Daily Readings for Tuesday 1st April 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.)

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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 sin offering of ignorance for the priest, for the congregation, for a ruler, for any of the people.
Leviticus 4
1) Preface - The happiness of the godly. The unhappiness of the ungodly.
2) Preface - The kingdom of Christ. Kings are exhorted to accept it.
Psalms 1-2



​Daily Light - Morning
The fruit of the Spirit is....joy....

Joy in the Holy Ghost. - Joy unspeakable and full of glory.

Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing....exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. - We glory in tribulations.

Jesus the author and finisher of our faith....for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame. - These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. - As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. - The joy of the LORD is your strength.

In thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. - For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Ga. 5.22; Ro. 14.17; 1 Pe. 1.8
2 Co. 6.10,7.4; Ro. 5.3
He. 12.2; Jn. 15.11; 2 Co. 1.5
Phil. 4.4; Ne. 8.10
Ps. 16.11; Rev. 7.17

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Daily Light - Evening
Jehovah-shalom. [marg. The Lord send peace]

Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. - Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. - My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; when it shal hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

He is our peace. - This man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.
Judg. 6.24; 1 Chr. 22.9
Mt. 12.42; Isa. 9.6; Isa. 32.18-19
Eph. 2.14; Mi. 5.5
Rev. 17.14
Jn. 14.27


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 60 - What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
A - The eighth commandment forbids whatever does, or may unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbour's wealth or outward estate.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5
PARAGRAPH 4
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The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God, so far manifest themselves in His providence, that His determinate counsel extends itself even to the first fall, and all other sinful actions both of angels and men;  (11)  and that not by a bare permission, which also He most wisely and powerfully binds, and otherwise orders and governs,  (12)  in a manifold dispensation to His most holy ends;  (13)  yet so, as the sinfulness of their acts proceeds only from the creatures, and not from God, who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.  (14)
(11)-Rom. 11.32-34; 2 Sam. 24.1; 1 Chron. 21.1  (12)-2 Kings 19.28; Ps. 76.10  (13)-Gen. 1.20; Isa. 10.6-7,12  (14)-Ps. 1; Ps. 21; 1 John 2.16
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Lie in the dust
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John 11 v 3

If a worldly person had been sending to Christ, he would have sent a very different argument. He would have said: he who loved thee is sick. Here is one who has believed on Thy name. Here is one that has confessed Thee before the world, suffered reproach and scorn for Thy sake. Martha and Mary knew better how to plead with Jesus. The only argument was in Jesus' breast: 'He whom thou lovest is sick.'
Jesus love him with an electing love: freely from all eternity Jesus loved him. Jesus loved him with a drawing love: He drew Him from under wrath, from serving sin. Jesus loved him with a pardoning love: He drew him to himself, and blotted out all his sin. Jesus loved him with an upholding love: 'Who could hold me up but thou?' He for whom The died, he whom Thou hast chosen, washed and kept till now, 'he whom thou lovest is sick.'
Learn thus to plead with Christ, dear believers. Often you do not receive, because you do not ask aright: 'ye ask, and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.' Often you ask proudly, as if you were somebody; so that if Christ were to grant it, He would only be fattening your lusts. Learn to lie in the dust, and plead only His own free love. Thou has loved me for no good thing in me:
Chosen, not for good in me;
Wakened us from wrath to flee;
Hidden in the Saviour's side;
By the Spirit sanctified.