九月七日 早课
在指望中要喜乐(罗12：12)。
是给你们存在天上的盼望(西1：5)。我们若靠基督只在今生有指望，就算比众人更可怜(林前15：19)。我们进入 神的国，必须经历许多艰难(徒14：22)，凡不背着自己十字架跟从我的，也不能作我的门徒(路14：27)。免得有人被诸般患难摇动，因为你们自己知道我们受患难原是命定的(帖前3：3)。 你们要靠主常常喜乐；我再说，你们要喜乐(腓4：4)。愿使人有盼望的 神，因信，将诸般的喜乐平安充满你们的心，使你们藉着圣灵的能力大有盼望(罗15：13)。愿颂赞归与我们主耶稣基督的父 神，他曾照自己的大怜悯，藉耶稣基督从死里复活，重生了我们，叫我们有活泼的盼望。你们虽然没有见过他，却是爱他。如今虽不得看见，却因信他就有说不出来、满有荣光的大喜乐(彼前1：3，8)。我们又藉着他，因信得进入现在所站的这恩典中，并且欢欢喜喜盼望 神的荣耀(罗5：2)。
Rejoicing in hope. ROM. 12:12.
The hope which is laid up for you in heaven. — If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. — We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. — Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me cannot be my disciple. — No man should be moved by these afflictions, for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. — The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. — Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing. ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. — By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Col. 1:5. -I Cor. 15:19. -Acts. 14:22. -Luke 14:27. -I Thes. 3:3. Phi. 4:4. -Rom. 15:13. -I Pet. 1:3. -I Pet. 1:8. -Rom. 5:2.
九月七日 晚课
但我是困苦穷乏的，主仍顾念我(诗40：17)。
耶和华说：我知道我向你们所怀的意念，是赐平安的意念，不是降灾祸的意念(耶29：11)。耶和华说：我的意念非同你们的意念，我的道路非同你们的道路。天怎样高过地，照样，我的道路高过你们的道路，我的意念高过你们的意念(赛55：8，9)。
神啊，你的意念向我何等宝贵，其数何等众多!我若数点，比海沙更多。我睡醒的时候，仍和你同在(诗139：17，18)。耶和华啊，你的工作何其大，你的心思极其深(诗92：5)!耶和华我的 神啊，你所行的奇事，并你向我们所怀的意念甚多(诗40：5)。弟兄们哪，可见你们蒙召的，按着肉体有智慧的不多，有能力的不多，有尊贵的也不多(林前1：26)。
神岂不是拣选了世上的贫穷人，叫他们在信上富足，并承受爱他之人的国吗(雅2：5)?似乎一无所有，却是样样都有的(林后6：10)。基督那测不透的丰富(弗3：8)。
I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me. PSA. 40:17.
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil. — My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. How precious … are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. — Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward. Not many mighty, not many noble, are called. — Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom? — Having nothing, and yet possessing all things. — The unsearchable riches of Christ.
Jer. 29:11. -Isa. 55:8,9. Psa. 139:17,18. -Psa. 92:5. -Psa. 40:5. I Cor. 1:26. -Jas. 2:5. -II Cor. 6:10. -Eph. 3:8.