|
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 5.1) Preface - The temple finished, and the dedicated treasures deposited therein. The ark with great solemnity brought into the most holy place. Whilst the priests and Levites are praising God with singing and music, a cloud filleth the house. 6.11) Preface - Solomon blesseth the people, and praiseth God for the performance of his promise to David concerning the building of the house. His prayer upon the brasen scaffold at the consecration of the temple: 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 34, 36 the special petitions contained in it. The concluding general invocation of God's presence and favour. 2 Chronicles 5.1-6.11 Preface - The apostle warneth to try by certain rules the spirits that pretend to come from God. He presseth the obligation of mutual love upon Christians from the example and commandment of God. 1 John 4 Daily Light - Morning It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. - We suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no... Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, s the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. - For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Ps. 119.71; He. 5.8; Ro. 8.17-18 Job 23.10-11 Deu. 8.2,5-6; He. 12.6 Daily Light - Evening By strength shall no man prevail. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comes to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied... And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it... So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength... Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. I...glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. - Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 1 Sa. 2.9; 1 Sa. 17.45,49,50 Ps. 33.16,18; 1 Chr. 29.12 2 Co. 12.9-10; Zech. 4.6 A Puritans Catechism Q 25 - How does Christ execute the office of a king? A - Christ executes the office of a king in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation Chapter 15 PARAGRAPH 3 This saving repentance is an evangelical grace,4 whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith in Christ, humble himself for it with godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self–abhorrancy,5 praying for pardon and strength of grace, with a purpose and endeavor, by supplies of the Spirit, to walk before God unto all well–pleasing in all things.6 4 Zech. 12:10; Acts 11:18 5 Ezek. 36:31; 2 Cor. 7:11 6 Ps. 119:6,128 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The presence of Christ But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us. Luke 24 v 29 It is the presence of Christ with the soul that gives true peace and true holiness. It is not circumstances, nor ministers, nor place, nor time, but Jesus present. To sit under His shadow, gives great delight. To lean upon the Beloved alone supports his faltering steps. A true believer cannot be satisfied while Christ is away: 'Make haste, my Beloved.' One that is not a wife may be content with other lovers; but the faithful bride longs for the return of her Lord. The ordinances are all cold and barren till he return. Ministers speak, but not to the heart. The companions cannot give rest nor ease. Oh! brethren, do you know what it is to long for Himself - to cry, 'Make haste my beloved.'?
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
