Daily Readings for Saturday 2nd September 2023

Prayer
-God thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever.
-Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another.
-Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.)
-Pray we would be granted faithful ministry and good spiritual food from God's Word. (1 Peter 2.2.)

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 readings
Preface - Saul, informed by the Ziphites of David's abode, cometh against him to Hachilah. David coming into the trench findeth Saul and his servants asleep; he stayeth abishai from killing Saul, but taketh his spear and cruse. David reproveth Abner's negligence, protesteth his own innocency, and exhorteth Saul to desist from pursuing him. Saul acknowledgeth his sin, and returneth home.
1 Samuel 26
Preface - Marriage is to be used as a remedy against fornification. Christ hath forbidden to dissolve the bond thereof. Directions how to act where one of the parties is an unbeliever. Every man must abide in and fulfil the duties of the state wherein he was called. Directions concerning the marriage of virgins, respecting the distress of the times; and concerning the second marriage of widows.
1 Corinthians 7

A Puritans Catechism
Q 65 - Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
A - No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Prize for Lord's day
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. - Psalm 118 v 24
Prize the Lord's Day. The more that others despise and trample on it, love you it all the more. The louder the storm of blasphemy howls around you, sit the closet at the feet of Jesus. 'He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.' Diligently improve all holy time. It should be the busiest day of the seven; but only in the business of eternity. Avoid sin on that holy day. God's children should avoid sin every day, but most of all on the Lord's Day. It is a day of double cursing as well as of double blessing. The world will have to answer dreadfully for sins committed in holy time. Spend the Lord's Day in the Lord's presence. Spend it as a day in heaven. Spend much of it in praise and in works of mercy, as Jesus did.