I am —
   In whatso’er estate,
I have a fellowship with saints
   To keep and cultivate;
A work of lowly love to do
   For Him on whom I wait.

Sunday, September 22, 2019

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Herod with his men of war set Him [Jesus] at nought, and mocked Him, and arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him again to Pilate. And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together; for before they were at enmity between themselves. (Luke 23:11‑12)
They compassed Me about also with words of hatred; and fought against Me without a cause. For My love they are My adversaries. (Psa. 109:3‑4)
And couldst Thou be delighted
   With creatures such as we,
Who, when we saw Thee, slighted
   And nailed Thee to a tree?
Unfathomable wonder!
   And mystery divine!
The voice that speaks in thunder
   Says, “Sinner, I am thine!”

Saturday, September 21, 2019

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When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. (Jer. 8:18)
I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. (Jer. 31:13)
There is a balm for every pain,
   A medicine for all sorrow;
The eye turned backward to the cross,
   And forward to the morrow;
The morrow of the glory and the psalm,
   When He shall come;
The morrow of the harping and the palm,
   The welcome home;
Meantime in His beloved hands our ways,
   And on His heart the wandering heart
      at rest;
And comfort for the weary one who lays
   His head upon His breast.

Friday, September 20, 2019

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Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. (2 Tim. 2:15)
Exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work. (2 Thess. 3:12)
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. (Isa. 30:15)
In the vineyard of our Father
Daily work we find to do;
Scattered gleanings we may gather,
Though we are but young and few.
Toiling early in the morning,
Catching moments through the day,
Nothing small or lowly scorning,
While we work and watch and pray.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

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Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water. (John 4:10)
With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. (Isa. 12:3)
God Himself, the source, the fountain,
   Christ the way the waters flow,
By the Spirit down from heaven
   To the thirsty heart below.
Broken heart! The river’s flowing:
   Haste! Delay not! Yet there’s room;
Hear the word of God beseeching,
   “Whosoever thirsts may come.”

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

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I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. (Hos. 13:14)
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:21)
His mercy who our ransom paid
   And all our sorrows bore,
Sing with a note of loftiest joy,
   And praise Him evermore.
Soon the redeeming Lord shall come
   For us whose sins He bore,
To see the glories of the Lamb
   And praise Him evermore.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

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I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee. (Isa. 42:6)
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee. (Prov. 2:11)
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore. (Psa. 121:8)
Preserve Thy flock most graciously,
   Within Thy sheltering fold;
Move them from every harm away,
   And in Thy safeguard hold;
Till Thou shalt fully have obtained
   In us the fruits of grace,
And we, in joys that never end,
   Shall see Thee face to face.

Monday, September 16, 2019

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The people believed. … Then they bowed their heads and worshipped. (Ex. 4:31)
O Lord, Thou art my God; I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name; for Thou hast done wonderful things; Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. (Isa. 25:1)
He hath done all things well. (Mark 7:37)
Now in a song of grateful praise,
To our dear Lord the voice we’ll raise;
With all His saints we’ll join to tell,
“Our Jesus hath done all things well.”
And since our souls have known His love,
What mercies has He made us prove,
Mercies which all our praise excel;
“Our Jesus hath done all things well.”

Sunday, September 15, 2019

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What is thy beloved more than another beloved? His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars: His mouth is most sweet: yea, He is altogether lovely. (Song of Sol. 5:9,15‑16)
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things unto her. (John 20:18)
We praise, we worship, we adore,
   As round Thyself we meet;
Thy beauty, Lord, our souls transports,
   While bowing at Thy feet.
Our theme of praise art Thou alone,
   Thy cross, Thy work, Thy word:
Oh! who can fathom all Thy love,
   Thou living, blessed Lord?

Saturday, September 14, 2019

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Many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. (John 11:19)
They came every one from his own place … for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him, and to comfort him. (Job 2:11)
He hath sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted … to comfort all that mourn. (Isa. 61:1‑2)
There is no sorrow that He will not share,
No cross, no burden, for our hearts to
   bear
Without His help, no care of ours too
   small
To cast on Jesus: let us tell Him all —
Lay at His feet the story of our woes,
And in His sympathy find sweet repose.

Friday, September 13, 2019

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Christ Jesus our Lord: in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him. (Eph. 3:11‑12)
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. (Heb. 10:35)
Abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. (1 John 2:28)
Father, we commend our spirits
   To Thy love, in Jesus’ name,
Love which His atoning merits
   Give us confidence to claim.
From the world and its confusion,
   Here we turn and find our rest,
From its care and its delusion,
   Turn to Thee, in whom we’re blest.

Thursday, September 12, 2019

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Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? (Isa. 50:2)
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. (Isa. 59:1)
I will also give Thee for a light to the Gentiles, that Thou mayest be My salvation unto the end of the earth. (Isa. 49:6)
Yes, the Redeemer left the throne,
   The radiant throne on high;
Surprising mercy! love unknown!
   To suffer, bleed and die.
Jesus, my soul adoring bends
   To love so full, so free;
Thy Word declares that love extends,
   In saving power, to me.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

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Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are they that shall go? And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord. (Ex. 10:8‑9)
They shall be My people, and I will be their God: and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them. (Jer. 32:38‑39)
Like them, we have a rest in view,
   Secure from hostile powers:
Like them, we pass a desert too,
   And Israel’s God is ours.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

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Who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! (Deut. 33:29)
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber. (Psa. 121:3)
Jesus, my Lord, is a wall about me;
   Dwelling within, I can dwell secure;
Nothing can harm me, for naught can
      reach me
   Save what He willeth that I endure.
Jesus, my Lord, is my shield and buckler;
   Unto all evil the way is barred;
Nothing can harm me, for naught can
      touch me
   Save what He willeth shall cross His
      guard.

Monday, September 9, 2019

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Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord. (Jer. 29:12‑14)
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. (Psa. 91:1)
Salvation’s Captain, and the guide
   Of all that seek the rest above,
Beneath Thy shadow we abide,
   The cloud of Thy protecting love;
Our strength Thy grace, our rule Thy
   word,
Our end the glory of the Lord.

Sunday, September 8, 2019

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As many were astonished at Thee; His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men. (Isa. 52:14)
He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. (Isa. 53:2)
Thy renown went forth … for thy beauty: for it was perfect through My comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God. (Ezek. 16:14)
The tempest’s awful voice was heard;
   O Christ, it broke on Thee;
Thy open bosom was my ward;
   It bore the storm for me;
Thy form was scarred, Thy visage marred;
   Now cloudless peace for me.

Saturday, September 7, 2019

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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. (Psa. 46:1‑3)
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction. (Jer. 16:19)
Under Thy wings shall no evil betide us;
In Thy strong arm shall our confidence be;
Who can make trouble when Thou givest quiet?
Peace of the world, we are trusting in Thee.
Though earth be rent and the heavens be
   shaken,
Though the great mountains be cast in the sea,
Thou art our help in the hour of affliction;
Hope of the world, where is hope but in Thee?

Friday, September 6, 2019

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As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. (Amos 5:19)
In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. (2 Tim. 2:20‑21)
But though I cannot tell or sing or know
The fullness of Thy love while here below,
My empty vessel I may freely bring —
O Thou, who art of love the living spring,
My vessel fill.

Thursday, September 5, 2019

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Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance. He fashioneth their hearts alike; He considereth all their works. (Psa. 33:12,15)
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. (Prov. 14:34)
Like Thee, O Lord — how wondrous fair,
Lord Jesus, all Thy members are;
A life divine to them is given —
The bright inheritance of heaven.
Just as we were we came to Thee,
As heirs of wrath and misery;
Just as Thou art — now we are Thine;
We stand in righteousness divine.

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

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My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. (Num. 14:24)
The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. (2 Tim. 4:22)
We’re not of the world which fadeth away;
We’re not of the night, but children of day;
The chains which once bound us by Jesus
   are riven;
We’re strangers on earth; our home is in
   heaven.
And soon shall we enter our own promised
   land;
Around His bright throne in glory shall
   stand;
Our song then forever and ever shall be:
All glory and blessing, Lord Jesus, to Thee!

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

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Will He plead against me with his great power? No; but He would put strength in me. (Job 23:6)
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to Thy word. (Psa. 119:154)
Thou hast our souls from sin made
   clean;
Thy Spirit gives us strength within;
Whilst Thou for us, in all our need,
At God’s right hand dost ever plead.
Oh keep us in the narrow way,
That ne’er from Thee our footsteps
   stray;
Sustain our weakness, calm our fear,
And to Thy presence keep us near.

Monday, September 2, 2019

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Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. (Matt. 5:24)
When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any; that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. (Mark 11:25)
“Hear Thou in heaven, Thy dwelling
   place,
And when Thou hearest, Lord, forgive”;
Our light is Thine unclouded face;
In Thine unfeigned love we live.
And purge us as we seek Thy face,
Purge fitful faith so we may live;
“Hear Thou in heaven, Thy dwelling
   place,
And when Thou hearest, Lord, forgive.”

Sunday, September 1, 2019

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As by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. (Rom. 5:18)
Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (Amos 5:24)
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed. (Psa. 85:10)
Oh! the peace forever flowing
   From God’s thoughts of His own Son;
Oh, the peace of simply knowing
   On the cross that all was done.
Peace with God, the blood in heaven
   Speaks of pardon now to me:
Peace with God! The Lord is risen!
   Righteousness now counts me free.
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