Daily Readings for Tuesday 17th December 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 - By the golden candlestick is foreshown the good success of Zerubbabel's foundation; by the two olive trees the two anointed ones.
Zechariah 4
Preface - Jesus exhorted by his unbelieving kinsmen to shew himself at Jerusalem at the feast of tabernacles, refuseth, but afterward goeth up in secret. The Jews seek him, and differ in their sentiments of him. He teacheth in the temple; some are ready to lay hands on him, others believe; the rulers send officers to seize him. Christ foretelleth his departure to the Father, and promiseth the Holy Spirit to believers. Various opinions concerning him. The officers struck with his discourse return without him, and are rebuked by the Pharisees, who chide with Nicodemus for taking his part.
John 7


​Daily Light - Morning
Quicken us,
and we will call upon thy name.

It is the spirit that quickeneth. - The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance.

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. - The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. - The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. - if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. - This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
Ps. 80.18; Jn. 6.63; Ro. 8.26-27; Eph. 6.18
Ps. 119.93; Jn. 6.63; 2 Co. 3.6; Jn. 15.7; 1 Jn. 5.14
1 Co. 12.3


Daily Light - Evening
Have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness,
but rather reprove them.

Be not deceived: evil communication corrupt good manners.

Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven... I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world... I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
Eph. 5.11; 1 Co. 15.33
1 Co. 5.6-7,9-10,11; Phil. 2.15
2 Tim. 2.20


A Puritans Catechism
Q 37 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A - At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed both in soul and body in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Perseverance of the Saints
Chapter 17
PARAGRAPH 3
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​​​And though they may, through the temptation of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins, and for a time continue therein,9 whereby they incur God's displeasure and grieve his Holy Spirit,10 come to have their graces and comforts impaired,11 have their hearts hardened, and their consciences wounded,12 hurt and scandalize others, and bring temporal judgments upon themselves,13 yet shall they renew their repentance and be preserved through faith in Christ Jesus to the end.14

9 Matt. 26:70,72,74
10 Isa. 64:5,9; Eph. 4:30
11 Ps. 51:10,12
12 Ps. 32:3–4
13 2 Sam. 12:14
14 Luke 22:32,61–62


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
All precious to Christ
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
Exodus 39 v 14

Observe how precious His people are to Him. There is a variety among the stones - every one is different, yet all are precious. So there is a great variety among Christ's people, yet all are precious to Christ. Some are chosen in infancy, like John the Baptist and Jeremiah, sanctified from the womb. Some are chosen in old age. Some are taken who have committed but little sin, like Martha and Mary. Some who have committed much, like the woman which was a sinner, and the dying thief. Some are taken from a cottage, some from a palace; all are different, yet all jewels in the eyes of the Redeemer.