Daily Readings for Thursday 3rd 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 - The trespass offering for sins done wittingly. The law of the burnt offering, and of the meat offering. The offering at the consecration of a priest. The law of the sin offering.
Leviticus 6
Psalms 5) Preface - David prayeth, and professeth to be constant in prayer. God favoureth not the wicked. David professing his faith prayeth unto God to guide him because of the malice of his enemies; to destroy them; and to preserve the godly.
Psalms 6) Preface - David's complaint in his sickness. By faith he triumpheth over his enemies.
Psalms 5-6


Daily Light - Morning
Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.

My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth....so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
2 Pe. 3.8-9; Isa. 55.8-11
Ro. 11.32-33



Daily Light - Evening
Ye were as firebrand plucked out of the burning.
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The sinnsers in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? - We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. - The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. - Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.

Be instant in season, out of season. - Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Am. 4.11; Isa. 33.14; 2 Co. 1.9-10; Ro. 6.23
He. 10.31; 2 Co. 5.11
2 Tim. 4.2; Jude 23
​Zech. 4.6; 1 Tim. 2.4


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 62 - What is required in the ninth commandment?
A - The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbour's good name, especially in witness-bearing.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5
PARAGRAPH 6
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As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as the righteous judge, for former sin does blind and harden;  (17)  from them He not only withholds His grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understanding, and wrought upon their hearts;  (18)  but sometimes also withdraws the gifts which they had,  (19)  and exposes them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin;  (20)  and withal, give them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan,  (21)  whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, under those means which God uses for the softening of others.
(17)-Rom. 1.24-26,28, 11.7-8  (18)-Deut. 29.4  (19)-Matt. 13.12  (20)-Deut. 2.30; 2 Kings  8.12-13  (21)-Ps. 81.11,12; 2 Thess. 2.10-12  (22)-Exod. 8.15,32; Isa. 6.9-10; 1 Pet. 2.7-8



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Not ashamed
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 1 v 16

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. More is meant in these words than is expressed. He does not mean only that he was not ashamed of the gospel, but that he glorified in it. It is very similar to Galatians 6 v 14: 'But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.' Two things are implied in this.
Firstly, Paul was not ashamed of it before God. He had ventured his own soul on this way of Salvation. He could say, like David, 'This is all my salvation, this is all my desire.' The way of salvation by Jehovah our Righteousness was sweet to Paul. His soul rested there with great delight. He came thus to God in secret, thus in public, thus in dying. He hoped to stand before God through all eternity clothed in this divine righteousness. Secondly, he was not ashamed of it before men. Though all the world had been against him, Paul would have gloried in this way of salvation. He had a burning desire to make it known to other men. He felt it so sweet, he saw it to be so glorious, that he could have desired a voice so loud that all men might hear at one moment the way of salvation by Christ.