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 Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (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 - The companions of Ezra, who returned with him from babylon. Reviewing them at Ahava, and finding none of the Levites there, he sendeth to Iddo for ministers for the temple service, and obtaineth them. A fast is proclaimed in order to seek of God a prosperous journey. The holy treasures are committed to the custody of the priests. From Ahava Ezra with his company come safe to Jerusalem. The treasures are delivered by weight unto the temple. The king's commission delivered. Ezra 8 Preface - The disciples being dispersed by reason of a great persecution at Jerusalem, a church is planted by Philip in Samaria; Simon the sorcerer is baptized with many others. Peter and John are sent thither, who by prayer and imposition of hands give the Holy Ghost. Simon offereth money for this power, is sharply reproved by Peter for his wickedness and hypocrisy, and admonished to repent: the apostles return to Jerusalem, having preached the word. Philip is sent by an angel to convert and baptize an Ethiopian eunuch. Acts 8 Daily Light - Morning They that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. - I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. - For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. - The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. - Who deliverered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. Be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. Ps. 9.10; Pro. 18.10; Isa. 12.2 Ps. 37.25; Ps. 37.28; 1 Sa. 12.22; 2 Co. 1.10 He. 13.5-6 Daily Light - Evening They are without fault before the throne of God. The iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because e delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. He hath made us accepted in the beloved, - To present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Rev. 14.5; Jer. 50.20; Mi. 7.18-19 Eph. 1.6; Col. 1.22 Jude 24-25 A Puritans Catechism Q28 - How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? A - We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Our Sanctification Chapter 13 PARAGRAPH 3 In which war, although the remaining corruption for a time may much prevail,10 yet, through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part does overcome;11 and so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, pressing after an heavenly life, in evangelical obedience to all the commands which Christ as Head and King, in his Word has prescribed to them.12 10 Rom. 7:23 11 Rom. 6:14 12 Eph. 4:15–16; 2 Cor. 3:18, 7:1 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devoional Readings Bread upon the waters Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. - Ecclesiastes 11 v 1 The excellent John Flavel was minister of Darmouth in England. One day he preached from these words: 'If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha.' The discourse was unusually solemn, particularly the explanation of the curse. At the conclusion, when Mr Flavel rose to pronounce the blessing, he paused, and said: 'How shall I bless this whole assembly, when every person in it who loves not the Lord Jesus is anathema maranatha?' The solemnity of this address deeply affected the audience. In the congregation was a lad named Luke Short, about fifteen years old, a native of Dartmouth. Shortly after, he went to sea, and sailed to America, where he passed the rest of his life. His life was lengthened far beyond the usual term. When a hundred years old, he was able to work on his farm, and his mind was not at all impaired. He had lived all this time in carelessness and sin; he was a sinner a hundred years old, and ready to die accursed One day, as he sat in his field, he busied himself in reflecting on his past life. He thought of the days of his youth. His memory fixed on Mr. Flavel's sermon, a considerable part of which he remembered. The earnestness of the minister, the truths spoken the effect on the people, all came fresh to his mind. He felt that he had not loved the Lord Jesus; he feared the dreadful anathema; he was deeply convinced of sin, was brought to the blood of sprinkling. He lived to his one hundred and sixteenth year, giving every evidence of being born again. Ah! how faithful God is to His Word. He did let none of His words fall to the ground. Be of good cheer, Christian mothers, who weep over your unawakened children. They may be going far from you, perhaps across the seas and you tremble for their souls. Remember God can reach them everywhere. A believing mother never prayed in vain. Be instant in prayer. God will not forget His Word. He will let none of His words fall to the ground.
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