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Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.—PSA. 60:4.
Jehovah Nissi (The Lord my banner).—When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners.—The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.—We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.—Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.—The captain of our salvation.
My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.—Valiant for the truth.—Fight the Lord's battles.—Be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work: fear ye not.—Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.—Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Exo. 17:15. -Isa. 59:19.Psa. 20:5. -Jer. 51:10. -Rom. 8:37. -I Cor. 15:57. -Heb. 2:10.Eph. 6:10. -Jer. 9:3. -I Sam. 18:17. -Hag. 2:4,5. -John 4:35. -Heb. 10:37.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“I will be their God.”
Jeremiah 31:33
Christian! here is all thou canst require. To make thee happy thou wantest something that shall satisfy thee; and is not this enough? If thou canst pour this promise into thy cup, wilt thou not say, with David, “My cup runneth over; I have more than heart can wish”? When this is fulfilled, “I am thy God”, art thou not possessor of all things? Desire is insatiable as death, but he who filleth all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it. I ask thee if thou art not complete when God is thine? Dost thou want anything but God? Is not his all-sufficiency enough to satisfy thee if all else should fail? But thou wantest more than quiet satisfaction; thou desirest rapturous delight. Come, soul, here is music fit for heaven in this thy portion, for God is the Maker of Heaven. Not all the music blown from sweet instruments, or drawn from living strings, can yield such melody as this sweet promise, “I will be their God.” Here is a deep sea of bliss, a shoreless ocean of delight; come, bathe thy spirit in it; swim an age, and thou shalt find no shore; dive throughout eternity, and thou shalt find no bottom. “I will be their God.” If this do not make thine eyes sparkle, and thy heart beat high with bliss, then assuredly thy soul is not in a healthy state. But thou wantest more than present delights—thou cravest something concerning which thou mayest exercise hope; and what more canst thou hope for than the fulfilment of this great promise, “I will be their God”? This is the masterpiece of all the promises; its enjoyment makes a heaven below, and will make a heaven above. Dwell in the light of thy Lord, and let thy soul be always ravished with his love. Get out the marrow and fatness which this portion yields thee. Live up to thy privileges, and rejoice with unspeakable joy.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Nahum 3
3. Woe to Nineveh
Ruin Imminent and Inevitable
3
Ah! City of bloodshed,
utterly deceitful, full of booty—
no end to the plunder!
2
The crack of whip and rumble of wheel,
galloping horse and bounding chariot!
3
Horsemen charging,
flashing sword and glittering spear,
piles of dead,
heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
they stumble over the bodies!
4
Because of the countless debaucheries of the prostitute,
gracefully alluring, mistress of sorcery,
who enslaves nations through her debaucheries,
and peoples through her sorcery,
5
I am against you,
says the Lord of hosts,
and will lift up your skirts over your face;
and I will let nations look on your nakedness
and kingdoms on your shame.
6
I will throw filth at you
and treat you with contempt,
and make you a spectacle.
7
Then all who see you will shrink from you and say,
“Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?”
Where shall I seek comforters for you?
8
Are you better than Thebes
that sat by the Nile,
with water around her,
her rampart a sea,
water her wall?
9
Ethiopia was her strength,
Egypt too, and that without limit;
Put and the Libyans were her helpers.
10
Yet she became an exile,
she went into captivity;
even her infants were dashed in pieces
at the head of every street;
lots were cast for her nobles,
all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.
11
You also will be drunken,
you will go into hiding;
you will seek
a refuge from the enemy.
12
All your fortresses are like fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
13
Look at your troops:
they are women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your foes;
fire has devoured the bars of your gates.
14
Draw water for the siege,
strengthen your forts;
trample the clay,
tread the mortar,
take hold of the brick mold!
15
There the fire will devour you,
the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the locust.
Multiply yourselves like the locust,
multiply like the grasshopper!
16
You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17
Your guards are like grasshoppers,
your scribes like swarms of locusts
settling on the fences
on a cold day—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they have gone.
18
Your shepherds are asleep,
O king of Assyria;
your nobles slumber.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
with no one to gather them.
19
There is no assuaging your hurt,
your wound is mortal.
All who hear the news about you
clap their hands over you.
For who has ever escaped
your endless cruelty?
New Testament in Four Years - Acts 25:23-27
25. Trial Before Festus
Paul Brought before Agrippa
23 So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then Festus gave the order and Paul was brought in.24And Festus said, “King Agrippa and all here present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish community petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.25But I found that he had done nothing deserving death; and when he appealed to his Imperial Majesty, I decided to send him.26But I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write—27for it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner without indicating the charges against him.”
Psalm a Day - Psalm 142
142. Psalm 142
Psalm 142
Prayer for Deliverance from Persecutors
A Maskil of David. When he was in the cave. A Prayer.
1
With my voice I cry to the Lord;
with my voice I make supplication to the Lord.
2
I pour out my complaint before him;
I tell my trouble before him.
3
When my spirit is faint,
you know my way.
In the path where I walk
they have hidden a trap for me.
4
Look on my right hand and see—
there is no one who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
no one cares for me.
5
I cry to you, O Lord;
I say, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.”
6
Give heed to my cry,
for I am brought very low.
Save me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me.
7
Bring me out of prison,
so that I may give thanks to your name.
The righteous will surround me,
for you will deal bountifully with me.