Daily Readings for Monday 15th July 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 prophet proclaimeth God's covenant, and rebuketh the Jews for disobeying it: he denounceth evil against them for their idolatries, and against the men of Anathoth, who devised his death.
Jeremiah 11
Preface - The parable of the ten virgins; and of the talents, which a king distributed among his servants, to be improved by them. A description of the last judgment.
Matthew 25


Daily Light - Morning
Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven.

Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. - I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. - O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. - (Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified...) - If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. - To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Mt. 6.10; Ps. 103.20-21
Jn. 6.38; Ps. 40.8; Mt. 26.42
Mt. 7.21; Ro. 2.13; Jn. 13.17; Jas. 4.17
Ro. 12.2



Daily Light - Evening
The ear trieth words,
as the mouth tasteth meat.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. - Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. - I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith. - He that is spiritual judgeth all things.

Take heed what ye hear. - I know thy works...and how...thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. - Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

H ecalleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will thy not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not th evoice of strangers.
Job 34.3; 1 Jn. 4.1; Jn. 7.24; 1 Co. 10.15; Col. 3.16
Rev. 2.29; 1 Co. 2.15
Mk. 4.24; Rev. 2.2; 1 Th. 5.21
Jn. 10.3-5


A Puritans Catechism
Q 46 - What is forbidden in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment forbids the worshipping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 3

​​Besides this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits; and partly holding forth divers instructions of moral duties, all which ceremonial laws being appointed only to the time of reformation, are, by Jesus Christ the true Messiah and only law-giver, who was furnished with power from the Father for that end abrogated and taken away.

1. Hebrews 10:1 
2. Colossians 2:17 
3. 1 Corinthians 5:7 
4. Colossians 2:14,16,17 
5. Ephesians 2:14,16

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The stream of grace
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7 v 38

The Holy Spirit is an imperishable stream. It is not like those rivers of which you have heard, which flow through barren sands till they sink into the earth and disappear. Not so the stream of grace. When it flows from Jesus Christ, it flows into many a barren heart; but it is never lost there. It appears again - it flows forth from that heart in rivers of living water. When a soul is brought to believe on Jesus, and to drink in the Spirit, it often appears as if the Spirit were lost in that soul. The stream flows into such a barren heart, that it is long before it makes its appearance; but it is never lost. The Scripture must be fulfilled: 'He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.'