Daily Reading for Monday 10th July 2023

Prayer
-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
Sunday evening at 6:30pm
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm - in church
Lunch time service
Thursday 1:00 to 1:30pm
Outreach
Saturday - meeting in church at 10:00am or alternatively to arrive on Victoria Street for 10:30am

Daily Reading
Preface-12-The two kings whose countries Moses took and disposed of. The one and thirty kings on the west side of Jordan which Joshua smote.
Preface-13-What parts of the land remained yet unsubdued, Joshua is commanded to divide the whole by lot;
the two tribes and half being excepted out of this division, and the tribe of Levi. The bounds of Reuben's inheritance,
(Balaam slain) of the inheritance of God, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, as allotted by Moses, who gave no inheritance to the Levites, but God only.
Joshua 12-13
Preface-David extolleth God's mighty power and renown; he celebrateth God's goodness, the glory and eternity of his kingdom,
his providence, justice, and holiness, and his especial regard for the righteous.
​Psalm 145

A Puritans Catechism
Q15-Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
A-The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation,
sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Taught by the Spirit
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Proverbs 3 v 5
Well may every soul that is untaught by the Spirit of God exclaim: 'This is a hard saying, who can hear it?' And, indeed,
there is perhaps no truth that calls forth more of the indignant opposition of the world that this blessed one, that they who trust in the Lord
with all their heart do not lean to their own understanding. The understanding, here, plainly includes all the observing, knowing, and judging
faculties of the mind, by which med ordinarily guide themselves in the world; and accordingly, it is with no slight appearance of
reasonableness that the world should brand with the name of fanatics a peculiar set of men, who dare to say that they are not to
lean upon these faculties, to guide them in their every-day walk and conversation.
But surely it might do something to moderate, at least, the opposition of the world (if they would but listen to us), to tell them that we
never refuse to be guided by the understanding, although we altogether refuse to lean upon it. Every enlightened believer,
however implicitly he depends up the breathing of the Holy Ghost, without whose almighty breathing he knows that his understanding
would be but a vain and useless machine, leading him into darkness, and into light, yet follows the guidance of the understanding as
scrupulously and as religiously as any unconverted man is able to do. Therefore, it ought never to be said, by any man who has a regard for truth,
that the believer in Jesus casts aside the use of his understanding, and looks for miraculous guidance from on high. The truth is this,
that he trusts in a divine power enlightening the understanding, and he therefore follows the dictates of the understanding more
religiously than any other man.