Daily Readings for Thursday 9 July 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.


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 - The judgments of God upon the Jews for their universal depravity and incorrigibleness; for their adultery; their blasphemous impiety; their worship of strange gods; their injustice and oppression for want of fearing the true God; and their prevarication in religion.
Jeremiah 5
Preface - The parable of the labourers who were hired at different hours to work in the vineyard. Jesus foretelleth his own passion and resurrection: answereth the request of the mother of Zebedee's children, and quencheth the indignation of the other disciples thereat. He giveth sight to two blind men.
Matthew 20



Daily Light - Morning
I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee,
and I will clothe thee iwth change of raiment.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. - We are all as an unclean thing. - I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. - Ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. - Not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but....the righteousness which is of God by faith.

Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him. - The fine linen is the righteousness of saints. - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.
Zech. 3.4; Ps. 32.1; Isa. 64.6; Ro. 7.18
Ga. 3.27; Col. 3.9-10 ;Phil. 3.9
Lu. 15.22; Rev. 19.8; Isa. 61.10


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Daily Light - Evening
The day shall declare it.

Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Why does thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.... So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more.

God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. - The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son....and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

The great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 
Ps. 94.20; 1 Jn. 1.3; 1 Jn. 3.2-3
Jn. 14.30; He. 7.26
Eph. 6.12; Eph. 2.2
​1 Jn. 5.18-19
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  5 - Are there more God's than one?
A - The is but one only, the living and true God.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 2

​The Son of God, the second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the Father's glory, of one substance and equal with Him who made the world, who upholds and governs all things He has made, did, when the fullness of time was complete, take upon Him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities of it,  (9)  yet without sin;  (10)  being conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit coming down upon her: and the power of the Most High overshadowing her; and so was made of a woman of the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures;  (11)  so that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man.  (12)
9)  John 1:14; Gal. 4.4
10) Rom. 8:3; Heb. 2:14,16-17
11) Matt. 1:22-23
12) Luke 1:27.31.35; Rom. 9:5; 1 Tim. 2:5



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The father's gift
I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isaiah 42 v 6
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God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish.' 'Herein is love; not that we loved God.' God not only provided the Saviour, and upheld Him, but He gave Him - gave Him away, to be a covenant Saviour of the people, and a light to lighten the Gentiles. When Abraham bound his son Isaac upon the altar and lifted up the knife to strike, this was giving away his son at the command of God, This is just what God did. He took His son out of His bosom, and gave Him away to be bound, to be a covenant Saviour of the people. There are not more wonderful words in the whole Bible than these: 'I will give thee.' God spared not his own Son, but freely delivered him up to the death for us all.' The Son was infinitely dear to the Father. God cannot but love that which is perfectly holy and beautiful. Now, such was Christ. From all eternity there had been the outgoings of love and infinite admiration from the bosom of the Father towards His well-beloved Son. Canst thou part with me? Canst thou give me up to the garden and the cross? 'I will give thee.' Sinners were infinitely vile in the sight of the Father. God cannot but hate that which is enmity and rebellion to Himself. 'he is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity.' How loathsome and hateful this world must have been in His eyes, where every heart was enmity against him! Canst thou give me up for such sinners, for the sake of such vile worms? 'Yes, I will give thee.'