August 17

Morning

Pray one for another, that ye may be healed.

Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].

Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.--Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.--Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.--Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Jas 5:16 Ge 18:27,28 Lu 23:34 Mt 5:44 Joh 17:9,20 Ga 6:2 Jas 5:16,17

Evening

[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.--What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Surely the people [is] grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.--The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 2 Corinthians 6:2

Behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.--Use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the fashion of this world passeth away.--Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Ps 103:15,16 90:12 Mr 8:36 Isa 40:7,8 1Jo 2:17 2Co 6:2 1Co 7:31 Heb 10:24,25