Daily Readings for Wednesday 16th April 2025

Daily Prayer - 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.


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Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and 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 Plan - First Year
Preface - Of him that giveth of his seed to Molech. Of him that favoureth such an one. Of going to wizards. Of sanctification. Of him that curseth his parents. Of adultery. Of incest. Of sodomy. Of bestiality. Of uncleanness. Obedience is required with holiness. Wizards must be put to death.
Leviticus 20
Preface - David's confidence in prayer: he prayeth for remission of sins, and for help in affliction.
Psalms 25



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 LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asia.

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 75 - What is baptism?
A - Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptized a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being ingrafted into him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 5
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The Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience and sacrifice of Himself, which He through the eternal Spirit once offered up to God, has fully satisfied the justice of God,  (32)  procured reconciliation, and purchased an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father has given unto Him. (33)
(32)-Heb. 9.14, 10.14; Rom 3.25-26  (32)-John 17.2; Heb. 9.15
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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.
11 Samuel 6 v 11
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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 man 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.