Daily Readings for Monday 13th May 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
11) Preface - The peaceable kingdom of the branch out of the root of Jesse. The calling of the Gentiles, and restoration of Israel.
12) Preface - A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the mercies of God.
Isaiah 11-12
Preface - Wicked rich men are warned of God's impending judgments. The brethren are exhorted to patience after the example of the prophets and of Job: to abstain from swearing; to pray in affliction and sickness, and sing psalms in prosperity: to acknowledge mutually their faults, and to pray for one another: and to endeavour to reclaim sinners.
James 5


Daily Light - Morning
Pray every where, lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting.

The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him in spirit and in truth.. - Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. - When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any.

Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. - Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me. - My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins.
1 Tim. 2.8; Jn. 4.23-24; Isa. 58.9; Mk. 11.25
He. 11.6; Jas. 1.6-7
Ps. 66.18; 1 Jn. 2.1-2


Daily Light - Evening
My heart panteth,
my strength faileth me.

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end o fthe earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

He said unto me. My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me...for when I am weak, then am I strong.

When (Peter) saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?-If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. - Stregthened with all might, according to his glorious power.
Ps. 38.10; Ps. 61.1-2
2 Co. 12.9,10
Mt. 14.30-31; Pro. 24.10; Isa. 40.29; Deu. 33.27; Col. 1.11


A Puritans Catechism
Q 66 - Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
A - Some sins in themselves, and by reason of various aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof
Chapter 6
PARAGRAPH 1
Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof,1 yet he did not long abide in this honor; Satan using the subtlety of the serpent to subdue Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who, without any compulsion, did willfully transgress the law of their creation, and the command given to them, in eating the forbidden fruit,2 which God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.

1 Gen. 2:16–17
2 Gen. 3:12–13; 2 Cor. 11:3



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Higher upon the rock
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is
overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is highter than I - Psalm 61 v 2
Every wave of trouble for Christ's sake lifts the soul higher upon the Rock. Every arrow of bitterness shot after the believer makes him hide farther back in the clefts of Jesus. Be content dear friend, to bear these troubles which make you cling closer to your Beloved.