Daily Readings for Thursday 5 March 2026

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.

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Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - Elihu chargeth Job with calling to account God's justice; whose sovereign perfections suffer him not to be unjust. Man ought to humble himself before God. Job is blamed for his rash discourses.
Job 34
Preface - Paul declareth his unwearied zeal and integrity in preaching the gospel; that if any see not the truth of it, it must be owing to their corrupt hearts, not to want of clear light. The weakness and sufferings he was exposed to redounded to the praise of God's power. That which animated him in undergoing them for the church's sake was the assurance of a more exceeding and eternal reward.
2 Corinthians 4



Daily Light - Morning
O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God. - hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. - Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm.

Christ....suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Isa. 38.14; Ps. 123.1-2; Ps. 61.1-4; Isa. 25.4
1 Pe. 2.21-23 


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Daily Light - Evening
Fight the good fight of faith.

We were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. - Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. - Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. - God is my strength and power....He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. - Our sufficiency is of God.

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. - Behold, the mountain was full o fhorses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

The time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms....out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
1 Tim. 6.12; 2 Co. 7.5; 2 Ki. 6.16; Eph. 6.10
1 Sa. 17.45; 2 Sa. 22.33,35; 2 Co. 3.5
Ps. 34.7; 2 Ki. 6.17
​He. 11.32,34
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  26 - Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
A - Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross, in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 4

​The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God.  (7)
7) 2 Pet. 1. 19,20,21. 2 Tim. 3. 16.2 Thes. 2. 13. 1 Job. 5.9.



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A promise for the Saviour
I will hold thine hand, and will keep thee ...
Isaiah 42 v 6
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The figure here seems taken from a father and his little child. When a little child has to go over some very rough road, or travel in the darkness, or to wade through some deep waters, he says to his father, 'I fear I shall be lost; I shall not be able to go through.' 'Nay, do not fear,' the father answers: 'I will hold thine hand; I will keep thee.' Such are the words of the Father to His dear Son. I would not have dared to have imagined them, if I had not found them in the Bible.
When God called His Son to the work, it could not but be a fearful work in His eyes. Christ knew well the infinite number of men's sins; for He is the searcher of hearts and trier of reins. He knew also the infinite weight of God's anger against these sins; He saw the dark clouds of infinite vengeance that were ready to burst over the head of sinners; He saw the infinite deluge of eternal wrath that was to drown for ever the guilty world. And, oh! how dreadful His Father's anger was in His eyes; for He had known nothing but His infinite love from all eternity. Oh! how could He bear to lie down under that wrath? How could He bear to exchange the smile of His Father's love for the dark frown of His Father's anger? How could He bear, for the sake of vile sinners, to exchange the caresses of that God who is love, for the piercings and bruisings of His almighty hand? Surely the very thought would be agony. God here comforts His Son under the view: Yon sea of wrath is deep, its waves are dreadful; but 'I will hold thine hand; I will keep thee.'