Daily Readings for Thursday 12th September 2024

Daily Prayer - 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
Preface - By the unfitness of the vine branch for any work is shewed the utter rejection of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 15
Psalm 56) Preface - David praying to God in confidence of his word complaineth of his enemies: he professeth his confidence in God's word, and promiseth to praise him.
Psalm 57) Preface - David in prayer fleeing unto God complaineth of his dangerous case: he encourageth himself to praise God.
Psalms 56-57


Daily Light - Morning
I have seen his ways, and will heal him.

I am the LORD that healeth thee.

O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. - Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. - All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. - He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. - He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. - He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted. - Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
Isa. 57.18; Ex. 15.26
Ps. 139.1-3; Ps. 90.8; He. 4.13
Isa. 1.18; Job. 33.24; Isa. 53.5; Isa. 61.1; Mk. 5.34


Daily Light - Evening
The LORD taketh my part.

The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion... We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners... Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. - There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

If God be for us, who can be against us? - The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.

Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us...and he will deliver us.
Ps. 118.7; Ps. 20.1-2,5,7-8
Isa. 59.19; 1 Co. 10.13
Ro. 8.31; Ps. 118.6
Dan. 3.17


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 23 - How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A - Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lord's Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 4
​The outward elements in this ordinance, duly set apart to the use ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, although in terms used figuratively, they are sometimes called by the names of the things they represent, in other words, the body and blood of Christ,7 albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain truly and only bread and wine, as they were before.8

7 1 Cor. 11:27
8 1 Cor. 11:26–28


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The believer's joy
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalm 16 v 11

The greatest joy of a believer in this world is to enjoy the presence of Christ - not seen, not felt, not heard, but still real - the real presence of the unseen Saviour. It is this that makes secret prayer sweet, and sermons sweet, and sacraments sweet, when we meet with Jesus in them: 'I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.'
Often Jesus hides His face, and we are troubled. We seek Him whom our soul loveth, but He is gone. We rise and seek, but find Him not. At the best, it is but half bliss to feel after an unseen Saviour. Suppose a husband and wife were parted by many seas. It is sweet to have letters and love tokens, and to see a friend who left him well; but this will not make up fo rhis presence. So we mourn an absent Lord.
But when He comes we shall be with Him. 'In thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.' Here we have drops and gleams of pleasure. Christ could not be happy without us. We are His body. If one child  of God were wanting, he would not be complete. We are His fulness. Hence His prayer: 'Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me' (John 17 v 24)
We could not be happy without Christ. Take us to the golden pavement, the pearly gates, the songs, the thrones, the palms, the angels, we would still say, Where is the God-man that died for me? Where is the Angel that redeemed me from all evil? Where is Jesus? Where is the side that was pierced? 'We shall see his face.' The Lamb is the light thereof. We shall stand with the Lamb upon mount Zion. We shall never be parted more.