Daily Reading for Thursday 6th July 2023

Prayer
-Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across 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
Sunday evening at 6:30pm
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm (in church)
Lunch hour service
Thursday between 1:00 to 1:30pm
Outreach
Saturday - 10:25am at Victoria Street, then 11:45 break
                    Trafalgar Square from 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Daily Readings
God encourageth Joshua. The stratagem for taking Ai. Joshua placeth the ambush, and advanceth toward the city.
Ai is taken, and the king thereof hanged. The alter is built in Ebal,
the law written on stones, and the blessings and curses pronounced before the people, as Moses had commanded.
Joshua 8
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Psalm 139

A Puritan Catechism
Q11-What are God's works of providence?
A - God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.

God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings by Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Nothing to spare:-But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you:
but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves - Matthew 25 v9.
It pleases God to use the godly as instruments, but he has not given them to be fountains of grace:
'I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase' (1 Corinthians 3:6).
Rachel said to Jacob: 'Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's Stead?'
(Genesis 30:1,2).
So grace is not in the hand of man. Those who receive Christ 'are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but God' (John 1:13) It is in vain, then, that you look to the means to give saving grace to your soul.
The axe can hew without the hand of the forester. The pitcher that carries water is not the well.
It will be in vain that you apply to God's children in that awful day. Go to Jesus now. The righteous scarcely are saved.
Every child of God gets just so much grace as will carry him to heaven, and no more. Even now every child of God feels that he has nothing to spare.
He has not too much of the Holy Spirit, helping him to pray, to mourn over sin, to love Christ.
In time of temptation a believer feels as if he had nothing of the Holy Spirit. He has more need to receive than ability to give way.
When Christ shall come in that solemn hour, he will feel that he has none to spare.