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Daily Prayer - 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 the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue. - 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 through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible 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 Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Job desireth to be patiently heard because of his strange calamities: he sheweth that wicked men stometimes do so prosper, that they are tempted to forget God: though at other times their destruction is manifest. The happy and unhappy are alike in death. The judgment of the wicked is in another world. Job 21 Preface - The preference of charity to knowledge. An idol is nothing in the esteem of those who have right notions of one God, and of one Lord Jesus Christ. But it is sin in those, who by an indiscreet use of their knowledge, in eating meats offered to idols, tempt weaker consciences to offend. 1 Corinthians 8 Daily Light - Morning I am the LORD which sanctify you. I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people... And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. Sanctified by God the Father. - Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. - The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus...that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ...gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. - Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. - For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. - Through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Lev. 20.8; Lev. 20.24.26 Jude 1; Jn. 17.17; 1 Th. 5.23 He. 13.12; Titus 2.13,14; He. 2.11; Jn. 17.19; 1 Pe. 1.2 Daily Light - Evening Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. That which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection fo Jesus Christ from the dead... Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Ps. 97.11; Ps. 126.5-6 1 Co. 15.37 1 Pe. 1.3,6-7 A Puritans Catechism Q71 - What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption? A - The outward and ordinary means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of Christ's redemption, are the Word, by which souls are begotten to spiritual life; Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Prayer, and Meditation, by all which believers are further edified in their most holy faith. Of Religious Worship and The Sabbath Day Chapter 22 PARAGRAPH 6 Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the gospel, tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed; but God is to be worshipped everywhere in spirit and in truth;23 as in private families24 daily,25 and in secret each one by himself;26 so more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly nor wilfully to be neglected or forsaken, when God by his word or providence calls thereunto.27 23 John 4:21; Mal. 1:11; 1 Tim. 2:8 24 Acts 10:2 25 Matt. 6:11; Ps. 55:17 26 Matt. 6:6 27 Heb. 10:25; Acts 2:42 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Amazing love ... the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2 v 20 When Jacob loved Rachel, he served seven years for her - he bore the summer's heat and winter's cold. But Jesus bore the hot wrath of God, and the winter blast of His Father's anger, for those He loved. Jonathan loved David with more than the love of women, and for his sake he bore the cruel anger of his father, Saul. But Jesus, out of love to us, bore the wrath of His Father poured out without mixture. It was the love of Christ that made Him leave the love of His Father, the adoration of angels, and the throne of glory. It was love that made Him not despise the Virgin's womb; it was love that made Him hungry and thirsty and weary; love made Him hasten to Jerusalem; love led Him to gloomy, dark Gethsemane; love bound and dragged Him to the judgement hall; love nailed Him to the cross; love bowed His head beneath the amazing load of His Father's anger. 'Greater love hath no man than this.' 'I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.'
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