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Daily Prayer - Thursday
-Give thanks to God for the Bible, its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.) -Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue. -Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would continue to help us to grasp God's truth. -Pray for the lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us. 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 afternoon 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 (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - God testifieth his acceptance of Solomon's prayer by fire from heaven; the glory which filled the temple; the people worship. Solomon's sacrifices at the solemnity of the dedication. Having kept the feast of tabernacles and of the dedication of the altar seven days, the people are sent joyfully home. God appeareth again to Solomon, and maketh a covenant with him. 2 Chronicles 7 Preface - The apostle testifieth his regard and good wishes for a certain pious matron and her children, and his joy in thir good behaviour: he exhorteth them to persevere in Christian love and belief, that they lose not their full reward: and to have nothing to do with those seducers that bring not the true doctrine of Christ. He hopeth to see them shortly, and concludeth with salutations. 2 John Daily Light - Morning He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. - As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. After that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 2 Co. 5.21; Isa. 53.6; 1 Pe. 2.24; Ro. 5.19 Titus 3.4-7; Ro. 8.1 Jer. 23.6 Daily Light - Evening I will be as the dew unto Israel. The meekness and gentleness of Christ. - His favour is as dew upon the grass. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord... And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. Hos. 14.5; 2 Co. 10.1; Pro. 19.12 Isa. 42.3 Lu. 4.18-19,21-22 Lu. 22.61-62 Isa. 40.11 A Puritans Catechism Q78 - How is baptism rightly administered? A - Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ's institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of the Fall of Man, of Sin and of the Punishment thereof Chapter 6 PARAGRAPH 5 The corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated;13 and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and the first motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.14 13 Rom. 7:18,23; Eccles. 7:20; 1 John 1:8 14 Rom. 7:23–25; Gal. 5:17 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Sowing and reaping Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days - Ecclesiastes 11 v 1 So it is in giving liberally to the poor out of the love of Jesus. Yet fear not; you shall find a crop after many days. You say, 'If I were a rich Christian, how happy would I be to give!' Now, I just ask you to look at the man sowing seed. When he has but little, does he keep back from sowing that little? No, he sows the more anxiously the little he has. Do you the same.
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