Daily Readings for Sunday 22 February 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 - Job entreateth God's forbearance in respect of the shortness and troubles of life, and of the certainty of death, which cutteth short man's hope: he wisheth for some place of shelter, where to wait his appointed change. All created beings are subject to corruption. 
Job 14
Preface - Paul declareth that he did not use human learning and eloquence in preaching the gospel to his converts, that their faith, being built on the testimony of the spirit, and on miracles, might be solely ascribed to God. The gospel doth contain God's wise, but secret, counsel, for bringing men to glory; which no natural abilities could discover, but the spirit of God only, by which it was revealed to the apostles. Upon this account both the doctrine and its teachers are held in disesteem, by the mere natural man, who i snot duly qualified to judge of and discern them.
1 Corinthians 2



Daily Light - Morning
Who can say, I have made my heart clean?

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. - They that are in the flesh cannot please God.

To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. - We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. - God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Pro. 20.9; Ps 14.2-3; Ro. 8.8
Ro. 7.18-19; Isa. 64.6
Ga. 3.22; 2 Co. 5.19
1 Jn. 1.8-9
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Daily Light - Evening
The floods lift up their waves.

The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. - O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it?

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.

Peter....walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.  
Ps. 93.3; Ps. 93.4; Ps. 89.8-9
Jer. 5.22
Isa. 43.2
Mt. 14.29-31
​Ps. 56.3

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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 22 - What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
A - Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his state of humiliation and exaltation.



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
Sweet companionship
... thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Ruth 1 v 16

The soul in Christ has many sweet companions - bothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. The soul that is united to the Vine-tree is united to all the branches: 'We know that we are passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.' 'I am a companion of all them that fear thee.'
Believers have many things to say to one another; as John says to Gaius: 'I had many things to write unto thee, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: but I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face;' So did believers in the days of Malachi: 'Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard..' (Malachi 3 v 16). And so do believers still. They may tell of their past experiences modestly, humbly, with self-loathing, and for the glory of Christ; as Jesus told the maniac: 'Return to thine own house, and show how great hings God hath done unto thee' (Luke 8 v 39); and as David speaks: 'Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul' (Psalm 60 v 16).