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Daily Prayer - Saturday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook) Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Bible Study and Prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Lunch Hour Service Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Plan - First Year Preface - The building of Solomon's house; of the house of the forest of Lebanon; of the porch of pillars; of the porch of judgment; of the house for Pharaoh's daughter. The costly materials for these buildings, and for the great court round about. Hiram, a skilful artificer, is fetched from Tyre. His work in brass of the two great pillars, the molten sea, the ten bases, the ten lavers, and other vessels for the use of the temple. The furniture and vessels of gold which Solomon made for the temple. 1 Kings 7 Preface - Paul exhorteth to those virtues which become the Christian calling, particularly to unity: declaring that Christ gave his gifts differently, that his body the church might be built up and perfected in the true faith by the cooperation of the individual members with one another, and with him their head. He calleth men off from the vain and impure conversation of the heathen world, to renounce the old, and to put on the new, man: to discard lying, and sinful anger; to leave off dishonest practices, and to gain by honest labour what they have occasion for; to use no corrupt talk, nor grieve God's Spirit; to put away all expressions of ill will; and to practise mutual kindness and forgiveness. Ephesians 4 Daily Light - Morning Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory. - Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? - In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. - Be clothed with humility. [Jesus] was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. - All that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on [stephen], saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. - The glory which thou gavest me I have given them. - We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Ex. 34.29; Ps. 115.1; Mt. 25.37; Phil. 2.3; 1 Pe. 5.5 Mt. 17.2; Ac. 6.15; Jn. 17.22; 2 Co. 3.18 Mt. 5.14-15 Daily Light - Evening There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. There fell some of Manasseh to David.... And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour. - The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. Of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do. - To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit. Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart. - A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. There should be no schism in the body; but....the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. 1 Co. 12.6; 1 Chr. 12.19,21; 1 Co. 12.7 1 Chr. 12.32; 1 Co. 12.8 1 Chr. 12.33; Jas. 1.8 1 Co. 12.25-26 Eph. 4.5 A Puritans Catechism Q 44 - Which is the second commandment? A. - The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of God's Decree Chapter 3 PARAGRAPH 1 God hath decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely and unchangeably, all things, whatsoever comes to pass; 1 yet so as thereby is God neither the author of sin nor hath fellowship with any therein; 2 nor is violence offered to the will of the creature, nor yet is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established; 3 in which appears His wisdom in disposing all things, and power and faithfulness in accomplishing His decree. 4 1 Isa. 46:10; Eph. 1:11; Heb. 6:17; Rom. 9:15,18 2 James 1:13; 1 John 1:5 3 Acts 4:27–28; John 19:11 4 Num. 23:19; Eph. 1:3–5 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Family government For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. Genesis 18 v 19 There are three things very remarkable in these words. 1. That Abraham used parental authority in governing his family: 'I know him, that he will command his children and servants after him.' He did not think it enough to pray for them, or to teach them, but he used the authority which God had given him. He commanded them. 2. That he cared for his servants as well as his children. In Genesis 14 v. 14, we learn that Abraham had 318 servants born in his house. He lived after the manner of patriarchal times, as the Arabs of the wilderness do to this day. His family was very large, and yet he did not say, 'They are none of mine.' He commanded his children and his household. 3. His success. 'They shall keep the way of the Lord.' It is often said that the children of good men turn out ill. 'Well, here is a good man, and a good man doing his duty by his children - and here is the result. His son Isaac was probably a child of God from his earliest years. There is every mark of it in his life. And what a delightful specimen of a believing, prayerful servant was Eliezer! (Genesis 24) It is the duty of all believers to rule their houses well
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