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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 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 - According to the duty of a watchman in warning the people, Ezekiel is admonished of his duty in warning sinners. God sheweth the manner of his dealings with the righteous that revolteth, and with thte returning sinner. He maintaineth the equity of his proceeding. Upon the news of the taking of Jerusalem Ezekiel prophesieth the desolation of the land. The hypocrisy of the captive Jews reproved. Ezekiel 33 Psalms 81) Preface - An exhortation to a solemn praising of God. God challengeth that duty by reason of his benefits. God, exhorting his people to obedience, complaineth of their disobedience, which proveth their own hurt. Psalms 82) Preface - The Psalmist having exhorted the judges, and reproved their misconduct, prayeth God to judge. Psalms 81-82 Daily Light - Morning He knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. He knoweth our frame. - He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that thy may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. - I...will refine them as silver is refined...they shall call on my name, and i will hear them: I will say, it is my people: and they shall say, the LORD is my God. Job 23.10; Ps. 103.14; Lam. 3.33 2 Tim. 2.19-21 Mal. 3.3; Zech. 13.9 Daily Light - Evening Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. And Moses said unto the LORD... I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee... And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. - He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. - Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. - The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth mroe and more unto the perfect day. Ps. 25.4; Ex. 33.12,13,14; Ps. 103.7 Ps. 25.9,12; Pro. 3.5-6 Ps. 16.11; Ps. 32.8; Pro. 4.18 A Puritans Catechism Q 41 - What is the sum of the ten commandments? A - The sum of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 7 All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all;12 yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of ordinary means, may attain to a sufficient understanding of them.13 12 2 Pet. 3:16 13 Ps. 19:7; Psalm 119:130 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings A Vent for His love Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. John 10 v 17 Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life. I do not know any word in the Bible that is more sweet to meditate on than the love of the Father to the Son. There are many things that induce the Father to love the Son. He loved Him for His Godhead. But here is another reason why the Father loves the Son - He loves Him for His holy manhood. 'He was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners.' God never say anything so like Himself. When God made Adam, He said, 'It is very good'; but oh! when He saw Jesus, he saw a loveliness in Him such as He never saw in any created thing. But here is another reason why the Father loves Him - 'Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life.' We are told that He grew in favour both with God and man. He was every day fulfilling a part of His holy obedience, until He came to the last, and then the Father saw obedience as He had never seen before. Oh, brethren! it was love that was never seen before, that He should die for the lowest - for the vilest. And that appears to be another reason why Jesus died: it is, that the Father got a vent for his love to flow out to sinners - 'Therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life.'
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