Daily Readings for Sunday 6th 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 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - God encourageth Joshua. The statagen for taking Ai, Joshua placeth the ambush, and advanceth toward the city. Ai is taken, and the king thereof hanged. The altar is built in Ebal, the law written on stones, and the blessings and curses pronounced before the people, as Moses had commanded.
Joshua 8
Preface - David acknowledgeth God's all-seeing providence: he praiseth him for the wonders of his formation; and for his infinite mercies: his confidence in the destruction of the wicked: his professed hatred of them: he prayeth for God's inspection and guidance. 
Psalms 139



Daily Light - Morning
Let your speech be
alway with grace.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. - By thy words thou shalt be justified. - The tongue of the wise is health.

They that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

If thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. - Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence....see that ye abound in this grace also.
Col. 4.6; Pro. 25.11-12; Eph. 4.29; Mt. 12.35; Mt. 12.37; Pro. 12.18
Mal. 3.16
Jer. 15.19; 2 Co. 8.7



Daily Light - Evening
Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes.

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. - Your Father which is in heaven....maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Be ye....followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. - Be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. - The love of Christ constraineth us.

Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 
Ps. 26.3; Ps. 145.8; Mt. 5.45
Eph. 5.1-2; Eph. 4.32; 1 Pe. 1.22; 2 Co. 5.14
​Lu. 6.35-36
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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 Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 7
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As it is the law of nature, that in general a proportion of time, by God's appointment be set apart for the worship of God, so by his Word, in a positive moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men, in all ages, he has particularly appointed one day in seven for a sabbath to be kept holy unto him,  (28)  which from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week, and from the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of the week, which is called the Lord's Day:  (29)  and is to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian sabbath, the observation of the last day of the week being abolished.
(28)-Exod. 20.8  (29)-1 Cor. 16.1-2; Acts 20.7; Rev. 1.10


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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Nothing to spare
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you:  but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Matthew 25 v 9

It pleases God to use the godly as instruments, but he has not given them to be fountains of grace: 'I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase' (1 Corinthians 3:6). Rachel said to Jacob: 'Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead?' (Genesis 30:1,2). So grace is not in the hand of man. Those who receive Christ 'are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God' (John 1.13). It is in vain, then, that you look to the means to give saving grace to your soul. The axe can hew without the hand of the forester. The pitcher that carries water is not the well. It will be in vain that you apply to God's children in that awful day. Go to Jesus now. The righteous scarcely are saved. Every child of God gets just so much grace as will carry him to heaven, and no more. Even now every child of God feels that he has nothing to spare. He has not too much of the Holy Spirit, helping him to pray, to mourn over sin, to love Christ. In time of temptation a believer feels as if he had nothing of the Holy Spirit. He has more need to receive, than ability to give away.
When Christ shall come in that solemn hour, he will feel that he has none to spare.