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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 - Joab by threats forceth David to cease mourning. The Israelites are earnest to bring the king back. David sendeth to the priests to incite the men of Judah. Shimei making submission is pardoned. Mephiboseth cometh to meet David, and complaineth of his servant's treachery; half his land is restored to him. Barzillai attendeth the king over Jordan, and is gratefully dismissed; Chimham is received into the king's family. The men of Israel expostulate with the men of Judah for not calling them to take part in bringing back the king. 2 Samuel 19 Preface - Paul sheweth that, though he had been favoured with visions and revelations, yet for commendation of his apostleship he chose rather to glory in his infirmities: blaming the Corinthians, who had seen in him all the signs of an apostle, for forcing him to such vain boasting. He telleth them of his design of visiting them again with the same disinterestedness and fatherly affection as before. He justifieth himself from any crafty extortation by his messengers; and expresseth his fears, lest, both to his sorrow and theirs, he should find many notorious disorders still not repented of among them. 2 Corinthians 12 Daily Light - Morning Our God hath not forsaken us. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God. Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Ezr. 9.9; 1 Pe. 4.12; He. 12.7-8 Deu. 13.3 1 Sa. 12.22; Isa. 49.15; Ps. 146.5 Lu. 18.7-8 Daily Light - Evening He that overcometh shall inherit all things. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. - Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. - An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. All things are yours....the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours. - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. - Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Rev. 21.7; 1 Co. 15.19; He. 11.16; 1 Pe. 1.4 1 Co. 3.21,22; 1 Co. 2.9-10 2 Jn. 8; He. 12.1 A Puritans Catechism Q 34 - What is sanctification? A - Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 3 The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings. 6 6 Luke 24:27,44; Rom. 3:2 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Faith's view of Christ And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. John 20 v 20 When the Lord of glory left His Father's bosom, and came into this world, we are sure it was for a purpose suited to His divine nature. Christ came to make men glad. It was said of Him, 'The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath appointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.' (Isaiah 61 v 1.) Ah! sure, He must be a good Saviour that was to bind up broken hearts, and to make all men glad. Therefore, when He came, He said, 'That their joy might be full.' And you see in the verse before our text, His first words to His disciples were, 'Peace be unto you.' But the devil wants you to believe that we want to take away your mirth and joy. He is a liar, and he was a liar from the beginning. Jesus came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them; so do we. We come to break your false joy - to awaken you from your dream - before you be dashed into the burning lake. Ah! we come to give you fullness of joy that cannot wither - joy that cannot die. True, believers have sorrow; they have a poor frail body, and they may have false friends. They may have ungodly children; they have temptations and persecutions. The world knows nothing of these sorrows. But they have a joy that the word cannot give or take away. They have a joy to balance all their sorrows; they have 'joy unspeakable and full of glory.' It is a joy that will never die. It will be brighter and brighter throughout an endless eternity.
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