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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 - Second Year Preface - The companions of Ezra, who returned with him from Babylon. Reviewing them at Ahava, and finding none of the Levites there, he sendeth to Iddo for ministers for the temple service, and obtaineth them. A fast is proclaimed in order to seek of God a prosperous journey. The holy treasures are committed to the custody of the priests. From Ahava Ezra with his company come safe to Jerusalem. The treasures are delivered by weight into the temple. The king's commission delivered.. Ezra 8 Preface - The disciples being dispersed by reason of a great persecution at Jerusalem, a church is planted by Philip in Samaria; Simon the sorcerer is baptized with many others. Peter and John are sent thither, who by prayer and imposition of hands give the Holy Ghost. Simon offereth money for this power, is sharply reproved by Peter for his wickedness and hypocrisy, and admonished to repent: the apostles return to Jerusalem, having preached the word. Philip is sent by an angel to convert and baptize an Ethiopian Eunuch. Acts 8 Daily Light - Morning They that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. - I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. - For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. - The LORD will not forsake his people fo rhis great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. - Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. Be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. Ps. 9.10; Pro. 18.10; Isa. 12.2 Ps. 37.25; Ps. 37.28; 1 Sa. 12.22; 2 Co. 1.10 He. 13.5-6 Daily Light - Evening They are without fault before the throne of God. 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. - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. He hath made us accepted in the beloved. - To present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Rev. 14.5; Jer. 50.20; Mi. 7.18-19 Eph. 1.6; Col. 1.22 Jude 24.25 A Puritans Catechism Q 59 - Which is the eighth commandment? A - The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal. 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 Bread upon the waters Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Ecclesiastes 11 v 1 The excellent John Flavel was minister of Dartmouth in England. One day he preached from these words: 'If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha.' The discourse was unusually solemn, particularly the explanation of the curse. At the conclusion, when Mr Flavel rose to pronounce the blessing, he paused, and said: 'How shall i bless this whole assembly, when every person in it who loves not the Lord Jesus is anathema maranatha?' The solemnity of this address deeply affected the audience. In the congregation was a lad named Luke Short, about fifteen years old, a native of Dartmouth. Shortly after, he went to sea, and sailed to America, where he passed the rest of his life. His life was lengthened far beyond the usual term. When a hundred years old, he was able to work on his farm, and his mind was not at all impaired. He had lived all this time in carelessness and sin; he was a sinner a hundred years old, and ready to die accursed. One day, as he sat in his field, he busied himself in reflecting on his past life. He thought of the days of his youth. His memory fixed on Mr. Flavel's sermon, a considerable part of which he remembered. The earnestness of the minister, the truths spoken, the effect on the people, all came fresh to his mind. He felt that he had not loved the Lord Jesus; he feared the dreadful anathema; he was deeply convinced of sin, was brought to the blood of sprinkling. He lived to his one hundred and sixteenth year, giving every evidence of being born again. Ah! how faithful God is to His Word. He did let none of His words fall to the ground. Be of good cheer, Christian mothers, who weep over your unawakened children. They may be going far from you, perhaps across the seas and you tremble for their souls. Remember God can reach them everywhere. A believing mother never prayed in vain. Be instant in prayer. God will not forget His Word. He will let none of His words fall to the ground.
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