Daily Readings for Thursday 2 July 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 - Thur church prayeth God to shew himself with power. She acknowledgeth God's mercy to them that seek him, and confesseth her own unworthiness. She pleadeth for compassion toward her desolate state.
Isaiah 64
Preface - Christ bringeth evidence of scripture in excuse of his disciples, whom the Pharisees charged with breaking the sabbath. He appealeth to reason, and healeth the withered hand on the sabbath day. The Pharisees seek to destroy him: a prophecy of Esaias fulfilled in him. He healeth one possessed of a devil, who was blind and dumb; and showeth that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is an unpardonable sin, and that every idle word must be accounted for: he rebuketh those that sought of him a sign, and showeth whom he regardeth as his nearest relations.
Matthew 12



Daily Light - Morning
This is the ordinance of the passover:
There shall no stranger eat thereof.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. - Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. - At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise.... But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one....having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Ex. 12.43; He. 13.10; Jn. 3.3; Eph. 2.12,13
Eph. 2.14,15
Eph. 2.19
Rev. 3.20


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Daily Light - Evening
[Jesus] prayed the third time,
saying the same words.

Who in the days of his flesh....offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. - Continuing instant in prayer. - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication. - 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.

Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. - THis is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

Delight thyself....in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Mt. 26.44; He. 5.7
Hos. 6.3; Ro. 12.12; Eph. 6.18; Phil. 4.6-7
Mt. 26.39; 1 Jn. 5.14
​Ps. 37.4-5
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  3 - What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A - The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
 

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Covenant
Chapter 7
PARAGRAPH 2

​Moreover, man having brought himself under the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace,  (2)  wherein He freely offers unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in Him, that they may be saved;  (3)  and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life, His Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.  (4)
2)  Gen. 2:17; Gal. 3:10; Rom. 3:20-21
3)  Rom. 8:3; Mark 16:15-16; John 3:16
4)  Ezek. 36:26-27; John 6:44-45; Ps. 110:3



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
We believe
And we believe and are sure that hou art that Christ,
the Son o fthe living God.
John 6 v 69
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We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Ah! it is this that rivets the believing soul to Christ - the certain conviction that Christ is a divine Saviour. If Christ were only a man like ourselves, then how could He be a surety for us? He might suffer in the stead of one man, but how could He suffer in the stead of thousands? Ah! but I believe and am sure that He is the Son of the living God, and therefore I know He is a sufficient surety for me. To whom else can I go for pardon? If Christ were only a man like ourselves, then how could He dwell in us, or give the Spirit to abide with us for ever? But we believe and are sure that He is that Christ, the Son of the living God, and therefore we know He is able to dwell in us, and put the Spirit in us for ever. To whom, then, can I go for a new heart but unto Christ? O dear brethren! have you been thus taught? Then blessed are ye, 'for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven.' Hold fast by this sure faith for you cannot be too sure; and then you will never, never go away from Christ.