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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 - The Danites send five men to seek out for them an inheritance, who come to the house of Micah, and are encouraged by the Levite to proceed on their way. They search Laisha, and bring back news of good hope. Six hundred men are sent to surprise the place. On the way they rob Micah of his consecrated things, and carry off his priest. Micah pursueth them, but is obliged to return for fear of violence. Laisha is surprised, taken possession of, and called Dan. Idolatry is set up in Dan, where Jonathan the Levite and his sons have the priesthood. Judges 18 Preface -Paul declareth at large the manner of his conversion and call to the apostleship. At the very mentioning of the Gentiles the people exclaim furiously against him: whereupon the chief captain ordereth to examine him by scourging: which he avoideth by pleading the privilege of a Roman citizen. He is brought before the Jewish council. Acts 22 Daily Light - Morning It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. - I have glorified three on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. - We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrfices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered once sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jn. 19.30; He. 12.2; Jn. 17.4; He. 10.10-14; Col. 2.14 Jn. 10.17-18; Jn. 15.13 Daily Light - Evening He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. He brought me up....out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. - You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world....among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh. Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. - Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. - We went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow. Ps. 18.16; Ps. 40.2; Eph. 2.1-3 Ps. 61.1-2; Jon. 2.2-3; Ps. 66.12 Isa. 43.2 A Puritans Catechism Q 13 - Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created? A - Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from that initial state wherein they were created, by sinning against God, by eating the forbidden fruit. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 4 The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God. 7 7 2 Pet. 1:19–21; 2 Tim. 3:16; 1 Thess. 2:13; 1 John 5:9 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Forewarned is fore-armed Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Acts 14 v 22 We naturally shrink from pain. Many would like to go round; no, we must go through. Many would be willing to have a little; but no, we must through much tribulation enter the kingdom. There are three streams of trouble peculiar to believers. Persecution - Let us go without the camp bearing His reproach - take up our cross daily. This is what Moses had to bear, and Lot, and all God's children, - trials of cruel mocking and scourging. Temptations - There is a 'need be' for this also. Satan is a fearful enemy. Before conversion, we know little of him. Those who are determined to win glory, will feel his fiery darts. There is a design on Satan's part. He will not suffer us to go quietly into the kingdom. And on God's part, too, He wants us to know what we are saved from. Concern for unconverted souls. - This is one of the deep afflictions of a child of God. He is afflicted for unconverted kindred. It may be father, mother, sister, brother, friend; the wife of his bosom, or the children of his love; unconverted neighbours, an unbelieving world. This is a sorrow he must carry with him to the grave. O dear friends, make up your minds to carry the cross daily. Forewarned is to be fore-armed. All God's children go through these tribulations.
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