Daily Readings for Monday 10th June 2024

Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend    alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


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 - The mission of Christ to the Gentiles: his meekness and constancy. God's promise to him. An exhortation to praise God for his gospel. God will no longer forbear to manifest himself, and check idolatry. Israel reproved and punished for their incredulity.
Isaiah 42
Preface - A woman clothed with the sun travaileth. A great red dragon standeth ready to devour her child. She is delivered, and fleeth into the wilderness. Michael and his angels fight with the dragon, who is cast out of heaven with his angels. The victory proclaimed in heaven. The dragon cast down to the earth persecuteth the woman.
Revelation 12


Daily Light - Morning
The younger son gathered all together,
and took his journey into a far country, and there
wasted his substance with riotous living.

Such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. - We...were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

God commandeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us... If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Lu. 15.13; 1 Co. 6.11; Eph. 2.3-6
1 Jn. 4.10​
Ro. 5.8,10


Daily Light - Evening
As Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. - I forgave thee all that debt...Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow servant, even as I had pity on thee?

When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any.

How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Charity...is the bond of perfectness.
Col. 3.13; Lu. 7.41-42; Mt. 18.32,33
Mk. 11.25-26; Col. 3.12-13
Mt. 18.21-22
Col. 3.14


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 12 - What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the state wherein he was created?
A - When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 4
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Others not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet not being effectually drawn by the Father, they neither will nor can truly come to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: much less can men that receive not the Christian religion be saved; be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature and the law of that religion they do profess.

1. Matthew 22:14 
2. Matthew 13:20,21 
3. Hebrews 6:4,5 
4. John 6:44,45,65 
5. 1 John 2:24,25 
6. Acts 4:12 
7. John 4:22 
8. John 17:3

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Everlasting love
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. - Hebrews 13 v 5
It is the word of the three-one God. you may take each of the persons of the Godhead, and apply this word to Him. - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' You may take it as the word of Immanuel. You remember what Christ said to His disciples - 'Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.' This is the same promise. Brethren, when the Lord Jesus comes to you, and covers you with His garment, and says, 'Fear not,' He will never forsake that soul. A mother may forsake - 'Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, she may forget; yet will I not forget thee.' Observe, brethren, that when once the Lord Jesus comes to a sinner to be His righteousness, He will never leave him - 'I am with you always.' Oh! it is this that makes Him a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Why will He never leave us? The first reason is, His love is everlasting love. It is not like the love of a creature  - it is unchangeable. Another reason is, He has died for that soul: He has borne all for that soul. Will he ever leave a soul that He has died for.