Daily Readings for Monday 19 January 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 - A solemn general fast and humiliation. The Levites make a religious confession of God's manifold goodness, and of the national sins, which had occasioned the people's miseries.
Nehemiah 9
Preface -The Holy Ghost is conferred by Paul on twelve of John's disciples. He preacheth at Ephesus first in the synagogue, and afterward in a private school for two years; God confirming the word by special miracles. Certain Jewish exorcists, attempting to cast out a devil in the name of Jesus, are sent off naked and wounded: the gospel gaineth credit, and magical books are burned. Paul proposing to depart soon. Demetrius and the silversmiths raise an uproar against him, which is with some difficulty appeased.
Acts 19

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Daily Light - Morning
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.

Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. - I say, through the grace given unto me, to very man...not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. - When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which was our duty to do.

Our rejoicing is this....that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world. - We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Ac. 20.19; Mt. 20.26-28
Ga. 6.3; Ro. 12.3 Lu. 17.10
2 Co. 1.12; 2 Co. 4.7

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Daily Light - Evening
We have turned every one to his own way.

Noah...planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken. - Abram...said unto Sarai his wife... Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake. - Isaac said unto Jacob... Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am - Moses...spake unadvisedly with his lips. - The men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD. And Joshua made peace with them. - Daivd did that which was right in the eye of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. - The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways.
Isa. 53.6; Ge. 9.20-21; Ge. 12.11,13; Ge. 27.21,24; Ps. 106.32-33; Jos. 9.14-15; 1 Ki. 15.5
Ro. 3.24; Isa. 53.6
​Ezek. 36.32

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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 70   - Which is the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.


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
Asked to a feast
I am the living bread which cometh down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
​John 6 v 51

Christians, learn to feed more on Christ: 'Eat, O friends! drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved!' When you are asked to a feast, ther is no greater affront you can put upon the entertainer than by being content with a crumb below the table. Yet his is the way the Christians of our day affront the Lord of glory. Oh, how few seem to feed much on Christ! How few seem to put on his white flowing raiment! How few seem to drink deep into his Spirit! Most are content with a glimpse now and then of pardon - a crumb from the table, and a drop of his Spirit. Awake, dear friends! 'These things have I spoken unto you, that your joy may be full.'