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 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 Preface - Hananiah's false prophecy of the return of the vessels and captives from Babylon within two years. Jeremiah, wishing it to be true, appealeth to the event. Hananiah breaketh the yoke off Jeremiah's neck. Jeremiah under the type of an iron yoke confirmeth the prophecy of the subjectjection of the nations to the king of Babylon. He foretelleth Hananiah's death. Jeremiah 28 Preface - The chief priests and scribes conspire against Christ. A woman poureth precious ointment of his head. Judas covenanteth to betray him. Christ eateth the passover, and sheweth that one of his disciples should betray him: he instituteth his last supper: foretelleth the desertion of all his disciples, and Peter's denial of him: his agony and prayer in the garden. He is betrayed by Judas, and seized: his disciples flee: he is carried before the council, falsely accused, examined, pronounced guilty, and treated with indignity. Peter's denial, and repentance. Mark 14 Daily Light - Morning The fruit of the Spirit is...faith. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. - Without faith it is impossible to please him. - He that believeth on his is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. - Faith...worketh by love. - Faith without works is dead. We walk by faith, not by sight. - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Ga. 5.22; Eph. 2.8; He. 11.6; Jn. 3.18; Mk. 9.24 1 Jn. 2.5; Ga. 5.6; Jas. 2.20 2 Co. 5.7; Ga. 2.20; 1 Pe. 1.8-9 Daily Light - Evening The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth athem that fear him. - The LORD is gracious and full of compassion...he will never be mindful of his covenant. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth, abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her sings: so the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. His compassion fail not. They are new every morning great is thy faithfulness. Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. - The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground withot your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. Jas. 5.11; Ps. 103.13; Ps. 111.45 Ps. 121.3-4; Deu. 32.11-12 Lam. 3.22-23 Mt. 14.14; He. 13.8 Mt. 10.29-31 A Puritans Catechism Q 63 - Which is the tenth commandment? A - The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 6 Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the gospel, tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed; but God is to be worshipped everywhere in spirit and in truth;23 as in private families24 daily,25 and in secret each one by himself;26 so more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly nor wilfully to be neglected or forsaken, when God by his word or providence calls thereunto.27 23 John 4:21; Mal. 1:11; 1 Tim. 2:8 24 Acts 10:2 25 Matt. 6:11; Ps. 55:17 26 Matt. 6:6 27 Heb. 10:25; Acts 2:42 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The wonderful grace of Christ Not by works of Righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Titus 3 v 5 When the Holy Spirit leads a man to the cross, his heart there breaks from seeking salvation by his own righteousness. All his burden of performance and contrivances drops. First, the work of Christ appears so perfect, - the wisdom of God and the power of God - divine righteousness. 'I wonder that I should ever think of any other way of salvation. If I could have been saved by my own duties, my whole soul would now have refused it. I wonder that all the world did not see and comply with this way of salvation by the righteousness of Christ.' (Brainerd) Second, the grace of Christ appears so wonderful. That all this righteousness should be free to such a sinner! That I so long neglected, despised, hated it, put mountains between, and yet that He has come over the mountains! 'That thou mayest remember and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done' (Ezekiel 16 v 63). Have you this broken heart - broken within sight of the cross? It is not a look into your own heart, or the heart of hell, but into the heart of Christ, that breaks the heart. Oh, pray for this broken heart! Boasting is excluded. To Him be glory. Worthy is the Lamb! All the struggles of a self-righteous soul are to put the crown on your own head instead of at the feet of Jesus.
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