APRIL 16 EVENING
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him.—PSA. 91:15.
And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.—Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said unto God, . . . Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people.—And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power . . . O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
I Chr. 4:10. -II Chr. 1:7,8,10. -I Kgs. 4:29.II Chr. 14:11,12.Psa. 65:2.
APRIL 17 MORNING
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me.—PSA. 50:23.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.—Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Ye are a royal priesthood . . . that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.—Ye . . . as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.—By him . . . let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Col. 3:16,17. -I Cor. 6:20.I Pet. 2:9. -I Pet. 2:5. -Heb. 13:15.Psa. 34:2,3.
APRIL 17 EVENING
Draw me, we will run after thee.—SONG 1:4.
I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.—I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love.—I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.—Behold the Lamb of God.—As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.—We love him, because he first loved us.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Jer. 31:3. -Hos. 11:4. -John 12:32. -John 1:36. -John 3:14,15.Psa. 73:25. -I John 4:19.Song 2:10-13.
APRIL 18 MORNING
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.—DEUT. 18:18.
[Moses] stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for ye were afraid.—There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.—Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.—Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Deut. 5:5. -I Tim. 2:5.Num. 12:3. -Matt. 11:29. -Phi. 2:5-7.Heb. 3:5,6.
APRIL 18 EVENING
Everlasting consolation.—II THES. 2:16.
I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.—He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.—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 gifts and calling of God are without repentance.—Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?—The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.—So shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore cormfort one another with these words.
This is not your rest.—Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Ezek. 16:60.Heb. 10:14. -Heb. 7:25. -II Tim. 1:12.Rom. 11:29. -Rom. 8:35. -Rev. 7:17. -I Thes. 4:17,18.Mic. 2:10. -Heb. 13:14.
APRIL 19 MORNING
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.—JOHN 10:7.
The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.—Christ . . . hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.—The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.—Through him we . . . have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.—Having . . . boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.—We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Matt. 27:51. -I Pet. 3:18. -Heb. 9:8.John 10:9.John 14:6. -Eph. 2:18,19. -Heb. 10:19,20. -Rom. 5:1,2.
APRIL 19 EVENING
His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.—JER. 20:9.
Necessity is laid upon me; yea woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.—They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, . . . We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.—The love of Christ constraineth us.
I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth . . . Thou wicked and slothful servant, . . . thou oughtest . . . to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Go . . . to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.
I Cor. 9:16,18. -Acts 4:18-20. -II Cor. 5:14.Matt. 25:25-27.Mark 5:19.
