Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. - Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue. - Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church. - Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world 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) (Thursday afternoon) Scripture reading - Ephesians 2 v 7 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 - Job entreateth God's forbearance in respect of the shortness and troubles of life, and of the certainty of death, which cutteth short man's hope: he wisheth for some place of shelter, where to wait his appointed change. All created beings are subject to corruption. Job 14 Preface - Being built on the testimony of the spirit, and on miracles, might be solely ascribed to God. The gospel doth contain God's wise, but secret, counsel, for bringing men to glory; which no natural abilities could discover, but the spirit of God only, by which it was revealed to the apostles. Upon this account both the doctrine and its teachers are held in disesteem by the mere natural man, who is not daily qualified to judge of and discern them. 1 Corinthians 2 Daily Light - Morning Who can say, I have made my heart clean? The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. - They that are in the flesh cannot please God. To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. - We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a lear; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by ffaith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. - God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Pr. 20.9; Ps. 14.2-3; Ro. 8.8 Ro. 7.18-19; Isa. 64.6 Ga. 3.22; 2 Co. 5.19 1 Jn. 1.8-9 Daily Light - Evening The floods lift up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. - O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. Peter...walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. Ps. 93.3; Ps. 93.4; Ps. 89.8-9 Jer. 5.22 Isa. 43.2 Mt. 14.29-31 Ps. 56.3 A Puritans Catechism Q65 - 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. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 1 The light of nature shows that there is a God, who has lordship and sovereignty over all; is just, good and does good to all; and is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the heart and all the soul, and with all the might.1 But the acceptable way of worshipping the true God, is instituted by himself,2 and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imagination and devices of men, nor the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representations, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scriptures.3 1 Jer. 10:7; Mark 12:33 2 Deut. 12:32 3 Exod. 20:4–6 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path Do not doubt Now Jesus loved...Lazarus. - John 2 v 5 Christ loved Lazarus peculiarly, and yet he afflicted him very sore. A surgeon never bends his eye so tenderly upon his patient, as when he is putting in the lancet, or probing the wound to the very bottom. And so with Christ; He bends His eye most tenderly over His own at the time He is afflicting them. Do not doubt the Holy love of Jesus to your soul when he is laying a heavy hadn upon you. Jesus did not love Lazarus less when he afflicted him, but rather more - even as a father correcteth a son in whom he delighteth (Proverbs 3 v 12). A goldsmith when he casts gold into the furnace looks after it.
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