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Daily Light on the Daily Path

This inspiring devotional is a collection of Scripture verses centered on a theme for each of two daily readings. In the English Standard Version Bible.

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Daily Light for March 9

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Morning

God . . . richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

“Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them . . . then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God . . . for it is he who gives you power to get wealth.”

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.—For not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them.—There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!”

1 Tim. 6:17; Deut. 8:11, 12, 14, 18; Ps. 127:1, 2; Ps. 44:3; Ps. 4:6 (Read full verses...)

Evening

They were singing a new song.

The new and living way that he opened for us.—Not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.—For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory.—To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.—“You were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.”— After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number . . . crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

Rev. 14:3; Heb. 10:20; Titus 3:5, 6; Eph. 2:8, 9; Ps. 115:1; Rev. 1:5, 6; Rev. 5:9; Rev. 7:9, 10 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for March 8

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 03:01

Morning

You have cast all my sins behind your back.

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

“For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD, your Redeemer.—“I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.—The blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Isa. 38:17; Mic. 7:18, 19; Isa. 54:7, 8; Jer. 31:34; Ps. 32:1, 2; 1 John 1:7 (Read full verses...)

Evening

I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able.

Able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think.

Able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Able to help those who are being tempted.

Able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy.

Able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

“Do you believe that I am able to do this?” . . . “Yes, Lord.” “According to your faith be it done to you.”

2 Tim. 1:12; Eph. 3:20; 2 Cor. 9:8; Heb. 2:18; Heb. 7:25; Jude 24; 2 Tim. 1:12; Phil. 3:21; Matt. 9:28, 29 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for March 6

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 03:01

Morning

Watching over the way of his saints.

The LORD your God . . . went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.—Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, the LORD alone guided him.—The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when he delights in his way; though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD upholds his hand.—Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.—For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.—And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.—“With us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles.”

The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness.

Prov. 2:8; Deut. 1:32, 33; Deut. 32:11, 12; Ps. 37:23, 24; Ps. 34:19; Ps. 1:6; Rom. 8:28; 2 Chron. 32:8; Zeph. 3:17 (Read full verses...)

Evening

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace . . . and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. . . . stricken for the transgression of my people. . . . Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief.

Jesus our Lord . . . was delivered up for our trespasses.—For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God.—He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.—Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

Matt. 27:46; Isa. 53:5, 6, 8, 10; Rom. 4:24, 25; 1 Pet. 3:18; 1 Pet. 2:24; 2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for March 4

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 03:01

Morning

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.— “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

For we walk by faith, not by sight.—So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.—An inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

Col. 3:2; 1 John 2:15; Matt. 6:19-21; 2 Cor. 5:7; 2 Cor. 4:16-18; 1 Pet. 1:4 (Read full verses...)

Evening

“He bowed his shoulder to bear.”

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.—Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

“Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.—And Aaron held his peace.—“It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him.”

Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you.—Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Gen. 49:15; Jas. 5:10; 1 Cor. 10:11; Job 2:10; Lev. 10:3; 1 Sam. 3:18; Ps. 55:22; Isa. 53:4; Matt. 11:28-30 (Read full verses...)

<< Mar 3 | Mar 4 | Mar 5 >>

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Daily Light for March 2

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

Now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.—But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me.

Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.

Gen. 41:52; 2 Cor. 1:3-5; 1 Pet. 1:6, 7; 2 Tim. 4:17; 1 Pet. 4:19 (Read full verses...)

Evening

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

“There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.”

“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” . . . “They . . . rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”

“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep . . .” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.

For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened.—We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Heb. 4:9; Job 3:17, 18; Rev. 14:13; John 11:11, 13; 2 Cor. 5:4; Rom. 8:23-25 (Read full verses...)

<< Mar 1 | Mar 2 | Mar 3 >>

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Daily Light for February 28

Sun, 02/28/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.—God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

John 3:16; 2 Cor. 5:18-21; 1 John 4:8-11 (Read full verses...)

Evening

The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD.

“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” . . . But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

“Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.—For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.

Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. . . . Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Prov. 20:27; John 8:7, 9; Gen. 3:11; Jas. 4:17; 1 John 3:20, 21; Rom. 14:20, 22; Ps. 139:23, 24 (Read full verses...)

<< Feb 27 | Feb 28 | Mar 1 >>

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Daily Light for February 27

Sat, 02/27/2010 - 03:01

Morning

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”—For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

“Because I live, you also will live.”—“I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.”

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. . . . For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Rom. 6:11; John 5:24; Gal. 2:19, 20; John 14:19; John 10:28-30; Col. 3:1, 3 (Read full verses...)

Evening

God . . . gives generously to all without reproach.

“Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”

The grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many . . . the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Jas. 1:5; John 8:10, 11; Rom. 5:15, 16; Eph. 2:4-7; Rom. 8:32 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 25

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 03:01

Morning

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the LORD drives.—“Be gone, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’” Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.—Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.—So that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.—Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.—And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Jas. 4:7; Isa. 59:19; Matt. 4:10, 11; Eph. 6:10, 11; Eph. 5:11; 2 Cor. 2:11; 1 Pet. 5:8, 9; 1 John 5:4; Rom. 8:33 (Read full verses...)

Evening

“Oh, that I knew where I might find him.”

“Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.”

“You will seek me and find me. When you seek me with all your heart . . .”—“Seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”—Indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.”—But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.—“And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”—“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”—“[The] Helper . . . dwells with you and will be in you.”

Job 23:3; Isa. 50:10; Jer. 29:13; Luke 11:9, 10; 1 John 1:3; Eph. 2:13, 18; 1 John 1:6; Matt. 28:20; Heb. 13:5; John 14:16, 17 (Read full verses...)

<< Feb 24 | Feb 25 | Feb 26 >>

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Daily Light for February 23

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 03:01

Morning

The sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”—The Lamb that was slain.— For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me. . . . And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

And Abel . . . brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering.—Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.—Therefore, brothers . . . we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.

Heb. 12:24; John 1:29; Rev. 13:8; Heb. 10:4, 5, 10; Gen. 4:4; Eph. 5:2; Heb. 10:22; Heb. 10:19 (Read full verses...)

Evening

Who considers the power of your anger?

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”—The LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.—Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.—Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.—So that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Ps. 90:11; Matt. 27:45, 46; Isa. 53:6; Rom. 8:1; Rom. 5:1; Gal. 3:13; 1 John 4:9, 10; Rom. 3:26 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 21

Sun, 02/21/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“I am the LORD who sanctifies you.”

“I am the LORD your God, who have separated you from the peoples. . . . You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.”

Beloved in God the Father.—“Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”— Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.—Our . . . Savior Jesus Christ . . . gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.—For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers.—“And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.”—In the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood.

Lev. 20:8; Lev. 20:24, 26; Jude 1; John 17:17; 1 Thess. 5:23; Heb. 13:12; Titus 2:13, 14; Heb. 2:11; John 17:19; 1 Pet. 1:2 (Read full verses...)

Evening

Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. . . . In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Ps. 97:11; Ps. 126:5, 6; 1 Cor. 15:37; 1 Pet. 1:3, 6, 7 (Read full verses...)

<< Feb 20 | Feb 21 | Feb 22 >>

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Daily Light for February 19

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 03:01

Morning

For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.—If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.—For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.—But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise . . . so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.—I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth.—“No one ever spoke like this man!”—He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

Prov. 2:6; Prov. 3:5; Jas. 1:5; 1 Cor. 1:25; 1 Cor. 1:27, 29; Ps. 119:130; Ps. 119:11; Luke 4:22; John 7:46; 1 Cor. 1:30 (Read full verses...)

Evening

“My year of redemption had come.”

“And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.”

Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting?—“Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name.”

Isa. 63:4; Lev. 25:10; Isa. 26:19; 1 Thess. 4:16, 17; Hos. 13:14; Jer. 50:34 (Read full verses...)

<< Feb 18 | Feb 19 | Feb 20 >>

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Daily Light for February 17

Wed, 02/17/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“All the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood.”

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him.—For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.—Share his sufferings.

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.—For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

Lev. 4:12; John 19:16-18; Heb. 13:11-13; Phil. 3:10; 1 Pet. 4:13; 2 Cor. 4:17 (Read full verses...)

Evening

So God created man in his own image.

“Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.”

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. . . . For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.—For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

But we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.—When I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

“The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.”—And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ

Gen. 1:27; Acts 17:29; Eph. 2:4, 5, 10; Rom. 8:29; 1 John 3:2; Ps. 17:15; Rev. 21:7; Rom. 8:17 (Read full verses...)

<< Feb 16 | Feb 17 | Feb 18 >>

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Daily Light for February 16

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 03:01

Morning

Your name is oil poured out.

Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.—So the honor is for you who believe.—Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.—For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”—God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.—The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.—And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.—“Immanuel” (which means, God with us).—His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.—The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Song 1:3; Eph. 5:2; 1 Pet. 2:7; Phil. 2:9, 10; Col. 2:9; John 14:15; Rom. 5:5; John 12:3; Acts 4:13; Ps. 8:1; Matt. 1:23; Isa. 9:6; Prov. 18:10 (Read full verses...)

Evening

For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened.

O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you. . . . For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.—Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

The whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.—Now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.

The putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.—For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

2 Cor. 5:4; Ps. 38:9, 4; Rom. 7:24; Rom. 8:22, 23; 1 Pet. 1:6; 2 Pet. 1:14; 1 Cor. 15:53, 54 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 14

Sun, 02/14/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

“I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”—The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.—“For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.—For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Matt. 3:15; Ps. 40:8; Matt. 5:17, 18; Isa. 42:21; Matt. 5:20; Rom. 8:3, 4; Rom. 10:4 (Read full verses...)

Evening

“I am your portion and your inheritance.”

Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.—The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”—Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water . . . for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.—My beloved is mine, and I am his.

Num. 18:20; Ps. 73:25, 26; Ps. 16:5, 6; Lam. 3:24; Ps. 119:111; Ps. 63:1, 7; Song 2:16 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 12

Fri, 02/12/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession.”

“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. . . . I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. . . . Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.”

“I will come again and will take you to myself.”—When he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed.—Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.—You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

Mal. 3:17; John 17:6, 9, 10, 24; John 14:3; 2 Thess. 1:10; 1 Thess. 4:17; Isa. 62:3 (Read full verses...)

Evening

“Please show me your glory.”

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.—And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. . . . No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?—You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.”

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.—“Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.”

Ex. 33:18; 2 Cor. 4:6; John 1:14, 18; Ps. 42:2; Ps. 27:8; 2 Cor. 3:18; John 17:24 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 10

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light.”

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.—Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”—And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image. . . . For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.—For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory . . . give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him . . . that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.

Luke 11:34; 1 Cor. 2:14; Ps. 119:18; John 8:12; 2 Cor. 3:18; 2 Cor. 4:6; Eph. 1:17, 18 (Read full verses...)

Evening

“He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed.”

Our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.—But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.—But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

“Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.”—“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”—“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.”—Let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

Ps. 78:20; 1 Cor. 10:1-4; John 19:34; Isa. 53:5; John 5:40; Jer. 2:13; John 7:37; Rev. 22:17 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 7

Sun, 02/07/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORDyour God for the good land he has given you.”

“Take care lest you forget the LORD your God.”—Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.—The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God.—The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.—Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul . . . who forgives all your iniquity . . . who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy.

Deut. 8:10; Deut. 8:11; Luke 17:15-18; 1 Tim. 4:4, 5; Rom. 14:6; Prov. 10:22; Ps. 103:1-4 (Read full verses...)

Evening

[Jesus] had compassion on them.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.—For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.—He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward.—And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.

Matt. 14:14; Heb. 13:8; Heb. 4:15; Heb. 5:2; Mark 14:37, 38; Ps. 103:13, 14; Ps. 86:15, 16 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 5

Fri, 02/05/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

“In the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”—She took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.—If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.—For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.—Our Savior Christ Jesus . . . abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.—“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

John 10:10; Gen. 2:17; Gen. 3:6; Rom. 6:23; Rom. 5:17; 1 Cor. 15:21, 22; 2 Tim. 1:10; 1 John 5:11, 12; John 3:17 (Read full verses...)

Evening

The judgment seat.

We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things.—“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.”

“Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.”—Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.—There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

2 Cor. 5:10; Rom. 2:2; Matt. 25:31, 32; Matt. 13:43; Rom. 8:33, 34; Rom. 8:1; 1 Cor. 11:32 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 3

Wed, 02/03/2010 - 03:01

Morning

“Be strong . . . work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts.”

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”—I can do all things through him who strengthens me.—Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.—“The joy of the LORD is your strength.”

Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets.”—Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not!”—And the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours.”

If God is for us, who can be against us?—Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.—But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hag. 2:4; John 15:5; Phil. 4:13; Eph. 6:10; Neh. 8:10; Zech. 8:9; Isa. 35:3, 4; Judg. 6:14; Rom. 8:31; 2 Cor. 4:1; Gal. 6:9; 1 Cor. 15:57 (Read full verses...)

Evening

Even the darkness is not dark to you.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.”—“Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? . . . Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.”

You will not fear the terror of the night . . . nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness. . . . [b]ecause you have made the LORD your dwelling place—the Most High, who is my refuge—no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.

He who keeps you will not slumber. The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will keep you from all evil.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.

Ps. 139:12; Job 34:21, 22; Jer. 23:24; Ps. 91:5, 6, 9, 10; Ps. 121:3, 5-7; Ps. 23:4 (Read full verses...)

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Daily Light for February 1

Mon, 02/01/2010 - 03:01

Morning

Though you have not seen him, you love him.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.—We love because he first loved us.—So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.—In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.—To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”—Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

1 Pet. 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:7; 1 John 4:19; 1 John 4:16; Eph. 1:13; Col. 1:27; 1 John 4:20; John 20:29; Ps. 2:12 (Read full verses...)

Evening

“The LORD is our righteousness.”

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.—I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him.”—“It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord . . . in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.

Jer. 23:6; Isa. 64:6; Ps. 71:16; Isa. 61:10; Luke 15:22; Rev. 19:8; Phil. 3:8, 9 (Read full verses...)

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