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Daily Prayer - Monday
Monday Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone in 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 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 - David by example and exhortation causeth the princes and people to offer willingly for the service of the temple. David's thanksgiving and prayer. The people having blessed God, and sacrificed, make Solomon king the second time. The prosperity and majesty of Solomon's reign. David's reign and death. Chronicles 29 Preface -The apostle declareth it to be the design of both his epistles to remind the brethren of Christ's coming to judgment, in opposition to scoffers. No argument can be drawn against it from the delay, which is designed to leave men room for repentance. He describeth the day of the Lord, and exhoreth to holiness of life in expectation of it. He sheweth that Paul had taught the same in his epistles: and concludeth with advice to beware of seduction, and to grow in Christian grace and knowledge. 2 Peter 3 Daily Light - Morning A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest. Forasmuch...as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same. - The man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts. - I and my Father are one. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. - There shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. - The LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. hen my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. - Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble. - Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible one is as a storm against the wall. Isa. 32.2; He. 2.14; Zech. 13.7; Jn. 10.30 Ps. 91.1; Isa. 4.6; Ps. 121.5-6 Ps. 61.2; Ps. 32.7; Isa. 25.4 Daily Light - Evening Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. The new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me....so shall your seed and your name remain. We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I john saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Isa. 65.17; Isa. 66.22 2 Pe. 3.13 Rev. 21.1-5 A Puritans Catechism Q 21 - How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? A - Christ, the Son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Saving Faith Chapter 14 PARAGRAPH 2 By this faith a Christian believes to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word for the authority of God himself,4 and also apprehends an excellency therein above all other writings and all things in the world,5 as it bears forth the glory of God in his attributes, the excellency of Christ in his nature and offices, and the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit in his workings and operations: and so is enabled to cast his soul upon the truth consequently believed;6 and also acts differently upon that which each particular passage thereof contains; yielding obedience to the commands,7 trembling at the threatenings,8 and embracing the promises of God for this life and that which is to come;9 but the principle acts of saving faith have immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, and resting upon him alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace.10 4 Acts 24:14 5 Ps. 19:7-10, 69:72 6 2 Tim. 1:12 7 John 15:14 8 Isa. 116:2 9 Heb. 11:13 10 John 1:12; Acts 16:31; Gal. 2:20; Acts 15:11 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Christ manifested And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 1 John 3 v 5 O beloved, if Jesus had not been manifested, you had never been saved. It would have been quite righteous in God to have kept His Son in His own bosom - to have kept that jewel in His own place upon the throne of heaven. God would hat been the same lovely God; but we would have lain down in a burning hell. If that Eternal Life which was with the Father - if He had remained in His glory as the Living One - then you and I would have borne our own curse. But he was manifested - 'God was manifest in the flesh - justified in the Spirit - seen of angels - believed on in the world - received up into glory.' John saw Him - he saw His lovely countenance, he behold His glory, as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. He saw that better Sun veiled with flesh that could not keep the beams of His Godhead from shining through. He saw Him on the Mount, when His face shone like the sun. He saw Him in the garden, when He lay upon the ground. He saw Him on the cross, when He hung between earth and heaven. He looked upon Him - many a time he looked upon His heavenly countenance - his eye met His eye. He heard Him - heard the voice that said, 'Let there be light!' He heard all His gracious words - His words concerning God and the way of peace. He heard Him say to a sinner, 'Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee.' He handled Him - he put his hands in His hands, his arms around His arms, and his head upon His bosom. Perhaps he handled His body when it was taken from the cross - touched the cold clay of Immanuel. O beloved, it is a manifested Christ we declare unto you. It is not the Son in the bosom of the Father - that would never have saved you. It is Jesus manifested in flesh. The Son of God living and dying as man in the stead of sinners; Him we declare unto you.
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