Daily Readings for Monday 25th March 2024

Daily 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)
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 - (No Preface)
Proverbs 12
Preface - Paul exhorteth to the imitation of God, and of the love of Christ: to avoid fornication and all uncleanness, which exclude from the kingdom of God, and draw down God's wrath on unbelievers: with whose works of darkness Christians, that have better light to inform and influence them, should have no fellowship: to walk with prudence and circumspection; not to drink wine to excess, but to be filled with the Spirit, singing psalms, and giving thanks to God; and being in due subordination to one another. The duty of wives toward their husbands, and of husbands toward their wives, enforced by the example of Christ and his church.
Ephesians 5


Daily Light - Morning
I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. - Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world... At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it my not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me. - When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. - I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore. - I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. - My peace I give unto you.
He. 13.5; He. 13.6
Ge. 28.15; Deu. 31.6
2 Tim. 4.10,16-17; Ps. 27.10
Mt. 28.20; Rev. 1.18; Jn. 14.18; Jn. 14.27


Daily Light - Evening
Master, we have toiled all the night,
and have taken nothing: nevertheless
at thy word I will let down the net.

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea.

Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me, yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!... I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - My word...shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. - So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Lu. 5.5; Mt. 28.18-20
Mt. 13.47
1 Co. 9.16,22
Ga. 6.9; Isa. 55.11; 1 Co. 3.7


A Puritans Catechism
Q 21 - How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A - Christ, the Son of God became man by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.


Of Baptism and the Lord's Supper
Chapter 28
PARAGRAPH 1
Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances of positive and sovereign institution, appointed by the Lord Jesus, the only lawgiver, to be continued in his church to the end of the world.1

1 Matt. 28:19–20; 1 Cor. 11:26



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The second look
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. - Revelation 1 v 7
The first look to Christ makes the sinner mourn; the second look to Christ makes the sinner rejoice. When the soul looks first to Christ, he sees half the truth. He sees the wrath of God against sin, that God is holy and must avenge sin, that he can by no means clear the guilty. He sees that God's wrath is infinite, When he looks to Christ again, he sees the other half of the truth. The love of God to the lost, that God has provided a surety free to all. It is this that fills the soul with joy. Oh, it is strange, that the same object should break the heart and heal it! A look to Christ wounds, a look to Christ heals. Many, I fear, have only a half look at Christ, and this causes only grief. Many are slow of heart to believe all that is spoken concerning Jesus. They believe all except that he is free to them. They do not see this glorious truth: 'That a crucified Jesus is free to every sinner in the orld,' that Christ's all is free to all.