Daily Readings for Monday 24th February 2025

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 Plan - First Year
Preface - Moses is encouraged to go to Pharaoh. His and Aaron's age. Aaron casteth down his rod, which becometh a serpent. The magicians do the like; their rods are swallowed up by Aaron's; Pharaoh's heart is hardened. Another message from God to Pharaoh. The river is turned into blood.
Exodus 7
Preface - Christ sendeth out the seventy disciples to work miracles and to preach: he pronounceth a woe against Chorazin, Bethsida, and Capernaum. The seventy return with joy; Christ sheweth them wherein to rejoice: he thanketh his Father for having revealed his gospel to the simple only: he sheweth the blessedness of those that were called into his church: he teacheth a lawyer how to attain eternal life: and by the parable of the good Samaritan sheweth whom we are to consider as our neighbour: he commendeth Mary's attention to his doctrine in preference to Martha's busy care to entertain him.
Luke 10

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Daily Light - Morning
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will yet for this be enquired of.

Ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. - This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. - If any of you lack wisdom let his ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. - Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. - Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.... The LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles, - Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.... Ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me.
Ezek. 36.37; Jas. 4.2
Mt. 7.7-8; 1 Jn. 5.14-15; Jas. 1.5; Ps. 81.10; Lu. 18.1
Ps. 34.15,17; Jn. 16.24,26-27




Daily Light - Evening
Shall we receive good at the hand of God,
and shall we not receive evil?

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. - O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. - It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments.

He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. - Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. - It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. - Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.

Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. - These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Job 2.10; Ps. 119.75; Isa. 64.8; 1 Sa. 3.18
Jer. 12.1
Mal. 3.3; He. 12.6; Mt. 10.25; He. 5.8
​1 Pe. 4.13; Rev. 7.14


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 24 - How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
A - Christ executes the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.



​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lords Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 4
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The denial of the cup to the people, worshipping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and reserving them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature of this ordinance, and to the institution of Christ.  (6)

(6)  Matt. 26.26-28, 15.9; Exod. 20.4-5



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Something to give
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Proverbs 23 v 26

Oh Christians, come and give up your all to Christ - give up your heart to Him. Let His dominion be from sea to sea in your heart - from one corner to another. Is there any part of your heart where you do not wish Christ to reign. Then you have not seen Him, neither known Him. Give up your all to Him. Your dearest friends. Say, they are not mine, but Christ's; and so you will part from them, not without a tear, but without losing your all. If there is any thing you are unwilling Christ should have, then you are not His. Oh, it is sweet to have nothing our own, but to give up all to Christ - to be entirely His for ever and ever. Once you gave all to Satan. Now give all to Christ.