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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 - Micah reproveth the cruelty of the princes, and the falsehood of the prophets. His zeal in showing the sins of the princes, priests, and prophets, and their ill grounded security. Micah 3 Preface - Christ teacheth his disciples to avoid hypocrisy, and not to be fearful in publishing his doctrine: he refuseth to be judge in a civil cause, and warneth the people to beware of covetousness by the parable of a rich man, who boasted himself in his multiplied stores: he exhorteth not to be over anxious about the provisions of this life; but to seek the kingdom of God; to lay up treasure in heaven by giving alms; and to be always ready for our Lord's coming. By the parable of a good and a wicked steward he sheweth the duty of his ministers in particular: he foretelleth the divisions on account of the gospel: reproveth the people for not discerning the times: and sheweth the danger of neglecting the means of reconciliation offered them. Luke 12 Daily Light - Morning As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Not every one that saith...Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. - Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. - Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and a bound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of ur Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. Jas. 2.26; Mt. 7.21; He. 12.14; 2 Pe. 1.5-10 Eph. 2.8-9 Daily Light - Evening As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might...deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?... Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, and house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens... Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord...and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. He. 2.14,15; 1 Co. 15.55,57; 2 Co. 4.16 2 Co. 5.1,6,8 Jn. 14.1-3 A Puritans Catechism Q 18 - What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell? A - All mankind by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Sanctification Chapter 13 PARAGRAPH 2 This sanctification is throughout the whole man,7 yet imperfect in this life; there abides still some remnants of corruption in every part,8 wherefrom arises a continual and irreconcilable war; the flesh lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.9 7 1 Thess. 5:23 8 Rom. 7:18,23 9 Gal. 5:17; 1 Pet. 2:11 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Here is the victory O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 1 Corinthians 15 v 55 There is nothing that we naturally shrink back from more than the grave. Ah! it is a fearful thing to leave the company of living men, and lie down in the narrow house, with a shroud for our only clothing, a coffin for our couch, and the worm for our companion. It is humiliating, it is loathsome. But if you are one of Christ's, here is the victory: 'In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality: So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in voctory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (1 Corinthians 15 vs 52-55.)
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