The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Luke 3:4 The voice crying in the wilderness demanded a way for the Lord, a way prepared, and a w

I will give thee for a covenant of the people. Isaiah 49:8 Jesus Christ is Himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer. Believer, c

Let the people renew their strength. Isaiah 41:1 All things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continueth by itself. Thou renewest the face of the year, was the Psalmists utterance.

Continue in prayer. Colossians 4:2 It is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred Writ is occupied with the subject of prayer, either in furnishing examples, enforcing precepts, or pron

We will be glad and rejoice in Thee. Song of Solomon 1:4 We will be glad and rejoice in Thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains

They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. Joshua 5:12 Israels weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Ama

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. Jeremiah 8:20 Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life,

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. John 7:37 Patience had her perfect work in the Lord Jesus, and until

Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? 2 Samuel 2:26 If, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following l

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Ecclesiastes 7:8 Look at Davids Lord and Master; see His beginning. He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted w