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Daily Prayer - Thursday
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 11:00 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 three years' famine on account of the Gibeonites ceaseth upon hanging seven of Saul's sons. Rizpah's care for their dead bodies. David burieth their bones with those of Saul and Jonathan in the sepulchre of Kish. In four battles against the Philistines four of David's mighty men slay four giants. 2 Samuel 21 Preface - After saluting the churches of Galatia, Paul testifieth his surprise that they should so soon have forsaken the truth of the gospel which he had taught them; and pronounceth those accursed who preach any other gospel. He sheweth that his doctrine was not devised to please men, but came to him by immediate revelation from God. To confirm which he relateth his coversation before his calling, and what steps he had taken immediately thereupon. Galatians 1 Daily Light - Morning Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. - We glory in tribulations....knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. - Ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hat great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have one the will of God, ye might receive the promise. - Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts. Jas. 1.4; 1 Pe. 1.6-7; Ro. 5.3-4 Lam. 3.26; He. 10.34-36; 2 Th. 2.16-17 Daily Light - Evening God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. - The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son....because he is the Son of man. - The Son of God....hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire. They say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. - There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. - Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. Ro. 2.16; 1 Co. 4.5; Jn. 5.22,27; Rev. 2.18 Ps. 73.11; Ps. 50.21; Lu. 12.2 Ps. 38.9; Ps. 26.2 A Puritans Catechism Q 36 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? A - The souls of believers re at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately ass into glory; and their bodies, being still united in Christ, do rest in their graves, till the resurrection. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 5 We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church of God to a high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scriptures; and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, and the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is to give all glory to God), the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, and many other incomparable excellencies, and entire perfections thereof, are arguments whereby it does abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God; yet notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth, and divine authority thereof, is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts. 8 8 John 16:13-14; 1 Cor. 2:10-12; 1 John 2:20, 27 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The voice of the shepherd And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. John 10 vs 4-5 You know, brethren, this is the characteristic of the sheep of the east, they know the shepherds voice. There was once a traveller in the east who denied that they knew the voice of the shepherd, and contended that it was the person they knew; and to prove it, they changed clothes. The person called the sheep, and they moved not; but when the shepherd called them, they instantly followed him. Now, this is just the way with Christ and His sheep. Christ may be disguise, but faith hears His voice. The first time they hear His voice is the time of conversion. You remember Zaccheus, he was up in the sycamore tree, and he might think, 'Christ's word will not reach me'; but Christ said to him. 'Come down, Zaccheus, for today I must abide at thy house.' The voice of the Shepherd reached him. This was the first day that Zaccheus head the Shepherd's voice. You remember Lydia, she sat among the Grecian matrons by the riverside, and heard Paul preach. Someone opened her heart, and said, 'Come away'; it was the voice of the Shepherd. 'The Lord opened the heart of Lydia to attend unto the things that were spoken.' It was the outward voice of Paul, but it was the inward voice of Christ.
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