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Daily Light's Evening Reading
The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.—PSA. 24:1.
She did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and my flax.
All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O Lord our God, all this store . . . cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.—Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
The living God . . . giveth us richly all things to enjoy.—Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Hos. 2:8,9.I Chr. 29:14-16. -Rom. 11:36.I Tim. 6:17. -I Tim. 4:4,5.Phi. 4:19.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“Let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.”
Psalm 72:19
This is a large petition. To intercede for a whole city needs a stretch of faith, and there are times when a prayer for one man is enough to stagger us. But how far-reaching was the psalmist’s dying intercession! How comprehensive! How sublime! “Let the whole earth be filled with his glory.” It doth not exempt a single country however crushed by the foot of superstition; it doth not exclude a single nation however barbarous. For the cannibal as well as for the civilized, for all climes and races this prayer is uttered: the whole circle of the earth it encompasses, and omits no son of Adam. We must be up and doing for our Master, or we cannot honestly offer such a prayer. The petition is not asked with a sincere heart unless we endeavour, as God shall help us, to extend the kingdom of our Master. Are there not some who neglect both to plead and to labour? Reader, is it your prayer? Turn your eyes to Calvary. Behold the Lord of Life nailed to a cross, with the thorn-crown about his brow, with bleeding head, and hands, and feet. What! can you look upon this miracle of miracles, the death of the Son of God, without feeling within your bosom a marvellous adoration that language never can express? And when you feel the blood applied to your conscience, and know that he has blotted out your sins, you are not a man unless you start from your knees and cry, “Let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.” Can you bow before the Crucified in loving homage, and not wish to see your Monarch master of the world? Out on you if you can pretend to love your Prince, and desire not to see him the universal ruler. Your piety is worthless unless it leads you to wish that the same mercy which has been extended to you may bless the whole world. Lord, it is harvest-time, put in thy sickle and reap.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Deuteronomy 30
30. Prosperity After Turning to the Lord
God’s Fidelity Assured
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When all these things have happened to you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, if you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,2and return to the Lord your God, and you and your children obey him with all your heart and with all your soul, just as I am commanding you today,3then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.4Even if you are exiled to the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.5The Lord your God will bring you into the land that your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.
6 Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.7The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on the adversaries who took advantage of you.8Then you shall again obey the Lord, observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today,9and the Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all your undertakings, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your soil. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, just as he delighted in prospering your ancestors,10when you obey the Lord your God by observing his commandments and decrees that are written in this book of the law, because you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Exhortation to Choose Life
11 Surely, this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away.12It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up to heaven for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?”13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?”14No, the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.
15 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity.16If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.17But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them,18I declare to you today that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,20loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him; for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
New Testament in Four Years - 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
9. Sowing Generously
6 The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.7Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.8And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.9As it is written,
“He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever.”
10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.11You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us;
Psalm a Day - Psalm 18:20-29
18. Psalm 18
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The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
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For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
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For all his ordinances were before me,
and his statutes I did not put away from me.
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I was blameless before him,
and I kept myself from guilt.
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Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
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With the loyal you show yourself loyal;
with the blameless you show yourself blameless;
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with the pure you show yourself pure;
and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.
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For you deliver a humble people,
but the haughty eyes you bring down.
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It is you who light my lamp;
the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.
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By you I can crush a troop,
and by my God I can leap over a wall.