Daily Readings for Tuesday 20th February 2024

Daily 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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 Readings
Preface - Zophar sheweth in his turn the certain downfall and portion of the wicked.
Job 20
Preface - Marriage is to be used as a remedy against fornication. Christ hath forbidden to dissolve the bond thereof. Directions how to act where one of the parties is an unbeliever. Every man must abide in and fulfil the duties of the state wherein he was called. Directions concerning the marriage of virgins, respecting the distress of the times; and concerning the second marriage of widows.
1 Corinthians 7


Daily Light - Morning
He shall see of the travail of his soul,
and shall be satisfied.

Jesus...said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. - He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. - To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. - That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. - 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 you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Isa. 53.11; Jn. 19.30; 2 Co. 5.21
Isa. 43.21; Eph. 3.10-11; Eph. 2.7
Eph. 1.13-14; 1 Pe. 2.9


Daily Light - Evening
The day of temptation in the wilderness.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is draw away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.

They...lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost...was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. - Simon, Simon...Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.
He. 3.8; Jas. 1.13-15
Ps. 106.13,14
Lu. 4.1-3
He. 2.18; Lu. 22.31-31


A Puritans Catechism
Q70 - What is repentance unto life?
A - Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose to strive after new obedience.


BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Religious Worship  and The Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 5

The reading of the Scriptures,16 preaching, and hearing the Word of God,17 teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord;18 as also the administration of baptism,19 and the Lord's supper,20 are all parts of religious worship of God, to be performed in obedience to him, with understanding, faith, reverence, and godly fear; moreover, solemn humiliation, with fastings,21 and thanksgivings, upon special occasions, ought to be used in an holy and religious manner.22


16 1 Tim. 4:13
17 2 Tim. 4:2; Luke 8:18
18 Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:19
19 Matt. 28:19–20
20 1 Cor. 11:26
21 Esther 4:16; Joel 2:12
22 Exod. 15:1–19, Ps. 107


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Giving Him the glory
... to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. - Revelation 1 v 6
The saved soul longs to give glory to Christ. He looks back over all the way by which he has been led, and says from the bottom of his heart, To him be glory. He looks to the love of Jesus - to his awakening, drawing, washing, renewing, making a king and priest. Ministers may be been used as instruments, but he looks far beyond these and says, To him be glory. A true Christian will cast his crown no where but at the feet of Jesus. It was He that loved me, He that washed me. - To him be glory.