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May 2025

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Saturday, May 31, 2025

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Behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her … a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth. (Hos. 2:14‑15)
He shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. (Hos. 14:5,7)
Then quietness around me fell,
And Thou didst speak; my spirit heard;
I worshipped and rejoiced, for well
I knew Thy comfortable word.
Whoso has known that comforting,
The inward touch that maketh whole,
How can he ever choose but sing
To Thee, O Lover of his soul?

Friday, May 30, 2025

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Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph. 6:23)
Happy is that people, that is in such a case; yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. (Psa. 144:15)
Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. (1 Peter 3:8)
Give to Thy people skill
   To soothe and bless;
And to the tired and ill
   Give quietness.
And, Lord, to those who know
   Thy heart of love,
Help them, Thy ways to show;
   Grace from above.

Thursday, May 29, 2025

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Whose MOUTH is full of cursing and bitterness. (Rom. 3:14)
The word is nigh thee, even in thy MOUTH, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach. (Rom. 10:8)
With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the MOUTH confession is made unto salvation. (Rom. 10:10)
That ye may with one mind and one MOUTH glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom. 15:6)
He hath put a new song in my MOUTH,
Even praise unto our God:
Many shall see it, and fear,
And shall trust in the Lord.

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of THE HOPE that is in you, with meekness and fear: having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. (1 Peter 3:15‑16)
THE HOPE which is laid up for you in heaven. (Col. 1:5)
Though our pilgrimage be dreary,
   This is not our resting-place;
Shall we of the way be weary
   When we see our Master’s face?
No — e’en now anticipating,
   In THIS HOPE our souls rejoice,
And His promised advent waiting,
   Soon shall hear His welcome voice.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

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What He did unto the army of Egypt unto their horses, and to their chariots; how He made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you. Your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which He did. (Deut. 11:4,7)
Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. (Job 9:10)
“Stand still,” my soul, for so your Lord
   commands;
Even when your way seems blocked, leave it
   in His hands:
His arm is mighty to divide the wave;
“Stand still,” my soul, “stand still” and
   you shall see
How God can work the “impossible” for
   thee,
For with a great deliverance He does save.

Monday, May 26, 2025

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Thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise. (Psa. 51:16‑17)
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. (Psa. 34:17)
When your way seems thick with
      darkness,
   And your eyes with tears are dim,
Straight to God your Father hastening,
   Tell your sorrows unto Him;
Nor to human ear confiding
   Your sad tale of grief and care,
But on God your Father resting,
   Pour out all your sorrows there.

Sunday, May 25, 2025

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Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked Him, saying, Art Thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. (Matt. 27:11)
Set up over His head His accusation written, This is Jesus the King of the Jews. (Matt. 27:37)
He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, and LORD OF LORDS. (Rev. 19:16)
Lord of life! to death once subject;
   Blesser, yet a curse once made;
Of Thy Father’s heart the object,
   Yet in depths of anguish laid.
Royal robes shall soon invest Thee,
   Royal splendors crown Thy brow;
Christ of God, our souls confess Thee
   King and Sovereign even now!

Saturday, May 24, 2025

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When he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship. (Acts 20:36‑38)
Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. (1 Sam. 20:18)
There are loved ones who are missing
   From the fireside and the feast;
There are faces that have left us;
   There are voices that have ceased —
Thanksgiving, oh, thanksgiving
   That their love once blessed us here,
That so long they walked beside us
   Sharing every smile and tear;
For the hope of that glad meeting
   Far from mortal grief and pain —
We thank Thee, O our Father,
   For the blessings that remain.

Friday, May 23, 2025

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By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love UNFEIGNED. (2 Cor. 6:6)
The end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith UNFEIGNED. (1 Tim. 1:5)
Obeying the truth through the Spirit unto UNFEIGNED love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. (1 Peter 1:22)
Ah, friends! whose eyes today may hold
   Converse with living eyes,
Whose touch or tone or smile may thrill
   Sad souls with sweet surprise;
Be instant, like your Lord, with love
   And constant as His grace,
With dew and light and manna fall —
   The night comes on apace.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

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Mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:4)
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (Isa. 53:6)
Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. (Job 33:24)
All my iniquities on Him were laid;
All my indebtedness by Him was paid;
All who believe on Him, the Lord has said,
   Have everlasting life.
Though all unworthy, yet I will not doubt,
For him that cometh He will not cast out;
He that believeth — oh, the good news
      shout!
   Has everlasting life.

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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Because Thy loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise Thee. (Psa. 63:3)
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, even of Thy holy temple. (Psa. 65:4)
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek Him: your heart shall live forever. (Psa. 22:26)
We thank Thee, Lord, for weary days
   When desert springs were dry,
And first we knew what depth of need
   Thy love could satisfy.
When in the glory and the rest
   We joyfully adore,
Remembering the desert way
   We yet shall praise Thee more.

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

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My beloved is gone down into his garden. (Song of Sol. 6:2)
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse. (Song of Sol. 5:1)
Thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. (Isa. 58:11)
If these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:8)
Oh fill me with Thy fullness, Lord,
   Until my very heart o’erflow
In kindling thought and glowing word
   Thy love to tell, Thy praise to show.
Oh teach me, Lord, that I may teach
   The precious things Thou dost impart;
And wing my words, that they may reach
   The hidden depth of many a heart.

Monday, May 19, 2025

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His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God. (Luke 1:64)
O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise. (Psa. 51:15)
My tongue shall speak of Thy righteousness and of Thy praise all the day long. (Psa. 35:28)
   He giveth songs
When our music is over,
When our voices falter
And our tongues are mute —
   He giveth songs —
And His music is sweeter
Than earth’s greatest voices
Which never can suit.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made 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. (John 1:1,14)
He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called The Word of God. (Rev. 19:13)
Thou art the everlasting Word,
   The Father’s only Son;
God manifest, God seen and heard,
   The heaven’s beloved One;
Worthy, O Lamb of God, art Thou
That every knee to Thee should bow.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

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Show Thy marvelous loving-kindness. (Psa. 17:7)
He brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. (Ezek. 47:6)
I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty. (Ruth 1:21)
Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. (Ruth 4:14,17)
’Tis Jesus, the first and the last,
Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home;
We’ll praise Him for all that is past,
And trust Him for all that’s to come.

Friday, May 16, 2025

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David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? (2 Sam. 9:7‑8)
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart. (Prov. 3:3)
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. (Matt. 5:7)
Lord, grant me the gift of forbearance,
   A merciful spirit I pray;
That suffers the wrongs of another
   And seeks not the ill to repay.
Thou who didst once suffer for sinners
   Such bitter reproach and disdain,
Fill me with that same gentle spirit,
   That reviled, still reviles not again.

Thursday, May 15, 2025

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because … He hath sent Me … to set at liberty them that are bruised. (Luke 4:18)
That ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (He saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house. And immediately he arose. (Mark 2:10‑12)
Immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked. (John 5:9)
Many a man with his life out of tune,
   And battered and scarred with sin,
Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd,
   Much like the old violin;
But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd
   Never can quite understand
The worth of a soul and the change that’s
      wrought
   By the touch of the Master’s hand.

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

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If any man love God, the same is known of Him. (1 Cor. 8:3)
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. (2 Cor. 6:9‑10)
To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. (1 Peter 5:11)
We shall know — for we can trust Him
   Who has led us all the way;
Who has ransomed and redeemed us,
   Who has been our staff and stay;
Who has made a path before us
   Through the desert and the sea;
To the Lord who sought and saved us,
   Evermore our praise shall be.

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

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She [Wisdom] is a TREE of LIFE to them that lay hold upon her. (Prov. 3:18)
A wholesome tongue is a TREE of LIFE. (Prov. 15:4)
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a TREE of LIFE. (Prov. 13:12)
Oh teach us so the power to know
   Of risen life with Thee;
Not we may live while here below,
   But Christ our life may be.
And oh! the more we learn of Thee,
   And Thy rich mercy prove,
The more we long Thy face to see,
   And fully prove Thy love.

Monday, May 12, 2025

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We 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: that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thess. 1:11‑12)
That God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. (1 Peter 4:11)
Jesus, Thou alone art worthy
   Ceaseless praises to receive;
For Thy love and grace and goodness
   Rise o’er all our thoughts conceive.
Rise our hearts, and bless the Father,
   Ceaseless song e’en here begun,
Endless praise and adoration
   To the Father and the Son.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

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Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Gal. 1:4‑5)
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him. (1 Peter 3:22)
Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (1 Tim. 1:17)
Unto Him who loved us — gave us
   Every pledge that love could give;
Freely shed His blood to save us;
   Gave His life that we might live;
      Be the kingdom,
      And dominion,
   And the glory evermore.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

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I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis. (Col. 4:13)
We desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end. (Heb. 6:11)
Your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Cor. 15:58)
Oh lead me, Lord, that I may lead
The wandering and the wavering feet;
Oh feed me, Lord, that I may feed
Thy hungering ones with manna sweet.
Oh strengthen me, that while I stand
Firm on the rock and strong in Thee,
I may stretch out a loving hand
To wrestlers with the troubled sea.

Friday, May 9, 2025

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Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will lead on softly, according as … the children be able to ENDURE. (Gen. 33:14)
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to ENDURE. (Ex. 18:23)
[Charity] beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, ENDURETH all things. (1 Cor. 13:7)
’Tis only in Thee hiding
   We feel ourselves secure;
Only in Thee abiding
   The conflict can ENDURE;
Thine arm the victory gaineth
   O’er every hateful foe;
Thy love our hearts sustaineth,
   In all their cares and woe.

Thursday, May 8, 2025

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because … He hath sent Me to … recovering of sight to the blind. (Luke 4:18)
Have mercy on us, O Lord, Thou Son of David. And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto Him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him. (Matt. 20:31‑34)
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound,
   That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
   Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
   And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
   The hour I first believed.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden. (Gen. 2:9)
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Rev. 2:7)
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life. (Rev. 22:2)
Bread that came down from heaven,
   Fruit of life’s eternal tree;
Banquet which my God has given
   Even unto me.
For the glory of His city
   Shines along the road
Where the feet unwearied journey
   To the home of God.

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

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Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God. (3 John 11)
Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (1 John 3:18)
They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. (Gal. 5:24)
Take Thou my heart and consecrate it wholly;
May it be true no matter what betide;
Take Thou my life; it must be Thine forever,
For I would turn away from all beside.
Take Thou my love, O Lord, and consecrate
   it,
Burn out the dross and make it all Thine
   own;
Save me from self and all of earth’s ambitions
Till self has died and Thou dost reign alone.

Monday, May 5, 2025

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It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High: to show forth Thy loving-kindness in the morning, and Thy faithfulness every night. (Psa. 92:1‑2)
I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high. (Psa. 7:17)
Jesus, of Thee we ne’er would tire;
   The new and living food
Can satisfy our heart’s desire,
   And life is in Thy blood.
If such the happy midnight song
   Our prisoned spirits raise,
What are the joys that cause, ere long,
   Eternal bursts of praise?

Sunday, May 4, 2025

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It came to pass, as He sat at meat with them, He took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him. (Luke 24:30‑31)
They told what things were done in the way, and how He was known of them in breaking of bread. And as they thus spake, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. (Luke 24:35‑36)
Lord, while our souls in faith repose
   Upon Thy precious blood,
Peace like an even river flows,
   And mercy, like a flood.
Unseen, we love Thee; dear Thy name;
   But when our eyes behold,
With joyful wonder we’ll exclaim,
   “The half had not been told!”

Saturday, May 3, 2025

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I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. (Ezek. 3:15)
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer. (Prov. 15:28)
Remember … them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. (Heb. 13:3)
Compassion is love and desire to share
The trouble and tears that come from despair;
Compassion is love and sympathy, too,
With a will to help, to heal and renew.
Compassion is love when our brother is low,
So sit with the weary until his heart glows;
Compassion is love, the spirit to do
For others, as our Lord, in grace, does for
   you.

Friday, May 2, 2025

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They stood still in the prison gate. (Neh. 12:39)
The Lord … despiseth not His prisoners. (Psa. 69:33)
Behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. (Acts 12:7)
Obstacles and trials seem
   Like prison walls to me:
Stand — it’s all that I can do,
   And leave the rest to Thee.
The prison doors will open,
   The dungeon gleam with light,
And sin-chained souls around me
   Will see God’s arm of might.

Thursday, May 1, 2025

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Not as the offense, so also is the free gift: for if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. (Rom. 5:15)
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. (Rom. 5:20)
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. (Eph. 2:8)
Grace first contrived a way
   To save rebellious man;
And all the steps that grace display,
   Which drew the wondrous plan.
Grace! ’tis a charming sound,
   Harmonious to the ear;
Heaven with the echo shall resound,
   And all the earth shall hear.
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