Daily 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 Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 (5) - The temple finished, and the dedicated treasures deposited therein. The ark with great solemnity brought into the most holy place. Whilst the priests and Levites are praising God with singing and music, a cloud filleth the house. Preface (6) - Solomon blesseth the people, and praiseth God for the performance of his promise to David concerning the building of the house. His prayer upon the brasen scaffold at the consecration of the temple: 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 34, 36 the special petitions contained in it. The concluding general invocation of God's presence and favour. 2 Chorinthians 5-6:11 Preface - The apostle warneth to try by certain rules the spirits that pretend to come from God. He presseth the obligation of mutual love upon Christians from the example and commandment of God. 1 John 4 Daily Light - Morning It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. - We suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no... Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. - For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Ps. 119.71; He. 5.8; Ro. 8.17-18 Job 23.10-11 Deu. 8.2,5-6; He. 12.6 Daily Light - Evening By strength shall no man prevail. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied... And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it... So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength... Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. I...glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. - Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 1 Sa. 2.9; 1 Sa. 17.45,49,50 Ps. 33.16,18; 1 Chr. 29.12 2 Co. 12.9-10; Zech. 4.6 A Puritans Catechism Q76 - To whom is Baptism to be administered? A - Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and to none other. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of the Fall of Man, of Sin and of the Punishment thereof Chapter 6 PARAGRAPH 3 They being the root, and by God's appointment, standing in the room and stead of all mankind, the guilt of the sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation,6 being now conceived in sin,7 and by nature children of wrath,8 the servants of sin, the subjects of death,9 and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.10 6 Rom. 5:12–19; 1 Cor. 15:21–22,45,49 7 Ps. 51:5; Job 14:4 8 Eph. 2:3 9 Rom. 6:20, 5:12 10 Heb. 2:14–15; 1 Thess. 1:10 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The presence of Christ But they constrained him, saying, abide with us. - Luke 24 v 29 It is the presence of Christ with the soul that gives true peace and true holiness, it is not circumstances, nor ministers, no place, nor time, but Jesus present. To sit under His shadow, gives great delight. To lean upon the Beloved alone supports his faltering steps. A true believer cannot be satisfied while Christ is away. 'Make haste, my Beloved.' One that is not a wife may be content with other lovers; but the faithful bride longs for the return of her Lord. The ordinances are all cold and barren till he return. Ministers speak, but not to the heart. The companions cannot give rest nor ease. Oh! brethren, do you know what it is to long for Himself - to cry, 'Make haste my beloved.'?
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