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 - Job, complaining of the repeated cruelty of his friends, sheweth that he hath misery enough to gratify it: he calleth for pity; professeth his belief of a future resurrection; and warneth his friends not to persecute him. Job19 Preface - The Corinthians are reproved for bringing their controversies before heathen judges, which they ought to decide among themselves. There would be no occasion for lawsuits, if men acted up to the principles of the gospel, which exclude from the kingdom of God all notorious transgressors of the moral law. All lawful things are not expedient; but fornication is a gross offence against our bodies, which are members of Christ, temples of the Holy Ghost, and not our own to dispose of otherwise than to God's glory. 1 Corinthians 6 Daily Light - Morning The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. - The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than me... But God hath choosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise...that no flesh should glory in his presence. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. - Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. - Never man spake like this man. - Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Pro. 2.6; Pr. 3.5; Jas. 1.5; 1 Co. 1.25,27,29 Ps. 119,130; Ps. 119.11 Lu. 4.22; Jn. 7.46; 1 Co. 1.30 Daily Light - Evening The year of my redeemed is come. Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. The dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in their air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. Isa. 63.4; Lev. 25.10 Isa. 26.19 1 Th. 4.16-17 Hos. 13.14 Jer. 50.34 A Puritans Catechism Q69 - What is faith in Jesus Christ? A - Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is set forth in the gospel. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 4 Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter;13 but not for the dead,14 nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death.15 13 1 Tim. 2:1–2; 2 Sam. 7:29 14 2 Sam. 12:21–23 15 1 John 5:16 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Persecution Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. - 2 Timothy 3 v 12 The history of the Church in all ages has been a history of persecution. No sooner does a soul begin to show concern for religion, no sooner does that soul cleave to Jesus, than the world talk, to the grief of those whom God hath wounded. What bitter words are hurled against that soul! In all ages this has been true: 'They wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy.' Those that eat the bread of God have often been driven from their quiet meal - those who are clothed with Christ have often had to part with worldly clothing, and have been exposed to famine, nakedness, peril and sword - the last extremity. Cain murdered Abel. They killed the Prince of Life; and so all his creatures ever since have been exposed to the same.
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