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Daily Prayer - Thursday
Thursday - 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 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 - The people complain of their debts, which had compelled them to mortgage their lands, and sell their children into bondage. Nehemiah rebuketh the users, and causeth them to swear to make a full and free restitution. He refuseth the governor's usual allowance, and keepeth up hospitality at his own expense. Nehemiah 5 Preface - Great dissentions arise about circumcising the Gentiles: Paul and Barnabas are sent to consult the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. The matter is debated in a council there, Peter declareth his opinion: Paul and Barnabas report the miracles they had wrought among the Gentiles. James pronounceth sentence in favour of the Gentiles, requiring of them abstilence only in a few particulars. Letters are sent with the determination by messengers to the churches, which are received with joy. Paul and Barnabas propose to visit together the churches they had planted, but disagree, and travel different ways. Acts 15 Daily Light - Morning My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. If ye....be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For....your life is hid with Christ in God. - Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. - Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Ps. 119.25; Col. 3.13; Phil. 3.20-21 Ga. 5.17; Ro. 8.12-13; 1 Pe. 2.11 Daily Light - Evening The measure of faith. Him that is weak in the faith. - strong in faith, giving glory to God. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? - Great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.... According to your faith be it unto you. Increase our faith. - Building up yourselves on your most holy faith. - Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith. - He which stablisheth us with you in Christ....is God. - The God of all grace...after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. We....that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. - Let us not....judge one another any more but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. Ro. 12.3; Ro. 14.1; Ro. 4.20 Mt. 14.31; Mt. 15.28 Mt. 9.28,29 Lu. 17.5; Jude 20; Col. 2.7; 2 Co. 1.21; 1 Pe. 5.10 Ro. 15.1; Ro. 14.13 A Puritans Catechism Q 66 - Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous? A - Some sins in themselves, and by reason of various aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others. 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 Be fervent in praise By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. Hebrews 13 v 15 And, oh! be fervent in praise. Lift up your voices in it. Lift up your hearts in it. In heaven they wax louder and louder. John heard the sound of a great multitude; and then it was like many waters, and then it was like mighty thunderings, crying: 'Hallelujah! Hallelujah!' I remember Edwards' remark, that it was in the singing of praises that his people felt themselves most enlarged, and that then God was worshipped somewhat in the beauty of holiness. Let it be so among yourselves. Learn, dearly beloved, to praise God heartily, to sing with all your heart and soul in the family and in the congregation. But, oh! remember that even your praises must be sprinkled with blood, and can be acceptable to God only by Jesus Christ.
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