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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 4) Preface - Solomon's chief officers of state. The twelve officers who provided for his household, each in his month. The prosperity and grandeur of his kingdom. The daily provision for his household, suitable to the extent of his dominions and peacefulness of his reign. His stables. His extraordinary wisdom. 5) Preface - Hiram sendeth to congratulate Solomon, who acquainteth him with his design of building the temple, and desireth him to furnish timber for that purpose. Hiram blesseth God for Solomon's wisdom, and promiseth the timber, requesting food for his household in return. The mutual services and good correspondence between Hiram and Solomon. The number of workmen and labourers employed in preparing materials for the building. 1 Kings 4-5 Preface - Paul setteth before the Ephesians their former corrupt heathen state, and God's rich mercy in their deliverance. We are saved by grace, not of works, yet so as to be created in Christ unto good works. They who were once strangers, and far from God, are now brought near by Christ's blood, who having abolished the ritual law, the ground of distinction between Jew and Gentile, hath united both in one body, and gained them equal access to the Father. So that the Gentiles are henceforth equally privileged with the Jews, and together with them constitute an holy temple for the habitation of God's Spirit. Ephesians 2 Daily Light - Morning The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. - Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity? All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. - He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. - The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Lev. 16.22; Ps. 103.12; Jer. 50.20; Mi. 7.19; Mi. 7.18 Isa. 53.6; Isa. 53.11-12; Jn. 1.29 Daily Light - Evening Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? By the grace of God I am what I am. - Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth. - It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. - Christ Jesus....is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.... He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. - Ye are washed....ye are sanctified....ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Co. 4.7; 1 Co. 15.10; Jas. 1.18; Ro. 9.16; Ro. 3.27; 1 Co. 1.30,31 Eph. 2.1-3; 1 Co. 6.11 A Puritans Catechism Q 42 - Which is the first commandment? A - The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of God and the Holy Trinity Chapter 2 PARAGRAPH 2 God, having all life,17 glory, 18 goodness, 19 blessedness, in and of Himself, is alone in and unto Himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creature which He hath made, nor deriving any glory from them, 20 but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them; He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things, 21 and He hath most sovereign dominion over all creatures, to do by them, for them, or upon them, whatsoever Himself pleases; 22 in His sight all things are open and manifest, 23 His knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, so as nothing is to Him contingent or uncertain; 24 He is most holy in all His counsels, in all His works, 25 and in all His commands; to Him is due from angels and men, whatsoever worship, 26 service, or obedience, as creatures they owe unto the Creator, and whatever He is further pleased to require of them. 17 John 5:26 18 Ps. 148:13 19 Ps. 119:68 20 Job 22:2–3 21 Rom. 11:34-36 22 Dan. 4:25,34–35 23 Heb. 4:13 24 Ezek. 11:5; Acts 15:18 25 Ps. 145:17 26 Rev. 5:12-14 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Make haste my beloved Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. Song of Solomon 8 v 14 It is the presence of Christ that makes a sweet time of refreshing in a Church. When He comes leaping on the mountains, skipping upon the hills, the flowers immediately appear on the earth. The Lord's people are quickened in all their graces; they begin to sing songs of deliverance; anxious souls spring up like the gras, and the whole garden of the Lord sends out spices. Ah! if the Lord Jesus were to come in here with power, I would preach and you would hear in another way than we do. I could not be so hard-hearted, and you would be melted under His word. Oh! will you not pray, 'Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.' Is not such a time desirable?
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