Daily Readings for Thursday 12 March 2026

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.

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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 - God's great power seen in the leviathan.
Job 41
Preface - Paul unwillingly entereth upon a commendation of himself, out of jealousy lest the Corinthians should be perverted by false apostles from the pure doctrine of Christ. He sheweth that he was in all respects equal to the chiefest apostles; that he declined being chargeable to them not for want of love toward them, but to cut off occasion from those deceitful workers of taking shelter under his example: that he was not inferior to those, whom they so patiently submitted to, in any of their boasted prerogatives, but as a minister of Christ, in labours and sufferings for the gospel's sake, was abundantly their superior. 
2 Corinthians 11



Daily Light - Morning
The LORD make his face shine upon thee,
and be gracious unto thee: the LORD lift up his
countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. - The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. - The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies sake. let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee. - LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. - Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. 
Nu. 6.25,26; Jn. 1.18; He. 1.3; 2 Co. 4.4
Ps. 31.16-17; Ps. 30.7; Ps. 89.15
Ps. 29.11
Mt. 14.27


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Daily Light - Evening
Things that are pleasing in his sight.

Without faith it is impossible to please him. - So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. - The LORD taketh pleasure in his people.

This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully... If, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. - The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit....is in the sight of God of great price.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. - I will praise the name of God with a son, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

I beseech you...brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Jn. 3.22; He. 11.6; Ro. 8.8; Ps. 149.4
1 Pe. 2.19,20; 1 Pe. 3.4
Ps. 50.23; ps. 69.30-31
​Ro 12.1
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  33 - What is adoption?
A - Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 4

​The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God.  (7)
7) 2 Pet. 1. 19,20,21. 2 Tim. 3. 16.2 Thes. 2. 13. 1 Job. 5.9.



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Light for eternity
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Hebrews 10 v 12
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This is a great work of Christ as our High Priest. For this it was needful that He should become man and die. Had he remained God alone in the bosom of His Father, He might have pitied us, but He could not have died for us, nor took our sins away. We must have perished. Every priest in the Old Testament was a type of Jesus in this; every lamb that was slain typified Jesus offering up His own  body a sacrifice for our sins.
Let your eye rest there if you would be happy. Those few hours on Calvary, when the great High Priest was offering up the amazing sacrifice, give light for eternity to the believing soul. This only will cheer you in dying. Not your graces, not your love to Christ, not anything in you, but only this - Christ hath died. He loved me and gave Himself for me. Christ hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.