Today's Daily Bread

Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.

My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, ... so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall acomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

II PET. 3:8,9. Isa. 55:8-11. Rom. 11:32,33.

Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? - We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. - The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. - Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.

Be instant in season, out of season. - Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

AMOS 4:11. Isa 33:14. -II Cor. 1:9,10. -Rom. 6:23. Heb. 10:31. -II Cor. 5:11. II Tim. 4:2. -Jude 23. Zech. 4:6. -I Tim.

Fear not; I am the first and the last.

Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, but ye are come unto mount Sion, ... to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. - Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. - We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, aud his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. - The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? - Who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?

REV. 1:17. Heb. 12:18,22-24. -Heb. 12:2. -Heb. 4:15,16. Isa. 44:6. -Isa. 9:6. Hab. 1:12. -II Sam. 22:32.

Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. - He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. - LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. - Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heaven.

Who is a rock save our God? - They shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. - Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. - Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.

PSA. 61:2. Phi. 4:6,7. Psa. 142:3. -Job 23:10. -Psa. 90:1. -Isa. 25:4. Psa.18:31. -John 10:28. -Psa. 119:116. -Heb. 6:19.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt. - According to your faith be it unto you. - Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

They drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and [Jesus] made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: ... he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? - I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight. - My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

GEN. 32:26. Isa. 27:5. Matt. 15:28. -Matt. 9:29. -Jas. 1:6,7. Luke 24:28,29,31,32. -Exo. 33:13. -Exo. 33:14.

Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. - Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last: I am he.

Sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ. - The very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. - He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. - Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? - The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me.

It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

HEB. 12:2. Rev. 1:8. -Isa. 41:4. Jude 1:1. -I Thes. 5:23,24. -Phi. 1:6. -Gal. 3:3. -Psa. 138:8. Phi. 2:13.

He ever liveth to make intercession.

Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died ... who also maketh inter-cession for us. - Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. - There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Seeing ... that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. - Through him we ... have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

HEB. 7:25. Rom. 8:34. -Heb. 9:24. I John 2:1. -I Tim. 2:5. Heb. 4:14-16. -Eph. 2:18

They that know thy name will put their trust in thee.

This is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHT-EOUSNESS. - I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor. - O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

The mighty God, The everlasting Father. - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

The Prince of Peace. - He is our peace. - Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. - Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help. - As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

PSA. 9:10. Jer. 23:6. -Psa 71:16. Isa. 9:6. -Jer. 10:23. Isa. 9:6. -II Tim. 1:12. Isa. 9:6. -Eph. 2:14. -Rom. 5:1. Prov. 18:10. -Isa. 31:1. -Isa. 31:5.

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

We ... rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also. - I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. - Believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? - God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

II COR. 6:10. Rom. 5:2,3. -II Cor. 7:4. -I Pet. 1:8. II Cor. 8:2. -Eph. 3:8,9. Jas 2:5. -II Cor. 9:8.

The Lord strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them. - He whom thou lovest is sick. - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

We faint not; ... though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

In him we live, and move, and have our being. - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength. - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

PSA. 41:3. Isa. 63:9. -John 11:3. -II Cor. 12:9. -Phi. 4:13. II Cor. 4:16. Acts 17:28. -Isa. 40:29-31. -Deut. 33:27.