Daily Readings for Thursday 10th July 2025

Daily Prayer - Thursday
Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part       of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.



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
Joshua 12) Preface - The two kings whose countries Moses took and disposed of. The one and thirty kings on the west side of Jordan which Joshua smote.
Joshua 12-13
Joshua 13) Preface - What parts of the land remained yet unsubdued, Joshua is commanded to divide the whole by lot; the two tribes and half being excepted out of this division, and the tribe of Levi. The bounds of Reuben's inheritance, (Balaam slain.) of the inheritance of God, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, as allotted by Moses, who gave no inheritance to the Levites, but God only.
Psalms 132-134



Daily Light - Morning
The disciple is not above his master.

Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. - If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. - Forasmuch.... as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind. 
Mt. 10.24; Jn. 13.13
Mt. 10.25; Jn. 15.20; Jn. 17.14
He. 12.3-4
He. 12.1-2; 1 Pe. 4.1



Daily Light - Evening
My son, give me thine heart.

O that there were much an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all y commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. - Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

They....first gave their own selves to the Lord. - And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord. - As the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Pro. 23.26; Deu. 5.29
Ac. 8.21; Ro. 8.7-8
2 Co. 8.5; 2 Chr. 31.20-21
Pro. 4.23
Col. 3.23; Eph. 6.6-7
​Ps. 19.32



A Puritans Catechism
Q 71 - What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?
A - The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convicting and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort through faith to salvation.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 3
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Whosoever takes an oath warranted by the word of God, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing but what he knows to be truth; for that by rash, false, and vain oaths, the Lord is provoked, and for them this land mourns.  (6)
(6)-Lev. 19.12; Jer. 23.10
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Taught by the Spirit
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3 v 5
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Well may every soul that is untaught by the Spirit of God exclaim: 'This is a hard saying, who can hear it? And, indeed, there is perhaps no truth that calls forth more of the indignant opposition of the world than this blessed one, that they who trust in the Lord with all their heart do not lean to their own understanding. The understanding, here, plainly includes all the observing, knowing, and judging faculties of the mind, by which men ordinarily guide themselves in the world; and, accordingly, it is with no slight appearance of reasonableness that the world should brand with the name of fanatics a peculiar set of men, who dare to say that they are not to lean upon these faculties, to guide them in their every-day walk and conversation.
But surely it might do something to moderate, at least, the opposition of the world (if they would but listen to us), to tell them that we never refuse to be guided by the understanding, although we altogether refuse to lean upon it. Every enlightened believer, however implicitly he depends upon the breathing of the Holy Ghost, without whose almighty breathing he knows that his understanding, would be but a vain and useless machine, leading him into darkness, and into light, yet follows the guidance of the understanding as scrupulously and as religiously as any unconverted man is able to do. Therefore, it ought never to be said, by any man who has a regard for truth, that the believer in Jesus casts aside the use of his understanding, and looks for miraculous guidance from on high. The truth is this, that he trusts in a divine power enlightening the understanding, and he therefore follows the dictates of the understanding more religiously than any other man.