Daily Readings for Monday 3rd June 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 - The joyful and flourishing state of Christ's kingdom. The weak are encouraged with a view of the blessings of the gospel.
Isaiah 35
Preface - The book sealed with seven seals, which no man is worthy to open. John weeping at this is comforted. The Lamb that was slain taketh the book to open it. The beasts and the elders praise him that had redeemed them with his blood. The angels join with them in ascribing glory to God and to the Lamb.
Revelation 5


Daily Light - Morning
Watch therefore,
for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.

Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Mt. 25.13; Lu. 21.34-36
1 Th. 5.2-6


Daily Light - Evening
I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect... I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. - We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

These words spake Jesus... I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil... I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.
Ge. 17.1; Phil. 3.12,13-14
Ge. 5.24
2 Pe. 3.18; 2 Co. 3.18
Jn. 17.1,15,23


A Puritans Catechism​
Q 5 - Are there more Gods than one?
A - There is but one only, the living and true God.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 2
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Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good and well-pleasing to God, but yet was unstable, so that he might fall from it.

1. Ecclesiastes 7:29 
2. Genesis 3:6

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Rest
... yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. - Revelation 14 v 13
We shall 'rest from our labours.' We shall not rest from all work; we shall serve Him day and night in His temple. We shall not rest from our work, but from our labours. There will be no toil, no pain, in our work. We shall rest in our work. Oh, let this make you willing to depart, and make death look pleasant, and Heaven a home. It is a world of holy love, where we shall give free, full, unfettered, unwearied expression to our love for ever.