LOOKING FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD

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Looking for and hasting unto the 

coming of the day of God, wherein 

the heavens being on fire shall be 

dissolved, and the elements shall melt 

with fervent heat?  Nevertheless we, 

according to his promise, look 

for new heavens and a new earth,

wherein dwelleth righteousness.  

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye 

look for such things, be diligent that 

ye may be found of him in peace, 

without spot, and blameless.  And 

account that the longsuffering of our 

Lord is salvation; even as our beloved 

brother Paul also according to the 

wisdom given unto him hath written 

unto you;  As also in all his epistles, 

speaking in them of these things; 

in which are some things hard to be 

understood, which they that are

unlearned and unstable wrest, as 

they do also the other scriptures, 

unto their own destruction.

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye 

know these things before, beware 

lest ye also, being led away with 

the error of the wicked, fall from 

your own stedfastness.

But grow in grace, and in the 

knowledge of our Lord and Saviour 

Jesus Christ. To him be glory both 

now and for ever. Amen.

II Peter 3:12-13

PERFECT PEACE

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THE LORD SHALL SATISFY THEE IN DROUGHT

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Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, 

and that thou bring the poor that 

are cast out to thy house? when thou 

seest the naked, that thou cover him; 

and that thou hide not thyself from thine 

own flesh?   Then shall thy light 

break forth as the morning, and 

thine health shall spring forth 

speedily: and thy righteousness shall 

go before thee; the glory of the 

LORD shall be thy rereward.

Then shalt thou call, and the 

LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, 

and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take 

away from the midst of thee the yoke, 

the putting forth of the finger, and 

speaking vanity;  And if thou draw 

out thy soul to the hungry, and 

satisfy the afflicted soul; then 

shall thy light rise in obscurity, and 

thy darkness be as the noonday:

And the LORD shall guide thee 

continually, and satisfy thy soul in 

drought, and make fat thy bones: and 

thou shalt be like a watered garden, 

and like a spring of water, whose 

waters fail not.

Isaiah 58:7-11

WHO IS A WISE MAN?

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Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear 

olive berries? either a vine, figs? 

so can no fountain both yield salt 

water and fresh. Who is a wise man 

and endued with knowledge among 

you? let him shew out of a good 

conversation his works with 

meekness of wisdom.  But if ye 

have bitter envying and strife in 

your hearts, glory not, and lie not 

against the truth. This wisdom 

descendeth not from above, 

but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

For where envying and strife is, 

there is confusion and every evil 

work  But the wisdom that is from 

above is first pure, then peaceable, 

gentle, and easy to be intreated, full 

of mercy and good fruits, without 

partiality, and without hypocrisy. 

And the fruit of righteousness is 

sown in peace of them that 

make peace.

James 3:13-18

JESUS CHRIST, THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER

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 Let brotherly love continue.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: 

for thereby some have entertained 

angels unawares. Remember them 

that are in bonds, as bound with them; 

and them which suffer adversity, 

as being yourselves also in the 

body. Marriage is honourable in all, 

and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers 

and adulterers God will judge.

Let your conversation be without 

covetousness; and be content with such 

things as ye have: for he hath said, I will 

never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So that we may boldly say, The 

Lord is my helper, and I will not 

fear what man shall do unto me.  

Remember them which have the rule 

over you, who have spoken unto you the 

word of God: whose faith follow, 

considering the end of their conversation.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and 

to day, and for ever.

Hebrews 13:1-8

THE LORD, HIS UNDERSTANDING IS INFINITE

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Praise ye the LORD: for it is good 

to sing praises unto our God; for 

it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: 

he gathereth together the outcasts of 

Israel He healeth the broken in heart, 

and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth 

the number of the stars; he calleth them 

all by their names.  Great is our Lord, 

and of great power: his understanding 

is infinite.  The LORD lifteth up the 

meek: he casteth the wicked down to 

the ground.  Sing unto the LORD 

with thanksgiving; sing praise upon 

the harp unto our God:  Who covereth 

the heaven with clouds, who prepareth 

rain for the earth, who maketh grass to 

grow upon the mountains.  He giveth 

to the beast his food, and to the young 

ravens which cry.  He delighteth not in 

the strength of the horse: he taketh not 

pleasure in the legs of a man.  The LORD 

taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in 

those that hope in his mercy.  Praise the 

LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O 

Zion.  For he hath strengthened the bars 

of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children 

within thee.  He maketh peace in thy 

borders, and filleth thee with the finest 

of the wheat.  He sendeth forth his 

commandment upon earth: his word 

runneth very swiftly.  He giveth snow 

like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost 

like ashes.  He casteth forth his ice 

like morsels: who can stand before 

his cold?\  He sendeth out his word, 

and melteth them: he causeth his 

wind to blow, and the waters flow.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, 

his statutes and his judgments unto 

Israel.   He hath not dealt so with 

any nation: and as for his judgments, 

they have not known them. Praise 

ye the LORD.

Psalm 147

GOD, RICH IN MERCY AND LOVE

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And you hath he quickened, who were

dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in 

time past ye walked according to the 

course of this world, according to the 

prince of the power of the air, the spirit 

that now worketh in the children of 

disobedience: Among whom also we all 

had our conversation in times past in the 

lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires 

of the flesh and of the mind; and were 

by nature the children of wrath, even as 

others. But God, who is rich in mercy, 

for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Even when we were dead in sins, hath 

quickened us together with Christ, (by 

grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us 

up together, and made us sit together in 

heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

That in the ages to come he might 

shew the exceeding riches of his grace 

in his kindness toward us through Christ 

Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through 

faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the 

gift of God: Not of works, lest any man 

should boast. For we are his workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, 

which God hath before ordained that we 

should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:1-10