Daily Reading for Thursday 3rd August 2023

Prayer
-Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians accross the world.
-Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
-Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
-Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are
  part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.

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)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
(Thursday-lunch hour) Scripture reading - 2 Corinthians 12:3-10
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 - Of the money that Micah had stolen, and afterward restored, his mother maketh images. Micah's idolatry. He hireth a Levite to be his priest.
Judges 17
Preface - Paul journeying to Jerusalem calleth at the house of Philip the evangelist, whose four daughters prophesised. Agabus foretelling what
should befall him at Jerusalem, he will not be dissuaded from going thither. Arriving at Jerusalem, he is persuaded to purify himself in the
temple, where he is set upon by the Jews of Asia, and in danger of losing his life in an uproar, but is rescued by the chief captain, and carried to
the castle in chains; he requesteth, and is permitted, to speak to the people.
Acts 21

A Puritans Catechism
​Q36 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A - The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united in
       Christ, do res in their graves, till the resurrection.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes a Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Cry for the wind
Awake, O north wind; and come thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. - Song of Solomon 4 v 16.
These spices do not naturally grow in gardens. Even in the East there never was such a display as this. So the fragrant graces of the Spirit are not
natural to the heart. They are brought from a far country. They must be carefully watched. They need the stream and the gentle zephyr. Oh, I fear
most of you should hang your heads when Christ begins to speak of fragrant spices in your heart! Where are they? Are there not talkative,
forward Christians? Are there not self seeking Christians? Are there not proud praying Christians? Are there not idle, bad working Christians?
Lord, where are the spices. Verily, Christ is a bundle of myrrh. Oh to be like Him! Oh that every flower and fruit would grow! They must come
from above. Many there are of whom one is forced to say, 'Well, they may be Christians; but I would not like to be next to them in heaven! Cry for
​the wind!