The house that is to be builded for the Lord

From Samuel Bagster's Daily Light for the Daily Path Devotional [c. 1875]

...with application and prayer responses by me...

The house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical. I Chron. 22:5

magnifical: Grand in appearance; splendid; pompous. Exhibiting grandeur.

Ye ... as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house. I Pet. 2:5

O that we would be stones for the master's use! Lord, build Thy house and let nothing stand in Thy way

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. I Cor. 3:16, 17

Lord, may we recognize that we are 'not our own for ye are bought with a price'...

Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. I Cor. 6:19, 20

This magnificent house for God is the individual, physical body of the believer, and the corporate collection of the saints when they are ever in the company of one another

What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. II Cor. 6:16

Idolatry should be so foreign to the believer...and we, corporately, are the temple of the living God, the body of Christ

Ye ... are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. Eph. 2:19-22

What an awesome foundation on which we are built! Apostles, prophets and Jesus Christ himself! fitly framed...a holy temple and habitation of God! Magnifical!