Daily Readings for Tuesday 18th February 2025

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 Plan - First Year
Preface - The children of Israel after Joseph's death multiply greatly. They are oppressed by a new king, but multiply so much the more. The piety of the midwives in saving the men children alive is rewarded by God. Pharaoh commandeth the male children to be cast into the river.
Exodus 1
Preface - Christ fasteth forty days, and is tempted of the devil. He beginneth to preach: the people of Nazareth wonder at his gracious words, but being offended go about to kill him: he escapeth by miracle. He casteth out a devil: healeth Simon's mother in law; and many other diseased persons: the devils acknowledging him are silenced: he preacheth through the cities of Galilee.
Luke 4



​Daily Light - Morning
Thou art my hope in the day of evil.

There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. - I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.... Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. - Sorrow shall be turned into joy. - Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Jer. 17.17; Ps. 4.6; Ps. 59.16
Ps. 30.6,7-10
Isa. 54.7-8; Jn. 16.20; Ps. 30.5

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Daily Light - Evening
Adam....begat a son in his own likeness.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? - Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Dead in trespasses and sins....by nature the children of wrath, even as others. - I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what i hate, that do I.... I know that in me (that is,, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.

By one man sin entered into the world....by one man's disobedience many were made sinners. - If through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ge. 5.3; Job 14.4; Ps. 51.5
Eph. 2.1,3; Ro. 7.14-15,18
Ro. 5.12,19; Ro. 5.15
Ro. 8.2
​1 Co. 15.57



A Puritans Catechism
Q 18 - What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell?
A - All mankind by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.


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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Baptism
Chapter 29
PARAGRAPH 2
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These who do actually profess repentance towards God, faith in, and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ, are the only proper subjects of this ordinance.  (4)

(4) Mark 16.16; Acts 8.36-37; 2.41; 8.12; 18.8
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Delays are not denials
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
John 11 v 4

When we ask for something agreeable to God's will, and in the name of Christ, we know that we have the petitions which we desire of Him. But the time, He keeps in His own power. God is very sovereign in the time of His answers. When Martha and Mary sent their petition to Christ, He gave them an immediate promise; but the answer was not when they expected. So Christ frequently gives us the desires of our heart, though not at the peculiar time we desired, but a better time. Do not be weary in putting up prayers, say for the conversion of a friend. They may be answered when you are in the dust. Hold on to pray. He will answer in the best time. 'Be not weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.'