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Prayer
-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 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 - Nathan, first approving David's purpose to build God an house, afterward by the word of the Lord forbiddeth it, but with assurance of favour, and a promise of especial blessings in his seed. David's prayer and thanksgiving. 1 Chronicles 17 Preface - Our evil lusts and passions tend to breed quarrels among ourselves, and to set us at enmity with God. The way to overcome them, and recover God's favour. Against slander and censoriousness. We must not presume on the future, but commit ourselves to God's providence. James 4 Daily Light - Morning Praying in the Holy Ghost. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. - We...have access by one Spirit unto the Father. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. The Spirit...helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. - This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. - When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication. Jude 20; Jn. 4:24; Eph. 2.18 Mt. 26.39 Ro. 8.26-27; 1 Jn. 5.14; Jn. 16.13 Eph. 6.18 Daily Light - Evening There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. A bruised reed shall he not break. - He restoreth my soul. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. - No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word... It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes, - After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; should we again break thy commandments...? Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me...he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. Job 14.7; Isa.42.3; Ps. 23.3 2 Co. 7.10; He. 12.11 Ps. 119.67,71; Ezr. 9.13-14 Mi. 7.8-9 A Puritans Catechism Q63 - Which is the tenth commandment? A - The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of Creation Chapter 4 PARAGRAPH 2 After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female,4 with reasonable and immortal souls,5 rendering them fit unto that life to God for which they were created; being made after the image of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness;6 having the law of God written in their hearts,7 and power to fulfil it, and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject to change.8 4 Gen. 1:27 5 Gen. 2:7 6 Eccles. 7:29; Gen. 1:26 7 Rom. 2:14–15 8 Gen. 3:6 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The perfection of God poured forth And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. - John 1 v 14 Christ did not get more glory by becoming man; but He manifested his glory in a new way. He did not gain one perfection more by becoming man; He had all the perfections of God before. But now these perfections were poured through a human heart. The Almightiness of God now moved in a human arm. The infinite love of God now beat in a human heart. The compassion of God to sinners now glistened in a human eye. God was love before, but Christ was love covered over with flesh. Just as you have seen the sun shining through a coloured window. It is the same sunlight still, and yet it shines with a mellwed lustre. So in Christ dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. The perfection of the Godhead shone through every pore through every action, word and look - the same perfections; - they were only shining with a mellowed brightness. The vail of the temple was a type of His flesh; because it covered the bright light of the holiest of all. But just as the bright light of the shecinah often shone through the vail, so did the Godhead of Christ force itself through the heart of the man Christ Jesus.
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