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Daily LightDaily Light on the Daily Path: morning and evening Scripture portions
Comfort of the ScripturesA daily Scripture verse, meditation and poem
Growing in GraceA daily Bible verse and devotional
Christians Daily CalendarScripture verses and a poem for every day of the year
Young Christians CalendarA daily meditation for young ChristiansScripture verses and a poem for every day of the year
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| Thou son of man, appoint thee two ways. (Ezek. 21:1) |
| Falling into a place where two seas met. (Acts 27:41) |
| In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. (Prov. 3:6) |
| Two pathways lay before me — The one was smooth and wide, The other very narrow But Christ was by my side. |
| Oh what has earth to offer, That ever could compare With fellowship so blessed As that with Christ I share! |
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| I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart. (Psa. 77:6) |
| The Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. (Psa. 42:8) |
| Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart. (Isa. 30:29) |
| That love is the love that bears me O’er starless deeps; That never through long night watches Slumbers nor sleeps — That filleth the lonely chambers With psalm and song, And along my journey guards me, All, all along. |
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| As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. (John 3:14) |
| I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me. (John 12:32) |
| In the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him. (Eph. 1:10) |
| The Father’s loving-kindness In giving Thee was shown us; Now by Thy blood redeemed to God, As children He does own us. |
| From that eternal glory Thou hadst with God the Father, He gave His Son that He in one His children all might gather. |
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| Thy throne is established of old: Thou art from everlasting. (Psa. 93:2) |
| A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. (Jer. 17:12) |
| He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. For He hath looked down from the height of His sanctuary. (Psa. 102:17,19) |
| Jesus! before Thy face we fall, Our Lord, our life, our hope, our all; For we have nowhere else to flee; No sanctuary, Lord, but Thee. |
| Through time, with all its changing scenes, And all the grief that intervenes, Let this support each fainting heart, That Thou our sanctuary art. |
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| My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them. (Ezek. 34:6) |
| The pastors that feed My people; ye … have not visited them. (Jer. 23:2) |
| Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. (Prov. 27:23) |
| Oh give to me the shepherd heart That loveth unto death — Untiring shepherd’s love impart As long as I have breath. |
| Oh give to me Thy love that cared, Thy tender heart — I pray — That Thy dear sheep be shepherded, Lord, let Thy love have sway. |
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| They have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters. (Jer. 2:13) |
| They that depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. (Jer. 17:13) |
| There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth … but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. (Rev. 21:27) |
| None can, without the blood Of the Lamb, be forgiven; ’Tis resting on the blood alone That fits the soul for heaven. |
| ’Twas grace that wrote each name In God’s eternal book; ’Twas grace that gave us to the Lamb, Who all our burdens took. |
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| On the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. (Luke 8:15) |
| The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: to the end He may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints. (1 Thess. 3:12‑13) |
| Give us the hope in the thought of Thy coming; Let that sure word be our comfort and stay; Waiting and hasting Thy day of appearing, Keep us untroubled by doubt or dismay; Fullness of joy shall we have in Thy presence, When the long tale of earth’s sorrow shall close; Give us the earnest of that blessed gladness; Joy of our soul, which the world does not know. |
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| Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me … thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. (Jer. 1:6‑7) |
| Take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. (Luke 12:11‑12) |
| I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me. (1 Tim. 1:12) |
| Speak to the tired and anxious; It is yours to fling a ray, Passing indeed, but cheering, Across the rugged way. |
| Speak to God’s busy servants, Weary with loving toil, Spent with their faithful labor On oft ungrateful soil. |
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| O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. (Psa. 139:1) |
| Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil. (Psa. 140:1) |
| Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me. (Psa. 140:4) |
| God granted him that which he requested. (1 Chron. 4:10) |
| And if some things I do not ask Thy will allots to me, Still be my spirit filled the more With grateful love to Thee — More careful of my walk below, To please Thee perfectly. |
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| They came to a place which was named GETHSEMANE: and He saith to His disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. (Mark 14:32) |
| Pilate … brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, GABBATHA. (John 19:13) |
| They compel one Simon a Cyrenian … to bear His cross. And they bring Him unto the place GOLGOTHA, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull. (Mark 15:21‑22) |
| Go your way, tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into GALILEE: there shall ye see Him, as He said unto you. (Mark 16:7) |
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| David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. … And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great … David recovered all. (1 Sam. 30:18‑19) |
| I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. (Joel 2:25) |
| Then I restored that which I took not away. (Psa. 69:4) |
| I only pray that Thou wilt take My pain and grief and fear, And to Thy glory will transmute My every pang and tear; I only plead that Thou wilt use This broken life of mine, And for my dust and ashes give The beauty that is Thine! |
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| Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Prov. 22:6) |
| I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth. (2 John 4) |
| The heart of a child is a scroll, A page that is lovely and white; And to it as fleeting years roll, Come hands with a story to write; Be ever so careful, O hand; Write thou with a sanctified pen; Your story shall live in the land For years in the doings of men; It shall echo in circles of light, Or lead to the death of a soul; Give here but a message of right, For the heart of a child is a scroll. |
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| I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead. (Jer. 2:9) |
| How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! (Matt. 23:37) |
| Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me. And he that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me. (John 12:44‑45) |
| There’s a voice that is calling to thee, And it pleads with its tenderest tone, While it bids thee from God’s wrath to flee, And whispers, “To Jesus now come!” |
| Let all the children hear now His voice; Let every heart make Jesus their choice; And let us freely trust and rejoice; Don’t delay; to Jesus now come! |
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| Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. (1 Kings 4:25) |
| They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. … We will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. (Mic. 4:4‑5) |
| Oh, haste Thy glad appearing, The rising of Thy sun, When through Thy wide dominions Thy will alone is done; The long-dispersed of Judah And Israel’s outcast band Shall gather from all countries Within their promised land. |
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| I will trust in Thee. (Psa. 55:23) |
| The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. (Ruth 2:12) |
| Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him. (Psa. 2:12) |
| How wonderful to lay my hand In Thine, dear Lord, today, And with complete assurance walk With Thee life’s unknown way! Content though but one step I see, To follow without fear, Since it is Thy love that leads me, And Thy sweet voice I hear. |
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| None is good, save one, that is, God. (Luke 18:19) |
| Good and upright is the Lord. (Psa. 25:8) |
| Thy Spirit is good. (Psa. 143:10) |
| Let Thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let Thy saints rejoice in goodness. (2 Chron. 6:41) |
| Yet, sure, if in Thy presence My soul still constant were, Mine eye would, more familiar, Its brighter glories bear. |
| That all Thy gracious favor May to my soul be known; And, versed in this Thy goodness, My hopes Thyself shalt crown. |
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| Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out. (1 Kings 7:47) |
| The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. (2 Kings 25:16) |
| Vessels of fine copper, precious as gold. (Ezra 8:27) |
| The depth of all Thy suffering No heart could e’er conceive; The cup of wrath o’erflowing For us Thou didst receive; And, oh! of God forsaken, On the accursèd tree; With grateful hearts, Lord Jesus, We now remember Thee. |
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| After ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions. And took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. (Heb. 10:32,34‑35) |
| Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. (James 5:11) |
| Though afflictions press me sore, And abound on every hand, On His everlasting promise, He has bid me firmly stand, Casting all my care upon Him, Who has died to set me free, And in Christ, my risen Savior, To rejoice exceedingly. |
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| Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (1 Cor. 15:33) |
| Their word will eat as doth a canker. (2 Tim. 2:17) |
| A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. (Gal. 5:9) |
| I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts. (Psa. 119:63) |
| Shun evil companions; Bad language disdain; God’s name hold in reverence — Don’t take it in vain; Be thoughtful and earnest, Kindhearted and true; Look ever to Jesus: He will carry you through. |
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| Enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. (Heb. 11:25) |
| As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. (Ezek. 33:11) |
| The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 6:23) |
| What though I might live without the Savior, And my empty heart be filled with strife — Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing With the gift of God, eternal life? |
| If I have but Jesus, only Jesus, Nothing else in all the world beside — Oh, then everything is mine in Jesus; For my needs and more He will provide. |
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| The mystery of iniquity doth already work: only He who now letteth will let, until He be taken out of the way. (2 Thess. 2:7) |
| The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thess. 4:16‑18) |
| A little while — oh, comfort one another, All ye who mourn, with this, The promise of His presence and His likeness In everlasting bliss; A little while and He who rose triumphant Shall call His dead to rise, And we who live and those whom death has taken Shall meet Him in the skies. |
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| Ye shall stand still. (Josh. 3:8) |
| Their strength is to sit still. (Isa. 30:7) |
| Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. (Psa. 4:4) |
| Be still, and know that I am God. (Psa. 46:10) |
| Silence my heart, Lord Jesus; Bid the tumult within be still; Quiet the raging billows, And a holy hush instill. |
| May Thy all-pervading presence My waiting soul infill, Till my every thought is captive Unto Thy blest, holy will. |
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| When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and, his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. (Dan. 6:10) |
| Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my voice. (Psa. 55:17) |
| Continuing instant in prayer. (Rom. 12:12) |
| I love to steal awhile away From every cumbering care, And spend the hours of setting day In humble, grateful prayer. |
| I love in solitude to shed The penitential tear, And all His promises to plead, Where none but God can hear. |
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| I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. (Ex. 7:17) |
| They shall smite the Judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. (Mic. 5:1) |
| The men that held Jesus mocked Him, and smote Him. And when they had blindfolded Him, they struck Him on the face, and asked Him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote Thee? (Luke 22:63‑64) |
| My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? (Matt. 27:46) |
| Jehovah lifted up His rod — O Christ, it fell on Thee! Thou wast forsaken of Thy God; No distance now for me; Thy blood beneath that rod has flowed: Thy bruising healeth me. |
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| Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O Lord. (Psa. 130:1) |
| The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. (Psa. 34:18) |
| He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names. The Lord lifteth up the meek. (Psa. 147:4,6) |
| Was there something shone from that healed new heart Made the psalmist think of stars — That bright as the sun or the lightnings’ dart, Sped away past earthly bars? |
| There is hope and help for our sighs and tears, For the wound that stings and smarts; Our God is at home with the rolling spheres, And at home with broken hearts. |
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| Every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. (Num. 19:15) |
| Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. (Prov. 25:4) |
| He is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will show him how great things he must suffer for My name’s sake. (Acts 9:15‑16) |
| Thus, though worn and tried and tempted, Glorious calling, saint, is thine; Can the Lord but find you emptied, That is all He seeks to find; Vessels of the world’s despising, Vessels weak and poor and base, Bearing wealth God’s heart is prizing, Glory from Christ’s blessed face. |
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| So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. (Job 14:12) |
| I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. (Job 30:23) |
| Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me [Jesus] shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11:26) |
| For time will not linger When helpless you lie: Staring death in the face You will take time to die! Then, what of the judgment? Pause, think, I implore! For time will be lost On eternity’s shore. |
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| Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace. (2 Thess. 2:16) |
| Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. (1 Peter 1:3) |
| If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. (Rom. 8:25) |
| Absent as yet, we rest in hope, Treading the desert path, Waiting for Him who takes us up Beyond the power of death. |
| We joy in Thee; Thy holy love Our endless portion is, Like Thine own Son, with Him above, In brightest heavenly bliss. |
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| Fear not … I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. (Gen. 15:1) |
| 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 is thy praise, and He is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. (Deut. 10:21) |
| With Israel’s God who can compare? Or who, like Israel, happy are? To people saved by the Lord, He is thy shield and great reward. |
| Upheld by everlasting arms, Thou art secured from foes and harms! In vain their plots, and false their boasts! Our refuge is the Lord of hosts. |
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| Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. (Psa. 146:1) |
| Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God. (Psa. 147:1) |
| Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise Him in the heights. (Psa. 148:1) |
| Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise in the congregation of saints. (Psa. 149:1) |
| Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in His sanctuary: praise Him in the firmament of His power. (Psa. 150:1) |
| “Praise ye the Lord,” again, again, The Spirit strikes the chord; Nor touches He our hearts in vain; We praise, we praise the Lord. |
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| Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. (Ex. 12:5) |
| That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Luke 1:35) |
| I find in Him no fault at all. (John 18:38) |
| Thou Son of God! — the woman’s seed Who didst for us on Calvary bleed, And bear our heavy load; Spoiler of death’s o’erwhelming power, O’ercome by Thee in that dread hour; Thou holy One of God! |