Daily Readings for Thursday 6th March 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.  


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Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - The people murmur for water at Rephidim, and are sent for it by God to the rock in Horeb. Amalek is overcome by the holding up of Moses' hands. God's vengeance against Amalek, in token of which Moses buildeth the altar JOEHOVAH-missi.
Exodus 17
Preface - Christ silenceth those who questioned his authority. The parable of the vineyard let out to wicked husbandmen. The chief priests and scribes seek matter against him: his reply to their insidious question concerning paying tribute to Caesar. He proveth the Sadducees completely wrong concerning the resurrection: he offereth an unanswerable proposition concerning a difficulty relating to the character of Christ: he warneth his disciples against the ambition and hypocrisy of the scribes.
Luke 20



Daily Light - Morning
He....preserveth the way of his saints.

The LORD your God....went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him. - The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD; and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. - Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. - For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. - We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. - With us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.

The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy.
Pro. 2.8; Deu. 1.32,33; Deu. 32.11,12; Ps. 37.23,24; Ps. 34.19; Ps. 1.6; Ro. 8.28; 2 Chr. 32.8
Zeph. 3.17




Daily Light - Evening
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him....the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.... For the transgression of my people was he stricken.... It pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.

Jesus our Lord....was delivered for our offences. - Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. - 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.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.
Mt. 27.46; Isa. 53.5,6,8,10
Ro. 4.24,25; 1 Pe. 3.18; 1 Pe. 2.24
2 Co. 5.21
​Ga. 3.13



A Puritans Catechism
Q 34 - What is Sanctification?
A - Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 1
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The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience,  1  although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will which is necessary unto salvation.  2  Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and to declare (that) His will unto His church;  3  and afterward to the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now completed.  4
(1)  2 Tim. 3.15-17, Is. 8.20; Luke 16.29,31; Eph. 2.20  (2)  Rom. 1.19-21, 2.14-15; Psalm 19.1-3  (3)  Heb. 1.1 
​(4)  Prov. 22.19-21; Rom. 15.4; 2 Pet. 1.19-20



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Needless tears
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation 21 v 4

This world is a vale of tears. There are always some mourning. No sooner is the tear dried up on one cheek that it trickles down another. Those that are in Christ should weep as though they wept not; 'for the time is short.' Do you weep over those that died in the Lord? It is right to weep. 'Jesus wept.' Yet weep as thou you wept not; 'for the time is short.' They are not lost, but gone before. The sun, when it sets, is not lost; it is gone to shine in another hemisphere; and so have they gone to shine in a brighter world. It is self-love that makes you mourn for them; for they are happy.  You would not mourn if they were with a distant friend on earth - why do you mourn that they are with the sinner's Friend? 'They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light upon them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto fountains of living waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.' 'The time is short,' and you will follow after. A few days, and you may be leaning together on the bosom of Jesus; you are nearer them to-day than you were yesterday.