Daily Readings for Thursday 23 April 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 - Observations on wisdom and folly; on the defects and virtues of governors; on slothfulness; on money. Men's thoughts of kings ought to be reverent.
Ecclesiastes 10
Preface - Directions given to Titus both for his doctrine and life. The duty of servants. The gospel teacheth all men to renounce wickedness, and to lead sober, righteous, and godly, lives.
Titus 2



Daily Light - Morning
The LORD was my stay.

Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. - The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. - Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them... The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. - So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. - For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

By the grace of God I am what I am.
Ps. 18.18; Jer. 3.23; Ps. 18.2; Isa. 12.6
Ps. 34.7,17; Deu. 33.27; He. 13.6; Ps. 18.31-32
1 Co. 15.10


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Daily Light - Evening
All we like sheep have gone astray.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. - There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth.... They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable.

Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now retuned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. - I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do nto forget thy commandments.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Isa. 53.6; 1 Jn. 1.8; Ro. 3.10-12
1 Pe. 2.25; Ps. 119.176
Ps. 23.3
Jn. 10.27-28
​Lu. 15.4
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 52  - Which is the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment is, honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 4

​The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God.  (7)
7) 2 Pet. 1. 19,20,21. 2 Tim. 3. 16.2 Thes. 2. 13. 1 Job. 5.9.



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Equally righteous
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with he jewels.
Isaiah 61 v 10
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I have seen a family of children all dressed alike, that none might boast over the others, all being equally fair. So it iis with God's family. They ae all righteous in the obedience of one. One garment covers them all - the robes of their elder Brother. Believers differ in attainments, in gifts and graces, but all are equally justified before God. It is not work of their own that justifies them, it is the work of Christ alone. Ah, brethren! there in so boasting in Christ's family.