Daily Readings for Thursday 25th July 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 - Zedekiah sending to Jeremiah to enquire the event of Nebuchadrezzar's war against him, the prophet foretelleth a calamitous siege, and desolation in the end; he counselleth the people to fall to the Chaldeans: he exhorteth the king's house to execute right judgment, with threats against those that trusted in the strength of their situation.
Jeremiah 21
Preface - The Pharisees finding fault with his disciples for eating with unwashed hands, Christ reproveth them of hypocrisy, and of making void the commandments of God by the traditions of men: he teacheth that a man is defiled, not by that which entereth in, but by that which cometh out of him: he healeth the daughter of a Syrophenician woman; and a man that was deaf and hat a speech impediment.
Mark 7


Daily Light - Morning
We know that we have passed
from death unto life.

He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. - He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. - Hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins - Quickened...together with Christ. - Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom his dear Son.
1 Jn. 3.14; Jn. 5.24; 1 Jn. 5.12
2 Co. 1.21-22; 1 Jn. 3.19,21; 1 Jn. 5.19
Eph. 2.1; Eph. 2.5; Col. 1.13


Daily Light - Evening
Thou wilt shew me the path of life.

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. - I will teach you the good and the right way. - I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Follow me.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. - Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

An highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Ps. 16.11; Jer. 21.8; 1 Sa. 12.23; Jn. 14.6; Mt. 4.19
Pro. 14.12; Mt. 7.13-14
Isa. 35.8; Hos. 6.3
Jn. 14.2


A Puritans Catechism
Q  56 - What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, or whatever tends to it.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 2

God alone is Lord of the conscience,12 and has left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or not contained in it.13 So that to believe such doctrines, or obey such commands out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience;14 and the requiring of an implicit faith, an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience and reason also.15

12 James 4:12; Rom. 14:4
13 Acts 4:19,29; 1 Cor. 7:23; Matt. 15:9
14 Col. 2:20,22–23
15 1 Cor. 3:5; 2 Cor. 1:24


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
'Abba, Father'
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galations 4 v 6

No natural man cries, 'Abba'. It is not the cry of nature. Children cry 'Father' to their earthly parents. It is one of the first things they learn. They do not thus call upon God; but when one comes to Christ, and feels the Father's smile, the Father's arms, the Father's love, he cries 'Abba'.
Often it is little more than a cry. Many of God's children are not fluent in prayer. They have not many words.
Often they can only look up, and cry, 'Father'. A soul in Christ can cry, 'Father!' This runs through all he says to God, 'Abba'. 'In the multitude of words there wanteth of sin,' but this one word is the believer's prayer, 'Abba'.