Daily Readings for Thursday 7th November 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 - Ephraim's glory vanisheth by reason of idolatry. God's former care of his people: for their abuse of his benefits he will destroy them. A promise of mercy and redemption from the grave. The judgment of Samaria for rebellion.
Hosea 13
Psalms 137) Preface - The constant affection of the Jews in captivity to their desolate country. Edom and Babylon are cursed.
Psalms 138) Preface - David praiseth God for the truth o fhis word: he prophesieth that the kings of the earth shall praise God for his respect unto the lowly: he professeth his confidence in God.
Psalms 137-138



Daily Light - Morning
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness,
and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. - How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee!

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. - Having predestinated us unto the adoption o fhcildren by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved... That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

How great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! - The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk o fthy power; to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
Ps. 107.8; Ps. 34.8; Ps. 31.19
Isa. 43.21; Eph. 1.5-6.12
Zech. 9.17; Ps. 145.9-12


Daily Light - Evening
Behold, we count them happy
which endure.

We glory in tribulations...knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing... Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me...for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Jas. 5.11; Ro. 5.3-5; He. 12.11 Jas. 1.2-4,12; 2 Co. 12.9,10


A Puritans Catechism
Q 79 - What is the duty of such as are rightly baptized?
A - It is the duty of such as are rightly baptized, to give themselves up to some particular and orderly Church of Jesus Christ, that they may walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 7
​Christ, in the work of mediation, acts according to both natures, by each nature doing that which is proper to itself; yet by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature is sometimes in Scripture, attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.37
37 John 3:13; Acts 20:28


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Separation better than strife
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my hermen and thy hermen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, than I will go to the left.
Genesis 13 vs 8-9

Abraham yields the choice to Lot. Brethren, this is what it is to be a Christian, this is what Christ did. Do you remember the command to resist not evil? 'But I say unto you, that ye resist not other also.' (Matthew 5 v 39). Now, many of you do not know the meaning of this; I have been asked its meaning often. Abraham was smitten on the one cheek, and he turned the other also. See also 1 Corinthians 6  v 7 - 'Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? You will see an example of the same thing in chapter 9 v 19 - 'For although I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.' My dear brethren, this is exactly what Abraham did, he suffered himself to be defrauded, he suffered himself to be a servant, that he might gain Lot. This was what Christ did Himself. When they smote Him on the on cheek He turned the other also. Ah, brethren, you know little of the love of Christ, if this is not in your heart. There is a great mistake, I observe, in our day; people think that to be a Christian, is to have certain doctrines in the head - to be a Calvinist; but remember, that to be a Christian, is to have Christ in you. Abraham did not say, I will have it, for it is my right to have it. No! but he said, 'Let us separate; if you go to the right hand, I will go to the left.' Ah! this is to be a Christian. It is not words that will make a Christian. It is not views that will make a Christian. It is this, and this alone.