Daily Readings for Thursday 15th August 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.  

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Daily Reading
Preface - Johanan and the captains discrediting Jeremiah's prophecy carry him and the rest of the people into Egypt. Jeremiah by a type prophesieth the conquest of Egypt by the Babylonians.
Jeremiah 43
Preface - The works of God in the heavens proclaim their Maker's glory. The excellency of the divine law. David prayeth for God's grace and acceptance.
Psalms 19


Daily Light - Morning
The God of peace...
make you perfect in every good work
to do his will.

Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. - Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. - Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.
He. 13.20,21; 2 Co. 13.11
Eph. 2.8-9; Jas. 1.17
Phil. 2.12-13; Ro. 12.2; Phil. 1.11
2 Co. 3.5
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Daily Light - Evening
I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak comfortably unto her.

Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. - Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Jesus...that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

And (Jesus) said...Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. - The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Hos. 2.14; 2 Co. 6.17-18; 2 Co. 7.1
He. 13.12-13
Mk. 6.31; Ps. 23.1-3


A Puritans Catechism
Q 77 - Are the infants of such as are professing to be baptized?
A - Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Marriage
Chapter 25
PARAGRAPH 4
Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity, forbidden in the Word;8 nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful, by any law of man or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife.9

8 Lev. 18
9 Mark 6:18; 1 Cor. 5:1

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Here in is love!
But the Lord said unto Samuel, look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel 16 v 7

He was the only one that knew the wickedness of the beings for whom He died. He that searches the hearts of sinners died for them. His eye alone had searched their hearts; ay, was searching at the time He came. He knew what was in men; yet He did not abhor them on that account - He died for them. It was not for any goodness in man that He died for man. He saw none. It was not that He saw little sin in the heart of man. He is the only being in the universe that saw all the sin that is in the unfathomable heart of man. He saw to the bottom of the volcano - and yet He came and died for man. Herein is love! When publicans and sinners came to Him on earth, He knew what was in their hearts. His eye had rested on their bosoms all their life. He had seen all the lusts and passions that had ever rankled there. Yet in no wise did He cast them out. So with you. His eye hath seen all your sins - the vilest, darkest, blackest hours you have lived, His pure eye was resting on you. Yet he died for such, and invites you to come to Him, and will in no wise cast you out.