Daily Prayer - 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 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook) Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (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 - By the resurrection of dry bones the revival of the lost hope of Israel is prefigured. By the uniting of two sticks in shewed the incorporation of Israel with Judah. Their blessings in union under Christ their king. Ezekiel 37 Psalms 87) Preface - The seat and glory of the church: the honourable distinction of its members. Psalms 88) Preface - A prayer containing a grievous complaint. Psalms 87-88 Daily Light - Morning Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory. - Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? - In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. - Be clothed with humility. [Jesus] was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. - All that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on [Stephen], saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. - The glory which thou gavest me I have given them. - We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Ex. 34.29; Ps. 115.1; Mt. 25.37; Phil. 2.3; 1 Pe. 5.5 Mt. 17.2; Ac. 6.15; Jn. 17.22; 2 Co. 3.18 Mt. 5.14-15 Daily Light - Evening There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. There fell some of Manasseh to David... And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour. - The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. Of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do. - To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit. Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart. - A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. There should be no schism in the body; but...the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. 1 Co. 12.6; 1 Chr. 12.19,21; 1 Co. 12.7 1 Chr. 12.32; 1 Co. 12.8 1 Chr. 12.33; Jas. 1.8 1 Co. 12.25-26 Eph. 4.5 A Puritans Catechism Q 45 - What is required in the second commandment? A - The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of God and the Holy Trinity Chapter 2 PARAGRAPH 1 The Lord our God is but one only living and true God;1 whose subsistence is in and of Himself,2 infinite in being and perfection; whose essence cannot be comprehended by any but Himself;3 a most pure spirit,4 invisible, without body, parts, or passions, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto;5 who is immutable,6 immense,7 eternal,8 incomprehensible, almighty,9 every way infinite, most holy,10 most wise, most free, most absolute; working all things according to the counsel of His own immutable and most righteous will,11 for His own glory;12 most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him,13 and withal most just and terrible in His judgments,14 hating all sin,15 and who will by no means clear the guilty.16 1 1 Cor. 8:4,6; Deut. 6:4 2 Jer. 10:10; Isa. 48:12 3 Exod. 3:14 4 John 4:24 5 1 Tim. 1:17; Deut. 4:15–16 6 Mal. 3:6 7 1 Kings 8:27; Jer. 23:23 8 Ps. 90:2 9 Gen. 17:1 10 Isa. 6:3 11 Ps. 115:3; Isa. 46:10 12 Prov. 16:4; Rom. 11:36 13 Exod. 34:6–7; Heb. 11:6 14 Neh. 9:32–33 15 Ps. 5:5–6 16 Exod. 34:7; Nahum 1:2–3 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Family government For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. Genesis 18 v 19 There are three things very remarkable in these words. 1 - That Abraham used parental authority in governing his family: 'I know him, that he will command his children and servants after him.' He did not think it enough to pray for them, or to teach them, but he used the authority which God had given him. He commanded them. 2 - That he cared for his servants as well as his children. In Genesis 14 v 14, we learn that Abraham had 318 servants born in his house. He lived after the manner of patriarchal times, as the Arabs of the wilderness do to this day. His family was very large, and yet he did not say, 'They are none of mine.' He commanded his children and his household. 3 - His success. 'They shall keep the way of the Lord.' It is often said that the children of good men turn out ill. Well, here is a good man, and a good man doing his duty by his children - and here is the result. His son Isaac was probably a child of God from his earliest years. There is every mark of it in his life. And what a delightful specimen of a believing, prayerful servant was Eliezer! (Genesis 24) It is the duty of all believers to rule their houses well.
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