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Prayer - 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 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook) Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Bible Study and Prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Lunch Hour Service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Preface - The riches and large commerce of Tyrus. Her great and irrecoverable fall. Ezekiel 27 Psalms 75) Preface - The Psalmist praiseth God: he promiseth to judge uprightly: he rebuketh the proud by a display of God's superintending providence: he promiseth to praise God, and execute justice. Psalms 76) Preface - God's majesty set forth in his notable defence of the church: an exhortation to serve him reverently. Psalms 75-76 Daily Light - Morning It is good for me to draw near to God. LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. - A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. - Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. - Therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us...let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Ps. 73.28; Ps. 26.8; Ps. 84.10; Ps. 65.4 Lam. 3.25; Isa. 30.18 He. 10.19-20,22 Daily Light - Evening Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. - Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips. - All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. Ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. - We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. - I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. - Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 2 Co. 8.9; Jn. 1.14; Ps. 45.2; Lu. 4.22 1 Pe. 2.3; 1 Jn. 5.10; Jn. 3.11 Ps. 34.8; Song 2.3 2 Co. 12.9; Eph. 4.7; 1 Pe. 4.10 A Puritans Catechism Q 35 - What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? A - The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification are assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 1 The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience,1 although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will which is necessary unto salvation.2 Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and to declare (that) His will unto His church;3 and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now completed.4 1 2 Tim. 3:15–17; Is. 8:20; Luke 16:29,31; Eph. 2:20 2 Rom. 1:19-21, 2:14–15; Psalm 19:1-3 3 Heb. 1:1 4 Prov. 22:19-21; Rom. 15:4; 2 Pet. 1:19–20 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Take away the stone Jesus said, 'Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. John 2 v 39 Christ's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts like our thoughts. One would have thought that He would have commanded the stone to fly back by His own word. When he rose from the dead Himself, 'the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it'; but He did not do so now. He said to the men, 'Take ye away the stone' for two reasons. First, He wanted to bring out Martha's unbelief, that it might be made manifest. Unbelief in the heart is like evil humour in a wound - it festers; and therefore Jesus wanted to draw it out of Marth'a heart. - Second, to teach us to use the means. The men around the grave could not give life to dead Lazarus, but they could roll back the stone. Now Jesus was about to use His divine power in awaking the dead, but He would not take away the stone. Have any of you an unconverted friend for whom you pray? You know it is only Christ that can give him life, it is only Christ that can call him forth. Yet you can roll away the stone - you can use the means, you can bring your friend under the faithful preaching of he gospel. Speak to him, write to him. 'Take away the stone.'
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