Daily Readings for Monday 4th March 2024

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 teh 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)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and 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 - Elihu offereth himself instead of God to reason with Job in sincerity without terrifying him: he blameth him for insisting so much upon his innocence, and  for his complaints against God, who i snot accountable to man for his doings. God instructeth and calleth man to repentance by nigh visions, by afflictions, and by the agency of his ministers. Elihu demandeth Job's further attention.
Job 33
Preface - To do away with the imputation of vain glory, Paul sheweth that the gifts and graces of the Corinthians were a sufficient commendation of his ministry, the efficacy of which he ascribeth entirely to God. He proveth the supperior excellency of the gospel ministry to that of the law; and thereupon justifieth his plain speaking, as under a dispensation of greater light and liberty than that of Moses.
2 Corinthians 3


Daily Light - morning
Set your affection on things above,
not on things on the earth.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

We walk by faith, not by sight. - We faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. - An inheritance incorruptible, adn undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.
Col. 3.2; 1 Jn. 2.15; Mt. 6.19-21
2 Co. 5.7; 2 Co. 4.16-18; 1 Pe. 1.4


Daily Light - evening
He...bowed his shoulder to bear.

Take my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and o fpatience. - Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. - Aaron held his peace. - It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, adn my burden is light.
Ge. 49.15; Jas. 5.10; 1 Co. 10.11
Job 2.10; Lev. 10.3; 1 Sa. 3.18
Ps. 55.22; Isa. 53.22; Isa. 53.4
Mt. 11.28-30


A Puritans Catechism
Q 1 - What is the chief end of man?
A - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.


Of Marriage
Chapter 25
PARAGRAPH 1

Marriage is to be between one man and one woman; neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time.1

1 Gen. 2:24; Mal. 2:15; Matt. 19:5–6



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Parts of prayer
Let my prayer be set forth before  thee ... - Psalm 141 v 2
I ought not to omit any of the parts of prayer - confession, adoration, thanksgiving, petition, and intercession. There is a fearful tendency to omit confession, proceeding from low views of God and His law - slight views of my heart and the sins of my past life. This must be resisted. There is a constant tendency to omit adoration, when I forget to whom I am speaking - when I rush heedlessly into the presence of Jehovah, without remembering His awful name and character - when I have little eyesight for His glory, adn little admiration of His wonders. 'Where are the wise?' I have the native tendency of he heart to omit giving thanks. And yet it is specially commanded, (Phillipians 4 v 6). Often when the heart is selfish - dead to the salvation of others - I omit intercession. And yet it especially is the spirit of the Great Advocate, who has the name of Israel always on His heart.
Perhaps every prayer need not have all these; but surely a day should not pass without some space being devoted to each.