Daily Readings for Thursday 9th January 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.  


Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Genesis 9) Preface - God blesseth Noah, granting him animal food, but forbidding the eating of blood, and murder. God's covenant signified by the rainbow. The earth is repeopled from Noah. He planteth a vineyard, is drunken, and mocked by Canaan, whom he curseth, and blesseth his other sons. His age and death.
Genesis 10) Preface - The generations of Noah. The sons of Japheth. The sons of Ham; Nimrod the first monarch; Canaan's descendants, and their settlement. The sons of Shem.
Genesis 9-10
Preface -  Christ cureth a man; calleth Matthew; justifieth himself for eating with publicans and sinners, and his disciples for not fasting; is entreated by a ruler to go and heal his daughter; healeth by the way a woman with an issue of blood; raiseth to life the ruler's daughter; giveth sight to two blind men; healeth a dumb man possessed of a devil; hath compassion on the multitudes, and teacheth his disciples to pray that God would send forth labourers into his vineyard.
Matthew 9


Daily Light - Morning
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee,
that it may be displayed because of the truth.

Jehovah-nissi [marg. The LORD is my banner]. - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. - The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. - We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. - Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - The captain of their salvation.

My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. - Valiant for the truth. - Fight the LORD's battles. - Be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work...fear ye not. - Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. - Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Ps. 60.4; Ex. 17.15; Isa. 59.19
Ps. 20.5; Jer. 51.10; Ro. 8.37; 1 Co. 15.57; He. 2.10
Eph. 6.10; Jer. 9.3; 1 Sa. 18.17; Hag. 2.4,5; Jn. 4.35; He. 10.37


Daily Light - Evening
One thing is needful.

There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. - O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.

I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.   - Lord, evermore give us this bread. - Mary....sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. - One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that i may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Lu. 10.42; Ps. 4.6-7
Ps. 42.1-2; Ps. 63.1
Jn. 6.35; Jn. 6.34; Lu. 10.39; Ps. 27.4


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 60 - What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
A - The eighth commandment forbids whatever does, or may unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbour's wealth or outward estate.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 8
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The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe a holy rest all day, from their own works, words, and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations, (30) but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy. (31)  
(30) Isa. 58:13; Neh. 13:15-22  (31) 1 Matt. 12:1-13  


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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The revealer of Christ
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
John 16 v 14

Dear friends, has the Spirit glorified Christ to you? He is still the great revealer of Christ. He shines into our heart, to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ. Has he led you to the altar, to the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world? Has he clothed you in the high priest's garments? Has he brought you within the veil, to the mercy-seat? This is His delightful work. Oh! it is a sweet work to be in the minister on earth that leads souls to Christ - that points, like John, and says: 'Behold the Lamb of God!' But O how infinitely more loving is that Holy Spirit of God to lead a trembling soul to Jesus! Oh praise him that has done this for you. Oh love the Spirit of God. 'Thy Spirit is good: lead me to the land of uprightness.'