Evening devotional

Hear this evening's devotional [Prepared by Jonathan Bagster (1813-1872)]

12.23 Evening:

God hath given to us Eternal Life, and this Life is in His Son.

As the Father hath Life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have Life in Himself.―For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will.

I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he Live: and whosoever Liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.―I am the good Shepherd: the good Shepherd giveth His Life for the sheep....I lay down My Life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have Power to lay it down, and I have Power to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father.―No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.―He that hath the Son hath Life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life.―For ye are dead, and your Life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, Who is our Life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.

1Jo 5:11 Joh 5:26,21 11:25,26 10:11,17,18 Joh 14:6 1Jo 5:12 Col 3:3,4

Here it is again with the full verses and references

12.23 Evening:

(I John 5:11)And this is the record, that God hath given to us Eternal Life, and this Life is in His Son.

(John 5:26)For as the Father hath Life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have Life in Himself;--(John 5:21)For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will.

(John 11:25,26)Jesus said unto her, I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he Live: and whosoever Liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?--(John 10:11)I am the good Shepherd: the good Shepherd giveth His Life for the sheep....(John 10:17,18)Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My Life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have Power to lay it down, and I have Power to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father.--(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 John 5:12)He that hath the Son hath Life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life.--(Colossians 3:3,4)For ye are dead, and your Life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, Who is our Life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.

1Jo 5:11 Joh 5:26,21 11:25,26 10:11,17,18 Joh 14:6 1Jo 5:12 Col 3:3,4





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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.

Parables (23)

Hear this, all ye people;
give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
My mouth shall speak of Wisdom;
and the meditation of My heart shall be of Understanding.
I will incline mine ear to a parable ["proverb"]:
I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Psalm 49:1-4


All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables;
and without a parable spake He not unto them:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
I will open My mouth in parables;
I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 13:34,35



Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have Eternal Life:
and they are they which testify of Me.
John 5:39

Proverbs 23

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: for their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.





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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.

The LORD is gracious

For all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever.
And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes,
desire the sincere milk of the Word,
that ye may grow thereby:
if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
(I Peter 1:24-2:3)

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 29:11 The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with Peace.


The Word for the day--
Psalm 46:1 God is our Refuge and Strength, a very present help in trouble.


Hear the entire Psalm--

Psalm 46
To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.

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. There is a River, the streams whereof shall make glad the City of God, the Holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered His Voice, the earth melted. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge. Selah. Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the Fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge. Selah.


Compare Spiritual with Spiritual (1 Corinthians 2:12-14; John 5:39)--

"God is our Refuge and Strength, a very present help in trouble."

Numbers 35:6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities...Numbers 35:11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.--Joshua 20:3 That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the Avenger of blood.

Hebrews 6:17-20 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of Promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an Oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong Consolation, who have fled for Refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us: which Hope we have as an Anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the Veil; whither the Forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an High Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

I Thessalonians 5:8,9 But let us, who are of the Day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of Faith and Love; and for an Helmet, the Hope of Salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain Salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Psalm 77:14,15 Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast declared Thy Strength among the people. Thou hast with Thine Arm redeemed Thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.--Isaiah 53:1-6 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our Peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. 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.

Psalm 77:14,15 Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast declared Thy Strength among the people. Thou hast with Thine Arm redeemed Thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.


Again, the Word for the day--Psalm 46:1 God is our Refuge and Strength, a very present help in trouble.



Hear this morning's devotional [Prepared by Jonathan Bagster (1813-1872)]

12.23 Morning:

Let him take hold of My Strength, that he may make Peace with Me; and he shall make Peace with Me.

I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of Peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected End.―There is no Peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For He is our Peace.

It pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; and, having made Peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself.―Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in His blood, to declare His Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, . . . that He might be Just, and the Justifier of him which believeth 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 ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is Everlasting Strength.

Isa 27:5 Jer 29:11 Isa 48:22 Eph 2:13,14 Col 1:19,20 Ro 3:24-26 1Jo 1:9 Isa 26:4

Here it is again with the full verses and references

12.23 Morning:

(Isaiah 27:5)Or let him take hold of My Strength, that he may make Peace with Me; and he shall make Peace with Me.

(Jeremiah 29:11)For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of Peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected End.--(Isaiah 48:22)There is no Peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

(Ephesians 2:13,14)But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For He is our Peace, Who hath made both One, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

(Colossians 1:19,20)For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; and, having made Peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in Heaven.--(Romans 3:24-26)Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in His blood, to declare His Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time His Righteousness: that He might be Just, and the Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.--(I John 1:9)If we confess our sins, He is Faithful and Just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

(Isaiah 26:4)Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is Everlasting Strength:

Isa 27:5 Jer 29:11 Isa 48:22 Eph 2:13,14 Col 1:19,20 Ro 3:24-26 1Jo 1:9 Isa 26:4


I Timothy 4:15,16 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.



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.


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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.