Daily Readings for Monday 23rd 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 11:00 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 - First Year
Preface - The blessings for obedience. The curses for disobedience.
Deuteronomy 28:20
Preface - This psalm containeth various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
Psalms 119:25-48



Daily Light - Morning
I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter....even the Spirit of truth.

It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. - Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. - The Spirit....helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. - Hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Jn. 14.16,17; Jn. 16.7
Ro. 8.16; Ro. 8.15; Ro. 8.26
Ro. 15.13; Ro. 5.5
1 Jn. 4.13



Daily Light - Evening
Shall I not seek rest for thee,
that it may be well with thee?

There remaineth....a rest to the people of God. - My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwelling, and in quiet resting places. - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. - They....rest from their labours.

The forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. - In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Ru. 3.1; He. 4.9; Isa. 32.18; Job 3.17; Rev. 14.13
He. 6.20
Mt. 11.28-30; Isa. 30.15
​Ps. 23.1-2
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 61 - Which is the ninth commandment?
A - The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 8
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The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforhand, do not only observe a holy rest all day, from their own works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations,  (30)  but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.  (31)
(30)-Isa. 58.13; Neh. 13.15-22  (31)-Matt. 12.1-13
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Jesus gave His life
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John 10 v 11

Jacob was a good shepherd to Laban. You remember his care of the sheep; he says, 'That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.' etc., (Gen. 31 vs 39-40). But he did not give his life for the sheep. David was a good shepherd. You remember when a lion and a bear came and took away the sheep, that he went after it and rescued it, and slew both the lion and the bear; (1 Samuel 17 v 35). But David did not give his life for the sheep; but Christ gave His life. The sentence was written against the sheep, 'Thou shalt die;' - Christ came between and died for them.