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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 - The queen of Sheba's visit to Solomon; her admiration and astonishment at his wisdom and magnificence; her presents and return. Solomon's yearly revenue in gold. His golden targets and shields. His ivory throne. His rich vessels of gold. The respect paid to his wisdom by foreign princes. His stables and horsemen. The extent and wealth of his dominions. His reign and death; Rehoboam succeedeth him. 2 Chronicles 9 Preface - After a general address, Jude exhorteth Christians to constancy in the received faith. He foretelleth the punishment of certain false teachers crept into the church, and describeth their evil doctrine and manners. He exhorteth true Christians to persevere in the right faith, and in the love of God; and to seek the reformation of others. He concludeth with ascribing glory to God. Jude Daily Light - Morning To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? - Hath hte LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. - To love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. - Mary...sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word... One thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure Pro. 21.3; Mi. 6.8; 1 Sa. 15.22; Mk. 12.33 Hos. 12.6; Lu. 10.39,42 Phil. 2.13 Daily Light - Evening The spirit shall return unto God who gave it. The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. - There is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. - The first man Adam was made a living soul. - The Spirit of man that goeth upward. Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord... We are confident...and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. - With Christ; which is far better. - I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. I go to prepare ap lace for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Ec. 12.7; Ge. 2.7; Job 32.8; 1 Co. 15.45; Ec. 3.21 2 Co. 5.6,8; Phil. 1.23; 1 Th. 4.13-14 Jn. 14.2-3 A Puritans Catechism Q 29 - How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? A - The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Saving Faith Chapter 14 PARAGRAPH 3 This faith, although it be in different stages, and may be weak or strong,11 yet it is in the least degree of it different in the kind or nature of it, as is all other saving grace, from the faith and common grace of temporary believers;12 and therefore, though it may be many times assailed and weakened, yet it gets the victory,13 growing up in many to the attainment of a full assurance through Christ,14 who is both the author and finisher of our faith.15 11 Heb. 5:13–14; Matt. 6:30; Rom. 4:19–20 12 2 Pet. 1:1 13 Eph. 6:16; 1 John 5:4–5 14 Heb. 6:11–12; Col. 2:2 15 Heb. 12:2 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The idol God hates most Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? Hosea 14 v 8 Self-righteousness is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to do something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc.; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it. God hates this idol more than all others, because it comes in the place of Christ; it sits on Christ's throne. Just as the worship of the Virgin Mary is the worst of all kinds of idolatry, because it puts her in the place of Christ, so self-righteousness is the idol God hates most, for it sits on the throne of Christ. Dash it down, dear friends; let it never appear again. It is like Manasseh's carved image in the holiest of all. When Manasseh came home an altered man to Jerusalem, would not his first visit be to the holiest of all? With eager hand he would draw the veil aside; and when he found the carved image, he would dash it down from the throne of God. Go and do like wise. IF you feel God's love freely by the righteousness without works, then why would you go back to this grim idol? What have I to do any more with idols?
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