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Daily Prayer - Sunday
Sunday Give thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever. Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another. Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.). Pray we would receive faithful ministry and spiritual food from God’s Word (1 Pet 2.2.) Church Services Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook) Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Bible Study and Prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Lunch Hour Service Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Outreach/Witnessing Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer. Daily Reading Plan - First Year 7) Preface - The sons of Issachar. The sons of Benjamin; Naphtali; of Manasseh. The sons of Ephraim, who were slain by the men of Gath. The subsequent posterity of Ephraim by Beriah. Their habitations. The sons of Asher. 9) Preface - The sons and chief men of Benjamin and Jonathan. 1 Chronicles 7-8 Preface - The nature of faith, and its acceptableness with God, set forth in the examples of many excellent persons of old time. Hebrews 11 Daily Light - Morning Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. - I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. - If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Jn. 17.17; Jn. 15.3; Col. 3.16 Ps. 119.9-10 Pro. 2.10-11 Job 23.11-12; Ps. 119.99; Jn. 8.31-32 Daily Light - Evening Fellowcitizens with the saints. Ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. - Our conversation [Greek citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. - The Father....hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Eph. 2.19; He. 12.22-23 He. 11.13; Phil. 3.20-21; Col. 1.12,13 1 Pe. 211 A Puritans Catechism Q 5 - Are there more Gods than one? A - There is but one only, the living and true God. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Effectual Calling Chapter 10 PARAGRAPH 1 Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, He is pleased in His appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call, 1 by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ; 2 enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God; 3 taking away their heart of stone, and giving to them a heart of flesh; 4 renewing their wills, and by His almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ; 5 yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace. 6 1 Rom. 8:30, 11:7; Eph. 1:10–11; 2 Thess. 2:13–14 2 Eph. 2:1–6 3 Acts 26:18; Eph. 1:17–18 4 Ezek. 36:26 5 Deut. 30:6; Ezek. 36:27; Eph. 1:19 6 Ps. 110:3; Cant. 1:4 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The world crucified to the believer But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. Galatians 6 v 14 The world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. - 'If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature.' When the blind beggar of Jericho got his eyes opened by the Lord, this world was all changed to him, and he to the world. So it was with Paul. No sooner did he rise from his knees, with the peace of Jesus in his heart, than the world got its death blow in his eyes. As he hurried over the smooth stones of the streets of Damascus, or looked down from the flat roof of his house upon the lovely gardens on the banks of the Albana, the world and all its dazzling show seemed to his eye a poor, shrivelled, crucified thing. Once it was his all. Once its soft and slippery flatteries were pleasant as music to his ear. Riches, beauty, pleasure, all that the natural eye admires, his heart was once set upon; but the moment he believed on Jesus all these began to die. True, they were not dead, but they were nailed to a cross. They no more had that living attraction for him they once had; and now every day they began to lose their power. As a dying man on the cross grows weaker and weaker every moment, while his heart's blook trickles from the deep gashes in his hands and feet, so the world, that was once his all, began to lose every moment its attractive power. He tasted so much sweetness in Christ, in pardon, access to God, the smile of God, the indwelling Spirit, that the world became every day a more tasteless world to him.
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