Daily Readings for Monday 12th February 2024

Daily Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we               spend alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Zophar sharply reproveth Job for justifying himself: he sheweth that God's counsels are unsearchable; and that repentance is the only sure way for him to recover lost happiness.
Job 11
Preface - We ought, in condescension to the weak, to give up our own will for our neighbour's good, after the example of Christ. The intent of the scriptures. Paul prayeth for unanimity among Christians, exhorteth to receive one the other, as Christ did all, both Jews and Gentiles; and wisheth them all joy, peace, and hope. He apologiseth for his freedom in admonishing them, as he was the apostle of the Gentiles; and sheweth the success and extensiveness of his labours. He excuseth his not coming to them before, and promiseth them a visit on his return from Jerusalem. He requesteth their prayers.
Romans 15


Daily Light - Morning
They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that 
day when I make up my jewels.

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word... I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them... Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

I will come again, and receive you unto myself. - He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe...in that day. - We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. - Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Mal. 3.17; Jn. 17,6,9-10,24
Jn. 14.3; 2 Th. 1.10; 1 Th. 4.17; Isa. 6.23


Daily Light - Evening
I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. - The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth... No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? - When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

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. - Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Ex. 33.18; 2 Co. 4.6; Jn. 1.14,18
Ps. 42.2; Ps. 27.8
2 Co. 3.18; Jn. 17.24


A Puritans Catechism
Q62 - What is required in the ninth commandment?
A - The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbour's good name, especially in witness-bearing.

BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 1
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The liberty which Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the severity and curse of the law,1 and in their being delivered from this present evil world,2 bondage to Satan,3 and dominion of sin,4 from the evil of afflictions,5 the fear and sting of death, the victory of the grave,6 and everlasting damnation:7 as also in their free access to God, and their yielding obedience unto Him, not out of slavish fear,8 but a child-like love and willing mind.9 All which were common also to believers under the law for the substance of them;10 but under the New Testament the liberty of Christians is further enlarged, in their freedom from the yoke of a ceremonial law, to which the Jewish church was subjected, and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, and in fuller communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of.11

1 Gal. 3:13
2 Gal. 1:4
3 Acts 26:18
4 Rom. 8:3
5 Rom. 8:28
6 1 Cor. 15:54–57
7 2 Thess. 1:10
8 Rom. 8:15
9 Luke 1:73–75; 1 John 4:18
10 Gal. 3;9,14
11 John 7:38–39; Heb. 10:19–21


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Follow the Lord fully
Hebron, therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel. - Joshua 14 v 14
Pray to be made like Caleb, who had another spirit, and followed the Lord fully. Follow Christ all the day. He is the continual burnt offering in whom you may have peace. He is the rock that follows you, from whom you may have constant and infinite supplies. Give yourself wholly away to Him. You are safe in no other keeping but in the everlasting arms of Jehovah Jesus.