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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 Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (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) 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 - Elihu chargeth Job with calling to account God's justice; whose sovereign perfections suffer him not to be unjust. Man ought to humble himself before God. Job is blamed for his rash discourses. Job 34 Preface - Paul declareth his unwearied zeal and integrity inpreaching the gospel; so that if any see not the truth of it, it must be owing to their corrupt hearts, not to want of clear light. The weakness and sufferings he was exposed to redounded to the praise of God's power. That which animated him in undergoing them foor the church's sake was the assurance of a more exceeding and eternal reward. 2 Chorinthians 4 Daily Light - Morning O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand o fher mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God. - Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is highter than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. - Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm. Christ...suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. Isa. 38.14; Ps. 123.1-2; Ps. 61.1-4; Isa. 25.4 1 Pe. 2.21-23 Daily Light - Evening Fight the good fight of faith. We were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. - Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. - Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Thou comest to me with a sword, and witha spear, adn 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. - God is my strength and power... He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is brouken by mine arms. - Our sufficiency is of God. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. - Behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. THe time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms...out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 1 Tim. 6.12; 2 Co. 7.5; 2 Ki. 6.16; Eph. 6.10 1 Sa. 17.45; 2 Sa. 22.33,35; 2 Co. 3.5; 2 Co. 3.5 Ps. 34.7; 2 Ki. 6.17 He. 11.32.34 A Puritans Catechism Q 2 - What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify him? A - The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify God and enjoy him. Of Marriage Chapter 25 PARAGRAPH 2 Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife,2 for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue,3 and the preventing of uncleanness.4 2 Gen. 2:18 3 Gen. 1:28 4 1 Cor. 7:2,9 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings A Promise for the Saviour I will hold thine hand, and will keep the ... Isaiah 42 v 6 The figure here seems taken from a father and his little child. When a little child hast to go over some very rough road, or travel in the darkness, or to wad through some deep waters, he says to his father, 'I fear I shall be lost; I shall not be able to go through.' 'Nay, do not fear,' the father answers: 'I will hold thine hand; I will keep thee.' Such are the words of the Father to His dear Son. I would not have dared to have imagined them, if I had not found them in the Bible. When God called His Son to the work, it could not but be a fearful work in His eyes. Christ knew well the infinite number of men's sins; for he is the searcher of hearts and trier of reins. He knew also the infinite weight of God's anger against these sins; He saw the dark clouds of infinite vengeance that ere ready to burst over the head of sinners; He saw the infinite deluge of eternal wrath that was to drown for ever the guilty world. And, oh! how dreadful His Father's anger was in His eyes; for He had known nothing but His infinite love from all eternity. Oh! how could He bear to lie down under that wrath? How could He bear to exchange the smile of His Father's love for the dark frown of His Father's anger? How could He bear, for the sake of vile sinners, to exchange the caresses of that God who is love, for the piercings and bruisings of His almighty hand? Surely the very thought would be agony. God here comforts His Son under the view: Yon sea of wrath is deep, its waves are dreadful; but 'I will hold thine hand; I will keep thee.'
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