Daily Readings for Thursday 21 May 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.

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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 prophet lamenteth the invasion of Jewry; he reproveth their trust in human means, and not in God; and their desperate rioting, when the times called for humiliation. He prophesieth the downfall of Shebna, and Eliakim's advancement in his room.
Isaiah 22
Preface - The apostle declareth it to be the design of both his epistles to remind the brethren of Christ's coming to judgment, in opposition to scoffers. No argument can be drawn against it from the delay, which is designed to leave men room for repentance. He describeth the day of the Lord, and exhorteth to holiness of life in expectation of it. He sheweth that Paul had taught the same in his epistles: and concludeth with advice to beware of seduction, and to grow in Christian grace and knowledge.
2 Peter 3



Daily Light - Morning
My brethren, be strong in the Lord,
and in the power of his might.

My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. - I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. - The gospel of Christ...is the power of God unto salvation.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. - I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. - We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

The joy of the LORD is your strength. - Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering iwth joyfulness.
Eph. 6.10; 2 Co. 12.9-10; Ps. 71.16; Ro. 1.16
Phil. 4.13; Col. 1.29; 2 Co. 4.7
Ne. 8.10; Col. 1.11


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Daily Light - Evening
Jesus Christ our Lord.

JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. - He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.

The last Adam was made a quickening spirit.... The second man is the Lord from heaven. - My Lord and my God. - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
1 Co. 1.9; Mt. 1.21; Phil. 2.8-10
Jn. 4.25; Isa. 61.1
1 Co. 15.45,47; Jn. 20.28; Jn. 13.13-15
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  65 - Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
A - No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 4

​These angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.  (10)
10)  2 Tim. 2.19; John 13.18



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Divine sympathy
Jesus wept.
John 11 v 35
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When He saw the cave, and the stone, and the weeping friends, 'Jesus wept'. He wept because His heart was deeply touched. It was not feigned weeping, it was real. He knew that He was to raise him from the dead, and yet He wept because others wept. He wept as our example, to teach us to weep with one another. He wept to show what was in Him: 'For we have not an high-priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need' (Hebrews 4 vs. 15 & 16.)