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Daily 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 - Second Year Preface - The vision of the coals of fire, which are ordered to be taken from between the cherubims, and scattered over the city. The vision of the cherubims and the glory of God removing from the temple. Ezekiel 11 Preface - Ezekiel is shewed the presumption of the princes of Judah: he declareth their sin, and the manner of their punishment. He is terrified at the sudden death of Pelatiah. God sheweth him his purpose of restoring the captives with favour, and of punishing the idolaters. The glory of God leaveth the city. Ezekiel carried back by the spirit prophesieth to them of the captivity. Psalm 50 Daily Light - Morning Thou art weighted in the balances, and art found wanting. The LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighted. - That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. - The LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on th eoutward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. - Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasing. What is a man profited, if he shall gain the shole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? - What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts. - Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing. Dan. 5.27; 1 Sa. 2.3; Lu. 16.15; 1 Sa. 16.7; Ga. 6.7-8 Mt. 16.26; Phil. 3.7 Ps. 51.6; Ps. 17.3 Daily Light - Evening Christ the firstfruits. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. - If the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. - Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. - If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. - The Lord Jesus Christ....shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. The firstborn from the dead. - If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. I am the resurrection, and th elife: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. 1 Co. 15.23; Jn. 12.24; Ro. 11.16; 1 Co. 15.20; Ro. 6.5; Phil. 3.20,21 Col. 1.18; Ro. 8.11 Jn. 11.25 A Puritan's Catechism Q 36 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? A - The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united in Christ, do rest in their graves, till the resurrection. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Saving Faith Chapter 14 PARAGRAPH 2 By this faith a Christian believes to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word for the authority of God himself, (4) and also apprehends an excellency therein above all other writings and all things in the world, (5) as it bears forth the glory of God in his attributes, the excellency of Christ in his nature and offices, and the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit in his workings and operations: and so is enabled to cast his soul upon the truth consequently believed; (6) and also acts differently upon that which each particular passage thereof contains; yielding obedience to the commands, (7) trembling at the threatenings, (8) and embracing the promises of God for this life and that which is to come; (9) but the principle acts of saving faith have immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, and resting upon him alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace. (10) 4 Acts 24:14 5 Ps. 19:7-10, 69:72 6 2 Tim. 1:12 7 John 15:14 8 Isa. 116:2 9 Heb. 11:13 10 John 1:12; Acts 16:31; Gal. 2:20; Acts 15:11 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Our truest joy And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ephesians 4 v 24 It is the chief glory and joy of a soul to be like God. You remember this was the glory of that condition in which Adam was created. 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.' His understanding was without a cloud. He saw, in some measure, as God seeth; his will flowed in the same channel with God's will; his affections fastened on the same objects which God also loved. When man fell, we lost all this, and became children of the devil, and not children of God. But when a lost soul is brought to Christ, and receives the Holy Ghost, he puts off the old man, and puts on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. It is our true joy in this world to be like God. Too many rest in the joy of being forgiven, but out truest joy is to be like Him. Oh, rest not, beloved, till you are renewed after His image, till you partake of the divine nature. Long for the day when Christ shall appear, and we shall be fully like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
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