Daily Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ. - Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6) - Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation. - Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinhians 5.20) 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 - (No preface) Proverbs 19 Preface - Paul testifieth his solicitude for the churches which had not seen him, that they might be united in love, and attain a perfect knowledge of the Christian revelation, not being seduced from their stedfastness in the faith, nor corrupted through philosophy and human traditions. He sheweth that they were already complete in Christ, having attained the true circumcision figured in baptism; that God had quickened them with Christ, and both abolished the law of ordinances, that was against them, and also spoiled principalities and powers. He therefore urgeth them not to submit to legal ordinances, which were but a shadow of Christ; nor to the worship of angels, adn other vain practices of human devising. Colossians 2 Daily Light - Morning The fruit of the Spirit is...joy... Joy in the Holy Ghost. - Joy unspeakable and full of glory. Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing...exceeding joyful in all our tribulaion. - We glory in tribulations. Jesus the author and finisher of our faith...for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame. - hese things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. - As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. - The joy of the LORD is your strength. In thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. - For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Ga. 5.22; Ro. 14.17; 1 Pe. 1.8 2 Co. 6.10,7.4; Ro. 5.3 He. 12.2; Jn. 15.11; 2 Co. 1.5 Phil. 4.4; Ne. 8.10 Ps. 16.11; Rev. 7.17 Daily Light - Evening Jehovah-shalom. (marg. The Lord send peace) Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. - Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Price of Peace. - My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; when it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place He is our peace. - This man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Judg. 6.24; 1 Chr. 22.9 Mt. 12.42; Isa. 9.6; Isa. 32.18-19 Eph. 2.14; Mi. 5.5 Rev. 17.14 Jn. 14.27 A Puritans Catechism Q 27 - Wherein consists Christ's exaltation? A - Christ's exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right had of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day. Of The Lord's Supper Chapter 30 PARAGRAPH 2 In this ordinance Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sin of the quick or dead, but only a memorial of that one offering up of himself by himself upon the cross, once for all;3 and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the same.4 So that the popish sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominable, injurious to Christ's own sacrifice the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect. 3 Heb. 9:25–26,28 4 1 Cor. 11:24; Matt. 26:26–27 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Lie in he dust Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. - John 11 v 3 If a worldly person had been sending to Christ, he would have sent a very different argument. He would have said: he who loves thee is sick. Here is one who has believed on Thy name. Here is one that has confessed Thee before the world, suffered reproach and scorn for Thy sake. Martha and Mary knew better how to plead with Jesus. The only argument was in Jesus' breat: 'He whom thou loves is sick.' Jesus loved him with an electing love; freely from all eternity Jesus loved him. Jesus loved him with a drawing love: He drew Him from under wrath, from serving sin. Jesus loved him with a pardoning love. He drew him to himself, and blotted out all his sin. Jesus loved him with an upholding love: 'Who could hold me up but thou?' He for whom Thou died, he whom Thou hast chosen, washed and kept till now, 'he whom thou lovest is sick'. Learn thus to plead with Christ, dear believers. Often you do not receive, because you do not ask aright: 'ye ask, and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.' Often you ask proudly, as if you were somebody; so that if Christ were to grant it, He would only be fattening your lusts. Learn to lie in the dust, and plead only His own free love. Thou has loved me for no good thing in me: Chosen, nor for good in me; Wakened up from wrath to flee; Hidden in the Saviour's side; By the Spirit sanctified.
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