The BCS Handbook.

INDEX TO PSALMS

1. Psalm 1

2. Psalm 15

3. Psalm 23

4. Psalm 51

5. Psalm 121

6. Lord’s prayer

7. John 17: 1 -26

PSALM DURING WORSHIP/MEETINGS: PSALM

ONE: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord: and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

PSALM 15

DURING EVENING WORSHIPS ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS AND SATURDAYS

Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned: but he honoureth them that fear the Lord.

He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, not taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

FOR ALL WORSHIPS/MEETINGS

PSALM 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, 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.

Thou prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies, thou anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and shall follow me all the day’s of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

ON THURSDAY DURING EVENING WORSHIP

PSALM 51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgression wish me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I knowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightiest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know the wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinner shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

O Lord open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praises. For thou desirest no sacrifice; else would I give it; thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifice of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering; then shall they offer bullocks upon thine alter.

PSALM 121

DURING MORNING PRAYERS

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lore which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even forever more.

THE LORD’S PRAYER FOR ALLWORSHIPS/MEETINGS

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever – Amen.

ON WEDNESDAY DURING EVENING WORSHIP

John 17: 1 -26 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify. As thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to all, as many as thou has given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest them to me; and they that have kept thy word.

Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given: for they are thine.

And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world but there are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou .1 given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled, and now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy and fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word: and the world hath hated them, because, they are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Hum shouldest keep them from evil. They are not of the world , even as I am not for the world. Santify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world, and for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Father, 1 will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovest me before the foundation of the world.

O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee and these have known that thou hast sent me.

And 1 have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast love me may be in them, and I in them.