Daily Readings for Tuesday 16th July 2024

Daily Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend alone). Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


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 - Jeremiah complaining of the prosperity of the wicked prayeth against them. God sheweth him what ill usage he might expect from others, seeing his own kindred dealt so ill with him. God lamenteth the desolation of his heritage; he threateneth their evil neighbours, but promiseth restoration and grace to the penitent.
Jeremiah 12
Preface - Christ again foretelleth his own death. The rulers conspire against him. A woman poureth precious ointment upon his head. Judas bargaineth to betray him. Christ eateth the passover and pointeth out the traitor: he instituteth his last supper: foretelleth the desertion of his disciples, and Peter's denial of him. His agony and prayer in the garden. He is betrayed and apprehended. One of the servants of the high priest hath his ear cut off; Jesus forbeddeth opposition: he is carried to Caiaphas, falsely accused, pronounced guilty, and treated with indignity. Peter's denial and repentance.
Matthew 26


Daily Light - Morning
Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests,
and an holy nation.

Thou was slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests. - Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called hou out of darkness into his marvellous light.

Ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God. - Priests of God and of Christ.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. - The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Ex. 19.6; Rev. 5.9-10; 1 Pe. 2.9
Isa. 61.6; Rev. 20.6
He. 3.1; He. 13.15
Eph. 2.10; 1 Co. 3.17


Daily Light - Evening
We made our prayer unto our God,
and set a watch against them.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. - Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith.

Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? - Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Ne. 4.9; Mt. 26.41; Col. 4.2; 1 Pe. 5.7-9
Lu. 6.46; Jas. 1.22
Ex. 14.15
Phil. 4.6-7


A Puritans Catechism
Q 47 - Which is the third commandment?
A - The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 4

To them also he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people, not obliging any now by virtue of that institution; their general equity only being of moral use.

1. 1 Corinthians 9:8-10

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Study holiness
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy
in all manner of conversation;
1 Peter 1 v 15

Seek daily likeness to Jesus. We are not justified by our sanctification; and yet without sanctification we cannot have abiding peace or communion. We are justified entirely by the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus; and yet, when justified, He will change us into His image; so that the longer we are justified we should be the more sanctified. Study holiness, if you would have peace now, and be found of Christ in peace. The holiest believers are evermore the happiest.