Daily Readings for Thursday 26th September 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 - The judgment upon Pharaoh for his treachery to Israel: The desolation of Egypt, and restoration of it after forty years. Egypt the reward of Nebuchaidrezzar's service against Tyrus. Israel shall flourish again.
Ezekiel 29
Preface - An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.
Psalms 78:1-37


Daily Light - Morning
A God of truth and without iniquity,
just and right is he.

Him that judgeth righteously. - We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. - Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. - The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd. - The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. - Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. - Mercy rejoiceth against judgment. - The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

A just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. - Just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. - Justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Deu. 32.4; 1 Pe. 2.23; 2 Co. 5.10; Ro. 14.12; Ezek. 18.4
Zech. 13.7; Isa. 53.6; Ps. 85.10; Jas. 2.13; Ro. 6.23
Isa. 45.21; Ro. 3.26; Ro. 3.24



Daily Light - Evening
Death is swallowed up in victory.

Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Forasmuch...as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
1 Co. 15.54; 1 Co. 15.57
He. 2.14-15
Ro. 6.8-10
Ro. 6.11
Ro. 8.37


A Puritans Catechism
Q 37 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A - At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed both in soul and body in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 3

The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings.6
6 Luke 24:27,44; Rom. 3:2


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The wonder of it all
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear: even I will carry and will deliver you.
Isaiah 46 vs 3-4

There are times in the life of a believer when he is like a traveller who has arrived at some high eminence; he can look back on the way he has gone and the way he has yet to go. So this is a passage where God tells us what He has done and what He will yet do. The history of a believer is wonderful, whether we look backward or forward. If we look back, there is election in a past eternity; and if we look forward, there is deliverance and final victory. As Christ's name is 'Wonderful,' so all the members of His body are wonderful, for they are 'men wondered at.'