June 26^th. 2022

9:30 am ---------------------------------Christ: The Fair & Favoured Saviour -- Esther

10:00 am -----------------------------------------------Christ: The Living Water – John 4

Wednesday: 7:00 pm------------------------------ Christ: The Gardener & His Garden – Song 4:16

“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord…” – Psalm 92:1

It is good ethically, for it is the Lord's right; it is good emotionally, for it is pleasant to the heart; it is good practically, for it leads others to render the same homage. When duty and pleasure combine, who will be backward? To give thanks to God is but a small return for the great benefits wherewith he daily loadeth us; yet as he by his Spirit calls it a good thing, we must not despise it, or neglect it. We thank men when they oblige us, how much more ought we to bless the Lord when he benefits us. – Charles Spurgeon

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. John 14:1

We have here a royal command. Do not give way to despair, depression, doubts and fears, for a troubled heart is dishonoring to our heavenly Father.

1. It puts a question mark on his love. "Nothing good will he withhold from them that fear him.” His love designs and desires eternal good for his children.

2. It puts a question mark on his providence. "We know that all things work together for good to them who love him, who are the called according to his purpose." Though Job lost all, he did not charge God with foolishness.

3. It puts a question mark on his promises. "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." "Lo, I am with you always." "If ye being evil know how to give good things to your children how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him."

4. It robs us of the joys and blessings God has given us. When I am murmuring and complaining about what I want which I do not have, I am overlooking the great mercies and blessings I do possess. It may be true that I do not have all that I want but I have much more than I deserve. My circumstances may not be as good as I want them to be, but neither are they as bad as they could be.

Besides the royal command, we have the cure for heart trouble. It is faith! "Let not your heart be troubled—ye believe in God, believe also in me." There is no want he cannot supply; there is no sickness He cannot heal; there is no danger he cannot prevent; there is no misery he cannot remove; there is no sin he cannot forgive; there is no enemy he cannot defeat. Christ is God in our nature—so near at hand and so accessible to our faith. David said in Psa. 42:5—"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." -- Henry Mahan

With Him in Glory

"When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." Colossians 3:4