Daily Readings for Monday 20 April 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 - Remedies against the vanity of life are, a good name, morification, patience, wisdom, or a considerate and prudent conduct. The difficulty of getting wisdom. The result of the Preacher's researches.
Ecclesiastes 7
Preface - The apostle foretelleth the evil characters that should appear in the last days. He describeth the enemies of the truth: setteth forth unot Timothy his own example, and exhoreth him to abide in the doctrine he had learned, commending unto him the manifold use of the holy scriptures.
2 Timothy 3

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Daily Light - Morning
There shall cleave nought of
the cursed thing to thine hand.

Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war agains tthe soul. - Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. - The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Deu. 13.17; 2 Co. 6.17; 1 Pe. 2.11; Jude 23
1 Jn. 3.2-3; Titus 2.11-14
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Daily Light - Evening
Who art thou, Lord?... I am Jesus.

It is I; be not afraid. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God....thy Saviour.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. - Emmanuel....God with us.

Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. - Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Ac. 26.15; Mt. 14.27; Isa. 43.2-3
Ps. 23.4; Mt. 1.23
​Mt. 1.21; 1 Jn. 2.1; Ro. 8.34-35

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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 51  - How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
A - The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 1
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The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience,  (1)  although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will which is necessary unto salvation.  (2)  Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and to declare (that) His will unto His church;  (3)  and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now completed.  (4)
1)  2 Tim. 3.15-17; Is. 8.20; Luke 16.29,31;  Eph. 2.20
2)  Rom. 1.19-21, 2.14-15; Psalm 19:1-3
3)  Heb. 1:1
4)  Prov. 22:19-21; Rom. 15:4; 2 Pet. 1:19-20
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Comforter abides forever
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Hebrews 13 V 5

You may take these words as those of the Spirit, and then they are like those words in fourteenth of John - 'I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever' - to abide with you for ever. It is the same as these words - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' When God the Holy Spirit comes to a soul, He will never leave it. Some may often be made to say 'I think the Spirit will go away from me. But observe, He says, 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' David cried out in the bitterness of his soul. 'Take not thy Holy Spirit away from me.' Here is the answer - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' God will never forsake the temple in which He dwells. He forsook the tabernacle in the wilderness, and He forsook the temple at Jerusalem; but He will never forsake the living temple.