Daily Readings for Thursday 19th December 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 - The vision of the four chariots. By the crowns of Joshua the high priest are showed Christ the branch, and his church and kingdom.
Zecharia 6
Preface - A man that was born blind receiveth sight: he relateth to his neighbours the means of his cure: he is brought to the Pharisees, who examine strictly into the fact, and are offended with his acknowledgement of the divine mission of the author: they excommunicate him: he is received of Jesus, and confesseth him: Christ taxeth the Pharisees with spiritual blindness.
John 9


Daily Light - Morning
Let us...come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy,
and find grace to help in time of need.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. - Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain. - Having therefore...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; and having an high priest over the house of God; 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. - We may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
He. 4.16; Phil. 4.6-7; Ro. 8.15
Isa. 45.19; He. 10.19,22; He. 13.6



Daily Light - Evening
Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. - If the Son...shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. - Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Jn. 8.32; 2 Co. 3.17; Ro. 8.2; Jn. 8.36
Ga. 4.31; Ga. 2.16
Jas. 1.25; Ga. 5.1


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 39 - What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?
A - At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
Chapter 18
PARAGRAPH 2
​​This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion grounded upon a fallible hope, but an infallible assurance of faith,4 founded on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in the Gospel;5 and also upon the inward evidence of those graces of the Spirit unto which promises are made,6 and on the testimony of the Spirit of adoption, witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God;7 and, as a fruit thereof, keeping the heart both humble and holy.8
4 Heb. 6:11,19
5 Heb. 6:17–18
6 2 Pet. 1:4–5,10–11
7 Rom. 8:15–16
8 1 John 3:1–3


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A sight of Christ
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1 Corinthians 11 v 24

An unconverted man cannot remember Christ; for he hath never seen Him, neither known Him. A man who never had a saving taste of the sweetness of the Lord Jesus cannot possibly remember Him. Indeed, there is a kind of remembrance of Christ that any man may have. You may remember the events of His life: that He was born in a stable, that He walked on the lake of Galilee, that He wept over Jerusalem, that He prayed in Gethsemane, that He died on the cross on Calvary; but even the devils can remember Christ in this way. They remember all His history much more perfectly than we do. Satan has more knowledge of divine things than many doctors of divinity. And lost souls in eternal misery remember Jesus. But, ah! this is not the saving remembrance of Jesus which we have at the Lord's Table.
When a labouring, heavy laden sinner is brought to the feet of Jesus, he finds a joy and peace in believing he never felt before. He gets a discovery of the love of Christ that he never had before; the love of Jesus in coming for the ungodly, and dying for them; the freeness of Christ to every creature, to sinners even the chief, to publicans and sinners, coming to Him; the wisdom and excellency of this way of salvation, the amazing flory and perfection of the righteousness of God. When the Spirit thus takes the veil from the eyes, he gets a sight of Christ which he never will, and never can, forget. This is the spiritual relish and discerning of the Lord's body.