Daily Readings for Sunday 18 January 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.)
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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 - The religious manner in which the law was read by Ezra and expounded to the people. Nehemiah, Ezra and the Levites, comfort them. They are instructed out of the law concerning the feast of tabernacles, which is kept in a solemn manner.
Nehemiah 8
Preface - Paul worketh for his subsistence, and preacheth Christ at Corinth, first to the Jews, and, upon their opposing and blaspheming, to the Gentiles with more success: he is encouraged by the Lord in a vision, and abideth there a long time. The Jews accuse him before Gallio the deputy, who will have nothing to do with them. Paul passeth from city to city, confirming the disciples. Apollos, instructed more perfectly in the Christian doctrine by Aquila and Priscilla, preacheth it at Ephesus, and afterward in Achaia, with great efficacy.
Acts 18



Daily Light - Morning
Him that was to come.

Jesus....made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death....that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. - One died for all. - As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. - That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. - God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. - God....hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son....the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. - Thou hast given him power over all flesh.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
Ro. 5.14; He. 2.9; 2 Co. 5.14; Ro. 5.19
1 Co. 15.45; 1 Co. 15.46; Ge. 1.26,27; He. 1.13; Jn. 17.2
1 Co. 15.47-48


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Daily Light - Evening
Things which shall be hereafter.

As it is written, 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. - The Spirit of truth....will shew you things to come.

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.

I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him... For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice fo the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Rev. 1.19; 1 Co. 2.9-10; Jn. 16.13
Rev. 1.7
​1 Th. 4.13-14,16-17

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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 69 - What is faith in Jesus Christ?
A - Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is set forth in the gospel.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 3
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The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings.  (6)
6 Luke 24-27,44; Rom. 3.2



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
When heaven came down
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
2 Chronicles 5 v 14

Before the cloud came down, no doubt the priests were all busily engaged burning incense and offering sacrifices; but when the cloud came down, they could only wonder and adore. So it ever will be when the Lord gives much of his Spirit; He will make it evident that it is not the work of man.
If He were to give only a little then ministers would begin to think they had some hand in it; but when He fills the house, then He makes it plain that man has nothing to do with it. David Brainerd said, that when God awakened his whole congregation of Indians, he stood by amazed, and felt that he was as nothing - that God alone was working.
Oh, it is this, dear friends, that we desire and pray for - that the Lord the Spirit would himself descend, and wit His almighty power tear away the veil from your hearts, convincing you of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; that Jesus Himself would take His sceptre and break your hard hearts, and take all the glory, that we may cry out: 'Not unto us. Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory.'