Daily Readings for Monday 21st October 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 - Daniel is made chief of the presidents and princes of the realm: they conspire against him, and obtain an ensnaring decree: Daniel, accused of the breach thereof, against the king's will is cast into the lions' den: the king findeth him miraculously saved: his adversaries are cast in and devoured. Darius by a decree magnifieth God.
Daniel 6
Psalms 112) - The blessedness and security of the godly: the wicked shall repine thereat.
Psalms 113) - An exhortation to praise God for his merciful condescension to his creatures.
Psalms 112 - 113


Daily Light - Morning
Of his fulness have all we received,
and grace for grace.

This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. - Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.

His Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things. - If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

I and my Father are one. The Father is in me, and I in him. - My Father, and your Father; and...my God, and your God. - I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.

The church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Having...these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Jn. 1.16; Mt. 17.5; 1 Jn. 3.1
He. 1.2; Ro. 8.17
Jn. 10.30,38; Jn. 20.17; Jn. 17.23
Eph. 1.22-23
2 Co. 7.1


Daily Light - Evening
The servant is not greater than his Lord;
neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

There was...a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. And he said unto them. The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exerciese authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that serveth. - Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Jesus...riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel where-with he was girded.
Jn. 13.16,17; Lu. 22.24-27; Mt. 20.28
Jn. 13.3,4-5


A Puritans Catechism
Q 62 - What is required in the ninth commandment?
A - The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5
PARAGRAPH 5
The most wise, righteous, and gracious God does often times leave for a season His own children to manifold temptations and the corruptions of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they may be humbled; and to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support upon Himself; and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for other just and holy ends.15 So that whatsoever befalls any of His elect is by His appointment, for His glory, and their good.16
15 2 Chron. 32:25–26,31; 2 Cor. 12:7-9

16 Rom. 8:28


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Arrange befoerhand
And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Luke 11 v 1

Pray to be taught to pray. Do not be content with old forms that flow from the lips only. Most Christians have need to cast their formal prayers away, to be taught to cry, Abba. Arrange beforehadn what you have to pray for. Do not forget confession of sin, nor thanksgiving. Pray to get your closed lips opened in intercession - embrace the whole world and carry it within the vail.