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Daily Prayer - Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. (John 3.16.) - Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services. - Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and online contacts. 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 30) Preface - God sheweth Jeremiah the return of the Jews, and their deliverance out of their trouble. He comforteth Jacob, and promiseth the Jews a gracious re-establishment in their ancient privileges. Wrath shall fall on the wicked. 31) Preface - The restoration of Israel. Rachel mourning is comforted. Ephraim repenting is received into favour. The miracle of Christ's birth promised as a means of blessing to Judah. God's care for his church. Every man shall answer for his own sin only. The new covenant with Israel. The stability of God's favour to them. The extent of the city when it shall be built. Jeremiah 30-31 Preface - Christ's resurrection is declared by angels to the two Marys and Salome. Christ himself appeareth to Mary Magdalene; to two of his disciples going into the country; and to the eleven; whom he commissioneth to preach the gospel to all the world: his accension into heaven; the gospel is preached every where, the Lord confirming the word with signs. Mark 16 Daily Light - Morning His mercy is on them that fear Him. Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the srife of tongues. If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD...and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. - To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. - The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Lu. 1.50; Ps. 31.19-20 1 Pe. 1.17; Ps. 145.18-19 2 Ki. 22.19 ;Isa. 66.2; Ps. 34.18 Daily Light - Evening Them that honour me I will honour. Whosoever...shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer...be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. - Praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 1 Sa. 2.30; Mt. 10.32; Mt. 10.37-39 Jas. 1.12 Rev. 2.10 2 Co. 4.17; 1 Pe. 1.7 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. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 8 The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe a holy rest all day, from their own works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations,30 but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.31 30 Isa. 58:13; Neh. 13:15–22 31 Matt. 12:1–13 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Cry for the wind Awake, O north wind; and come thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Song of Solomon 4 v 16 These spices do not naturally grow in gardens. Even in the East there never was such a display as this. So the fragrant graces of the Spirit are not natural to the heart. They are brought from a far country. They must be carefully watched. They need the stream and the gentle zephyr. Oh, I fear most of you should hang your heads when Christ begins to speak of fragrant spices in your heart! Where are they? Are there not talkative, forward Christians? Are there not self seeking Christians? Are there not proud praying Christians? Are there not idle, bad working Christians? Lord, where are the spices. Verily, Christ is a bundle of myrrh. Oh to be like Him! Oh that every flower and fruit would grow! They must come from above. Many there are of whom one is forced to say, 'Well, they may be Christians; but I would not like to be next to them in heaven!' Cry for the wind!
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