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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 3) Preface - The place of the temple, and the time when the building was begun. The dimensions and ornaments of the house. The dimensions and ornaments of the most holy house; the cherubims that were therein. The vail. The two great pillars. 4) Preface - The altar of brass. The molten sea supported by twelve oxen. The ten lavers, candlesticks, and tables. The two courts. The vessels, furniture, and instruments of brass. The vessels, furniture, and instruments of gold. 2 Chronicles 3-4 Preface - It is a mark of God's singular love toward us, that we are now called his sons, and designed for further happiness hereafter: and therefore we must obediently keep his commandments, and love one another with true brotherly kindness and actual beneficence. 1 John 3 Daily Light - Morning Where shall wisdom be found?.... Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all me liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. - Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. - The only wise God. - Be not wise in thine own eyes. Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. - All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. - To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Job 28.12,28; Jas. 1.5-6; Pro. 3.5-6; 1 Tim. 1.17; Pro. 3.7 Jer. 1.6-8 Jn. 16.23-24; Mt. 21.22; Isa. 8.20 Daily Light - Evening I would not live alway. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.... I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. In this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with out house which is from heaven.... For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. - Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Job 7.16; Ps. 55.6,8 2 Co. 5.2,4; Phil. 1.23 He. 12.1-3 Jn. 14.27 A Puritans Catechism Q 24 - How does Christ execute the office of a priest? A - Christ executes the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation Chapter 15 PARAGRAPH 2 Whereas there is none that does good and does not sin, 2 and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall in to great sins and provocations; God has, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be renewed through repentance unto salvation. 3 2 Eccles. 7:20 3 Luke 22:31–32 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The main-spring For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead. 2 Corinthians 5 v 15 That Christ's love to man is here intended, and not our love to the Saviour, is quite obvious, from the explanation which follows, where His dying for all is pointed to as the instance of His love. It was the view of that strange compassion of the Saviour, moving Him to die for His enemies - to bear double for all our sins, to taste death for every man - it was this view which gave Paul the impulse in every labour - which made all suffering light to him, and every commandment not grievous. He 'ran with patience the race that was set before him'. Why? Because, 'looking unto Jesus' he lived as a man 'crucified unto the world, and the world crucified unto him.' By what means? By looking to the cross of Christ. As the natural sun in the heavens exercises a mighty and unceasing attractive energy on the planets which circle round it, so did the sun of Righteousness, which had indeed arisen on Paul with a brightness above that of noon-day, exercise on his mind a continual and an almighty energy, constraining him to live henceforth no more unto himself, but to Him that died for him and rose again. And observe, that it was not temporary, fitful energy, which it exerted over his heart and life, but an abiding and a continued attraction; for he does not say that the love of Christ did once constrain him; or that it shall yet constrain him; of that in times of excitement, in seasons of prayer, or peculiar devotion, the love of Christ constraineth him. It is the ever present, ever abiding, ever moving power, which forms the main-spring of all his working; so that, take that away, and his energies are gone, and Paul is become weak as other men.
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