Daily Readings for Monday 25 May 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)

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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 song inciting to confidence in God, for his judgments upon the adversary, and favour to his people. An exhortation to wait God's coming to judgment.
Isaiah 26
Preface - The apostle warneth to try by certain rules the spirits that pretend to come from God. He presseth the obligation of mutual love upon Christians from the example and commandment of God.
1 John 4



Daily Light - Morning
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up
for them that fear thee, which thou hast wrought for
them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. - Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Ps. 31.19; Isa. 64.4; 1 Co. 2.9-10; Ps. 16.11
Ps. 36.7-9
1 Tim. 4.8


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Daily Light - Evening
The Son of God....
hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. - Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. - The Lord turned, and looked upon Peter.... And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. - He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.

The Lord knoweth them that are his. - I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep.... My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Rev. 2.18; Jer. 17.9-10; Ps. 90.8; Lu. 22.61,62
Jn. 2.24-25; Ps. 103.14; Isa. 42.3
​2 Tim. 2.19; Jn. 10.14,27-28
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  68 - How may we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
A - To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting alone to his blood and righteousness. This faith is attended by repentance for the past and leads to holiness in the future.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 7

​The doctrine of the high mystery of predestination is to be handled with special prudence and care, that men attending the will of God revealed in His Word, and yielding obedience thereunto, may, from the certainty of their effectual vocation, be assured of their eternal election;  (18)  so shall this doctrine afford matter of praise,  (19)  reverence, and admiration of God, and of humility,  (20)  diligence, and abundant consolation to all that sincerely obey the gospel.  (21)
18)  1 Thess. 1.4-5; 2 Pet. 1.10
19)  Eph. 1.6; Rom. 11.35
20)  Rom. 11.5-6,20
21)  Luke 10.20



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ for us
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Hebrews 2 v 9
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Paul got such a view of the glory, brightness, and excellency of the way of salvation by Jesus, that it filled his whole heart. All other things sunk into littleness. Every mountain and hill was brought low, the crooked was made straight, the rough places smooth, and the glory of the Lord was revealed. As the rising sun makes all the stars disappear, so the rising of Christ upon his soul made everything else disappear. Jesus, suffering for us, filled his eye - filled his heart. He saw, believed, and was happy. Christ for us, answered all his need. From the Cross of Christ a ray of heavenly light flamed to his soul, filling him with light and joy unspeakable. He felt that God was glorified, and he was saved; he cleaved to the Lord with full purpose of heart.