Daily Readings for Monday 16 February 2026

Daily Prayer - Monday
Monday
Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone in 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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - Eliphaz reproveth Job of impiety in justifying himself: he proveth from tradition the disquietude of wicked men.
Job 15
Preface -Paul sheweth that he could not instruct the Corinthians in the higher doctrines of Christianity because of their carnal mind; this state of mind revealed itself in their factions. The most eminent preachers of the gospel are but instruments employed by God in building his church. Paul hath laid the only true foundation, Christ Jesus; and others must take heed what they build thereon. Christians are God's temple, not to be defiled. Worldly wisdom is foolishness with God. They that are Christ's must not glory in men.
1 Corinthians 3

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Daily Light - Morning
Thy name is as ointment poured forth. 

Christ....hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. - Unto you therefore which believe he is precious. - God also hth highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. - In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

If ye love me, keep my commandments. - The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - The house was filled with the odour of the ointment. - They took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. - Emmanuel....God with us. - His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. - The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Song 1.3; Eph. 5.2; 1 Pe. 2.7; Phil. 2.9; Col. 2.9
Jn. 14.15; Ro. 5.5; Jn. 12.3; Ac. 4.13
Ps. 8.1; Mt. 1.23; Isa. 9.6; Pro. 18.10

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Daily Light - Evening
We that are in this tabernacle
do groan, being burdened.
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Mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.... Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee - O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves....which have the firstfruits of the Spirit....groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to wit, the redemption of our body. - Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.

Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle. - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
2 Co. 5.4; Ps. 38.4,9; Ro. 7.24
Ro. 8.22-23; 1 Pe. 1.6
2 Pe. 1.14; 1 Co. 15.53-54

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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 16  - Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
A - The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 4
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The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God.  (7)
7 2 Pet. 1.19,20,21; 2 Tim. 3.16; 2 Thes. 2.13; 1 Job. 5.9 

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Radiant saints
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Matthew 5 v 14

If the sun were to grow weary of running his daily journey, and were to give over shining, would you not say it should be taken down, for did not God hang it in the sky to give light upon the earth? Just so, dear Christians, if you grow weary in well-doing, in shining with Christ's beauty, in walking by Christ's Spirit, you, took, should Be taken down and cast away - for did not Christ arise upon you for this very end, that you might be a light in the world? Ah! think of this, dark, useless Christians, who are putting your candle under a bushel. I tremble for some who will not lay themselves out of Christ. Ah! you are wronging yourselves and dishonouring Christ. Your truest happiness is in shining; the more you shine for Christ, the happier you will be. 'To me to live is Christ; and to die, gain.'