Daily Readings for Tuesday 20th May 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 offering at the feast of trumpets, on the day of humiliation, and on the eight days of the feast of tabernacles.
Numbers 29
Preface - The Psalmist sheweth that his faith had almost failed him on seeing the prosperity of the wicked; but that, unwilling to give up the cause of goodness, he had at length discovered their fearful end: his trust in God's present support and future favour: he concluded it best to adhere to God.
Psalms 73

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​Daily Light - Morning
Take heed unto thyself.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. - Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
1 Tim. 4.16; 1 Co. 9.25-27; Eph. 6.11-12
Ga. 5.24-25; Ro. 8.14; 1 Tim. 4.15

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Daily Light - Evening
Jesus saith unto her, Mary.

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. - The sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name....and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. - We have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God.

Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.... And Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.... And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment.... And thou shalt set in it settings of stones.... And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel.... And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
Jn. 20.16; Isa. 43.1; Jn. 10.3,4
Isa. 49.16
2 Tim. 2.19; He. 4.14
​Ex. 28.9,12,15,17,21,19

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 27 - Wherein consists Christ's exaltation?
A - Christ's exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 5
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We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come, and the infinite distance that is between us and God, Whom by them we can neither profit nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins;  (14)  but when we have done all we can, we have done but our duty, and are unprofitable servants; and because they are good they proceed from his Spirit,  (15)  and as they are wrought by us they are defiled and mixed with so much weakness and imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of God's punishment.  (16)
(14)-Rom. 3.20; Eph. 2.8-9; Rom. 4.6  (15)-Gal. 5.22-23  (16)-Isa. 64.6; Ps. 43.2



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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A golden saying
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Revelation 14 v 13

Blessed are the dead. Learn the value of this saying. It is a golden saying - there is gold in every syllable of it. It is sweeter than honey and the honeycomb, more precious than gold, yea, much fine gold. It is precious in the eyes of God. Write it deep in your hearts; it will solemnise your life, and will keep you from being led away by its vain show. It will make the syren songs of this world inconvenient and out of tune; it will sweetly soothe you in the hour of adversity; it will rob death of its sting, and the grave of its victory. Write, write deep on your heart, 'Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.