Daily Readings for Thursday 9 April 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 - In chapter twenty five and the following chapters are contained various maxims and observations of Solomon, collected by the men of Hezekiah, about kings, and other subjects of both private and public concern. 
Proverbs 27
Preface - The salutation. Paul certifieth the Thessalonians of the good opinion which he had of their faith, love, and patience; of the righteous judgment of God in punishing their enemies, and recompensing their sufferings; and of his prayers that God would fulfil his gracious purpose in them.
2 Thessalonians 1



Daily Light - Morning
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee.

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel. - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. - With the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause. - My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Isa. 43.1; Isa. 54.4-5; Isa. 44.22; 1 Pe. 1.19
Jer. 50.34; Jn. 10.29
Ga. 1.3-5


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Daily Light - Evening
I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD,
and the praises of the LORD, according to all that
the LORD hath bestowed on us.

He brought me up...out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. - The Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? - God commandeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. - WHich is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 
Isa. 63.7; Ps. 40.2; Ga. 2.20; Ro. 8.32; Ro. 5.8
2 Co. 1.22; Eph. 1.14
​Eph. 2.4-6
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 42  - Which is the first commandment?
A - The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

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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
Go to Jesus
As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
John 2 v 29
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It is evident that Mary was the more deeply affected of the two sisters. Martha was able to go about, but Mary sat still in the house. She felt the absence of Christ more than Martha. She believed his word more, and when that word seemed to fail, Mary's heart was nearly broken. Ah! it is a deep sorrow when natural and spiritual grief come together. Affliction is easily borne if we have the smile of Jehovah's countenance.
Why does the mourner rise, and hastily drying her tears, with eager step leave the cottage door? Her friends who sat around her she seems quite to forget. 'The Master is come. 'Such is the presence of the Lord Jesus to mourners still. The world's comforters are all physicians of no value. Miserable comforters are they all. They have no balm for a wounded spirit. 'The heart knoweth its own bitterness.' But when the Master comes and calls us, the soul revives. There is life in His call, His voice speaks peace. 'In me ye shall have peace.' Mourners should rise up quickly, and go to Jesus. The bereaved should spread their sorrows at the feet of Christ.