Daily Reading for Monday 7th August 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 0.10, 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)
Study bible and prayer
Wednesday evening - (This week online via Zoom)
Lunch hour service
Thursday 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 (opposite Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.

Daily Readings
Preface - The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin, and seek to repair it. By the destruction of Jabesh-gilead they provide wives for four hundred of those who had taken shelter in the rock. The elders consult how to find wives for the remainder consistently with an oath that had been taken, and advise the Benjamites to carry off by surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh.
Judges 21
Preface - The Jews accuse Paul to Festus, first at Jerusalem,, and afterward at Caesarea: he answereth for himself, and appealeth to Caesar: his appeal is admitted. Festus being visited by king Agrippa openeth the matter to him, who desireth to hear Paul. Paul is brought forth; Festus declareth he found nothing in him worthy of death.
Acts 25

A Puritans Catechism
Q40 - What did God reveal to man for the rule of his disobedience?
A - The rule which God first revealed to man for his obedience is the moral law, which is summarized in the ten commandments.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Patient submission
Submit yourselves therefore to God, Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - James 4 v 7
Resignation is a very sweet grace: it can only be cultivated here. The believer has two kinds of graces - he has purity and resignation; God has purity, but God can have no resignation, for He has all sovereignty, He is almighty. Yet resignation to God's will is a very sweet grace; it is a flower that grows on the earth - it will not bloom yonder. It is much easier to go about a whole lifetime preaching, to preach night and day, than to be patient under sickness. There are many saints who suffered much upon earth, now shining the brightest in glory, just because they glorified God more than others by their patient submission.