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Daily Prayer - 18th March 2024
- 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 Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via FaceBook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via FaceBook) Bible Study and Prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via FaceBook) Lunch Hour Service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and 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 - Solomon again exhorteth to attend to his wise counsels. The mischiefs of whoredom and riot. An exhortation to abide by the pleasures of chaste marriage. The wicked are overtaken with their own sins. Proverbs 5 Preface - The Jews were for a while held under the law, as an heir under his guardian till he be of age. But Christ came to redeem those that were under the law, and to give both to Jew and Gentile the adoption, and consequently the freedom, of sons. Paul therefore reproveth the Galatians, who from serving idols had been received of God, for falling back to the bondage of legal observances. He expresseth his fears and tender regard for them, and calleth to mind their former respect and good will to him, from which he admonisheth them not to be seduced in his absence. He allegorically describeth the Jewish and Christian churches under the types of Agar and Sara, and inferreth that we, being children of the freewoman, are free. Galatians 4 Daily Light - Morning Mine eyes fail with looking upward. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. - My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. And I Said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. Ye have need of patience. While they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. - Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. - That blessed hope...the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Isa. 38.14; Ps. 6.2-4; Ps. 55.4-6 He. 10.36 Ac. 1.10-11; Phil. 3.20; Titus 2.13 Daily Light - Evening His name shall be in their foreheads. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep. - The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. - Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance. - Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. - This is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. Rev. 22.4; Jn. 10.14; 2 Tim. 2.19 Na. 1.7; Rev. 7.3 Eph. 1.13-14; 2 Co. 1.21-22 Rev. 3.12; Jer. 33.16 A Puritans Catechism Q 14 - What is sin? A - Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God. The Church Chapter 26 PARAGRAPH 11 Although it be incumbent on the bishops or pastors of the churches, to be instant in preaching the word, by way of office, yet the work of preaching the word is not so peculiarly confined to them but that others also gifted and fitted by the Holy Spirit for it, and approved and called by the church, may and ought to perform it.24 24 Acts 11:19–21; 1 Pet. 4:10–11 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Companions I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. - Psalm 119 v 63 In choosing connections or friends, O choose with regard to this - will they help or hinder your prayers? Will they go with you, and help you on your journey? Or will they be a drag upon your wheels? In going into companies, in reading books, choose with regard to this - will they fill your sails for heaven? If not, go not near them. In yielding to your affections, especially if you find them hindering your journey, drop them instantly. Never mind the consequences. 'If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to be cast into hell-fire.' 'Wherefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus.'
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