The Lord is gracious,
and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
(Psalm 145:8)
The Word for the YEAR--
Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that 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 creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Word for the month--
Psalm 18:30 As for God, His Way is perfect: the Word of the Lord is tried: He is a buckler to all those that trust in Him.
The Word for the day--
Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My Name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Compare Spiritual with Spiritual (1 Corinthians 2:12-14; John 5:39)--
"And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried:"
Ezekiel 5:2-4 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the City, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them. Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
I Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
John 10:14-17 I am the good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine. As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My Life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My Voice; and there shall be one fold, and one Shepherd. Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My Life, that I might take it again.
Psalm 45:13-15 The King's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto Thee. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the King's palace.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.
I Peter 1:6-9 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your Faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in Whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your Faith, even the salvation of your souls.
"they shall call on My Name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God."
"My Name,"
John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have Life through His Name.
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other Name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Psalm 18:1-3 And he said, I will love Thee, O Lord, my Strength. The Lord is my Rock, and my Fortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my Strength, in Whom I will trust; my Buckler, and the Horn of my Salvation, and my High Tower. I will call upon the Lord, Who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
"I will hear them"
Psalm 34:17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Micah 7:7 Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
"I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God"
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not[cp Mk 6:56]; for I am not yet ascended to My Father: but go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Romans 9:24-26 Even us, whom He hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Osee, I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not My people; there shall they be called the children of the Living God.
Micah 7:7 Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Again, the Word for the day--Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My Name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Hear this morning's devotional [Prepared by Jonathan Bagster (1813-1872)]
04.09 Morning:
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee.
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine Husband; the Lord of hosts is His Name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel. --I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.--With the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot:
Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is His Name: He shall throughly plead their cause.--My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand.
Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 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 for ever and ever. Amen.
Isa 43:1 54:4,5 44:22 1Pe 1:19 Jer 50:34 Joh 10:29 Ga 1:3-5
Here it is again with the full verses and references
04.09 Morning:
(Isaiah 43:1)But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine.
(Isaiah 54:4,5)Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine Husband; the Lord of hosts is His Name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall He be called.--(Isaiah 44:22)I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.--(I Peter 1:19)But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
(Jeremiah 50:34)Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is His Name: He shall throughly plead their cause, that He may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.--(John 10:29)My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand.
(Galatians 1:3-5)Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 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 for ever and ever. Amen.
Isa 43:1 54:4,5 44:22 1Pe 1:19 Jer 50:34 Joh 10:29 Ga 1:3-5
Philippians 4:8b " . . . think on these things"
Psalm 72:17-19 His Name shall endure for ever: His Name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in Him: all nations shall call Him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, Who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be His Glorious Name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with His glory; Amen, and Amen.
II Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
-- Romans 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.I Peter 5:11 To Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
