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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 mihgt 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 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 - The vanity which the Preacher found in the pursuits of pleasure. Wisdom excelleth folly, yet a like event happeneth to both. The vanity of human labour, the fruit of which must soon be left to a man knoweth not whom. Nothing better than a cheerful use of what a man hath gotten; but that is the gift of God to the good only. Ecclesiastes 3 Preface - Paul foretelleth and describeth a great apostasy to happen in the latter times. He directeth Timothy what doctrines to teach, and by what rules to regulate his conduct, so as to save both himself and his hearers. 1 Timothy 4 Daily Light - Morning Their Redeemer is strong. I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins. - I have laid help upon one that is mighty. - The LORD...thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. - Mighty to save. - Able to keep you from falling. - Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - He is able...to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?... I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Jer. 50.34; Am. 5.12; Ps. 89.19; Isa. 49.26; Isa. 63.1; Jude 24; Ro. 5.20 Jn. 3.18; He. 7.25 Isa. 50.2 Ro. 8.35,38-39 Daily Light - Evening Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. - Christ...suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps. Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Jer. 45.5; Mt. 11.29; Phil. 2.5-9 Mt. 10.38; 1 Pe. 2.21 1 Tim. 6.6-8 Phil. 4.11 A Puritans Catechism Q 39 - What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment? A - At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of The Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 4 The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God.7 7 2 Pet. 1:19–21; 2 Tim. 3:16; 1 Thess. 2:13; 1 John 5:9 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings A triumphant deathbed I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: - 2 Timothy 4 v 7 I think the dying thief could say: I believe, and enter with joy into Paradise; but he could not say: 'I have kept the faith.' This makes the difference between a peaceful and triumphant death-bed. Paul 'bought the truth, and sold it not.' That good thing committed to him he kept, by the Holy Ghost given unto him. He held the beginning of his confidence steadfast unto the end. Learn that perseverance in the faith is needful to a triumphant deathbed. It is Christ, and Christ alone, that is our peace in dying; yet the hand that has longest held him has the firmest hold. It is not our perseverance that is our righteousness before God, but the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus; and yet without perseverance in the faith ye cannot be saved. Alas! you that turn aside to folly, you are preparing clouds for your dying bed. Can you say you have kept the faith, poor backslider?
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