Daily Readings for Thursday 3rd 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 - The land of Israel is comforted with a prospect of the ruin of its spiteful neighbours, and of its own blessings promised by God. Israel was rejected for their sin, and shall be restored with blessings for the sake of God's name only.
Ezekiel 36
Preface - David imploreth God's aid because of his need and religious faith; and of the power and goodness of God: he prayeth for grace, and promiseth praise for past mercies: complaining of the proud, he craveth some token of God's favour.
Psalms 86


Daily Light - Morning
Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood.

Love is strong as death... Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. - In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.

Ye are washed...ye are sanctified...ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. - Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. - I beseech you...brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rev. 1.5; Song 8.6,7; Jn. 15.13
1 Pe. 2.24; Eph. 1.7
1 Co. 6.11; 1 Pe. 2.9; Ro. 12.1


Daily Light - Evening
There are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord.

Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses...Jehonathan... And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri... And over the vineyards was Shimei... These were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.

God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. - All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.
1 Co. 12.5; 1 Chr. 27.25,26,27,31
1 Co. 12.28; 1 Co. 12.11
1 Pe. 4.10-11


A Puritans Catechism
Q 44 - Which is the second commandment?
A - The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the their and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 10
The supreme judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit, into which Scripture so delivered, our faith is finally resolved.21
21 Matt. 22:29, 31, 32; Eph. 2:20; Acts 28:23


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A hymn of prayer
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
1 Chronicles 4 vs 9-10

O God of Israel, hear my prayer!
Let me thy riches blessings share;
Thy blessings shall my portion be;
Oh! Let that blessing rest on me!

If shining suns my path attend,
And all their cheering influence lend;
Thy blessing still I'll most desire,
To that my highest hopes aspire.

Or, if affliction's storm shall low'r
I'll trust thee in the darkest hour;
On thee I'll rest my anxious mind,
And in thy blessing comfort find.

'Preserve me from the snares of sin,
And ever keep my conscience clean:
Till all the cares of life shall cease,
And, blessing thee, I die in peace!'

Thus pious Jabez often prayed,
Reclining on Jehovah's aid;
And all who seek the Lord shall find
The God of Jabez still as kind.

O children! who assemble here,
With holy love and humble fear.
Like him present the fervent prayer,
And in God's richest blessing share.