Daily Readings for Thursday 5th June 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 - Moses dissuadeth them from the opinion of their own righteousness, by rehearsing their several rebellions.
Deuteronomy 9
Psalms 92) Preface - The Prophet exhorteth to praise God, for his great works, for his judgments on the wicked, and for his goodness to the godly.
Psalms 93) Preface - The majesty, stability, power, and holiness, of Christ's kingdom.
Psalms 92-93



Daily Light - Morning
When ye shall have done all those things
which are commanded you, say,
We are unprofitable servants.

Where is boasting then? It Is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. - What hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? - By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

By the Grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. - For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. - All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

Enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Lu. 17.10; Ro. 3.27; 1 Co. 4.7; Eph. 2.8-10
1 Co. 15.10; Ro. 11.36; 1 Chr. 29.14
Ps. 143.2



Daily Light - Evening
He knoweth our frame;
he remembereth that we are dust.

The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret.... Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? - In him we live, and move, and have our being. - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? - In him we live, and move, and have our being. - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Ps. 103.14; Ge. 2.7
Ps. 139.14-15,16
Mal. 2.10; Ac. 17.28; Ps. 103.13
​Ps. 78.38-39

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 43 - What is required in the first commandment?
A - The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 5
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The moral law does for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof,  (10)  and that not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it;  (11)  neither does Christ in the Gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.  (12)
(10)-Rom. 13.8-10; James 2.8,10-12  (11)-James 2.10-11  (12)-Matt. 5.17-19; Rom. 3.31
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ goes before
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
John 10 v 4

In the countries of the east, brethren, you know that the shepherd goes before the sheep, and they follow him. When he says, 'Let us go to the well,' they follow him. When he says, 'Let us go down into that dark valley,' they go after him. So it is with Christ. Christ never asked a sheep to go where He never went Himself. He has borne all that He calls His sheep to bear. Christ went in a lower level of sorrow than you will be called to bear. Do not be alarmed then when you are called to suffer, you will not be called to go where He has not gone. Do not be afraid to put down your tender feet where He put down His. And it is still true that He goes before you. 'When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.' Do not be afraid then when Christ is before you.