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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 - Hezekiah, warned by Isaiah to prepare for death, upon his prayer is promised an addition of fifteen years to his life: in confirmation whereof the shadow goeth ten degrees backward on the sundial of Ahaz. Berodach-baladan sendeth to congratulate Hezekiah on his recovery, who ostentatiously sheweth the ambassadors his treasures. Isaiah hearing this foretelleth the Babylonish captivity. Hezekiah dieth: Manasseh succeedeth him. 2 Kings 20 Preface - The obligation we are under to give more earnest heed to the gospel doctrine. The dominion of the world to come was not granted to angels, but to the Son of man, whom it behoved to undergo a previous course of humiliation and suffering. Hebrews 2 Daily Light - Morning Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. - How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. - Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.... That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. How great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! - The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Ps. 107.8; Ps. 34.8; Ps. 31.19 Isa. 43.21; Eph. 1.5-6,12 Zech. 9.17; Ps. 145.9-12 Daily Light - Evening Behold, we count them happy which endure. We glory in tribulations....knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing....Blessed is the man that endureth temptations: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me....for when I am weak, then am I strong. Jas. 5.11; Ro. 5.3-5; He. 12.11; Jas. 1.2-4,12; 2 Co. 12.9,10 A Puritans Catechism Q 78 -How is baptism rightly administered? A - Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ's institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Christ the Mediator Chapter 8 PARAGRAPH 7 This covenant is revealed in the gospel; first of all to Adam in the promise of salvation by the seed of the woman,5 and afterwards by farther steps, until the full discovery thereof was completed in the New Testament;6 and it is founded in that eternal covenant transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect;7 and it is alone by the grace of this covenant that all the posterity of fallen Adam that ever were saved did obtain life and blessed immortality, man being now utterly incapable of acceptance with God upon those terms on which Adam stood in his state of innocency.8 5 Gen. 3:15 6 Heb. 1:1 7 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 1:2 8 Heb. 11;6,13; Rom. 4:1–2; Acts 4:12; John 8:56 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Separation better than strife And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my hermen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. Genesis 13 vs 8-9 Abraham, yields the choice to Lot. Brethren, this is what it is to be a Christian, this is what Christ did. Do you remember the command to resist not evil? 'But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also.' (Matthew 5 v. 39). Now, many of you do not know the meaning of this; I have been asked its meaning often; Abraham was smitten on the one cheek, and he turned the other also. See also 1 Corinthians 6 v. 7 - 'Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? You will see an example of the same thing in chapter 9 v 19 - 'For although I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.' My dear brethren, this is exactly what Abraham did, he suffered himself to be defrauded, he suffered himself to be a servant, that he might gain Lot. This was what Christ did Himself. When they smote Him on the one cheek He turned the other also. Ah, brethren, you know little of the love of Christ, if this is not in your heart. There is a great mistake, I observe, in our day; people think that to be a Christian, is to have certain doctrines in the head - to be a Calvinist; but remember, that to be a Christian, is to have Christ in you. Abraham did not say, I will have it, for it is my right to have it. No! but he said, 'Let us separate; if you go to the right hand, I will go to the left.' Ah! this is to be a Christian. It is not words that will make a Christian. It is not views that will make a Christian. It is this, and this alone.
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