Daily Readings for Thursday 13th March 2025

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 Plan - First Year
Preface - Moses is called up into the mountain. The people promise obedience. Moses buildeth an altar and twelve pillars; and sprinkleth the blood of the covenant. The glory of God appeareth to Moses, Aaron, and the elders of Israel. Moses being called up into the mount leaveth Aaron and Hur in charge of the people. Moses goeth into the mount, and continueth there forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 24
Preface - Christ in a conference with Nicodemus teacheth him the necessity of regeneration; the efficacy of faith in his death; God's great love to mankind in sending his Son for their salvation; and the condemnation for unbelief. Jesus baptizeth in Judaea, as doth John in Aenon. John's doctrine concerning Christ.
John 3


Daily Light - Morning
There is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Forasmuch....as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same.

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. - In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace. - By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.... And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. - He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
1 Tim. 2.5; He. 2.14
Isa. 45.22
1 Jn. 2.1; Eph. 2.13-14; He. 9.12,15; He. 7.25



Daily Light - Evening
O my God, my soul is cast down within me.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. - He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted: neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. - Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. - Take no thought fo ryour life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.... Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? - Be not faithless, but believing. - Lo, I am with you alway.
Ps. 42.6; Isa. 26.3,4
Ps. 55.22; Ps. 22.24; Jas. 5.13
​Jn. 14.27; Mt. 6.25,26; Jn. 20.27; Mt. 28.20


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 41 - What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A - The sum of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 8
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The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old),  (14)  and the New Testament in Greek (which at the time of the writing of it was most generally known to the nations), being immediately inspired by God, and by His singular care and providence kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentic; so as in all controversies of religion, the church is finally to appeal to them.  (15)  But because these original languages are not known to all the people of God, who have a right unto, and interest in the Scriptures, and are commanded in the fear  of God to read,  (16)  and search them,  (17)  therefore they are to be translated into the common language of every nation unto which they come,  (18)  that the Word of God dwelling richly in all, they may worship Him in an acceptable manner, and through patience and comfort of the Scriptures may have hope.  (19)
(14)  Rom. 3.2  (15)  Isa. 8.20  (16)  Acts 15.15  (17)  John 5.39  (18)  1 Cor. 14.6,9,11-12,24,28  (19)  Col. 3.16



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Joy
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3 v 18

The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, His people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus. They eat His flesh and drink His blood. They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord. They taste that the Lord is gracious. His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full and free to their soul. They sit under His shadow with great delight. They rest in the clefts of the rock. Their defence is the munitions of rocks. They lean on the Beloved. They find infinite strength in Him for the use of their soul - grace for grace - all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end.
They go by Him to the Father. 'We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ' We find a portion there - a shield, and exceeding freat reward. 
This gives joy unspeakable and full of glory.