Daily Readings for Sunday 17 May 2026

Daily Prayer - Sunday
Sunday
- Give thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever.
- Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another.
- Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.)
- Pray we would receive faithful ministry and spiritual food from God's Word (1 Pet 2.2.)

​
​
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 - The Moabite is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David. He is threatened for his pride with lamentable judgements, and that within three years.
Isaiah 16
Preface - Our evil lusts and passions tend to breed quarrels among ourselves, and to set us at enmity with God. The way to overcome them, and recover God's favour. Against slander and censoriousness. We must not presume on the future, but commit ourselves to God's providence.
1 Peter 4



Daily Light - Morning
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes,
and keep my judgments, and do them.

As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. - He hat saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked....If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. - Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. - Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes.

Work our your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. - The God of peace....make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ.
Ezek. 20.19; 1 Pe. 1.15; 1 Jn. 2.6,29; 1 Co. 7.19; Jas. 2.10
2 Co. 3.5; Ps. 119.33
Phil. 2.12-13; He. 13.20,21


​
Daily Light - Evening
I have exalted one
chosen out of the people

Verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham... In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. - Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. - The Son of man which is in heaven. - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

Who....made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Ps. 89.19; He. 2.16,17; Ezek. 1.26; Jn. 3.13; Lu. 24.39
​Phil. 2.6-10; Rev. 3.2
​

A Puritans Catechism
Q  63 - Which is the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

​
 
The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 2

​Although God knoweth whatsoever may or can come to pass, upon all supposed conditions,  (5)  yet hath He not decreed anything, because He foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions.  (6)
5)  Acts 15.18
6)  Rom. 9.11,13,16,18



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Sweet and easy
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
John 6 v 60
​
A great many persons are much taken with Christ; they have some anxiety about their souls; they follow anxiously after the preaching of the Word; but when we show them that Christ is the bread of heave, that they must have a personal closing with Christ, as much as if they were to eat His flesh and drink His blood, these souls say; 'It is a hard saying, who can bear it?' By-and-by, they are offended, they believe not, they go back and walk no more with Jesus. Is any hearing me in this condition? Oh! think again, I beseech you, before you go back. Oh! seek the teaching of God, and He will show you that none of Christ's sayings are hard sayings, but that they are all sweet and easy. When the heart of a poor Indian was brought under the teaching of God, he said: 'Some people complain that the Bible is a hard book; but I have not read so far as to find it a hard book. To me it is all sweet and easy.'