Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thanks to God for the Bible, its inspiration and preservstion 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) 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 - (No Preface) Proverbs 14 Preface - Paul saluteth the Philippians, and testifieth his thankfulness to God for thier uninterrupted fellowship in the gospel: his affection for them, and prayers for their spiritual improvement. He informeth them that his bonds at Rome had turned out to the advancement of the gospel, which many were thereby induced to preach, though with different views: that considering how serviceable his life might be to the cause of Christ, though for himself it were happier to die, he was doubtful in his choice: but that he knew he should soon be at liberty to visit them again for their comfort. He exhorteth them to walk worthy of their profession, and to be steady and unanimours in the faith, for which they had already been fellowsufferers with him. Philippians 1 Daily Light - Morning To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of the lord. We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Pro. 11.18; Mt. 25.19-21 2 Co. 5.10 2 Tim. 4.7-8 Rev. 3.11 Daily Light - Evening God is faithful. God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? - The Lord sware and will not repent. God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. - Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day - Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. - All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 1 Co. 10.13; Nu. 23.19; He. 7.21 He. 6.17-18; 1 Pe. 4.19 2 Tim. 1.12; 1 Th. 5.24; 2 Co. 1.20 A puritans Catechism Q 22 - What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer? A - Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his state of himiliation and exaltation. Of Baptism Chapter 28 PARAGRAPH 1 Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized, a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death and resurrection; of his being engrafted into him;1 of remission of sins;2 and of giving up into God, through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.3 1 Rom. 6:3–5; Col. 2:12; Gal. 3:27 2 Mark 1:4; Acts 22:16 3 Rom. 6:4 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Not so the believer I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. - Song of Solomon 5 v 6 In the parable we find that, when the bride found her husband was gone, she did not return to her rest; Oh, no! Her soul failed for his word. She listens, she seeks, she calls. She receives no answer. She asks the watchmen, but they wound her, and take away her veil; still she is not broken off from seeking. She sets the daughters of Jerusalem to seek along with her. So is it with the believer. When the slothful believer is really awakened to feel that Christ has withdrawn Himself, and is gone, he is slothful no longer. Believers remain at ease only so long as they flatter themselves that all is well; but if they are made sinsible, by a fall into sin, or by a fresh discovery of the wickedness of their heart, that Christ is away from them, they cannot rest. The world can rest quite well, even while they know that they are not in Christ. Satan lulls them into fatal repose. Not so the believer - he cannot rest.
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