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Daily Prayer Wednesday
Wednesday - Give thanks to God for the Bible, its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.) - Give thanks to God that we have easy access to Scripture in English, in our mother tongue. Pray for those without access to the Bible because it is forbidden or not available. - Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible, that the Lord would continue to help us to grasp God's truth. - Pray for the lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us. 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 - Jeremiah, being set at liberty by Nebuzar-adan, goeth to Gedaliah. The dispersed Jews resort to Gedaliah. Johanan revealing Ishmael's conspiracy is not believed. Jeremiah 40 15) Preface - The proper character of a citizen of Zion. 16) Preface - David fleeth to God for preservation, disclaiming all merit, and professing hatred of idolatry: he rejoiceth in having God for his portion: he confideth in God's present protection, and in a future resurrection, and life everlasting. Psalm 15-16 Daily Light - Morning The Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion. Fear thou not....saith the LORD: for I am with thee....I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure. - For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.... For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and shall behold his righteousness. Lam. 3.31-32; Jer. 46.28; Isa. 54.7-8,10-11 Mi. 7.9 Daily Light - Evening God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. When the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud...a man lefthanded... After him was Shamgar....which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. The LORD looked up [Gideon], and said, Go in this thy might....have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. The LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me....lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 1 Co. 1.27; Judg. 3.15,31 Judg. 6.14-15 Judg. 7.2 Zech. 4.6; Eph. 6.10 A Puritans Catechism Q 26 - Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? A - Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Justification Chapter 11 PARAGRAPH 2 Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; (6) yet is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but works by love. (7) 6 Rom. 3:28 7 Gal.5:6, James 2:17,22,26 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The unbelieving believer And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. John 20 vs 26-28 When Thomas came to the meeting of disciples that evening. I doubt not his heart was very desolate. Unbelief and unhappiness always go together. An unbelieving believer is of all men most miserable. His brethren around him were full of joy, for they had seen the Lord. Mary still remembered the blessed tone of His voice when He said: 'Mary!' and she answered, 'Rabboni?' Peter was wondering over His amazing love when He said: 'Go tell the disciples, and Peter.' And the bosom of John was filled with a silent feeling of unutterable love. All were glad but one. That one was Thomas. But now, when Christ came in, when He revealed Himself a crucified but risen Redeemer, when He showed His special kindness to Thomas, the heart of Thomas could stand out no longer, and he cried out, in words of appropriating faith, before all: 'My Lord, and my God.'
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