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Daily Prayer - Friday
Friday - Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings. - Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering (Numbers 6.24-26). - Pray for the ministry among the children in the Sunday School and Friday Bible Club and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world - Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all: salvation by the grace of God through Christ. Church Services Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook) Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Bible Study and Prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Lunch Hour Service Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Plan - Second Year Preface - In this chapter twenty five and the four following chapters are contained various maxims and observations of Solomon, collected by the men of Hezekiah, about kings, and other subjects of both private and public concern. Proverbs 28 Preface - Paul warneth the Thessalonians against a groundless surmise that the day of Christ was near at hand; shewing that it would be preceded by a great apostasy, and that the man of sin would be first revealed, and by his wicked impostures draw many into perdition. He repeateth his good hopes concerning them, exhorting them to stand fast in his doctrine, and praying God to comfort and stablish them in all goodness. 2 Thessalonians 2 Daily Light - Morning I am black, but comely. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. - Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD. I am a sinful man, O Lord. - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair. I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. - Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee. When I would do good, evil is present with me. - Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. - Ye are complete in him. - Perfect in Christ Jesus. Ye are washed...ye are sanctified...ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the SPirit of our God. - That ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Son 1.5; Ps. 51.5; Ezek. 16.14 Lu. 5.8; Song 4.1 Job 42.6; Song 4.7 Ro. 7.21; Mt. 9.2 Ro. 7.18; Col. 2.10; Col. 1.28 1 Co. 6.11; 1 Pe. 2.9 Daily Light - Evening All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. - Whosoever....will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust o fthe eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. If the world hat you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.... The servant is not greater than his lord. - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 2 Tim. 3.12; Mt. 10.35-36; Jas. 4.4; 1 Jn. 2.15-16 Jn. 15.18-20; Jn. 17.14 A Puritans Catechism Q 43 - What is required in the first commandment? A - The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation Chapter 15 PARAGRAPH 2 Whereas there is none that does good and does not sin, 2 and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall in to great sins and provocations; God has, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be renewed through repentance unto salvation. 3 2 Eccles. 7:20 3 Luke 22:31–32 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The deceitful heart The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah 17 v 9, 10 This is a faithful description of the natural heart of man. The heart of unfallen Adam was very different. 'God made man upright.' His mind was clear and heavenly. It was riveted upon divine things. He saw their glory without any cloud or dimness. His heart was right with God. His affections flowed sweetly and fully towards God. He loved as God loved, hated as God hated. There was no deceit about his heart then. It was transparent as crystal. He had nothing to conceal. There was no wickedness in his heart, no spring of hatred, or lust, or pride. He knew his own heart, He could see clearly into its deepest recesses; for it was just a reflection of the heart of God. When Adam sinned, his heart was changed. When he lost the favour of God, he lost the image of God. Just as Nebuchadnezzar suddenly got a beast's heart, so Adam suddenly got a heart in the image of the devil. And this is the description ever since: 'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.'
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