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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 - The severe judgment of God against Babylon in revenge of Israel. Jeremiah delivereth the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon. Jeremiah 51 Preface - David praiseth God for his deliverance: he exhorteth others to praise him by the example of God's dealing with him. Psalms 30 Daily Light - Morning None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's - Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. - Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 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. Ro. 14.7; Ro. 14.8; 1 Co. 10.24; 1 Co. 6.20 Phil. 1.20-23 Ga. 2.19-20 Daily Light - Evening God gave Solomon...largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. - The Prince of Peace. Scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. - Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. - The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. - In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. - The unsearchable riches of Christ. - Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousnes, and sanctification, and redemption. 1 Ki. 4.29; Mt. 12.42; Isa. 9.6 Ro. 5.7-8; Phil. 2.6-8; Eph. 3.19 1 Co. 1.24; Col. 2.3; Eph. 3.8; 1 Co. 1.30 A Puritans Catechism Q 2 - What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify him? A - The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify God and enjoy him. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Church Chapter 26 PARAGRAPH 7 To each of these churches therefore gathered, according to his mind declared in his word, he has given all that power and authority, which is in any way needful for their carrying on that order in worship and discipline, which he has instituted for them to observe; with commands and rules for the due and right exerting, and executing of that power.14 14 Matt. 18:17–18; 1 Cor. 5:4–5,13, 2 Cor. 2:6–8 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings When a believer falls But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to other, I myself should be a castaway. - 1 Corinthians 9 v 27 As long as a believer walks humbly with his God, his soul is at peace. The candle of the Lord shines on his head. He walks in the light as God walks in the light, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth him from all sin. But the moment that unbelief creeps in, he is led away into sin - like David, he falls very low. A believer generally falls lower than the world; and now he falls into darkness. When Adam fell, he was afraid; and he hid himself from God among the trees of the garden, and made a covering of leaves. Alas" when a believer falls, he is also afraid - he hides from God. Now he has lost a good conscience, he fears to meet with God; he does not love the house of prayer; his heart is filled with suspicions. He says to himself: 'If I had been a child of God, would God have given me up to my own heart's lusts?' He refuses to return. 'There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.' Though God has never been a wilderness or a land of darkness to the soul, yet he says: 'We are lords; we will come no more unto thee.' 'The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath forgotten me.' Ah! this is the bitterest of all kinds of desertion. If you put away faith and a good conscience, you will make shipwreck.
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