Daily Readings for Sunday 24 May 2026

Daily Prayer - Sunday
Sunday
- Give thank 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 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 prophet praiseth God for his past judgments, and for his future salvation of his people, and overthrow of their enemies.
Isaiah 25
Preface - It is a mark of God's singular love toward us, that we are now called his sons, and designed for further happiness hereafter: and therefore we must obediently keep his commandments, and love one another with true brotherly kindness and actual beneficence.
1 John 3



Daily Light - Morning
Grieve not the holy Spirit of God.
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

The love of the Spirit. - The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. - After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession. - This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.
Eph. 4.30; Ro. 15.30; Jn. 14.26; Isa. 63.9-10
1 Jn. 4.13; Eph. 1.13-14; Ga. 5.16-17
Ro. 8.26


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Daily Light - Evening
I will go and return to my place, till they
acknowledge their offence, and seek my face.

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you. - My beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone... I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. - I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him. - Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led there by the way?

He arose, and came to his father, But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. - I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Hos. 5.15; Isa. 59.2; Song 5.6; Isa. 57.17-18; Jer. 2.17
Lu. 15.20; Hos. 14.1
​1 Jn. 1.9
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  67 - What does every sin deserve?
A - Every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 6

​As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so He hath, by the eternal and most free purpose of His will, foreordained all the means thereunto;  (13)  wherefore they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ,  (14)  are effectually called unto faith in Christ, by His Spirit working in due season, are justified adopted, sanctified,  (15)  and kept by His power through faith unto salvation;  (16)  neither are any other redeemed by Christ, or effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.  (17)
13)  1 Pet. 1.2-2; 2 Thess. 2.13
14)  1 Thess. 5.9-10
15)  Rom. 8.30;  2 Thess. 2.13
16)  1 Pet. 1.5
17)  John 10.26; 17.9, 6.64



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Experimental knowledge
... One thing I know, that, wheras I was blind, now I see.
John 9 v 25
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The first thing that the Holy Spirit does when he is converting a soul is to give light: 'Ye were some time darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.' He pours a flood of light into the unconverted soul, so that it sees itself. You remember at the first creation of the world, God said, 'Let there be light, and there was light.' So it is at the conversion of a soul. The first things that the Holy Spirit does, is to give knowledge to let us see things as they are - to let us see ourselves as we are - heaven as it is - hell as it is. This light, brethren, too, is sanctifying light. 'Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image, from glory to glory.' And this is saving light: 'For this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.' You remember when Paul was converted, there were scales fell from his eyes, and he was enabled to see. Now this is just intended to show us what conversion is - it is as scales falling from the eyes - it is the giving of sight to the blind.