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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 1 Samuel 21) Preface - David cometh to Nob, and obtaineth of Ahimelech hallowed bread: Doeg is present. David asketh for a sword, and receiveth the sword of Goliath. He fleeth to Gath, where to save his life he feigneth himself mad. 1 Samuel 22) Preface - David's kindred and others resort unto him at Adullam. At Mizpeh he commendeth his parents to the protection of the king of Moab. Admonished by Gad he removeth to Hareth. Saul complaineth of the unfaithfulness of his servants. Doeg accuseth Ahimelech. Ahimelech is sent for with the priests, and answereth the charge. The footman refusing to slay the priests at the king's command, Doeg executeth it: their city Nob is destroyed. Abiathar escaping bringeth David the news. 1 Samuel 21-22 Preface - Paul sheweth that he could not instruct the Corinthians in the higher doctrines of Christianity because of their carnal mind; this state of mind revealed itself in their factions. The most eminent preachers of the gospel are but instruments employed by God in building his church. Paul hath laid the only true foundation, Christ Jesus; and others must take heed what they build thereon. Christians are God's temple, not to be defiled. Worldly wisdom is foolishness with God. They that are Christ's must not glory in men. 1 Corinthians 3 Daily Light - Morning The king held out....the golden sceptre... So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre. It shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. - For through him we....have access by one Spirit unto the Father. - We have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. - Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Est. 5.2; Ex. 22.27 1 Jn. 4.16-19 He. 10.22; Eph. 2.18; Eph. 3.12; He. 4.16 Daily Light - Evening They said... It is manna: for they wist not what it was. Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh. - The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.... If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.... My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. The children of Israel....gathered, some more, some less... He that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack... They gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating. Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?... Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these tings shall be added unto you. Ex. 16.15; 1 Tim. 3.16; Jn. 6.33 Jn. 6.49,51,55 Ex. 16.17,18,21 Mt. 6.31,32-33 A Puritans Catechism Q 27 - Wherein consists Christ's exaltation? A - Christ's exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of God's Decree Chapter 3 PARAGRAPH 1 God hath decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely and unchangeably, all things, whatsoever comes to pass;1 yet so as thereby is God neither the author of sin nor hath fellowship with any therein;2 nor is violence offered to the will of the creature, nor yet is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established;3 in which appears His wisdom in disposing all things, and power and faithfulness in accomplishing His decree.4 1 Isa. 46:10; Eph. 1:11; Heb. 6:17; Rom. 9:15,18 2 James 1:13; 1 John 1:5 3 Acts 4:27–28; John 19:11 4 Num. 23:19; Eph. 1:3–5 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Complete holiness For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 1 Thessalonians 4 v 7 If you have truly joined yourself to Christ, you will never aim at less than complete holiness. It is told of a true child of God, that, in his agonising struggles after holiness, he would often lie upon the ground and cry, 'Lord, give me up to sickness, give me up to suffering, give me up to death, but give me not up to any sin.' If you have indeed joined yourself to Christ, you will have the same desire after universal holiness. 'Let not any iniquity have dominion over me.' 'Quicken Thou me in Thy Way.'
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