Daily Readings for Sunday 27th July 2025

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 - First Year
Preface - Tola judgeth Israel; and after him Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities. The children of Israel fall again into idolatry, and are oppressed by the Philistines and Ammonites. They cry unto God, and are sent by him for help unto their false gods. Upon their repentance he pitieth them. They assemble and consult about choosing a head.
Judges 10.1-11.11

Preface - Paul and Barnabas are persecuted from Iconium by the malice of the unbelieving Jews. At Lystra they heal an impotent man, and refuse divine honours with abhorrence. Paul is stoned at the instigation of the Jews, but escapeth alive with Barnabas to Derbe. Having passed through various places, and confirmed the churches in faith and patience, they return to Antioch, and give an account of their ministry.
Acts 14



Daily Light - Morning
Christ, who is the image of God.

The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.... No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. - He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. - The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. - God was manifest in the flesh.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. - Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 
2 Co. 4.4; Isa. 40.5; Jn. 1.14,18; Jn. 14.9; He. 1.3; 1 Tim. 3.16
Col. 1.14-15; Ro. 8.29
1 Co. 15.49



Daily Light - Evening
Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle.

When I am weak, then am I strong.

Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. - Hehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD that to put confidence in princes. - THere is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God.
Ps. 18.39; 2 Co. 12.10
2 Chr. 14.11; 2 Chr. 18.31
Ps. 118.8-9; Ps. 33.16-17
​Eph. 6.12-13
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 5 - Are there more Gods than one?
A - There is but one only, the living and true God.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Civil Magistrate
Chapter 24
PARAGRAPH 1
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God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, has ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, fo rhis own glory and the public good; and to this end has armed them with the power of the sword, for defence and encouragement of them that do good, and for the punishment of evil doers.  (1)
(1)-Rom. 13.1-4

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, desposong the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12 v 2

Keep looking then to Jesus dear soul, and you will have the peace that passeth all understanding. Whenever Satan accuses you, send him to the stripes of Jesus.