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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 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 11:00am in church (and also available online via FaceBook) Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via FaceBook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via FaceBook) Bible Study and Prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via FaceBook) Lunch Hour Service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and 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 - Exhortations to charitableness. Death ought to be remembered in life, and the day of judgment in the days of youth. Ecclesiastes 11 Preface - Christians are admonished to be subject to civil powers, and of a peaceable and quiet demeanour. They are saved from their sins by God's mercy through Christ, but must maintain good works. Genealogies and contentions about the law are to be avoided; and obstinate heretics to be rejected. Paul appointeth Titus when and where to come to him; recommendeth acts of mercy to Christians; and concludeth with salutations and a benediction. Titus 3 Daily Light - Morning The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: god is a refuge for us. - David encouraged himself in the LORD his God. - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. - I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heartd their groaning, and am come down to deliver them... He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. - There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. He is faithful that promised. - Hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? - Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. - The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Ge. 21.1; Ps. 62.8; 1 Sa. 30.6; Ge. 50.24; Ac. 7.34,36; Jos. 21.45 He. 10.23; Nu. 23.19; Mt. 24.35; Isa. 40.8 Daily LIght - Evening The eyes of all wait upon thee. He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. - The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. - Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. The same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand o ftheir masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God. The LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. - If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Ps. 145.15; Ac. 17.25; Ps. 145.9; Mt. 6.26 Ro. 10.12 Ps. 121.1; Ps. 123.2 Isa. 30.18; Isa. 25.9; Ro. 8.25 A Puritans Catechism Q 47 - Which is the third commandment? A - The third commandment is, thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of God and The Holy Trinity Chapter 2 PARAGRAPH 2 God, having all life,17 glory,18 goodness,19 blessedness, in and of Himself, is alone in and unto Himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creature which He hath made, nor deriving any glory from them,20 but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them; He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things,21 and He hath most sovereign dominion over all creatures, to do by them, for them, or upon them, whatsoever Himself pleases;22 in His sight all things are open and manifest,23 His knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, so as nothing is to Him contingent or uncertain;24 He is most holy in all His counsels, in all His works,25 and in all His commands; to Him is due from angels and men, whatsoever worship,26 service, or obedience, as creatures they owe unto the Creator, and whatever He is further pleased to require of them. 17 John 5:26 18 Ps. 148:13 19 Ps. 119:68 20 Job 22:2–3 21 Rom. 11:34-36 22 Dan. 4:25,34–35 23 Heb. 4:13 24 Ezek. 11:5; Acts 15:18 25 Ps. 145:17 26 Rev. 5:12-14 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings None but Jesus Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. - Psalm 31 v 5 Some Christians have little affliction. They sail on a smooth sea, they enjoy health of body for years together, they never knew what it was to want a comfortable meal. Death has perhaps not once entered their dwelling. They think it will be always thus. But a change comes. The 'harp of thousand strings' becomes our tune. The 'clay cottage' gives tokens of decay, or grim want invades their dwelling, or death comes up into the window. Ah! it is hard to bear. 'No affliction for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous.' Who can comfort? None but Jesus. He knew all sorrow, deeper sorrows than we have ever known, or will ever know. His heart is not of stone. He feels along with us. He afflicts not willingly. He seeks to bring us more to himself. O afflicted believer, commit thy weeping, suffering, pining, trembling soul to Jesus. 'Into thine hand I commit my spirit.'
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