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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 - The unclean to be removed out of the camp. Restitution to be made in cases of trespass. All offerings and hallowed things belong to the priest. The trial of jealousy. Nehemiah 5 Preface - Great dissentiions arise about circumcising the Gentiles: Paul and Barnabas are sent to consult the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. The matter is debated in a council there; Peter declareth his opinion: Paul and Barnabas report the miracles they had wrought among the Gentiles. James pronounceth sentence in favour of the Gentiles, requiring of them abstinence only in a few particulars. Letters are sent with the determination by messengers to the churches, which are received with joy. Paul and Barnabas propose to visit together the churches they had planted, but disagree, and travel different ways. Acts 15 Daily Light - Morning My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. If ye...be risen with Christ, seekk those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For...your life is hid with Christ in God. - Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. - Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Ps. 119.25; Col. 3.1-3; Phil. 3.20-21 Ga. 5.17; Ro. 8.12-13; 1 Pe. 2.11 Daily Light - Evening The measure of faith. Him that is weak in the faith. - Strong in faith, giving glory to God. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? - Great is thy faith: be it unto the even as thou wilt. Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord... According to your faith be it unto you. Increase our faith. - Building up yourselves on your most holy faith. - Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith. - He which stablisheth us with you in Christ...is God. - The God of all grace...after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. We...that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of te weak, and not to please ourselves. - Let us not... judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man out a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. Ro. 12.3; Ro. 14.1; Ro. 4.20 Mt. 14.31; Mt. 15.28 Mt. 9.28,29 Lu. 17.5; Jude 20; Col. 2.7; 2 Co. 1.21; 1 Pe. 5.10 Ro. 15.1; Ro. 14.13 A Puritans Catechism Q35 - What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? A - The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification are assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation Chapter 15 PARAGRAPH 4 As repentance is to be continued through the whole course of our lives, upon the account of the body of death, and the motions thereof, so it is every man’s duty to repent of his particular known sins particularly.7 7 Luke 19:8; 1 Tim. 1:13,15 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Be fervent in praise By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. - Hebrews 13 v 15 And, oh! be fervent in praise. Lift up your voices in it. Lift up your hearts in it. In heaven they wax louder and louder. John heard the sound of a great multitude; and then it was like many waters, and then it was like might thunderings, crying: 'Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I remember Edwards' remark, that it was in the singing of praises that his people felt themselves most enlarged, and that then God was worshipped somewhat in the beauty of holiness. Let it be so among yourselves. Learn, dearly beloved, to praise God heartily, to sing with all your heart and soul in the family and in the congregation. But, oh! remember that even your praises must be sprinkled with blook, and can be acceptable to God only by Jesus Christ.
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