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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 - A Levite of mount Ephraim goeth to Bethlehem to fetch home his concubine, and on his return cometh to Gibeah in the evening. An old man entertaineth him. The men of the city beset the house with a vile intent; to prevent which the man yieldeth up his concubine, who is abused by them to death. He divideth her into twelve parts, which he sendeth to the twelve tribes of Israel. Judges 19 Preface - Paul pleading his integrity is smitten at the command of the high priest, whom he reproveth of injustice. By declaring himslef a Pharisee, and questioned for the hope of the resurrection, he causeth a division in the council: he is carried back to the castle, and encouraged by the Lord in a vision. A conspiracy against him is discovered to the chief captain; who sendeth him under a guard with a letter to Felix the governor at Caesarea. Acts 23 Daily Light - Morning Walk in newness of life. As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. - I beseech you....brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. - In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy. - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind. - Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus....that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ro. 6.4; Ro. 6.19; Ro. 12.1-2 W co. 5.17; Ga. 6.15-16; Eph. 4.17; Eph. 4.20-21,24 Daily Light - Evening Thy will be done. O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. - Not as I will, but as thou wilt. - Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Ye know not what ye ask. - He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. - These things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. I would have you without carefulness. - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Mt. 26.42; Jer. 10.23; Mt. 26.39;; Ps. 131.2 Ro. 8.26-27 Mt. 20.22; Ps. 106.15; 1 Co. 10.6 1 Co. 7.32; Isa. 26.3 A Puritans Catechism Q 14 - What is sin? A - Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God. 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 God's delight Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. Luke 15 v 10 When a hell-deserving sinner is enlightened in the knowledge of Christ - when he believes the record that God hath given concerning his Son, and joyfully consents that the Lord Jesus should be his surety, then the blood of Christ is as it were, sprinkled over that soul. When Aaron and his Sons were set apart for the priesthhod, the blood of the ram was put upon the tip of their right ear, and the thumb of their right hand, ad the great toe of their right foot, to signify that they were dipped in blood from head to foot; so when God looks upon a soul in Christ, He sees that justice has had its full satisfaction in that soul, that that man's sins have been more fully punished than if he had borne them himself eternally. His sense of mercy is pleased. He delighteth in mercy. Even when justice was crying out, 'Thou shalt surely slay the wicked,' His mercy was yearning over sinners, and He provided a ransom. And now when the sinner has laid hold on the ransom, mercy is poured down in forgiveness. God delighteth in mercy; He delights to forgive. It is sweet to notice how Jesus loves to forgive sins. In the story of the woman that washed His feet, how He seems to dwell on it! 'Her sins, which are many are forgiven.' And again He said unto her. 'Thy sins are forgiven thee.' And again, a third time.' And so God loves to forgive: 'There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.'
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