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Daily Prayer - Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings. - Pray the Lord would supply the needs o fthose in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering. Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.) - Pray for the ministry among the children and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world. - Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all: salvation by the grace of God through Christ. Church Services Sunday Morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via FaceBook) Sunday Evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via FaceBook) Bible Study and Prayer Wednesday Evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Lunch Hour Service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via FaceBook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - Job lamenteth the change of his honour into extreme contempt; and of his prosperity into the deepest distress. Job 30 v 16-31 Preface - The Pharisees murmur at Christ for receiving sinners. The parable of the lost sheep, and piece of silver; and of prodigal son. Luke 15 Daily Light - Morning The fruit of the Spirit is love... God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. - The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - Unto you...which believe he is precious. - We love him, because he first loved us. - The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. - Thi sis my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. - Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. - Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. Ga. 5.22; 1 Jn. 4.16; Ro. 5.5; 1 Pe. 2.7; 1 Jn. 4.19; 2 Co. 5.14-15 1 Th. 4.9; Jn. 15.12; 1 Pe. 4.8; Eph. 5.2 Daily Light - Evening Jehovah-nissi. (marg. The LORD my banner) If God be for us, who can be against us? - The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee. - The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?... Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. Behold, God himself is with us for our captain. - The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?... He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. - Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. Ex. 17.15; Ro. 8.31; Ps. 118.6 Ps. 60.4; Ps. 27.1,3 2 Chr. 13.12; Ps. 46.7 Rev. 17.14 Ps. 2.1,4; Isa. 8.10 A Puritans Catechism Q80 - What is the Lord's Supper? A - The Lord's Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporeal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace. Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Positive sin But if any provide not for his own, and specailly for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse that an infidel. - 1 Timothy 5 v 8 If you do not worship God in your family, you are living in positive sin; you may be quite sure you do not care for the souls of your family. If you neglected to spread a meal for your children to eat, would it not be said that you did not care for their bodies? And if you do not lead your children and servants to the green pastures of God's Word, and to seek the living water, how plain is it that you do not care for their souls! Do it regularly, morning and evening. It is more needful than your daily food - more needful than your work. How vain and silly all your excuses will appear, when you look back from hell!Do it fully. Some clip off the psalm, and some the reading of the Word; and so the worship of God is reduced to a mockery. Do it in a spiritual, lively manner. Go to it as to a well of salvation. There is, perhaps, no means of grace more blessed. Let all your family be present without fail. - let none be absent.
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Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. - Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue. - Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church. - Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even tose who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - Job lamenteth the change of his honour into extreme contempt; and of his prosperity into the deepest distress. Job 30:1-15 Preface - From the truth of Christ's resurrection Paul inferreth the necessity of our own. Christ, the firstfruits, being raised, shall be followed in due order by those that are his; till having subdued all enemies he shall give up the kingdom to God he Father. If there be no resurrection of the dead, in vain is it for nay one to risk his life, as the apostle did, continually. The manner of the resurrection. The change which shall be wrought at the last day in the bodies both of the dead and the living. An exhortation to stedfast faith and perseverance in our duty. 1 Corinthians 15:30-58 Daily Light - Morning Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. - Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not withoser he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry... Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. What is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. - The world passeth away nad the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Pro. 27.1; 2 Co. 6.2; Jn. 12.35-36 Ec. 9.10 Lu. 12.19,20-21 Jas. 4.14; 1 Jn. 2.17 Daily Light - Evening Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. I am the LORD, I change not; thereore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. - The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. - The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent. - It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. This man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Fear not; I am the first and the last. Ps. 102.27; Ps. 90.2 Mal. 3.6; He. 13.8 Jas. 1.17; Ro. 11.29 Nu. 23.19; Lam. 3.22 He. 7.24-24; Rev. 1.17 A Puritans Catechism Q79 - What is the duty of such as are rightly baptised? A - It is the duty of such as are rightly baptised, to give themselves up to some particular and orderly church of Jesus Christ, that thy may walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. Of The Civil Magistrate Chapter 24 PARAGRAPH 1 God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, has ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, for his own glory and the public good; and to this end has armed them with the power of the sword, for defence and encouragement of them that do good, and for the punishment of evil doers.1 1 Rom. 13:1–4 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Not 'till then ... thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. - John 13 v 7 When this passing world is done, When has sunk you radiant sun, When I stand with Christ on high, Looking o'er life's history, Then, Lord, shall I fully know, Not till then, how much I owe. When I stand before the throne, Dressed in beauty not my own, When I see Thee as Thou art, Love Thee with unsinning heart, Then, Lord, shall I fully know, Not till then, how much I owe. Chosen, not for good in me, Wakened up from wrath to flee, Hidden in the Saviour's side, By the Spirit sanctified, Teach me, Lord, on earth to show By my love how much I owe. Oft I walk beneath a cloud, Dark as midnight's gloomy shroud; But, when fear is at it's height, Jesus comes, and all is light; Blessed Jesus, bid me show Doubting saints how much I owe. When the praise of heaven I hear, Loud as thunders to the ear, Loud as many waters' noise, Sweet as harp's melodious voice, Then, Lord, shall I fully know, Not till then, how much I owe. - Robert Murray McCheyne 1813-43 (The original hymn has nine verses) Daily Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness. - Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation. - Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thess. 5.16.) Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Readings Preface - Job sheweth that although man may be his industry search deep into nature, yet is the wisdom and understanding of God's ways beyond his reach, being comprehended by God only. Man's wisdom is to fear God and to depart from evil. Job 28 Preface - Prophecy for its greater tendency to edification is preferred before speaking with tongues. Tongues not understood, like indistinct musical sounds, are of no service to the hearers. All gifts should be referred to edification. Tongues are of use for the conviction of unbelievers; but in the assemblies of the church prophecy is more useful. Rules for the orderly exercise of spiritual gifts in the church. Women are forbidden to speak there. An exhortation to use each gift freely, but with decency and order. 1 Corinthians 14 Daily Light - Morning Reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. - I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I which I now live in the flesh i live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Because I live, ye shall live also. - I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God...For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Rom 6.11. Jn 5.24; Ga 2.19,20; Jn 14.19; Jn 10.28-30 Col 3.1-3 Daily Light - Evening God...giveth...liberally, and upbraideth not. Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. The grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many...The free gift is of many offences unto justification. 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 are ye 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. He that spare not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Jam 1.5; Jn 8:10-11 Rom 5.15,16 Ep 2.4-7 Ro 8.32. A Puritans Catechism Q77 - To whom is Baptism to be administered? A. Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God (Acts 2:38; Matt. 3:6; Mk. 16:16; Acts 8:12, 36-37; Acts 10:47-48), and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other. Of Lawful Oaths and Vows Chapter 23 PARAGRAPH 4 An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation.7 7 Ps. 24:4 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Riches Untold That in everything ye are enriched by him... - 1 Corinthians 1 v 5 Kings in olden time had immense possessions. Of one it is said, 'the sun never set on his dominions.' Solomon gathered all the peculiar treasures of kings. But a soul united to Jesus has more. He has got the pearl of great price, the clothing of wrought gold. He has God's loving-kindness, which is better than life. He can look on the hills and valleys and resplendent rivers, and say, 'My Father made them all.' 'All things are yours. Whether Paul, or Appolos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or things present, or things to come; all are yours. Having nothing, yet possessing all things.' Daily Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ. - Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6) - Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation. - Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20) Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - Job protesteth his sincerity, and resolution to assert his innocence to the last, seeing that the hypocrite is without hope: he admitteth that even the blessings which the wicked possess are sometimes turned into curses. Job 27 Preface - All gifts, however excellent, without charity are worth nothing. The praises of charity, and its preference to faith and hope. 1 Corinthians 13 Daily Light - Morning Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. — Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. — I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments. — Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. — We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins. — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is say, his flesh: and having a high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Lam. 3.40; Psa. 26.2; Psa. 51.6; Psa. 119.59,60; I Cor. 11.28 1 John 1.9; 1 John 2.1; Heb. 10.19‑22 Daily Light - Evening There was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud,... and I will look upon it, that I may remember the ever-lasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. — An everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure. — That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. We declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto their children, in that He hath raised up Jesus again. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. Rev. 4.3; Gen. 9.12,13,16; II Sam. 23.5; Heb. 6.18; Acts. 13.32 Heb. 13.8 A Puritans Catechism Q76 - What is Baptism? A - Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptised a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being ingrafted into him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life. Of Lawful Oaths and Vows Chapter 23 PARAGRAPH 3 Whosoever takes an oath warranted by the word of God, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing but what he knows to be truth; for that by rash, false, and vain oaths, the Lord is provoked, and for them this land mourns.6 6 Lev. 19:12; Jer. 23:10 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Cleansed ...and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. - 1 John 1 v 7 There is nothing so defiling as our sins. Every one now redeemed was once stained and defiled with sin - was once plunged in the miry clay. John Bunyan says, 'An unconverted man is the most doleful of all creatures.' One walking by the sea, said, 'My heart would pollute all that ocean.' Sin is an infinite evil. It leaves a mark on the soul that nothing human can wipe away. Oh! pray for a discovery of the loathsomeness of sin. One thing is greater, the blood of Jesus, His own blood, the blood of the Lamb. As the waters were higher than the highest mountains, so the blood can cover the highest sins. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. It is atoning blood. 'There is a fountain fill'd with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins; And sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.' Prayer - Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings. - Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering. Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.) - Pray for the ministry among the children and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world. - Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all: salvation by the grace of God through Christ. Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - Job longeth to appear before God, in confidence of being heard with mercy and acquitted. God, though invisible, observeth our ways. Job asserteth his own integrity; but the immutable counsel of God troubleth him. Job 23 Preface - The Jews who came out of Egypt had all sacraments typical of ours, yet many of them perished through sin. Their examples should serve, as they were intended, for our admonition. God will not suffer his servants to be tempted beyond their strength. Christians must flee idolatry, and not by partaking of idol sacrifices own fellowship with devils. Even in the us of thing lawful we should consult the good of others, and refer all we do to God's glory; careful to give none offence, after the apostle's own example. 1 Corinthians 10 Daily Light - Morning The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. - The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. - It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me... By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Abel...brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof...the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering. - Christ...hat loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. - Having...boldness to enter in the holiest by the blood of Jesus. He. 12.24; Jn. 1.29; Rev. 13.8; He. 10.4-5,10 Ge. 4.4; Eph. 5.2 He. 10.22; He. 10.19 Daily Light - Evening Who knoweth the power of thine anger? From the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? - The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. - Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. - Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. - That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Ps. 90.11; Mt. 27.45-46; Isa. 53.6 Ro. 8.1; Ro. 5.1; Ga. 3.13 1 Jn. 4.9-10; Ro. 3.26 A Puritans Catechism Q73 - How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation? A - That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence, preparation, and prayer, receive it with faith adn love, lay it up into our hearts, and practice it in our lives. Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 8 The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe a holy rest all day, from their own works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations,30 but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.31 30 Isa. 58:13; Neh. 13:15–22 31 Matt. 12:1–13 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Before and after What's know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. - 1 Corinthians 6 v 19 A saved soul give himself away to Christ for ever. Before conversion a man loves to be his own master, to do what he will with him time, his money, his influence, his all. But when Jesus lays His hand on him, washes and renews him, then he says, 'I am the Lord's. I am not my own, but bought with a price. Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. - Give thank to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue. - Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church. - Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - Eliphaz sheweth that man's goodness profiteth not God: he accuseth Job of various sins, to which he imputeth his calamities: he bringeth evidence of the example of wicked men to shew that God's judgments at length overtake them: and exhorteth Job to repentance with promises of mercy. Job 22 Preface - Paul vindicateth his apostolical character, and right to a maintenance from the churches: though he relinquished that right for the furtherance of the gospel, not content with doing only his indispensable duty; but voluntarily subjecting himself in many points, where he was otherwise free, in order thereby to win over more converts to Christ. Those who contend for a corruptible crown use much labour and abstinence; so doth the apostle strive for one that is incorruptible. 1 Corinthians 9 Daily Light - Morning What man is he that feareth the LORD? Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. - Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the LORD,, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Ps. 25.12; Mt. 6.22 Ps. 119.105; Isa. 30.21; Ps. 32.8-11 Jer. 10.23 Daily Light - Evening When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. There arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. - He giveth his beloved sleep. They stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. - Absent from the body...present with the Lord. Pro. 3.24; Mk. 4.37-38 Phil. 4.6-7 Ps. 4.8; Ps. 127.2 Ac. 7.59-60; 2 Co. 5.8 A Puritans Catechism Q72 - How is the Word made effectual to salvation? A - The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convicting and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort through faith to salvation. Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 7 As it is the law of nature, that in general a proportion of time, by God's appointment, be set apart for the worship of God, so by his Word, in a positive moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men, in all ages, he has particularly appointed one day in seven for a sabbath to be kept holy unto him,28 which from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week, and from the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of the week, which is called the Lord's Day:29 and is to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian Sabbath, the observation of the last day of the week being abolished. 28 Exod. 20:8 29 1 Cor. 16:1–2; Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10 God Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Sweet companionship ...thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: - Ruth 1 v 16 The soul in Christ has many sweet companions - brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. The soul that is united to the Vine-tree is united to all the branches: 'We know that we are passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.' 'I am a companion of all them that fear thee.' Believers have many things to say to one another, as John says to Gaius: 'I had many things to write unto thee, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: but I trust I shall shortly see thee, adn we shall speak face to face;' So did believers in the days of Malachi: 'Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard. '(Malachi 3 v 16). And so do believers still. They may tell of their past experiences modestly, humbly, with self-loathing, and for the glory of Christ; as Jesus told the maniac: 'Return to thine own house, and show how great things God hath done unto thee' (Luke 8 v 30); and as David speaks: 'Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul' (Psalm 66 v 16). Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thanks to God for the Bible, its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5) - Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue. - Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would continue to help us to grasp God's truth. - Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us. Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - Job desireth to be patiently heard because of his strange calamities: he sheweth that wicked men stometimes do so prosper, that they are tempted to forget God: though at other times their destruction is manifest. The happy and unhappy are alike in death. The judgment of the wicked is in another world. Job 21 Preface - The preference of charity to knowledge. An idol is nothing in the esteem of those who have right notions of one God, and of one Lord Jesus Christ. But it is sin in those, who by an indiscreet use of their knowledge, in eating meats offered to idols, tempt weaker consciences to offend. 1 Corinthians 8 Daily Light - Morning I am the LORD which sanctify you. I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people... And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. Sanctified by God the Father. - Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. - The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus...that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ...gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. - Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. - For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. - Through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Lev. 20.8; Lev. 20.24.26 Jude 1; Jn. 17.17; 1 Th. 5.23 He. 13.12; Titus 2.13,14; He. 2.11; Jn. 17.19; 1 Pe. 1.2 Daily Light - Evening Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. That which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection fo Jesus Christ from the dead... Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Ps. 97.11; Ps. 126.5-6 1 Co. 15.37 1 Pe. 1.3,6-7 A Puritans Catechism Q71 - What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption? A - The outward and ordinary means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of Christ's redemption, are the Word, by which souls are begotten to spiritual life; Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Prayer, and Meditation, by all which believers are further edified in their most holy faith. Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 6 Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the gospel, tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed; but God is to be worshipped everywhere in spirit and in truth;23 as in private families24 daily,25 and in secret each one by himself;26 so more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly nor wilfully to be neglected or forsaken, when God by his word or providence calls thereunto.27 23 John 4:21; Mal. 1:11; 1 Tim. 2:8 24 Acts 10:2 25 Matt. 6:11; Ps. 55:17 26 Matt. 6:6 27 Heb. 10:25; Acts 2:42 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Amazing love ... the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2 v 20 When Jacob loved Rachel, he served seven years for her - he bore the summer's heat and winter's cold. But Jesus bore the hot wrath of God, and the winter blast of His Father's anger, for those He loved. Jonathan loved David with more than the love of women, and for his sake he bore the cruel anger of his father, Saul. But Jesus, out of love to us, bore the wrath of His Father poured out without mixture. It was the love of Christ that made Him leave the love of His Father, the adoration of angels, and the throne of glory. It was love that made Him not despise the Virgin's womb; it was love that made Him hungry and thirsty and weary; love made Him hasten to Jerusalem; love led Him to gloomy, dark Gethsemane; love bound and dragged Him to the judgement hall; love nailed Him to the cross; love bowed His head beneath the amazing load of His Father's anger. 'Greater love hath no man than this.' 'I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.' Daily Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness. - Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation. - Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. )1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes 5.16.) Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Readings Preface - Zophar sheweth in his turn the certain downfall and portion of the wicked. Job 20 Preface - Marriage is to be used as a remedy against fornication. Christ hath forbidden to dissolve the bond thereof. Directions how to act where one of the parties is an unbeliever. Every man must abide in and fulfil the duties of the state wherein he was called. Directions concerning the marriage of virgins, respecting the distress of the times; and concerning the second marriage of widows. 1 Corinthians 7 Daily Light - Morning He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Jesus...said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. - He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. - To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. - That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. - Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Isa. 53.11; Jn. 19.30; 2 Co. 5.21 Isa. 43.21; Eph. 3.10-11; Eph. 2.7 Eph. 1.13-14; 1 Pe. 2.9 Daily Light - Evening The day of temptation in the wilderness. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is draw away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. They...lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost...was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. - Simon, Simon...Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. He. 3.8; Jas. 1.13-15 Ps. 106.13,14 Lu. 4.1-3 He. 2.18; Lu. 22.31-31 A Puritans Catechism Q70 - What is repentance unto life? A - Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose to strive after new obedience. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 5 The reading of the Scriptures,16 preaching, and hearing the Word of God,17 teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord;18 as also the administration of baptism,19 and the Lord's supper,20 are all parts of religious worship of God, to be performed in obedience to him, with understanding, faith, reverence, and godly fear; moreover, solemn humiliation, with fastings,21 and thanksgivings, upon special occasions, ought to be used in an holy and religious manner.22 16 1 Tim. 4:13 17 2 Tim. 4:2; Luke 8:18 18 Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:19 19 Matt. 28:19–20 20 1 Cor. 11:26 21 Esther 4:16; Joel 2:12 22 Exod. 15:1–19, Ps. 107 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Giving Him the glory ... to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. - Revelation 1 v 6 The saved soul longs to give glory to Christ. He looks back over all the way by which he has been led, and says from the bottom of his heart, To him be glory. He looks to the love of Jesus - to his awakening, drawing, washing, renewing, making a king and priest. Ministers may be been used as instruments, but he looks far beyond these and says, To him be glory. A true Christian will cast his crown no where but at the feet of Jesus. It was He that loved me, He that washed me. - To him be glory. Daily Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ. - Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6) - Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation. - Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20) Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - Job, complaining of the repeated cruelty of his friends, sheweth that he hath misery enough to gratify it: he calleth for pity; professeth his belief of a future resurrection; and warneth his friends not to persecute him. Job19 Preface - The Corinthians are reproved for bringing their controversies before heathen judges, which they ought to decide among themselves. There would be no occasion for lawsuits, if men acted up to the principles of the gospel, which exclude from the kingdom of God all notorious transgressors of the moral law. All lawful things are not expedient; but fornication is a gross offence against our bodies, which are members of Christ, temples of the Holy Ghost, and not our own to dispose of otherwise than to God's glory. 1 Corinthians 6 Daily Light - Morning The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. - The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than me... But God hath choosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise...that no flesh should glory in his presence. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. - Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. - Never man spake like this man. - Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Pro. 2.6; Pr. 3.5; Jas. 1.5; 1 Co. 1.25,27,29 Ps. 119,130; Ps. 119.11 Lu. 4.22; Jn. 7.46; 1 Co. 1.30 Daily Light - Evening The year of my redeemed is come. Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. The dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in their air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. Isa. 63.4; Lev. 25.10 Isa. 26.19 1 Th. 4.16-17 Hos. 13.14 Jer. 50.34 A Puritans Catechism Q69 - What is faith in Jesus Christ? A - Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is set forth in the gospel. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 4 Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter;13 but not for the dead,14 nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death.15 13 1 Tim. 2:1–2; 2 Sam. 7:29 14 2 Sam. 12:21–23 15 1 John 5:16 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Persecution Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. - 2 Timothy 3 v 12 The history of the Church in all ages has been a history of persecution. No sooner does a soul begin to show concern for religion, no sooner does that soul cleave to Jesus, than the world talk, to the grief of those whom God hath wounded. What bitter words are hurled against that soul! In all ages this has been true: 'They wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy.' Those that eat the bread of God have often been driven from their quiet meal - those who are clothed with Christ have often had to part with worldly clothing, and have been exposed to famine, nakedness, peril and sword - the last extremity. Cain murdered Abel. They killed the Prince of Life; and so all his creatures ever since have been exposed to the same. Dear Congregation,
I want to thank all of you who have prayed and supported the work of the Gospel through the church in 2023 and this first month of 2024. It is a great joy to minister at Westminster Baptist and I love the church here greatly. Through this past year, there have been heart-wrenching tragedies alongside blessings too. This is often the case in Christian life and yet we are called to keep trusting and believing. We often bear the battle scars of past experience and circumstance, as we live in this sinful world and anticipate heaven. We see Mordecai, mocked and scorned for years in Esther and on the brink of execution, yet he latterly knew blessing from God. The most important thing was that he was faithful in serving the Lord. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful - 1 Corinthians 4:2. This verse especially applies to ministers, church workers, but to all Christians. We are stewards of the oracles of God and to us has the light of the gospel been revealed. We should therefore be striving to be faithful, no popular, faithful. May that be our aim by the grace of God. In the beginning month in recent years we have spent a week praying together on each day for certain things. As a reminder that with continuing faith that prayer is essential. Key to our hope and joy and endurance and love, and with new resolve to make time to pray regularly alone and with your family and with some group of fellow believers. Alongside reading the Scriptures these should be our daily routine. There are various encouragements in the Scriptures to pray: - Pray without ceasing (1 Th. 5:17). - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; (Ep. 6:18). - Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; (Col. 4:2). These are a few verses of the many that encourage us to pray and undoubtedly set before us a biblical mandate that we should be concerned to pray. Maybe you have fallen out of the 'habit' or relegated prayer to a part time practice; or you only pray when trouble or danger comes. May these verses challenge us all at the start of this new year to be a people of prayer. To that end I would ask the church to pray, if led, the suggested topics below so we might pray for the same things (roughly speaking) on the same day to encourage us. Let us be prayerful people and realise we too need prayer. To say we are praying for someone should be an expression of concern but an indication of our own action to bring the matter before God, before the throne of Grace through the belivers mediator and High Priest. Jesus Christ. Paul even requests prayer for himself and those labouring for the Gospel with him twice in 1 and 2 Thessalonians saying 'brethren pray for us'. May we be a prayerful church and prayerful individuals, knowing that we have a prayer hearing and answering God. Pastor Jonathan Arnold Daily Prayer - Sunday - God thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and foreer. - Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another. - Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.) - Pray we would be granted faithful ministry and good spiritual food from God's Word. (1 Peter 2.2.) Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) (Sunday morning) Scripture reading - Psalm119 v 1-16; Matthew 7 v 1-26 Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) (Sunday evening) Scripture reading - Psalm 119 v 17-32; Genesis 3 v 1-21 Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - Eliphaz reproveth Job of impiety in justifying himself: he proveth from tradition the disquietude of wicked men. Job 18 Preface - Paul reproveth a scandalous incest committed and protected from censure in the church at Corinth; and by his authority in Christ excommunicateth the offender. The necessity of purging out the old leaven. Christians guilty of notorious crimes are not to be consorted with. 1 Corinthians 5 Daily Light - Morning Thou art my hope in the day of evil. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. - I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in he day of my trouble. In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved... thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. - Sorrow shall be turned into joy. - Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Jer. 17.17; Ps. 4.6; Ps. 59.16 Ps. 30.6,7-10 Isa. 54.7-8; Jn. 16.20; Ps. 30.5 Daily Light - Evening Adam...begat a son in his own likeness. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? - Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Dead in trespasses and sins...by nature the children of wrath, even as others. - I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I... I know that in me (that is, my my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. By one man sin entered into the world...by one man's disobedience many were made sinners. - If through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Thank be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Ge. 5.3; Job 14.4; Ps. 51.5 Eph. 2.1,3; Ro. 7.14-15,18 Ro. 5.12,19; Ro. 5.15 Ro. 8.2 1 Co. 15.57 A Puritans Catechsim Q 68 - How may we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin? A - To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting alone to his blood and righteousness. This faith is attended by repentance for the past and leads to holiness in the future. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 3 Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one part of natural worship, is by God required of all men.8 But that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son,9 by the help of the Spirit,10 according to his will;11 with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance; and when with others, in a known tongue.12 8 Ps. 95:1–7, 65:2 9 John 14:13–14 10 Rom. 8:26 11 1 John 5:14 12 1 Cor. 14:16–17 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Delays are not denials When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. - John 11 v 4 When we ask for something agreeable to God's will, and in the name of Christ, we know that we have the petitions which we desire of Him. But the time, He keeps in His own power God is very sovereign in the time of His answers. When Martha and Mary sent their petition to Christ, He gave them an immediate promise; but the answer was not when they expected. So Christ frequently gives us the desires of our heart, though not at the peculiar time we desired, but a better time. Do not be weary in putting up prayers, say for the conversion of a friend. They may be answered when you are in the dust. Hold on to pray. He will answer in the best time. 'Be not weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.' |
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