Daily Readings for Thursday 18 June 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.



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 - The dereliction of the Jews to be imputed to their own sins, and not to God's inability to save. Christ's commission to speak comfort to the weary: his patient suffering of indignities, and confidence in God's help. An exhortation to trust in God, and not in human resources.
Isaiah 50
Preface - Satan bound for a thousand years. The first resurrection. Satan again let loose gathereth Gog and Magog to battle, who are devoured with fire. The devil cast into the lake of fire and brimstone. The general resurrection, and last judgment.
Revelation 20



Daily Light - Morning
Thou shalt put the mercy seat above
upon the ark....and there I will meet with thee.

The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

Having....brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh....let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. - Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. - Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Ex. 25.21,22; He. 9.8; Mt. 27.50-51
He. 10.19-20,22; He. 4.16
Ro. 3.24-25; Eph. 2.18


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Daily Light - Evening
Faith as a grain of mustard seed.

Barak said unto [Deborah], if thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.... God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan. - And Gideon said unto God, if thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said....let me prove, I pray thee.... And God did so.

Thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. - Who hath despised the day of small things?

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly. - Lord, Increase our faith. - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Mt. 17.20; Judg. 4.8,23; Judg. 6.36,39,40
Rev. 3.8; Zech. 4.10
2 Th. 1.3; Lu. 17.5; Hos. 14.5-6



A Puritans Catechism
Q  75 - What is baptism?
A - Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptised a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being ingrafted into him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.

 
The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5
PARAGRAPH 4

​The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God, so far manifest themselves in His providence, that His determinate counsel extends itself even to the first fall, and all other sinful actions both of angels and men;  (11)  and that not by a bare permission, which also He most wisely and powerfully binds, and otherwise orders and governs,  (12)  in a manifold dispensation to His most holy ends;  (13)  yet so, as the sinfulness of their acts proceeds only from the creatures, and not from God, who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.  (14) 
11)  Rom. 11:32-34, 2 Sam. 24:1; 1 Chron. 21:1
12)  2 Kings 19:28; Ps. 76:10
13) Gen. 1:20; Isa. 10:6-7,12
14) Ps. 1. Ps. 21: 1 John 2:16




Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A sweet mystery
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 6 v 10
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The groans and triumphal song of a believer are not far separated, as you may see in Paul (Romans 7 vs. 24-25): 'O wretched man,' and 'I thank God,' all in one breath! David felt the same (see Psalm 73). At one verse he feels himself a fool and a beast in the sight of a holy God, and in the very next verses he is cleaving to Christ with a song of unspeakable joy (vs. 22-24). Ah! there is a sweet mystery here - bitter herbs along with our Passover Lamb. It is sweet to see ourselves infinitely vile, that we may look to Jehovah our Righteousness, as all our way to the Father.