Morning

“The LORD bless you and keep you.”

The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.—For you bless the righteous, O LORD; you cover him with favor as with a shield.

He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. . . . The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.—I, the LORD, am its [the vineyard's] keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day.

“Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me.”

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Num. 6:24; Prov. 10:22; Ps. 5:12; Ps. 121:3-5, 7, 8; Isa. 27:3; John 17:11, 12; 2 Tim. 4:18 (Read full verses…)

Evening

Jesus wept.

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.—For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses.—For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.—Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.

I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.

“See how he loved him!”—For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

John 11:35; Isa. 53:3; Heb. 4:15; Heb. 2:10; Heb. 5:8; Isa. 50:5, 6; John 11:36; Heb. 2:16, 17 (Read full verses…)

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Morning

“The LORD will provide.”

“God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.”

Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear.—“The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.”

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God.—Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from death.

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.—He has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”—The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Gen. 22:14; Gen. 22:8; Isa. 59:1; Rom. 11:26; Ps. 146:5; Ps. 33:18, 19; Phil. 4:19; Heb. 13:5, 6; Ps. 28:7 (Read full verses…)

Evening

He grazes among the lilies.

“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”—“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”

“If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.”

Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.—I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey.—But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

“By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.”—“Every branch of mine that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”—[Being] filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Song 2:16; Matt. 18:20; John 14:23; John 15:10; Song 4:16; Song 5:1; Gal. 5:22, 23; John 15:8; John 15:2; Phil. 1:11 (Read full verses…)

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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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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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Morning

“For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name.”

This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.—You shall no more be termed Forsaken . . . but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her . . . for the LORD delights in you . . . and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.—He has sent me . . . to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; . . . as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.”

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Isa. 54:5; Eph. 5:32; Isa. 62:4, 5; Isa. 61:1-3; Isa. 61:10; Hos. 2:19; Rom. 8:35 (Read full verses…)

Evening

My times are in your hand.

“All his holy ones were in his hand.”—And the word of the LORD came to [Elijah], “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” . . . Then the word of the LORD came to him, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. . . . Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.”

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.—Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Ps. 31:15; Deut. 33:3; 1 Kings 17:2-4, 8, 9; Matt. 6:25, 32; Prov. 3:5, 6; 1 Pet. 5:7 (Read full verses…)

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