Daily Readings for Tuesday 21st November 2023

Prayer
-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 Reading
Preface - David's festival sacrifice, and liberality to the people. He appointeth a band of singers and music to praise the Lord. The psalm of thanksgiving. He appointeth ministers, porters, priests, and musicians, to attend continually on the ark.
1 Chronicles 16
Preface - Christ is shewed to be more worthy than Moses: we must be careful therefore not to follow the example of the obstinate and unbelieving Israelites in the wilderness.
James 3

Daily Light - Morning
Him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out.

It shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. - I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. - I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. - Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. - Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
Jn. 6.37; Ex. 22.27; Lev. 26.44; Ezek. 16.60
Isa. 1.18; Isa. 55.7; Lu. 23.42-43
Isa. 42.3

Daily Light - Evening
His dear Son.

Lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. - Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. - The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins... And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love.

The glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. - Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.
Col. 1.13; Mt. 3.17; Isa. 42.1; Jn. 1.18
1 Jn. 4.9-10,16
Jn. 17.22-24; 1 Jn. 3.1

A Puritans Catechism
Q62 - What is required in the ninth commandment?
A - The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbour's good name, especially in witness-bearing.

The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Holy Scriptures
Chapter 4 - Paragraph 1
In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,  1)  for the manifestation of the glory of His eternal power,  2)    wisdom, and goodness, to create or make the world, and all things therein, whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days, and all very good.  3)
1)   John 1:2-3, Heb. 1:2; Job 26:13  (2)  Rom. 1:20  (3)  Col. 1:16; Gen 1:31

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The eye of faith
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. - Hebrews 3 v 1
When Christ ascended from the Mount of Olives, and passed through these heavens, carrying His bloody wounds into the presence of God, and when His disciples had gazed after Him, till a cloud received Him out of their sight - we are told that they returned to Jerusalem with great joy. What! are thy joyful at parting with their blessed Master? When he told them He was to leave them, sorrow filled their hearts, and He had to argue with them and comfort them, saying, Let not your be troubled; it is expedient for you that I go away. How, then, are thy changed! Jesus has left them, and they are filled with joy. Oh! here is the secret - they knew that Christ was now going into the presence of God for them, that their great High Priest was now entering within the vail to make intercession for them.
Now believer, would you share in the great joy of the disciples? Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. He is above yon clouds, and above yon sky. O that you would stand gazing up into heaven, not with the bodily eye, but with the eye of faith. Oh! what a wonderful thing the eye of faith is: it sees beyond the stars, it pierces to the throne of God, and there it looks on the face of Jesus making intercession for us, whom having not seen we love, in whom, though now we see Him not, yet believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.