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Friday, April 18, 2008

Everlasting consolation. II Thess. 2:16

I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Ezek. 16:60
By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Heb. 10:14
He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Heb. 7:25
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. II Tim. 1:12
The gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Rom. 11:29
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Rom. 8:35
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. Rev. 7:17
So shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. I Thess. 4:17, 18
This is not your rest. Micah 2:10
Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Heb. 13:14

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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. Jer. 31:3
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. Hos. 11:4
I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. John 12:32
Behold the Lamb of God! John 1:36
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. John 3:14, 15
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Psa. 73:25
We love him, because he first loved us. I John 4:19
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. Song 2:10-13

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

...thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. Psa. 31:22

I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. Psa. 31:22
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. Psa. 69:2
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. Lam. 3: 54-57
Will the LORD cast off for ever? and wilt he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. Psa. 77:7-11
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Psa. 27:13

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Their redeemer is strong. Jer. 50:34

I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins. Amos 5:12
I have laid help upon one that is mighty. Psa. 89:19
The LORD ... thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. Isa. 49:26
Mighty to save. Isa. 63:1
Able to keep you from falling. Jude 24
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Rom. 5:20
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18
He is able ... to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. Heb. 7:25
Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Isa. 50:2
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? ... I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8:35, 38, 39

Monday, April 14, 2008

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Psa. 51:12

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Psa. 51:12
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. Isa. 57:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isa. 1:18
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. Jer. 3:22
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. Psa. 85:8
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. Psa. 103:2, 3
He restoreth my soul. Psa. 23:3
O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Isa. 12:1
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. Psa. 119:117
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Isa. 43:25

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase. Prov. 3:9

He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. II Cor. 9:6
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him. I Cor. 16:2
God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints and do minister. Heb. 6:10
I beseech you...brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Rom. 12:1
The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. II cor. 5:14, 15
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. I Cor. 10:31

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Condemned sin in the flesh...Rom. 8:3

What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. Rom. 8:3
The law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Heb. 10:1, 2
By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Acts 13:39
Forasmuch ... as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. Heb. 2:14-17