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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 5.10) 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 - (no preface) Proverbs 26 Preface - The apostle proceedeth to shew that Christ's coming will be sudden, exhorting Christians to watch and be sober, so as not to be taken by surprise. He beseecheth them to respect their spiritual guides; and giveth various other precepts; concluding with a prayer and salutations. 1 Thessalonians 5 Daily Light - Morning In every thing ye are enriched by him. When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. - He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. - Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. 1 Co. 1.5; Ro. 5.6; Ro. 8.32 Col. 2.9-10 Jn. 15.4-5; Ro. 7.18; Eph. 4.7 Jn. 15.7; Col. 3.16 Daily Ligth - Evening They shall see his face. I beseech thee, shew me thy glory...And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. - I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh. I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. - I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. - We shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. - The Lord himself shall descend from heaven...the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Rev. 22.4; Ex. 33.18,20; Jn. 1.18 Rev. 1.7; Nu. 24.17 Job 19.25-26; Ps. 17.15; 1 Jn. 3.2; 1 Th. 4.16-17 A Puritans Catechism Q 32 -What is justification? A - Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. Of The Last Judgement Chapter 31 PARAGRAPH 1 God has appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness, by Jesus Christ;1 to whom all power and judgment is given of the Father; in which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged,2 but likewise all persons that have lived upon the earth shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of their thoughts, words, and deeds, and to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or evil.3 1 Acts 17:31; John 5:22–27 2 1 Cor. 6:3; Jude 6 3 2 Cor. 5:10; Eccles. 12:14; Matt. 12:36; Rom. 14:10,12; Matt. 25:32–46 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings A conversation in heaven Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I hte Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. - Isaiah 42 vs 5-8 In this passage we have some of the most wonderful words that ever were uttered in the world. It is not a man speaking to a man. It is not even God speaking to a man. It is God speaking to His own Son. Oh, who would not listen? It is as if we were secretly admitted into the counsel of God, as if we stood behind the curtains of His dwelling-place, or were hidden in the clefts of the rock, and overheard the words of the eternal Father to the etenal Son... Now sometimes when you overhear a conversation on earth, between two poor perishing worms, you think it is worth treasuring up, you remember what they said; you repeat it over and over again. Oh! then, when you over hear a conversation in heaven, when God the Father speaks, and God the Son stands to receive his words, will you not listen? Will you not lay up all these sayings in your heart? God tells the Son: (1) That He had called Him to this service - had passed over all His angels, and chosen Him for this difficult work, (2) He tells Him that He is not to shrink from the difficulties of it. There is an ocean of wrath to wade through, but fear not: I will hold Thee by the hand - I will keep thee. (3) He tells Him that He must be given as a covenant Saviour. Howe er dear to His heart, still, says God, 'I will give thee.' (4) He encourages Him by the great benefit to be gained - that he would be a light to whole nations of poor, blind, captive sinners. (5) That in all this He would have His glory: 'My glory will I not give to another, nor my praise to graven images.'
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