Reading for Wednesday 23rd August 2023

Prayer
-Give thanks 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 ook 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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm - this week online via zoom
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Saul is sent to destroy Amalek. He favoureth the Kenites: smiteth the Amalekites: but spareth Agog and the best of the spoil. His disobedience displeaseth the Lord. Samuel denounceth unto him God's rejection of him. Saul's fruitless humiliation. Samuel cutteth Agag in pieces. He and Saul part, and meet no more.
1 Samuel 15
Preface - Subjection to magistrates enforced. We must render to all their dues: only love is a debt we must always owe, and virtually containeth the whole law. Rioting, drunkness, and other works of darkness, must be put away, as much out of season under the gospel.
Romans 13

A Puritans Catechism
Q56 - What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly,  or whatever tends to it.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotionals
Transformed
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth. - Genesis 7 vs 7-8
All the beasts entered in. There came a lion and a lioness - they, too, entered in. And then there came in the tall cattle; there came a camel-leopard, with its long majestic neck bent down - it, too, entered in. And then came the birds, the eagle that loves to soar aloft in the sky, and feed upon its prey - it, too entered in. And then the creeping things, there came a serpent, and perhaps, Noah might say when he saw them creeping along the ground, 'These will bit us' - but they, too, entered in. So, brethren, it is true that all kinds of sinners may enter in. And it is sweet to see what a change came over them when they entered in. The lion lay down beside the lamb, and the leopard beside the kid. So it is with those that came to Christ. The lion-like nature is changed into the gentle nature of the lamb - the proud man is mad humble. 'If any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.'