Daily Readings for Thursday 4th July 2024

Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part       of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.


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
Preface - God declareth that he will accept no other service but that of an humble and contrite spirit. The faithful are foretold the confusion of their enemies. The marvellous growth of the church, and the blessings that belong to it. God's severe judgments against the wicked. The gathering of the believing Jews and Gentiles into one church, where they shall together worship God, and see the destruction of the wicked.
Isaiah 66
Preface - Herod's opinion of Christ. The cause and manner of John the Baptist's death. Jesus departeth into a desert place, and feedeth there five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes. He walketh on the sea to his disciples: and landing at Gennesaret healeth the sick who touched but the hem of his garment.
Matthew 14


Daily Light - Morning
Leaning on Jesus' bosom.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. - They  brought young children to him, that he should touch them... And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. - Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. - An high priest...touched with the feeling of our infirmities. - In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.

I will not leave you comfortless [marg, orphans]: I will come to you. - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Jn. 13.23; Isa. 6613; MK. 10.13,16; Mt. 15.32;
He. 4.15; Isa. 63.9
Jn. 14.18; Isa. 49.15
Rev. 7.17


Daily Light - Evening
Jesus Christ the righteous...
the propitiation for our sins.

Toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat.

Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him... Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared... Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. - All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace though the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins.
1 Jn. 2.1,2; Ex. 25.20-22
Ps. 85.9,10
Ps. 130.3-4,7-8; Ro. 3.23-25


A Puritans Catechsim
Q 35 - What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
A - The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification are assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
​Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 6
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1. Yet notwithstanding the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him; not as though they were in this life wholly unblameable and unreprovable in God's sight, but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.
   1. Ephesians 1:6 
   2. 1 Peter 2:5 
   3. Matthew 25:21,23 
   4. Hebrews 6:10

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Holy Scriptures
Search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life:
and they are they which testify of me.
John 5 v 39

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.

Laden with guilt and full of fears,
I fly to Thee, my Lord,
And not a glimpse of hope appears,
But in the written word.

The volume of my Father's grace
Does all my griefs assuage;
Here I behold my Saviour's face
Almost in every page?

This is the field where hidden lies
The pearl of price unknown:
The merchant is divinely wise
Who makes the pearl his own.

Here consecrated water flows,
To quench my thirst of sin;
Here the fair tree of knowledge grows,
Nor danger dwells therein.

This is the judge that ends the strife,
Where wit and reason fail:
My guide to everlasting life,
Through all this gloomy vale.

O may thy counsels, mighty God,
My roving feet command;
Nor I forsake the happy road
That leads to thy right hand.

Robert Murray McCheyne