Some of you are maybe familiar with Samuel Bagster's devotional - Daily Light. Mr. Bagster was a British bookstore owner determined to share his faith with his twelve children. The Bagsters’ daily practice of reading Scripture together, then connecting the day’s verses with other passages, inspired one of the children to compile their devotions for publication. The family discussed and prayed over the selection and arrangement of each verse until they were convinced that no further improvement could be made. After two years of prayer and consideration, the devotions were printed in two volumes for morning and evening reading.
These particular portions were pieced together in sequence from the evening readings of Oct 10th -18th off of ESV.COM
“Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven.”
Jesus . . . lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father.”—“My Father and your Father.”
In Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.—You did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son.
“In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”
“I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
Matt. 6:9; John 17:1; John 20:17; Gal. 3:26; Rom. 8:15, 16; Gal. 4:6, 7; John 16:23, 24; 2 Cor. 6:17, 18“Hallowed be your name.”
“You shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”
“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?”—“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty.”
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.—I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. . . . One called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” . . . And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost.”—“I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself.”
The blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.—That we may share his holiness.—Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, . . . let us draw near with a true heart.
Matt. 6:9; Ex. 34:14; Ex. 15:11; Rev. 4:8; 1 Chron. 16:29; Isa. 6:1-3, 5; Job 42:5, 6; 1 John 1:7; Heb. 12:10; Heb. 10:19, 22“Your kingdom come.”
“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.”—“A stone was cut out by no human hand.”—“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.”—“The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
“To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God. . . . The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. . . . But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”—“Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”—The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.”
Matt. 6:10; Dan. 2:44; Dan. 2:34; Zech. 4:6; Luke 17:20, 21; Mark 4:11, 26, 27, 29; Matt. 24:44; Rev. 22:17“Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
Understand what the will of the Lord is.
“It is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.”
This is the will of God, your sanctification.—So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.—Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth. . . . Therefore put away all filthiness.
“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”—[Jesus] said, . . . “Whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”—“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.”—The world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Matt. 6:10; Eph. 5:17; Matt. 18:14; 1 Thess. 4:3; 1 Pet. 4:2; Jas. 1:18, 21; 1 Pet. 1:16; Mark 3:34, 35; Matt. 7:24, 25; 1 John 2:17“Give us this day our daily bread.”
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.—His bread will be given him; his water will be sure.—The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.—My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.—Be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
“He humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna . . . that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”—Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
Matt. 6:11; Ps. 37:25; Isa. 33:16; 1 Kings 17:6; Phil. 4:19; Heb. 13:5; Deut. 8:3; John 6:32-34“Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
“Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.”—“‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”—Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.—You, . . . God made alive, . . . having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.—As the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Matt. 6:12; Matt. 18:21, 22; Matt. 18:32-35; Eph. 4:32; Col. 2:13, 14; Col. 3:13“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.—“Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you.”
Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord. . . . So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley. . . . Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.—If he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked . . . then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials.—And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Matt. 6:13; Prov. 28:26; Jas. 1:13, 14; 2 Cor. 6:17; Gen. 13:10, 11, 13; 2 Pet. 2:7, 9; Rom. 14:4"For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever."
The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty. . . . Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
The Lord is . . . great in power.—If God is for us, who can be against us?—“Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, . . . and he will deliver us.”—“My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.”—He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory.—“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. . . . And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.”
Matt. 6:13; Ps. 93:1, 2; Nah. 1:3; Rom. 8:31; Dan. 3:17; John 10:29; 1 John 4:4; Ps. 115:1; 1 Chron. 29:11, 13, 14Amen.
“Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so.”—He who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth.
When God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself. . . . For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.—“The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness.”—For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.—Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. Blessed be his glorious name forever; . . . Amen and Amen!
Matt. 6:13; 1 Kings 1:36; Isa. 65:16; Heb. 6:13, 16-18; Rev. 3:14; 2 Cor. 1:20; Ps. 72:18, 19
