Daily Readings for Tuesday 22nd July 2025

Prayer - Tuesday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer. 



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - The song of Deborah and Barak.
Judges 5
Preface - Saul going toward Damascus is encompassed with a light from heaven, falleth to the earth, is called by Christ, and led blind to Damascus. Ananias is sent to him, by whom he is restored to sight, and baptized: he straightway preacheth Christ boldly. The Jews of Damascus seek to kill him; he goeth to Jerusalem, and is brought to the apostles by Barnabas; preaching boldly against the Grecians, he is again in danger of his life, and is sent to Tarsus. The church hath rest, and is multiplied. Peter cureth Aeneas of the palsy at Lydda; and raiseth Tabitha to life at Joppa.
Acts 9



​Daily Light - Morning
In that he died, he died unto sin once:
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

He was numbered with the transgressors. - Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. - By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

This man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. - While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Forasmuch....as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Ro. 6.10; Isa. 53.12; He. 9.28; 1 Pe. 2.24; He. 10.14
He. 7.24-25; Ro. 5.8-9
1 Pe. 4.1-2
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Daily Light - Evening
Keep yourselves in the love of God.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

The fruit of the Spirit is love.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. - Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. - God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. - God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Jude 21; Jn. 15.4-5
Ga. 5.22
Jn. 15.8-10; 1 Jn. 2.5
​Jn. 15.12; Ro. 4.8; 1 Jn. 4.16
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 1 - What is the chief end of man?
A - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 1
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A lawful oath is a part of religious worship, wherein the person swearing in truth, righteousness, and judgment, solemnly calls God to witness what he swears,  (1)  and to judge him according to the truth of falseness thereof.  (2)
(1)-Exod. 20.7; Deut. 10.20; Jer. 4.2  (2)-2 Chron. 6.22-23


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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Saints known
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10 vs 14-15

The Father knew the Son from all eternity: 'Then I was by him as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him' (Proverbs 8 v 30). He was in the bosom of the Father. So did this good shepherd know his sheep from all eternity: 'Chosen before the foundation of the world.'
The Father knew the Son with a knowledge of most perfect delight and love: 'I was daily his delight.' At his baptism, a voice from heaven was heard saying: 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.' (Matthew 3 v 17). So does Christ know his sheep: 'Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee;' 'The King is held in the galleries;' 'How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!' 'Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.'
The Father knew the Son through all his sufferings. So Christ knows his sheep: 'I know their sorrows;' 'In all their afflictions, he was afflicted.' He knows their decays: 'I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.'
The Father will know the Son to all eternity; and so the Son will know his sheep for ever and ever. They shall soon 'hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat' (Revelation 7 v 16).