Daily Readings for Thursday 19th 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 - A catalogue of sins committed in Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the Jews because of them. God will burn them as dross in the funace. The general corruption of all orders of men, for which God's wrath is poured out upon them.
Ezekiel 22
Preface - David complaineth of his afflictions: and the reproach and insults of his enemies: he prayeth for deliverance: he devoteth of his enemies to destruction: he engageth to praise God with thanksgiving. The whole creation is called upon to praise God for his goodnessto the church.
Psalms 69


Daily Light - Morning
The God of all grace.

I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. - He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in 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. - Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. - Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. - Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. - He giveth more grace.

Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever.
1 Pe. 5.10; Ex. 33.19; Job. 33.24; Ro. 3.24-25; Jn. 1.17
Eph. 2.8; 1 Tim. 1.2; Eph. 4.7; 1 Pe. 4.10; Jas. 4.6
2 Pe. 3.18


Daily Light - Evening
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,
from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the LORD.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. - Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. - Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. - Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Ps. 121.1-2; Ps. 125.2
Ps. 123.1-2; Ps. 63.7
2 Chr. 20.12; Ps. 25.15; Ps. 124.8



A Puritans Catechism
​Q 30 - What is effectual calling?
A - Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he does persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the gospel.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the State of Man - After Death and of - The Resurrection of - the Dead
Chapter 31
PARAGRAPH 3
The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised to dishonour; the bodies of the just, by his Spirit, unto honour, and be made conformable to his own glorious body.8

8 Acts 24:15; John 5:28–29; Phil. 3:21

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A harp of praise
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
Psalm 137 v 4

Every believer has a harp. Every heart has been made new is tuned into a harp of praise. The mouth is filled with laughter, the tongue with divinest melody. Every true Christian loves praise; the holiest Christians love it most. But when the believer falls into sin and darkness, his harp is on the willows, and he cannot sing the Lord's song, for he is in a strange land.