Daily Readings for Thursday 3rd 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 11:00am 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 - Moses encourageth the people, and Joshua. He delivereth the law to the priests to be read by them every seventh year to the people. Moses and Joshua appear before God. God telleth Moses of the people's future apostasy, and the consequent evils, and giveth him a song to testify against them. Joshua receiveth a charge. Moses delivereth the book of the law to the Levites to keep, and calleth together the elders and officers to hear the song.
Joshua 5.1-6.5
Psalms 132) Preface - David in prayer commendeth unto God his \eal to provide a place for the ark. His prayer at the removing of the ark. God's promises to David.
Psalms 133) Preface - The blessedness of unity among brethren.
Psalms 134) Preface - An exhortation to God's servants to bless him.
Psalms 132-134



Daily Light - Morning
If children, then heirs, heirs of God,
and joint-heirs with Christ.

If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. - Thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. - Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the ggod pleasure of his will.

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me.

He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations. - To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Ro. 8.17; Ga. 3.29
1 Jn. 3.1; Ga. 4.7; Eph. 1.5
Jn. 17.24
Rev. 2.26; Rev. 3.21



Daily Light - Evening
Things which are despised, hath God chosen.

Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans?

Jesus....saw two brethren....casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me. - Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit. - He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God.
1 Co. 1.28; Ac. 2.7
Mt. 4.18-19; Ac. 4.13
1 Co. 2.4-5
​Jn. 15.16; Jn. 15.5; 2 Co. 4.7



A Puritans Catechism
Q 64 - What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.



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
Who is he that condenmeth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Romans 8 v 34
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If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference: He is praying for me.