Daily Readings for Monday 16th June 2025

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 11:00am 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 Plan - First Year
Preface - The expiation of a murder, when the slayer is unknown. The usage of a captive taken to wife. The firstborn not to be disinherited upon private affection. A rebellious son must be stoned to death. The malefactor must not hang all night on a tree.
Deuteronomy 21
Psalms 108) Preface - David encourageth himself to praise God: whose assistance he prayeth for, in confidence of success according to his promise.
Preface - An exhortation to serve God joyfully as our creator and preserver, and to praise him for his goodness, mercy, and truth.
Psalms 109) Preface - David complaining of the slanders and ingratitude of his enemies devoteth them to destruction; complaining of his own misery he prayeth for help; he promiseth thankfulness.
Psalms 108-109 



Daily Light - Morning
See then that ye walk circumspectly,
not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time,
because the days are evil.

Take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law....to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. - Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. - Abstain from all appearance of evil.

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. - Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. - Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching.
Eph. 5.15-16; Jos. 22.5; Col. 4.5-6; 1 Th. 5.22
Mt. 25.5-6; Mt. 25.13
2 Pe. 1.10; Lu. 12.37



Daily Light - Evening
Hold that fast which thou hast,
that no man take thy crown.

If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. - Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.... I will; be thou clean. - Faith as a grain of mustard seed.

Cast not away....your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. - Work out your own salvation with fear and tremblign. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. - The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. - So run, that ye may obtain.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.
Rev. 3.11; Mt. 9.21; Mt. 8.2,3; Mt. 17.20
He. 10.35; Phil. 2.12-13
Mk. 4.28; Hos. 6.3; Mt. 11.12; 1 Co. 9.24
​2 Tim. 4.7-8
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 54 - What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
A - The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity - as far as it shall serve for God's glory and their own good - to all such as keep this commandment.


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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the the Gospel, and of the extent of the Grace thereof
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 1
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The light of nature shows that there is a God, who has lordship and sovereignty over all; is just, good and does good to all; and is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the heart and all the soul, and with all the might.  (1)  But the acceptable way of worshipping the true God, is instituted by himself,  (2)  and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imagination and devices of men, nor the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representations, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scriptures.  (3)
(1)-Jer. 10.7; Mark. 12.33  (2)-Deut. 12.32  (3)-Exod. 20.4-6
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
God's wounded spirit
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4 v 30

Let me show you the holy friendship that subsists between the Holy Spirit and believer's soul. It is implied in the words, 'Grieve not the Holy Spirit.' It is only a friend we can grieve. If he was an enemy he would rejoice if we fell. And this shews that he is a true friend, because when we fall the Holy Spirit is grieved. It is quite true that the infinite God does not grieve in the same sense as we do, for that would imply that He was not infinitely happy; but it is quite as true that thee is something analogues between His grief and ours.