Daily Readings for Thursday 21st November 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 destruction of Edom, for heir pride, and for their unnatural behaviour in Jacob's distress. The salvation and victories of Jacob.
Obadiah
Preface - Christ teacheth the people out of Simon's ship. The miraculous draught of fishes: simon and the two sons of Zebedee follow him. Christ cleanseth a leper; prayeth in the wilderness: answereth the reasonings of the scribes and Pharisees concerning his forgiving sins, and healeth the sick of the palsy: calleth Levi from the receipt of custom: justifieth his eating with publicans and sinners: excuseth his disciples from fasting for the present; and illustrateth the matter by a twofold parable.
Luke 5


Daily Light - Morning
When I sit in darkness,
the LORD shall be a light unto me.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. - I will bring the blind by a way that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. - What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. - The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Mi. 7.8; Isa. 43.2-3; Isa. 42.16
Ps. 23.4; Ps. 56.3-4; Ps. 27.1


Daily Light - Evening
One God,
and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD. - A mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies... Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises... I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
1 Tim. 2.5; Deu. 6.4; Ga. 3.20
Ps. 106.6-7,23
He. 3.1-3
He. 8.6,12


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 11 - What are God's works of providence?
A - God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 2
​Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification;6 yet is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but works by love.7
6 Rom. 3:28
7 Gal.5:6, James 2:17,22,26

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The eye of faith
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our professions, Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 3 v 1
When Christ ascended from the Mount of Olives, and passed through these heavens, carrying His bloody wounds into the presence of God, and when His disciples had gazed after Him, till a cloud received Him out of their sight - we are told that they returned to Jerusalem with great joy. What! are they joyful at parting with their blessed Master? When he told them He was to leave them, sorrow filled their hearts, and He had to argue with them and comfort them, saying, Let not your heart be troubled; it is expedient for you that I go away. How, then, are they changed! Jesus has left them, and they are filled with joy. Oh! here is the secret - they knew that Christ was now going into the presence of God for them, that their great High Priest was now entering within the vail to make intercession for them.
Now believer, would you share in the great joy of the disciples? Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. He is above yon clouds, and above yon sky. O that you would stand gazing up into heaven, not with the bodily eye, but with the eye of faith. Oh! what a wonderful thing the eye of faith is: it sees beyond the stars, it pierces to the throne of God, and there it looks on the face of Jesus making intercession for us, whom having not seen we love, in whom, though now we see Him not, yet believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.