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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 - David chargeth Solomon to serve God, and directeth him how to deal with Joab, the sons of Barzillai, and Shimei. David's death; the years of his reign. Solomon succeedeth him. Adonijah, having persuaded Bathsheba to ask for him Abishag to wife, is put to death by Solomon's command. Abiathar hath his life spared, but is removed from the priesthood. Joab, having fled to the horns of the altar, is there slain. Benaiah is put in Joab's place, and Zadok in Abiathar's. Shimei is confined to Jerusalem; but going to Gath in defiance of the king's orders is put to death. 1 Kings 2 Preface - Paul adviseth them to reform the family with gentleness, and to bear one another's burdens. A caution against vanity. He exhorteth to be liberal toward spiritual instructors: and not to be weary in doing good. He sheweth the carnal views of those who preached circumcision, and his own professed dependence on Christ only, regardless of the world. He concludeth with a prayer. Galatians 6 Daily Light - Morning He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. He knoweth our frame. - He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man thereofore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctifiied, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. - I....will refine them as silver is refined....they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God. JOB 23.10; Ps. 103.14; Lam. 3033 2 Tim. 2.19-21 Mal. 303; Zech. 13.9 Daily Light - Evening Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. And Moses said unto the LORD.... I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee.... And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. - He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.... What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. - 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. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. - The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Ps. 25.4; Ex. 33.12,13,14; Ps. 103.7 Ps. 25.9,12; Pro. 3.5-6 Ps. 16.11; Ps. 32.8; Pro. 4.18 A Puritans Catechism Q 40 - What did God reveal to man for the rule of his disobedience? A - The rule which God first revealed to man for his obedience is the moral law, which is summarized in the ten commandments. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 10 The supreme judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit, into which Scripture so delivered, our faith is finally resolved. 21 21 Matt. 22:29, 31, 32; Eph. 2:20; Acts 28:23 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings A vent for His love Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. John 10 v 17 Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life. I do not know any word in the Bible that is more sweet to meditate on than the love of the Father to the Son. There are many things that induce the Father to love the Son. He loved Him for His Godhead. But here is another reason why the Father loves the Son - He loves Him for His holy manhood. 'He was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners.' God never saw anything so like Himself. When God made Adam, He said, 'It is very good'; but oh! when He saw Jesus, he saw a loveliness in Him such as He never saw in any created thing. But here is another reason why the Father loves Him - 'Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life.' We are told that He grew in favour both with God and man. He was every day fulfilling a part of His holy obedience, until He came to the last, and then the Father saw obedience as He had never seen before. Oh, brethren! it was love that was never seen before, that He should die for the lowest - for the vilest. And that appears to be another reason why Jesus died: it is, that the Father got a vent for his love to flow out to sinners - 'Therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life.'
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