Daily Readings for Tuesday 17th September 2024

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 - God refuseth to be consulted by the elders of Israel: he re-hearseth the rebellions of their ancestors in Egypt, in the wilderness, and in the promised land: he reproacheth the present generation with the like corrupt manners. He threateneth to rule over them with rigour, but with promise to gather them, to purge out the rebels, and accept the services of the faithful in his church. The destruction of Jerusalem prophesied under the name of a forest.
Ezekiel 20
Psalms 66) - Preface - David exhorteth to praise God, to observe his great works, to bless him for his gracious benefits: he voweth for himself religious service to God: he declareth God's special goodness to himself.
Psalms 67) - Preface - A prayer for the enlargement of God's kingdom, to the joy of the people, and to the increase of God's blessings.
Psalms 66-67


Daily Light - Morning
The LORD pondereth the hearts.

The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. - The LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy. - Thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. - When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. - 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.

The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Pro. 21.2; Ps. 1.6; Nu. 16.5; Mt. 6.4
Ps. 139.23-24; 1 Jn. 4.18
Ps. 38.9; Ps. 142.3; Ro. 8.27
2 Tim. 2.19


Daily Light - Evening
Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning.

No man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation. - In me ye...have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. - The night is far spent, the day is at hand. - He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. - There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. - We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the LORD in the air... Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Ps. 30.5; 1 Th. 3.3,4; Jn. 16.33
Ps. 17.15; Ro. 13.12; 2 Sa. 23.4
Isa. 25.8; Rev. 21.4; 1 Th. 4.17,18


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 28 - How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
A - We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the State of Man - After Death and of - The Resurrection of - the Dead
Chapter 31
PARAGRAPH 1
​The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see corruption;1 but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them.2 The souls of the righteous being then made perfect in holiness, are received into paradise, where they are with Christ, and behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies;3 and the souls of the wicked are cast into hell; where they remain in torment and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment of the great day;4 besides these two places, for souls separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.


1 Gen. 3:19; Acts 13:36
2 Eccles. 12:7
3 Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 5:1,6,8; Phil. 1:23; Heb. 12:23
4 Jude 6, 7; 1 Peter 3:19; Luke 16:23,24

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Much more
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children,
how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matthew 7 v 11

Men are apt to think that the only good of hiding in Christ is to save our souls, that when an awakened sinner hides in the Lord Jesus, he finds pardon of all sin and peace with God, but nothing more. But the whole Bible shows that there is much more in Christ; that when we hide in him, we are saved from all our distresses; from our troubles about health, about money, about the world. In Psalm 34, it is mentioned four times that when we come to Christ we are saved, not out of one trouble, but out of all our troubles: 'I sought the Lord; and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears' 'This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles'. 'The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.' 'Many are the afflictions of the righteous, yet the Lord delivereth him out of them all.' And the reason is plain. When we hide in Jesus, The God of providence becomes our God and Father, and we know He will make all things work together for our good. - The Lord is our shepherd, we shall not want. Whatever temporal good may be taken away, we know that our eternal good is secure: 'I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.