Daily Readings for Thursday 1st May 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 - The lighting of the lamps. The consecration of the Levites. Their age and time of service
Numbers 8
Preface - The church calling to mind former favours, complaineth of present evils: professing her integrity, she fervently prayeth for succour.
Psalms 44



Daily Light - Morning
The fruit of the Spirit is....peace....

To be spiritually minded is life and peace.

God hath called us to peace. - Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. - The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. - Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Great peace have they which love thy law.
Ga. 5.22; Ro. 8.6
1 Co. 7.15; Jn. 14.27; Ro. 15.13
2 Tim. 1.12; Isa. 26.3
Isa. 32.17-18; Pro. 1.33
Ps. 119.165



Daily Light - Evening
The LORD is there. [marg. Jehovah-shammah]

Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

I saw no temple....for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. - Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. - Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. - There shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.
Ezek. 48.35; Rev. 21.3
Rev. 21.22-23
Ps. 17.15; Ps. 73.25
Joel 3.20-21; Zech. 2.10; Rev. 22.3

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 8 - How doth God execute his decrees?
A - God executes his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 3
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Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those who are justified; and did, by the sacrifice of himself in the blood of his cross, undergoing in their stead the penalty due to them, make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice in their behalf;  (8)  yet, in as much as he was given by the Father for them, and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead, and both freely, not for anything in them,  (9)  their justification i sonly of free grace, that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.  (10)
(8)-Heb. 10.14; 1 Pet. 1.18-19; Isa. 53.5-6  (9)-Rom. 8.32; 2 Cor. 5.21  (10)-Rom. 3.26; Eph. 1.6-7,2.7



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Partakers of one grace
He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
John 4 v 36

He that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. Christian friends are sweet to the Christian. Those who are sharers of our spiritual secrets, those who mingle prayer with us before the throne, those who never forget us when within the veil - oh, there is something cheering in the very light of their kindly eye! It is an intercourse of which the world knows nothing. We have them in our heart, inasmuch as they are partakers of one grace, washed in one fountain, filled with the same Spirit, members one of another.