Daily Readings for Monday 2nd September 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 - Under the type of the prophet's hair, is shewed God's judgment upon Jerusalem, by pestilence, by famine by the sword, and by dispersion.
Ezekiel 5
Psalms 42) Preface - The Psalmist longeth after the service of God in the temple: he encourageth his dejected soul to trust in God.
Psalms 43) Preface - The Psalmist praying God to judge his cause, and restore him to his temple, promiseth to serve him joyfully there: he encourageth his soul to trust in God.
Psalms 42-43


Daily Light - Morning
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen thine heart.

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?... He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. - Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. - Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

The trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have ​her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. - Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Ps. 27.14; Isa. 40.28,29; Isa. 41.10; Isa. 25.4
​Jas. 1.3,4; He. 10.35-36


Daily Light - Evening
He maketh me to lie down 
in green pastures.

The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. - Rest in the LORD. - He that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace. - That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.

I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Ps. 23.2; Isa. 57.20-21
Mt. 11.28; Ps. 37.7; He. 4.10
He. 13.9; Eph. 4.14-15
Song 2.3-4


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 13 - Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
A - Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from that initial state wherein they were created, by sinning against God, by eating the forbidden fruit.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
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

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Prize for Lord's day
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118 v 24

Prize the Lord's Day. The more that others despise and trample on it, love you it all the more. The louder the storm of blasphemy howls around you, sit the closer at the feet of Jesus. 'He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.' Diligently improve all holy time. It should be the busiest day of the seven; but only in the business of eternity. Avoid sin on that holy day. God's children should avoid sin every day, but most of all on the Lord's Day. It is a day of double cursing as well as of double blessing. The world will have to answer dreadfully for sins committed in holy time. Spend the Lord's Day in the Lord's presence. Spend it as a day in heaven. Spend much of it in praise and in works of mercy, as Jesus did.