Daily Prayer - Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. (John 3.16.) - Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services. - Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and online contacts. 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 - God reminding the Jews of his former kindness contendeth with them for their causeless and unprecedented revolt. They are the authors of their own calamities. God upbraideth them with their fondness for idolatrous worship. The vain confidences of Judah are rejected. Jeremiah 2 Preface - The Pharisees require a sign. Jesus warneth his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and explaineth his meaning. The people's opinion, and Peter's confession, of Christ. Jesus foreshoweth his own death, and rebuketh Peter for dissuading him from it. He showeth that his followers must deny themselves in prospect of a future reward. Matthew 16 Daily Light - Morning Let your speech be alway with grace. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. - By thy words thou shalt be justified. - The tongue of the wise is health. They that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. If thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. - Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence...see that ye abound in this grace also. Col. 4.6; Pro. 25.11-12; Eph. 4.29; Mt. 12.35; Mt. 12.37; Pro. 12.18 Mal. 3.16 Mal. 3.16 Jer. 15.19; 2 Co. 8.7 Daily Light - Evening Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes. The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. - Your Father which is in heaven...maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on he good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Be ye...followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling, savour. - Be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. The love of Christ constraineth us. Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Ps. 26.3; Ps. 145.8; Mt. 5.45 Eph. 5.1-2; Eph. 4.32; 1 Pe. 1.22; 2 Co. 5.14 Lu. 6.35-36 A Puritans Catechism Q 37 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? A - At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed both in soul and body in the full enjoying of God to all eternity. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Perseverance of the Saint Chapter 17 PARAGRAPH 1 Those whom God hath accepted in the beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, and given the precious faith of his elect unto, can neither totally nor finally fall from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved, seeing the gifts and callings of God are without repentance, whence he still begets and nourisheth in them faith, repentance, love, joy, hope, and all the graces of the Spirit unto immortality; and though many storms and floods arise and beat against them, yet they shall never be able to take them off that foundation and rock which by faith they are fastened upon; notwithstanding, through unbelief and the temptations of Satan, the sensible sight of the light and love of God may for a time be clouded and obscured from them, yet he is still the same, and they shall be sure to be kept by the power of God unto salvation, where they shall enjoy their purchased possession, they being engraven upon the palm of his hands, and their names having been written in the book of life from all eternity.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Nothing to spare But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: But go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. Matthew 25 v 9 It pleases God to use the godly as instruments, but he has not given them to be fountains of grace: 'I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase' (1 Corinthians 3:6). Rachel said to Jacob: 'Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead? (Genesis 30:1,2). So grace is not in the hand of man. Those who receive Christ 'are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God' (John 1:13). It is in vain, then, that you look to the means to give saving grace to your soul. The axe can hew without the hand of the forester. The pitcher that carries water is not the well. It will be in vain that you apply to God's children in that awful day. Go to Jesus now. The righteous scarcely are saved. Every child of God gets just so much grace as will carry him to heaven, and no more. Even now every child of God feels that he has nothing to spare. He has not too much of the Holy Spirit, helping him to pray, to mourn over sin, to love Christ. In time of temptation a believer feels as if he had nothing of the Holy Spirit. He has more need to receive, than ability to give away. When Christ shall come in that solemn hour, he will feel that he has none to spare.
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