Daily Readings for Thursday 24th April 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 - God commandeth Moses to number the people. The princes of the tribes. The numbering of the people. The number of each tribe. The sum total. The Levites are exempted for the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 1
Preface - David prayeth for safety to himself, and confusion to his enemies: he complaineth of their false witness, ingratitude, and malice against him: he moveth God to do him right, and avenge him.
Psalms 35



Daily Light - Morning
The LORD visited Sarah as he had said,
and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. - David encouraged himself in the LORD his God. - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. - I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them.... He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. - There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

He is faithful that promised. - Hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? - Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. - The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Ge. 21.1; Ps. 62.8; 1 Sa. 30.6; Ge. 50.24; Ac. 7.34,36; Jos. 21.45
He. 10.23; Nu. 23.19; Mt. 24.35; Isa. 40.8



Daily Light - Evening
The eyes of all wait upon thee.

He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. - The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. - Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.

The same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God.

The LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. - If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Ps. 145.15; Ac. 17.25; Ps. 145.9; Mt. 6.26
Ro. 10.12
Ps. 121.1; Ps. 123.2
​Isa. 30.18; Isa. 25.9; Ro. 8.25


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 1 - What is the chief end of man?
A - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 5
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This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of glory only.  (10)
(10)-Eph. 4.13



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
None but Jesus
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
Psalm 31 v 5

Some Christians have little affliction. They sail on a smooth sea, they enjoy health of body for years together, thy never knew what it was to want a comfortable meal. Death has perhaps not one entered their dwelling. They think it will be always thus. But a change comes. The 'harp of thousand strings' become our tune. The 'clay cottage' gives tokens of decay, or grim  want invades their dwelling, or death comes up into the window. Ah! it is hard to bear. 'No affliction for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous.' Who can comfort? None but Jesus. He knew all sorrow, deeper sorrows than we have ever known, or will ever know. His heart is not of stone. He feels along with us. He afflict not willingly. He seeks to bring us more to himself. O afflicted believer, commit thy weeping, suffering, pining, trembling soul to Jesus: 'Into thine hand I commit my spirit.'