Daily Readings for Monday 12th August 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 - Jeremiah being set at liberty by Nebazar-adan, goeth to Gedaliah. The dispersed Jews resort to Gedaliah. Johanan revealing Ishmael's conspiracy is not believed.
Jeremiah 40
Psalms 15) Preface - The proper character of a citizen of Zion.
Psalms 16) Preface - David fleeth to God for preservation, disclaiming all merit, and professing hatred of idolatry: he rejoiceth in having God for his portion: he confideth in God's present protection, and in a future resurrection, and life everlasing.
Psalms 15-16


Daily Light - Morning
The Lord will not cast off for ever:
but though he cause grief,
yet will he have compassion.

Fear thou not...saith the LORD: for I am with thee...I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure. - For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer... For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee, O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Lam. 3.31-32; Jer. 46.28; Isa. 54.7-8,10-11
Mi. 7.9


Daily Light - Evening
God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty.

When the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud...a man left handed... After him was Shamgar...which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.

The LORD looked up (Gideon), and said, Go in this thy might... have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

The LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me...lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
1 Co. 1.27; Judg. 3.15,31
Judg. 6.14-15
Judg. 7.2
Zech. 4.6; Eph. 6.10


A Puritans Catechism
Q 74 - How do Baptism and the Lord's Supper become spiritually helpful?
A - Baptism and the Lord's Supper become spiritually helpful, not from any virtue in them, or in him who does administer them, but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of the Spirit in those who by faith receive them.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Marriage
Chapter 25
PARAGRAPH 1
Marriage is to be between one man and one woman; neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time.1

1 Gen. 2:24; Mal. 2:15; Matt. 19:5–6

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The unbelieving believer
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
John 20 vs 26 - 28

When Thomas came to the meeting of disciples that evening, I doubt not his heart was very desolate. Unbelief and unhappiness always go together. An unbelieving believer is of all men most miserable. His brethren around him were full of joy, for they had seen the Lord. Mary still remembered the blessed tone of His voice when He said: 'Mary! and she answered, 'Rabboni?' Peter was wondering over His amazing love when He said: 'Go tell the disciples, and Peter.' And the bosom of John was filled with a silent feeling of unutterable love. All were glad but one. That one was Thomas. But now, when Christ came in, when He revealed Himself a crucified but risen Redeemer, when He showed His special kindness to Thomas, the heart of Thomas could stand out no longer, and he cried out, in words of appropriating faith, before all: 'My Lord, and my God.'