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Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thank 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 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 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 - The judgment of Babylon. The redemption of Israel. Jeremiah 50 Psalms 28) Preface - David prayeth earnestly for God's help against the wicked: he blesseth God for his gracious succour: he prayeth for the people. Psalms 29) Preface - David exhorteth princes to give glory to God, by reason of his power, and protection of his people. Psalms 28-29 Daily Light - Morning Thou art my portion, O LORD. All things are yours...and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ...gave himself for us. - The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory...gave him to be the head over all things to the church. - Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it... That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD. - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. - O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord... The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. Ps. 119.57; 1 Co. 3.21,23; Titus 2.13,14; Eph. 1.17,22; Eph. 5.25,27 Ps. 34.2; Isa. 61.10 Ps. 73.25-26; Ps. 16.2,5-6 Daily Light - Evening There is a way which seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool. They word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. - Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams...saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Pro. 14.12; Pro. 28.26 Ps. 119.105; Ps. 17.4 Deu. 13.1,2-4 Ps.32.8 A Puritans Catechism Q 1 - What is the chief end of man? A - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Church Chapter 26 PARAGRAPH 6 The members of these churches are saints by calling, visibly manifesting and evidencing (in and by their profession and walking) their obedience unto that call of Christ;12 and do willingly consent to walk together, according to the appointment of Christ; giving up themselves to the Lord, and one to another, by the will of God, in professed subjection to the ordinances of the Gospel.13 12 Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2 13 Acts 2:41–42, 5:13–14; 2 Cor. 9:13 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Death of Stephen And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts 7 v 59 Stephen was the first to die as a martyr in the cause of Christ; and he seems to have resembled the Saviour more than any that followed after. His very face appeared like the face of an angel. His irresistible wisdom in arguing with the Jews was very like Christ. His praying for his enemies with his dying breath nearly in the same words as the Saviour, and his recommending his soul into the hands of the Lord Jesus, were in the same spirit of confidence as that in which Christ said: 'Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.' There cannot be a doubt that it was by looking unto Jesus that he became thus Christ-like. And the last view which he got of Christ seems especially to have given him that heavenly composure in dying which is so much above nature. Two things are to be noticed: (1) that it was a sight of Christ at the right hand of God; (2) that it was a sight of Christ standing there. Christ being at the right hand of God is mentioned sixteen times in the Bible; thirteen times He is described as seated there, twice as being there; but here only is He spoken of as standing. This appears to have made a deep and lively impression on the mind of Stephen, for he cries out: 'Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God; and then, with a sweet assurance that Christ's hands were stretched out to receive him, he cried: 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.'
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