Daily Readings for Thursday 24th October 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 - Daniel, considering the time of the captivity, maketh confession o fhis people's sins, and prayeth for the restoration of Jerusalem. Gabriel informeth him of the seventy weeks; and of the time and death of the Messiah, and of the succeeding troubles.
Daniel 9
Psalms 117) Preface - An exhortation to praise God for his mercy and truth.
Psalms 118) Preface - An exhortaion to praise God for his mercy. The Psalmist by his own experience sheweth how good it is to trust in God. Under the type of the Psalmist the coming of Christ in his kingdom is expressed.
Psalms 117-118


Daily Light - Morning
I am cast out of thy sight;
yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD. - Awake, why sleepest thou O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. - Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? - In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

Why art thou cast down, O my woul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance. - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perfplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destoyed.
Jon. 2.4; Isa. 49.14-15
Lam. 3.17-18; Ps.l 44.23; Isa. 40.27; Isa. 54.8
Ps. 43.5; 2 Co. 4.8-9


Daily Light - Evening
When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue faileth for thirst,
I the LORD will hear them.

Thee be many that say, Who will shew us any good? - All is vanity and vexation of spirit... What hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. - They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold not water.

Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. - I will pour water upon him that is thirsty. - Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they sahll be filled.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.
Isa. 41.17; Ps. 3.6; Ec. 2.17,22-23; Jer. 2.13
Jn. 6.37; Isa. 44.3; Mt. 5.6
Ps. 63.1


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.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, And the Punishment Thereof
Chapter 6
PARAGRAPH 1
Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof,1 yet he did not long abide in this honor; Satan using the subtlety of the serpent to subdue Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who, without any compulsion, did willfully transgress the law of their creation, and the command given to them, in eating the forbidden fruit,2 which God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.

1 Gen. 2:16–17
2 Gen. 3:12–13; 2 Cor. 11:3



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
This is happiness
Let your coversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Hebrews 13 v 5

You may take these words, and apply them to God the Father. And here they come to be very much the words God gave to Abraham: He said, 'Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.'He had returned from the slaughter of Chederlaomer, and of the kings that were with him. The king of Sodom came out to meet him, and said unto him. 'Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.' But Abraham said, 'I have lift up; mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe, latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.' And immediately after, God appeared to him, and said: 'Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.' This is what Asaph felt. He says, in the seventy-third Psalm, 'My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Ah, brethren, this is a sweet word to a poor soul who is mourning over the broken pots at his feet. This is a sweet word to those of you who are befeft - who have left houses and lands - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' This may be a sweet word to those of you who are mourning over the dead. P brethren! is this your portion? Can you look up to a three-one God, - Father, Son and Spirit, standing on these broken shreds at your feet, and say, 'Thou wilt never leave me, not forsak eme'? This is happiness. Well, well, did the Lord say, 'Mary hath chosen that good part which shall never be taken away from her.' Ah, poor souls, that have chosen the portion that will be taken from you. Ah, brethren! be you wiser.