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Prayer - Tuesday
Tuesday - Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness. - Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation. - Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes. 5.16.) 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 - Hannah's song in thankfulness to God. The sin of Eli's sons. Samuel's ministry. Eli blesseth Elkanah and his wife, who beareth more children. Eli reproveth his sons. A prophecy against Eli's house. 1 Samuel 2 Preface - They that condemn sin in others, and are guilty of the same themselves, cannot escape God's judgment; which will be according to every man's deserts, without distinction of Jew or Gentile. The Gentiles are not left without a rule of conduct. The Jew, who boasteth of greater light is doubly criminal in sinning against it; nor will circumcision profit him, except he keep the law. Romans 2 Daily Light - Morning The Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion. Fear thou not....saith the LORD: for I am with thee....I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure. - For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.... For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. Lam. 3.31-32; Jer. 46.28; Isa. 54.7-8,10-11 Mi. 7.9 Daily Light - Evening God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. When the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD praised them up a deliverer, Ehud....a man lefthanded.... After him was Shamgar....which slew of the Philistines Six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. The LORD looked upon [Gideon], and said, Go in this thy might....have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. The LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me....lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 1 Co. 1.27; Judg. 3.15,31 Judg. 6.14-15 Judg. 7.2 Zech. 4.6; Eph. 6.10 A Puritans Catechism Q 21 - How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? A - Christ, the Son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin. 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 unbelieving believer And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. John 20 vs 26-28 When Thomas came to the meeting of disciples that evening, I doubt not his heart was very desolate. unbelief and unhappiness always go together. An unbelieving believer is of all men most miserable. His brethren around him were full of joy, for they had seen the lord. Mary still remembered the blessed tone of His voice when He said: 'Mary!' and she answered, 'Rabboni?' Peter was wondering over His amazing love when He said: 'Go tell the disciples, and Peter.' And the bosom of John was filled with a silent feeling of unutterable love. All were glad but one. That one was Thomas. But now, when Christ came in, when He revealed Himself a crucified but risen Redeemer, when He showed His special kindness to Thomas, the heart of Thomas could stand out no longer, and he cried out, in words of appropriating faith, before all: 'My Lord, and my God.'
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