Daily Reading Nov 18 – Week 46 Day
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The Daily Gospel
Valley of Vision
Pray for the Grace of Hope
Matthew Henry – A Method for Prayer 4.3.14
We must pray for the grace of hope; a hope in God and Christ, and a hope of eternal life.
Let endurance produce character in us, and character produce hope – such a hope that does not put us to shame. Romans 5:4-5(ESV) Through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures, let us have hope, Romans 15:4(ESV) and be saved by hope. Romans 8:24(ESV)
Let the God of Jacob be our help, and our hope always be in the LORD our God. Psalm 146:5(ESV)
Let us be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 1 Peter 1:3(ESV) and let that hope be to us as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, entering into the inner place behind the curtain, where the Forerunner has gone on our behalf. Hebrews 6:19-20(ESV)
Let us have Christ in us, the hope of glory, Colossians 1:27(ESV) and never be shifting from the hope of the gospel; Colossians 1:23(ESV) but enable us to show earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end. Hebrews 6:11(ESV)
Today’s Reading
Catechism
Lord’s Day 46
Scripture Memory: Matthew 6:9-13
Q 120. Why did Christ command us to address God thus: “Our Father?”
A. To awaken in us at the very beginning of our prayer that childlike reverence for and trust in God, which are to be the ground of our prayer, namely, that God has become our Father through Christ, and will much less deny us what we ask of Him in faith than our parents refuse us earthly things.[1]
[1] Isa 63:16; Matthew 7:9-11; Lk 11:11-13; 1 Pt 1:17
Q 121. Why is it added: “Who art in heaven?”
A. That we might have no earthly thought of the heavenly majesty of God,[1] and from His almighty power expect all things necessary for body and soul.[2]
[1] Jer 23:23-24; Acts 17:24-27; [2] 1 Kings 8:28; Ps 115:3; Matthew 6:25-34; Rom 8:10:12, Rom 31-32
Memorization
Proverbs 19:11 Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
Song
My hope is built — St. Petersburg
Original Trinity Hymnal, #582
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest upon unchanging grace;
In ev’ry rough and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, his covenant, his blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
When I shall launch in worlds unseen,
O may I then be found in him;
Dressed in his righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
http://www.opc.org/hymn.html?hymn_id=470
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