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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 - Abishag cherisheth David in his extreme old age. Adonijah, having gained over Joab and Abiathar, inviteth his friends to a feast in order to make himself king. Nathan's advice to Bathsheba thereupon; who moveth the king on the behalf of Solomon. She is seconded by Nathan. David sweareth to Bathsheba to make Solomon king that same day; and issueth out orders accordingly. Solomon is anointed and proclaimed king the people rejoicing. Adonijah and his guests hearing the news betake themselves to fight. Adonijah, laying hold on the horns of the altar, is dismissed by Solomon in peace, on condition of his good behaviour. 1 Kings 1 Preface -Paul exhorteth the Galatians to maintain their Christian liberty, and sheweth that by being circumcised they would forfeit their hopes in Christ. He disclaimeth the preaching of circumcision himself, and condemneth it in others. He adviseth them not to abuse their liberty, but to serve one another in love, which comprehendeth the whole law. The oposition between the flesh and the Spirit: the works of the flesh: the fruits of the Spirit. Advice to walk in the Spirit, and not in vainglorious emulation. Galatians 5 Daily Light - Morning Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us. The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. - Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. - Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. - For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. - Christ....suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps. Ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. - We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 1 Jn. 3.16; Eph. 3.19; Jn. 15.13; 2 Co. 8.9; 1 Jn. 4.11; Eph. 4.32; Col. 3.13; Mk. 10.45; 1 Pe. 2.21 Jn. 13.14-15; 1 Jn. 3.16 Daily Light - Evening The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. - I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Them that are sanctified by God the Father. - He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. - The fulness of him that filleth all in all. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. - This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. Jn. 5.19; Pro. 2.6; Lu. 21.15 Ps. 27.14; 2 Co. 12.9 Jude 1; He. 2.11 Jer. 23.24; Eph. 1.23 Isa. 43.11; Jn. 4.42 Titus 1.4 A Puritans Catechism Q 40 - What did God reveal to man for the rule of his disobedience? A - The rule which God first revealed to man for his obedience is the moral law, which is summarized in the ten commandments. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 9 The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself; and therefore when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which are not many, but one), it must be searched by other places that speak more clearly.20 20 2 Pet. 1:20–21; Acts 15:15–16 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings A holy carefulness But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Ephesians 5 v 13 Remember you must have a holy carefulness - 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.' Dear brethren, some of you will say, How is it possible? Do not I live in an ungodly family? Do I not live in Sodom? But, dear brethren, here is the secret. if you will not be like the world, be transformed to it. God is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. God is able to enlarge your heart so that you will run and not weary in God's ways. Then be of good courage, for there is enough in Christ to satisfy you. Do you want to be holy? Then God wishes to make you holy. Then God's will and yours are one. Say, then, 'Make me holy, I want to be holy.' Holiness is the brightest attribute of Jehovah. Ah! I fear we are not living up to what is in Christ, or we would not live as we do. How much useless talk and conversation is there? Oh! the time of our life is more than sufficient to have wrought the will of the flesh. Let us now live to Him. Let us give ourselves away to Christ - solemnly to Him; give your wills and affections to Him for time and for eternity. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with your spirit. Amen.
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