Daily Readings for Wednesday 23rd 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 - He that maketh a singular vow must be the Lord's. The estimation of the person; of a beast given by vow; of a house; of a field, and the redemption thereof. No man may sanctify the Lord's firstlings. No devoted thing may be redeemed. The tithe is holy, and may not be changed.
Leviticus 27
Preface - David praiseth God, and exhorteth others thereto from his own experience. They are blessed that trust in God. An exhortation to the fear of God. The privileges of the righteous.
Psalms 34



Daily Light - Morning
The LORD was my stay.

Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. - The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. - Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.... The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. - So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. - For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

By the grace of God I am what I am.
Ps. 18.18; Jer. 3.23; Ps. 18.2; Isa. 12.6
Ps. 34.7,17; Deu. 33.27; He. 13.6; Ps. 18.31-32
1 Co. 15.10



Daily Light - Evening
All we like sheep have gone astray.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. - There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth.... They are all gone out of the way, they are together become uprofitable.

Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls, - I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it.
Isa. 53.6; 1 Jn. 1.8; Ro. 3.10-12
1 Pe. 2.25; Ps. 119.176
Ps. 23.3
Jn. 10.27-28
Lu. 15.4


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 82 - What is meant by the words, "till he come," which are used by the apostle Paul in reference to the Lord's Supper?
A - They plainly teach us that our Lord Jesus Christ will come a second time; which is the joy and hope of all believers.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 4
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When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He frees him from his natural bondage under sin,  (7)  and by His grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good;  (8)  yet so as that by reason of his remaining corruptions, he does not perfectly, nor only will, that which is good, but does also will that which is evil.  (9)
(7)-Col. 1.13; John 8.36  (8)-Phil. 2.13  (9)-Rom. 7.15,18-19,21,23
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Equally righteous
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61 v 10
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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.