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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 Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook) Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (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 (and 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 - God reneweth his promise to the captive Jews of a gracious return, a joyful state, and settled peace. Christ, the Branch of righteousness, is promised, and a perpetuity of the kingdom and priesthood. The stability of God's covenant with David and with the Levites; and of his promise to bring back Israel and Judah. Jeremiah 33 Psalm 3) - Preface - The security of God's protection. Psalm 4) - Preface - David prayeth God to hear him: he reproveth his enemies, and exhorteth them. Man's happiness consisteth in the favour of God. Psalms 3-4 Daily Light - Morning Walk in newness of life. As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. - I beseech you...brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. - In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy. - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind. - Ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus...that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ro. 6.4; Ro. 6.19; Ro. 12.1-2 2 Co. 5.17; Ga. 6.15-16; Eph. 4.17; Eph. 4.20-21,24 Daily Light - Evening Thy will be done. O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. - Not as I will, but as thou wilt. - Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Ye know not what ye ask. - He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. These things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. I would have you without carefulness. - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Mt. 26.42; Jer. 10.23; Mt. 26.39; Ps. 131.2 Ro. 8.26-27 Mt. 20.22; Ps. 106.15; 1 Co. 10.6 1 Co. 7.32; Isa. 26.3 A Puritans Catechism Q 67 - What does every sin deserve? A - Every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Lawful Oaths and Vows Chapter 23 PARAGRAPH 2 The name of God only is that by which men ought to swear; and therein it is to be used, with all holy fear and reverence; therefore to swear vainly or rashly by that glorious and dreadful name, or to swear at all by any other thing, is sinful, and to be abhorred;3 yet as in matter of weight and moment, for confirmation of truth, and ending all strife, an oath is warranted by the word of God;4 so a lawful oath being imposed by lawful authority in such matters, ought to be taken.5 3 Matt. 5:34,37; James 5:12 4 Heb. 6:16; 2 Cor. 1:23 5 Neh. 13:25 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings God's delight Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. Luke 15 v 10 When a hell-deserving sinner is enlightened in the knowledge of Christ - when he believes the record that God hath given concerning his Son, and joyfully consents that the Lord Jesus should be his surety, then the blood of Christ is as it were, sprinkled over that soul. When Aaron and his Sons were set apart for the priesthood, the blood of the ram was put upon the tip of their right ear, and the thumb of their right hand, and the great toe of their right foot, to signify that they were dipped in blood from head to foot; so when God looks upon a soul in Christ, He sees it dipped in the blood of the Saviour. He looks upon that soul as having suffered all that Christ suffered; therefore He delights in it. His sense of justice is pleased. God has an infinite sense of justice His eyes behold the things that are equal. Now when He sees the blood of His Son sprinkled upon any soul, He sees that justice has had its full satisfaction in that soul, that that man's sins have been more fully punished than if he had borne them himself eternally. His sense of mercy is pleased. He delighteth in mercy, Even when justice was crying out, 'Thou shalt surely slay the wicked,' His mercy was yearning over sinners, and He provided a ransom. And now when the sinner has laid hold on the ransom, mercy is poured down in forgiveness. God delighteth in mercy; He delights to forgive. It is sweet to notice how Jesus loves to forgive sins. In the story of the woman that washed His feet, how He seems to dwell on it! 'Her sins, which are many are forgiven.' And again He said unto her: 'Thy sins are forgiven thee.' And again, a third time: 'Go in peace.' And so God loves to forgive: 'There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.'
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