Daily Readings for Thursday 6th June 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)
(Thursday afternoon) reading - Isaiah 40 - Comfort ye my people
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 Readings
Preface - Hezekiah, warned by Isaiah to prepare for death, upon his prayer is promised an addition of fifteen years to his life, and the return of the sun's shadow ten degrees backward for a sign . His psalm of thanksgiving.
Isaiah 38
Preface - The seventh seal opened. Seven angels receive seven trumpets. An angel presenteth the prayers of the saints with incense on the golden altar before the throne. Four of the angels sound their trumpets, and great plagues follow each sounding.
Revelation 8


Daily Light - Morning
He will rest in his love.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the LORD loved you. - We love him, because he first loved us. - You...hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. - God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. - His Son...who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Zeph. 3.17; Deu. 7.7-8; 1 Jn. 4.19; Col. 1.21-22
1 Jn. 4.10; Ro. 5.8
Mt. 3.17; Jn. 10.17; He. 1.2,3


Daily Light - Evening
A new and living way.

Cain went out from the presence of the LORD. - Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins, have hid his face from you. - Follow...holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ...hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing. - He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. - The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. - Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
He. 10.20; Ge. 4.16; Isa. 59.2; He. 12.14
Jn. 14.6; 2 Tim. 1.10
He. 9.8; Eph. 2.14; Mt. 27.51
Mt. 7.14; Ps. 16.11


A Puritans Catechism
Q 8 - How doth God execute his decrees?
A - God executes his decrees in the works of creation and providence.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 5

This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of glory only.

1. Ephesians 4:13

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Secret Prayer
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. - Matthew 6 v 6
Christ loved secret prayer. Ah, you are no Christian, if you do not love secret prayer. O Brethren! a prayerless man is an unconverted man. Disguise it as you may; defend it as you can; explain it as you like; but a preyerless man is a Christless man.