Daily Readings for Tuesday 13th February 2024

Daily Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness.
- Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation.
- Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus             Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes 5.16.)


Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Job censureth the arrogant pretensions of his friends to superior knowledge: he sheweth that wicked men often prosper under the hand of God; he acknowledgeth the divine wisdom and omnipotency.
Job 12
Preface - Paul commendeth Phebe to the Christians at Rome, and sendeth salutations to many by name. He warneth them to take heed of those who cause divisions and offences. After sundry salutations, he concludeth with praise to God.
Romans 16



Daily Light - Morning
Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the
appearance of a man above upon it.

The man Christ Jesus. - Made in the likeness of men...found in fashion as a man. - Forasmuch...as the childen ae partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death.

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore. - Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. - What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? - He raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places. - In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God.
Ezek. 1.26; 1 Tim. 2.5; Phil. 2.7,8; He. 2.14
Rev. 1.18; Ro. 6.9-10; Jn. 6.62; Eph. 1.20; Col. 2.9
2 Co. 13.4


Daily Light - Evening
Thy word hath quickened me.

The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself. - I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men... As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. - The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Ps. 119.50; 1 Co. 15.45
Jn. 5.26; Jn. 11.25-26
Jn. 1.4,12-13
Jn. 6.63; He. 4.12


A Puritans Catechism
Q63 - Which is the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 2
God alone is Lord of the conscience,12 and has left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or not contained in it.13 So that to believe such doctrines, or obey such commands out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience;14 and the requiring of an implicit faith, an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience and reason also.15


12 James 4:12; Rom. 14:4
13 Acts 4:19,29; 1 Cor. 7:23; Matt. 15:9
14 Col. 2:20,22–23
15 1 Cor. 3:5; 2 Cor. 1:24



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The spring of the soul
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness fo rhim as one that is in bitterness for his first-born...In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
Zechariah 12 v 10; 13 v 1
In these words you have a description of the conversion of the Jews, which is yet to come - an event that will give life to this dead world. But God's method is the same in the conversion of any soul. Conversion is the most glorious work of God. The creation of the sun is a very glorious work - when God first rolled him flaming along the sky, scattering out golden blessings on every shore. The change in spring is very wonderful - When God makes the faded grass revive, the dead trees put out green leaves, and the flowers appear on the earth. But far more glorious and wonderful is the conversion of a soul! It is the creation of a sun that is to shine for eternity; it is the spring of the soul that shall know no winter; and planting of a tree that shall bloom with eternal beauty in the paradise of God.