Daily Readings for Thursday 24th July 2025

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 - First Year
Preface - Gideon's army of thirty-two thousand is by God's direction reduced to three hundred. He is sent into the enemy's camp by night, where he is encouraged by hearing a dream told with its interpretation. He divideth his army into three companies, giving to each man a trumpet, and a lamp in a pitcher. On his approach the Midianites are thrown into confusion and put to flight. The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb, and put them to death.
Judges 7
Preface - Peter, being accused for conversing with the Gentiles, maketh his defence; the church is satisfied, and glorifieth God. The gospel having spread as far as Phenice, Cyprus, and Antioch, Barnabas is sent thither, who fetcheth Saul from Tarsus; many people are taught at Antioch, where the disciples are first called Christians. Agabus prophesieth a dearth; the disciples send relief from Antioch to the brethren in Judaea by Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 11



Daily Light - Morning
Patient in tribulation.

It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good. - Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. - The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. - What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

Jesus wept. - A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.... Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.... Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. - Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. - In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world
Jon. 4.2; Nu. 14.17-18
Ps. 79.8,9; Jer. 14.7; Jer. 14.20
Ps. 130.3-4



Daily Light - Evening
He staggered not
at the promise of God through unbelief.

Have faith in God....whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. - Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

He that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. - Being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? - With God all things are possible. - Lord, Increase our faith.
Ro. 4.20; Mk. 11.22,23-24; He. 11.6
He. 11.17-19; Ro. 4.21
​Ge. 18.14; Mt. 19.26; Lu. 17.5



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 Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 3
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Whosoever takes an oath warranted by the word of God, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing but what he knows to be truth; for that by rash, false, and vain oaths, the Lord is provoked, and for them this land mourns.  (6)
(6)-Lev. 19.12; Jer. 23.10
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Heaven began on earth
Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1 vs 5-6
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Some have thought this to be one of the songs of heaven. They have thought that, even before John's eye penetrated into the wonders of the upper world, its song of joy and ecstasy burst upon his ear - 'Unto Him that loved us.' This is evidently a mistake. It is the song of John - banished - poor - in trial and tribulation - an exiled man upon a lonely rock of the sea - a man who had his heaven begun on earth: 'Unto Him that loved us.' It has got the fragrance and melody of heaven about it. Believers, do not fear a suffering lot. Do not fear though you be taken to a lone sick-bed, or a lone rock dashed by the eternal waves of ocean. If you really know Jesus, and have tasted and seen the grace that is in Christ, you may begin the song now, 'Unto Him that loved us. '