Daily Reading for Monday 31st 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 in church (and online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm
Lunch hour service
Thursday between 1:00pm and 1:30pm
Outreach / witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (next to the big Boots store) for 10:30am (opposite Church Hall - no. 64). We go back to church for prayer.

Daily readings
Preface - Samson desireth to take one of the daughters of the Philistines to wife. In his journey to Timnath he killeth a lion. In a second journey
thither he findeth honey in the lion's carcase. Samson's marriage feast. His riddle, which his wife prevaileth upon him to unfold to her, and
she discovereth to the guests. He slayeth thirty Philistines, and giveth their spoil to those who had expounded his riddle, he leaveth his wife in
anger, who is given to another.
Judges 14
Preface - Paul worketh for his subsistence, and preacheth Christ at Corinth, first to the Jews, and, upon their opposing and blaspheming, to the
Gentiles with more success: he is encouraged by the Lord in a vision, and abideth there a long time. The Jews accuse him before Gallio the
deputy, who will have nothing to do with them. Paul passeth from city to city, confirming the disciples. Apollos, instructed more perfectly in
the Christian doctrine by Aquilla and Priscilla, preacheth it at Ephesus, and afterward in Achaia, with great efficacy.
Acts 18

A Puritans Catechism
​Q33 - What is adoption?
A - Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Saviour's desire
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; John 17 v 24
He does not mean that we should be presently taken out of this world. Some of you that have come to Christ may, this day, be favoured with so
much of the joy of heaven, and such a dread of going back to betray Christ in the world, that you may be wishing that this house were indeed the
gate of heaven; you may desire that you might be translated from the table below at once to the table above. 'I am in a strait betwixt wo, having
a desire to departed and be with Christ.' Still Christ does not wish that. 'O pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that
thou shouldest keep them from the evil.' 'Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now.' (like that woman in Brainerd's journal - 'O blessed Lord,
do come! Oh, do take me away! Do let me die and go to Jesus Christ. I am afraid, if I live, I shall sin again.'). He means, that when our journey is
done, we should come to be with Him. Every one that comes to Christ has a journey to perform in this world. Some have a long, and some a short
one. It is through a wilderness. Still Christ prays that at the end you may be with Him. Everyone that comes to Christ hath his twelve hours to fill up
for Christ. 'I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day.' But when that is done, Christ prays that you may be with Him. 'In my
Father's house are many mansions.' You shall dwell in the same house with Christ. You are never very intimate with a person till you see them in
their own house, till you know them at home. This is what Christ wants with us - that we shall come to be with Him, at His own home. He wants us
to come to the same Father's bosom with Him. 'I ascent to my Father and your Father.' He want us to be in the same smile with Him, to sit on the
​same throne with Him, to swim in the same ocean of love with Him.