Daily Readings for Tuesday 15th October 2024

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
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 - The portions of the twelve tribes, of the sanctuary, of the city and suburbs, and of the prince. The dimensions and gates of the city.
Ezekiel 48
Preface - A meditation upon the majesty, power, and wonderful providence of God. God's glory is eternal. The prophet voweth to praise God perpetually.
Psalms 104


Daily Light - Morning
God is my defence.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; the God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour. - The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. - We may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. - Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

For thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Ps. 59.9; 2 Sa. 22.2-3; Ps. 28.7
Isa. 59.19; He. 13.6
Ps. 27.1 Ps. 125.2; Ps. 63.7
Ps. 31.3


Daily Light - Evening
Forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.

Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. - O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. - Be ye kind on to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. - You...hath he quickened...having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. - Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Mt. 6.12; Mt. 18.21-22; Mt. 18.32-35; Eph. 4.32; Col. 2.13-14; Col. 3.13


A Puritans Catechism
Q 56 - What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, or whatever tends to it.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Creation
Chapter 4
PARAGRAPH 2
​After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female,4 with reasonable and immortal souls,5 rendering them fit unto that life to God for which they were created; being made after the image of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness;6 having the law of God written in their hearts,7 and power to fulfill it, and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject to change.8
4 Gen. 1:27
5 Gen. 2:7
6 Eccles. 7:29; Gen. 1:26
7 Rom. 2:14–15
8 Gen. 3:6


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The broken heart
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 51 v 17

No Psalm expresses more fully the experience of a penitent believing soul: - First, His humbling confession of sin, (vs 3-5). Second, His intense desire for pardon through the blood of Christ, (v.7). Third, His longing after a clean heart, (v10). Fourth, His desire to render something to God for all His benefits. 1. He says, I will teach transgressors thy ways. 2. My lips shall show forth thy praise. 3. He will give a broken heart, vs. 16, 17.  Just as, long ago, they used to offer slain lambs in token of thanksgiving, so he says he will offer up to God a slain and broken heart. Every one of you, who has found the same forgiveness, should come to the same resolution - offer up to God.