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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. Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.) - Pray for the ministry among the children 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 - First Year Preface - Naaman, captain of the Syrian host, upon the report of a captive maid, cometh to Samaria to be cured of his leprosy. Elisha sendeth him to dip in Jordan, whereby he is healed. Naaman acknowledgeth the true God; cannot prevail on Elisha to accept his presents; asketh for earth; and is sent away in peace. Gehazi, Elisha's servant, by a lie obtaineth a present from Naaman, and is smitten with leprosy. 2 Kings 5 Preface - Paul exhorteth to pray and give thanks for all men, for kings and magistrates especially. God willeth the salvaion of all men. Paul's commission to teach the Gentiles. He directeth how women should be attired; permitteth them not to teach; but promiseth that they shall be saved in childbearing on certain conditions. 1 Timothy 2 Daily Light - Morning I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD. - Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. - Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? - In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance. - we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. Jon. 2.4; Isa. 49.14-15 Lam. 3.17-18; Ps. 44.23; Isa. 40.27; Isa. 54.8 Ps. 43.5; 2 Co. 4.8-9 Daily Light - Evening When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? - All is vanity and vexation of spirit....What hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. - They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. - I will pour water upon him that is thirsty. - Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. Isa. 41.17: Ps. 4.6; Ec. 2.17,22-23; Jer. 2.13 Jn. 6.37; Isa. 44.3; Mt. 5.6 Ps. 63.1 A Puritans Catechism Q 64 -What is forbidden in the tenth commandment? A - The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof Chapter 6 PARAGRAPH 1 God the good Creator of all things, in His infinite power and wisdom does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures and things, 1 from the greatest even to the least, 2 by His most wise and holy providence, to the end for the which they were created, according unto His infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of His own will; to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, infinite goodness, and mercy. 3 1 Heb. 1:3; Job 38:11; Isa. 46:10–11; Ps. 135:6 2 Matt. 10:29–31 3 Eph. 1; 11 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings This is happiness Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Hebrews 13 v 5 You may take these words, and apply them to God the Father. And here they come to be very much the words God gave to Abraham: He said, 'Fear not, Abbram; I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.' He had returned from the slaughter of Chederlaomer, and of the kings that were with him. The king of Sodom came out to meet him, and said unto him. 'Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.' But Abraham said, 'I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.' And immediately after, God appeared to him, and said: 'Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.' This is what Asaph felt. He says, in the seventy-third Psalm, 'My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Ah, brethren, this is a sweet word to a poor soul who is mourning over the broken pots at his feet. This is a sweet word to those of you who are bereft - who have left houses and lands - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' This may be a sweet word to those of you who are mourning over the dead. O brethren! is this your portion? Can you look up to a three-one God, - Father, Son and Spirit, standing on these broken shreds at your feet, and say, 'Thou wilt never leave me, not forsake me'? This is happiness. Well, well, did the Lord say, 'Mary hath chosen that good part which shall never be taken away from her.' Ah, poor souls, that have chosen the portion that will be taken from you. Ah, brethren! be you wiser.
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