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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 the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20) 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 - Under the parable of a vineyard God justifieth the severity of his dealings with his people: his judgments upon their covetousness; riot, and disregard of him; profaneness; perverseness, selfconceit, excess, and injustice. The executioners of God's judgements. Isaiah 5 Preface - An exhortation to patience and constancy enforced by the example of Christ. The benefit of God's chastisements. Exhortation to peace and holiness. The dispensation of the law compared with the privileges of the gospel. The danger of refusing the word from heaven. Hebrews 12 Daily Light - Morning Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. - In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. - Your life is hid with Christ in God. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Mt. 24.6; Ps. 46.1-3; Isa. 26.20,21; Ps. 57.1; Col. 3.3 Ps. 112.7 Jn. 16.33 Daily Light - Evening They persecute him whom thou hast smitten. It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! - Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. - Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? - Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross. - Of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and other people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Ps. 69.26; Lu. 17.1; Ac. 2.23; Mt. 26.67-68; Mt. 27.41-42; Ac. 4.27-28 Isa. 53.4 A Puritans Catechism Q 60 - What is forbidden in the eighth commandment? A - The eighth commandment forbids whatever does, or many ujustly hinder our own, or our neighbour's wealth or outward estate. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Divine Providence Chapter 5 PARAGRAPH 2 Although in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first cause, all things come to pass immutably and infallibly;4 so that there is not anything befalls any by chance, or without His providence;5 yet by the same providence He ordered them to fall out according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.6 4 Acts 2:23 5 Prov. 16:33 6 Gen. 8:22 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Hell's greatest wonder And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. - Colossians 2 v 15 The death of Christ is the greatest wonder in hell. This was one thing which Satan did not know the meaning of - the death of Christ. Ah! Satan though; when he got Judas to betray Him, and the Jews to crucify Him, that he had prevailed against Him - that he had gained the victory; but ah! Satan hath found it out now, that Christ has triumphed over him in His cross. Ah! then, brethren, Calvary is a wonder in hell. Tell me then, brethren, who is it in all the universe that thinks little of Christ's laying down His life. Shall we find them in heaven? No. Shall we find them in Hell? No; 'they believe and tremble.' Where, then, shall we find the man that thinks little of Christ? O Christless sinner! it is you. 'We preach Christ, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness.' 'For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness.' O Christless man! you little think of the death of Christ; even the devils do not think it foolishness. Sinner, do not you think there must be something wrong about the state of your mind, that sees no beauty in the death of Christ?
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