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Daily Prayer - Monday
Monday Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone in 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 Corinthians 5.20) 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 - Second Year Preface - The mutual love of Christ and His church. The hope, and calling of the church. Christ's care of the church. The profession of the church, her faith and hope. Song of Solomon 2 Preface - The obligation we are under to give more earnest heed to the gospel doctrine. The dominion of the world to come was not granted to angels, but to the Son of man, whom it behoved to undergo a previous course of humiliation and suffering. Hebrews 2 Daily Light - Morning Brethren, the time is short. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. - The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. - As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive... Death is swallowed up in victory. - Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's - To live is Christ, and to die is gain. Cast not away....your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. - The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. - The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 1 Co. 7.29; Job 14.1-2; 1 Jn. 2.17; 1 Co. 15.22,54; Ro. 14.8; Phil. 1.21 He. 10.35-37; Ro. 13.12; 1 Pe.4.7 Daily Light - Evening A new name. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. - Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. - They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. - Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 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. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 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. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.... Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. Rev. 2.17; Ac. 11.26; 2 Tim. 2.19; Ga. 5.24; 1 Co. 6.20 Ga. 6.14-15 Eph. 5.1-3,8 A Puritans Catechism Q 53 - What is forbidden in the second commandment? A - The second commandment forbids the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 4 The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself). the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God. (7) 7) 2 Pet. 1. 19,20,21. 2 Tim. 3.16 2 Thes. 2.13. 1 John. 5.9. Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Mar the change And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: Genesis 12 v 2 Abraham, before his conversion, was doubtless as selfish and ungodly as any unconverted man among us. Doubtless he thought it beneath him to have family prayer, or to teach his children and servants to know the Saviour. Doubtless he was as cold and selfish in these things as most are among ourselves. But mark the change! When Abraham becomes a child of God, he builds a family altar wherever he goes; and though he had hundreds of servants under him, yet he cared anxiously for the souls of them all. 'For I know him,' says God, 'that he will command his servants and his household after him, to keep the ways of the Lord.' Before, he had been a curse; but now he is a blessing. Dorcas before her conversion was doubtless as selfish, and as fond of worldly things, as all unconverted people are. Doubtless she thought it beneath her to make coats and garments for the poor, doubtless she was as selfish in these things as most are amongst us. But mark the change! When she becomes a child of god, then to do good and to distribute seems to have been the pleasure of her life. This woman was full of good works and alms-deeds, which she did. Before she had been a curse; but not she is a blessing. Paul before his conversion was as great an enemy to the truth and as keen a persecutor of Christians as most unconverted persons are: 'I thought I should do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth; I was a blasphemer, and persecutor, and injurious.' But mark the change, when he became a child of God: 'In the bowels of Jesus Christ I long after you all;' 'I will very gladly spend and be spent for you.' Are you converted? Then see that you be a blessing. Once you were a curse. See that you be as much a blessing.
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Daily Prayer - Thursday
Thursday - Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. - Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue. - Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church. - Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. 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 - Second Year Preface - Observations on wisdom and folly; on the defects and virtues of governors; on slothfulness; on money. Men's thoughts of kings ought to be reverent. Ecclesiastes 10 Preface - Directions given to Titus both for his doctrine and life. The duty of servants. The gospel teacheth all men to renounce wickedness, and to lead sober, righteous, and godly, lives. Titus 2 Daily Light - Morning The LORD was my stay. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. - The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. - Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them... The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. - So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. - For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. By the grace of God I am what I am. Ps. 18.18; Jer. 3.23; Ps. 18.2; Isa. 12.6 Ps. 34.7,17; Deu. 33.27; He. 13.6; Ps. 18.31-32 1 Co. 15.10 Daily Light - Evening All we like sheep have gone astray. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. - There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth.... They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now retuned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. - I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do nto forget thy commandments. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? Isa. 53.6; 1 Jn. 1.8; Ro. 3.10-12 1 Pe. 2.25; Ps. 119.176 Ps. 23.3 Jn. 10.27-28 Lu. 15.4 A Puritans Catechism Q 52 - Which is the fifth commandment? A - The fifth commandment is, honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 4 The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God. (7) 7) 2 Pet. 1. 19,20,21. 2 Tim. 3. 16.2 Thes. 2. 13. 1 Job. 5.9. Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Equally righteous I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with he jewels. Isaiah 61 v 10 I have seen a family of children all dressed alike, that none might boast over the others, all being equally fair. So it iis with God's family. They ae all righteous in the obedience of one. One garment covers them all - the robes of their elder Brother. Believers differ in attainments, in gifts and graces, but all are equally justified before God. It is not work of their own that justifies them, it is the work of Christ alone. Ah, brethren! there in so boasting in Christ's family. Daily Prayer - Monday
Monday Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone in 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 Corinthians 5.20) 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 - Second Year Preface - Remedies against the vanity of life are, a good name, morification, patience, wisdom, or a considerate and prudent conduct. The difficulty of getting wisdom. The result of the Preacher's researches. Ecclesiastes 7 Preface - The apostle foretelleth the evil characters that should appear in the last days. He describeth the enemies of the truth: setteth forth unot Timothy his own example, and exhoreth him to abide in the doctrine he had learned, commending unto him the manifold use of the holy scriptures. 2 Timothy 3 Daily Light - Morning There shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war agains tthe soul. - Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. - The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Deu. 13.17; 2 Co. 6.17; 1 Pe. 2.11; Jude 23 1 Jn. 3.2-3; Titus 2.11-14 Daily Light - Evening Who art thou, Lord?... I am Jesus. It is I; be not afraid. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God....thy Saviour. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. - Emmanuel....God with us. Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. - Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Ac. 26.15; Mt. 14.27; Isa. 43.2-3 Ps. 23.4; Mt. 1.23 Mt. 1.21; 1 Jn. 2.1; Ro. 8.34-35 A Puritans Catechism Q 51 - How is the sabbath to be sanctified? A - The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 1 The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience, (1) although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will which is necessary unto salvation. (2) Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and to declare (that) His will unto His church; (3) and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now completed. (4) 1) 2 Tim. 3.15-17; Is. 8.20; Luke 16.29,31; Eph. 2.20 2) Rom. 1.19-21, 2.14-15; Psalm 19:1-3 3) Heb. 1:1 4) Prov. 22:19-21; Rom. 15:4; 2 Pet. 1:19-20 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The Comforter abides forever Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Hebrews 13 V 5 You may take these words as those of the Spirit, and then they are like those words in fourteenth of John - 'I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever' - to abide with you for ever. It is the same as these words - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' When God the Holy Spirit comes to a soul, He will never leave it. Some may often be made to say 'I think the Spirit will go away from me. But observe, He says, 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' David cried out in the bitterness of his soul. 'Take not thy Holy Spirit away from me.' Here is the answer - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' God will never forsake the temple in which He dwells. He forsook the tabernacle in the wilderness, and He forsook the temple at Jerusalem; but He will never forsake the living temple. Daily Prayer - Friday
Friday - Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings. - Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering (Numbers 6.24-26). - Pray for the ministry among the children in the Sunday School and Friday Bible Club and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world - Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all: salvation by the grace of God through Christ. 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 - Second Year Preface - The vanity of human life increased by oppression; and by envy. The absurdity of idleness. The good of contentment. The folly and misery of covetousness. The advantages of society. The throne of kins is not exempt from vanity and vexation. Ecclesiastes 4 Preface - The Corinthians are reproved for bringing their controversies before heathen judges, which they ought to decide among themselves. There would be no occasion for lawsuits, if men acted up to the principles of the gospel, which exclude from the kingdom of God all notorious transgressors of the moral law. All lawful things are not expedient; but fornication is a gross offence against our bodies, which are members of Christ, temples of the Holy Ghost, and not our own to dispose of otherwise than to God's glory. 1 Timothy 6 Daily Light - Morning Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. - Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Ye are...a royal priesthood....that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into this marvellous light. - Ye....as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. - By him....let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. Ps. 50.233; Col. 3.16-17; 1 Co. 6.20 1 Pe. 2.9; 1 Pe. 2.5; He. 13.15 Ps. 34.2-3 Daily Light - Evening Draw me, we will run after thee. I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. - I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. - Behold the Lamb of God! - As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. - We love him, because he first loved us. My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. Song 1.4; Jer. 31.3; Hos. 11.4; Jn. 12.32; Jn. 1.36; Jn. 3.14,15 Ps. 73.25; 1 Jn. 4.19 Song 2.10-13 A Puritans Catechism Q 50 - What is required in the fourth commandment? A - The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as he has appointed in his Word; expressly one whole day in seven, to b3e a holy sabbath to himself. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation Chapter 15 PARAGRAPH 2 Whereas there is none that does good and does not sin, 2 and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall in to great sins and provocations; God has, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be renewed through repentance unto salvation. 3 2 Eccles. 7:20 3 Luke 22:31–32 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Misers of grace And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. John 1 v 16 A Christian in our day is like a man who has got a great reservoir brimful of water. He is at liberty to drink as much as he pleases, for he never can drink it dry; but instead of drinking the full stream that flows from it, he dams it up, and is content to drink the few drops that trickle through. O that ye would draw out of His fullness, ye that have come to Christ! Do not be misers of grace. There is far more than you will use in eternity. The same waters are now in Christ that refreshed Paul, that gave Peter his boldness, that gave John his affectionate tenderness. Why is your soul less richly supplied than theirs? Because you, will not drink: 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.' Daily Prayer - Thursday
Thursday - Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. - Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue. - Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church. - Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world. 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 - Second Year Preface - By the necessary change of times vanity is added to human travail. There is a fitness in God's works, which man cannot thoroughly find out. Man's object is to enjoy present good, so far as God alloweth, whose counsels are immutable. From the abuses of human judgments God's judgment is inferred. Men and beasts are visibly alike in their mortal bodies; their spirits, which go different ways, are unknown. Ecclesiastes 3 Preface - Directions to Timothy how to admonish persons of different conditions. Concerning widows. Elders, if they do well, are to be doubly honoured; and are not to be censured without full proof; and then openly and impartially. A caution not to ordain any one precipitately. Advice respecting Timothy's health. Some men's characters are more easily discerned than those of others. 1 Timothy 5 Daily Light - Morning I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. - Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Ps. 31.22; Ps. 69.2; Lam .3.54-57 Ps. 77.7-11; Ps. 27.13 Daily Light - Evening He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. - Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said unto God....Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. - And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power.... O LROD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa. O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. Ps. 91.15; 1 Chr. 4.10; 2 Chr. 1.7-8,10; 1 Ki. 4.29 2 Chr. 14.11-12 Ps. 65.2 A Puritans Catechism Q 49 - Which is the fourth commandment? A - The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rest the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 4 The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God. (7) 7) 2 Pet. 1. 19,20,21. 2 Tim. 3. 16.2 Thes. 2. 13. 1 Job. 5.9. Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings A good thing And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obed-edom, and all his household. 2 Samuel 6 v 11 When the ark of God was carried into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, and remained there three months, then it is said the Lord blessed Obed-edom, and his household, and all that he had. Now, every believer is a kind of ark of God in which he hides His law, every believer is a temple of the Holy Ghost. It is a good thing to receive a believer unto our house, for the blessing of God goes with him. That promise is true to him: 'Blessed is he that blesseth thee, cursed is he that curseth thee.' As far back as the flood you remember how wicked Ham was saved in the ark, and kept from being devoured with the wicked world, because he was in righteous Noah's family. Doubtless many an ungodly son among us is kept alive, and spared a little longer because of his righteous father. You remember how Sodom would have been spared if there had been ten righteous men found in it; and how the angel told Lot, 'I cannot do any thing until thou be escaped thither.' Doubtless, this town in which we live is spared only for the sake of the few children of God that are in it. Take them away, and God's wrath would doubtless come down immediately. How little you think, my unconverted friends, that you owe it to the children of God, whom you despise, that you are not this day in hell. Daily Prayer - Wednesday
Wednesday - Give thank 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 11:00 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 - Second Year Preface - The vanity which the Preacher found in the pursuits of pleasure. Wisdom excelleth folly, yet a like event happeneth to both. The vanity of human labour, the fruit of which must soon be left to a man knoweth not whom. Nothing better than a cheerful use of what a man hath gotten; but that is the gift of God to the good only. Ecclesiastes 2 Preface - Paul foretelleth and describeth a great apostasy to happen in the latter times. He directeth Timothy what doctrines to teach, and by what rules to regulate his conduct, so as to save both himself and his hearers. 1 Timothy 4 Daily Light - Morning Their Redeemer is strong. I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins. - I have laid help upon one that is mighty. - The LORD....thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. - Mighty to save. - Able to keep you from falling. - Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - He is able...to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?... I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Jer. 50.34; Am. 5.12; Ps. 89.19; Isa. 49.26; Isa. 63.1; Jude 24; Ro. 5.20 Jn. 3.18; He. 7.25 Isa. 50.2 Ro. 8.35,38-39 Daily Light - Evening Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. - Christ...suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps. Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Jer. 45.5; Mt. 11.29; Phil. 2.5-8 Mt. 10.38; 1 Pe. 2.21 1 Tim. 6.6-8 Phil. 4.11 A Puritans Catechism Q 48 - What is required in the third commandment? A - The third commandment requires the holy and reverent use of God's names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 3 The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings. (6) 6) Luke 24:27,44; Rom. 3:2 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings A good thing And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obed-edom, and all his household. 2 Samuel 6 v 11 When the ark of God was carried into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, and remained there three months, then it is said the Lord blessed Obed-edom, and his household, and all that he had. Now, every believer is a kind of ark of God in which he hides His law, every believer is a temple of the Holy Ghost. It is a good thing to receive a believer unto our house, for the blessing of God goes with him. That promise is true to him: 'Blessed is he that blesseth thee, cursed is he that curseth thee.' As far back as the flood you remember how wicked Ham was saved in the ark, and kept from being devoured with the wicked world, because he was in righteous Noah's family. Doubtless many an ungodly son among us is kept alive, and spared a little longer because of his righteous father. You remember how Sodom would have been spared if there had been ten righteous men found in it; and how the angel told Lot, 'I cannot do any thing until thou be escaped thither.' Doubtless, this town in which we live is spared only for the sake of the few children of God that are in it. Take them away, and God's wrath would doubtless come down immediately. How little you think, my unconverted friends, that you owe it to the children of God, whom you despise, that you are not this day in hell. Prayer - Tuesday
Tuesday - Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness. - Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation. - Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes. 5.16.) 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 - Second Year Preface - The Preacher sheweth that all things here below are vain, because the creatures are restless in their courses, and there is nothing new brought forth, but the old things are forgotten. He sheweth it by his own experience to be so in the studies of wisdom. Ecclesiastes 1 Preface - The office of a bishop is to be esteemed a good work. The qualifications requisite in a bishop, and in deacons. Why Paul wrote these instructions to Timothy. The important truths of the Christian revelation. 1 Timothy 3 Daily Light - Morning My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. How precious...are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. - How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth: - Thy love is better than wine. Whom Have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. - Thou art fairer than the children o fmen. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. - His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend. Ps. 63.5-6; Ps. 139.17-18; Ps. 119.103; Song 1.2 Ps. 73.25; Ps. 45.2 Song 2.3-4; Song 5.15-16 Daily Light - Evening Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. - Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. - I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. - He restoreth my soul. - O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for min own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Ps. 51.12; Isa. 57.18 Isa. 1.18; Jer. 3.22; Ps. 85.8 Ps. 103.2-3; Ps. 23.3; Isa. 12.1 Ps. 119.117 Isa. 43.25 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 the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 2 Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are these: Of the Old Testament. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. Of the New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke, Joh, The Acts of the Apostles, Pauls Epistle to the Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of James, The first and second Epistles of Peter, The first, second and third Epistles of John, the Epistle of Jude, the Revelation. All of which are given by the inspiration of God, to be the rule of faith and life. (5) 5 - 2 Tim. 3:16 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Why bread? For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 1 Corinthians 2 vs 23-24 This day, my friends, I set before you the plainest and simplest picture of the silent sufferings of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. In that night in which He was betrayed, he took bread. Why bread? Firstly, because of its plainness and commonness. He did not take silver or gold or jewels, to represent His body, but bread, plain bread, to show you that when he came to be a surety for sinners, He did not come in His original glory, with His Father's angels. He took not on Him the nature of angels, he became man. Secondly, he chose bread to show you that He was dumb, and opened not His mouth. When I break the bread it resists not, it complains not, it yields to my hand. So it is with Christ. He resisted not, complained not, He yielded to the hand of infinite justice. 'He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.' Daily Prayer - Monday
Monday Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone in 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 Corinthians 5.20) 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 - Second Year Preface - Lemuel's lesson of temperance and chastity. The afflicted are to be comforted, and the poor defended. The praise and properties of a virtuous woman. Proverbs 31 Preface - Paul exhorteth to pray and give thanks for all men, for kings and magistrates especially. God willeth the salvation of all men. Paul's commission to teach the Gentiles. He directeth how women should be attired; permitteth them to to teach; but promiseth that they shall be saved in childbearing on certain conditions. 1 Timothy 2 Daily Light - Morning Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase. He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, adn do minister. I beseech you...brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. - The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Pro. 3.9; 2 Co. 9.6; 1 Co. 16.2 He. 6.10 Ro. 12.1; 2 Co. 5.14-15; 1 Co. 10.31 Daily Light - Evening There shall be no night there. The LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. - THey need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praised of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. - Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. - Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. We are not of the night, nor of darkness. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Rev. 21.25; Isa. 60.19 Rev. 21.23; Rev. 22.5 1 Pe. 2.9; Col. 1.12-13; Eph. 5.8 1 Th. 5.5 Pro. 4.18 A Puritans Catechism Q 46 - What is forbidden in the second commandment? A - The second commandment forbids the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 1 The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience, (1) although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will which is necessary unto salvation. (2) Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and to declare (that) His will unto His church; (3) and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now completed. (4) 1) 2 Tim. 3.15-17; Is. 8.20; Luke 16.29,31; Eph. 2.20 2) Rom. 1.19-21, 2.14-15; Psalm 19:1-3 3) Heb. 1:1 4) Prov. 22:19-21; Rom. 15:4; 2 Pet. 1:19-20 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings It was good When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. John 11 v 6 Had Christ come at the first and healed their brother, we never would have known the love that showed itself at the grave of Lazarus, we never would have known the power of the great Redeemer in raising from the grave. These bright forth-shinings of the glory of Christ would have been lost to the Church and to the world. Therefore it was good that He stayed away for two days. Thus the honour of His name was spread far and wide. The Sof of God was glorified. 'This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.' This is God's great end in all His dealings with His people - that He may be seen. FOr this reason He destroyed the Egyptians: 'That the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord'. 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 - Second Year Preface - Agur's confession of his own simplicity. The purity of God's word, and danger of adding thereto. The two points of Agur's prayer. A servant not to be wrongfully accused. Four wicked generations. Four things insatiable. Parents not to be despised. Four things hard to be known. Four things little, but wise. Four things stately. Silence in case of error the way to prevent wrath. Proverbs 30 Preface - The salutation. Timothy is put in mind of the charge before given him by Paul. The end of the commandment is charity, from which some had turned aside to teach the law which they understood not. The scope of the law was to condemn wickedness, which is the design of the gospel also. Paul blesseth God for calling him to the ministry notwithstanding his great demerit, whereby all penitent sinners that believe are assured of mercy through Christ. He urgeth Timothy to a due discharge of his trust, warning him of some who had deserted the truth, of whom Hymenaeus and Alexander had been delivered by him unto Satan. 1 Timothy 1 Daily Light - Morning What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. The law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?-By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Forasmuch...as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part o fthe same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. Ro. 8.3; He. 10.1-2; Ac. 13.39 He. 2.14-17 Daily Light - Evening All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no, not one...there is none that doeth good, no, not one. - There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. - How can he be clean that is born of a woman? Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me...Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. The LORD...hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. - Whom he justified, them he also glorified. - We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel. Walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. Ro. 3.23; Ro. 3.10,12; Ec. 7.20; Job 25.4 He. 4.1 Ps. 51.3,5 2 Sa. 12.13; Ro. 8.30; 2 Co. 3.18; Col. 1.23 1 Th. 2.12 A Puritans Catechism Q 45 - What is required in the second commandment? A - The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 3 The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings. (6) 6 Luke 24-27,44; Rom. 3.2 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Avoiding sin Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Matthew 25 v 1 The truest mark of children of God is their avoiding sin. They flee from their old companions and old ways, they walk with God. And yet even this is imitated by the foolish virgins. They go out to meet their Lord. They flee old sins for a time, they hasten from their work to the house of God, they seek the company of God's children, perhaps they try to save others, and become very zealous in this. O how sad that many who now cling to the godly will soon be torn from them, and bound up with devils and wicked men! Daily Prayer - Saturday
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 11:00 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 - Second Year Preface - In this chapter twenty five and the four following chapters are contained various maxims and observations of Solomon, collected by the men of Hezekiah, about kings, and other subjects of both private and public concern. Proverbs 29 Preface - The apostle desireth the Thessalonians to pray for him, testifying his confidence in them, and praying God to direct them. He condemneth the idle and disorderly, and requireth others to abstain from their company: concluding with prayer and salutation. 2 Thessalonians 3 Daily Light - Morning In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. - He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. - By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. - Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Christ....suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. - Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. In their mouth was found no guile: for they ware without fault before the throne of God. Pro. 10.19; Jas. 1.19; Pro. 16.32; Jas. 3.2; Mt. 12.37; Ps. 141.3 1 Pe. 2.21-23; He. 12.3 Rev. 14.5 Daily Light - Evening Teach me thy way, O LORD. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. - Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Having....boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. - All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. Ps. 27.11; Ps. 32.8; Ps. 25.8-9 Jn. 10.9 Jn. 14.6; He. 10.19-22 Hos. 6.3; Ps. 25.10 A Puritans Catechism Q 44 - Which is the second commandment? A - The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the their and forth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 2 Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are these: Of the Old Testament Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiates, The Son of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habukkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. Of the New Testament Matthew, Mark, Luke, Joh, The Acts of the Apostles, Pauls Epistle to the Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of James, The first and second Epistles of Peter, The first, second and third Epistles of John, the Epistle of Jude, the Revelation. All of which are given by the inspiration of God, to be the rule of faith and life. (5) 5 2 Tim. 3.16 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Send up this cry Wilt thou not receive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? Psalm 85 v 6 The soul of a believer needs grace every moment. "By the grace of God I am what I am." But there are times when he needs more grace than at other times. Just as the body continually needs food; but there are times when it needs more food than at others - times of great bodily exertion, when all the powers are to be put forth. Sometimes the soul of a believer is exposed to hot persecution. Reproach breaks the heart; or it beats like a scorching sun upon the head. "For my love thy are my adversaries." Sometimes they are God's children who reproach us, and this is still harder to bear. The soul is ready to fret or sink under it. Sometimes it is flattery that tempts the soul. The world speaks well of us, and we are tempted to pride and vanity. This is still worse to bear. Sometimes Satan strives within us, by stirring up fearful corruptions, till there is a tempest within. Oh, is there a tempted soul that reads these words? Jesus prays for thee. Pray for thyself. You need more peace. Nothing but the oil of the Spirit will feed the fire of grace when Satan is casting water on it. Send up this cry, "Wilt thou not revive us again?" |
