Daily Readings for Tuesday 25th February 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.)

​


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 plague of frogs is threatened: they are sent. Pharaoh entreateth Moses, who by prayer removeth them. The dust is turned into lice, which the magicians could not do. The plague of flies. Pharaoh inclineth to let the people go, but is hardened.
Exodus 8
Preface - Christ teacheth to pray, assuring that God will give all good things to them that ask him: he casteth out a devil, and reproveth the blasphemy of the Pharisees, who ascribed the miracle to the power of Beelzebub: he sheweth who are the truly blessed; and the inexusableness of not believing his gospel: he reprehendeth the outward shew of holiness in the Pharisees, and pronounceth woes against them and the scribes and lawyers.
Luke 11



​Daily Light - Morning
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. - Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. - Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. - This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Jas. 4.7; Isa. 59.19; Mt. 4.10-11
Eph. 6.10-11; Eph. 5.11; 2 Co. 2.11; 1 Pe. 5.8-9; 1 Jn. 5.4
​Ro. 8.33

​

​
Daily Light - Evening
Adam....begat a son in his own likeness.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? - Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Dead in trespasses and sins....by nature the children of wrath, even as others. - I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what i hate, that do I.... I know that in me (that is,, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.

By one man sin entered into the world....by one man's disobedience many were made sinners. - If through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ge. 5.3; Job 14.4; Ps. 51.5
Eph. 2.1,3; Ro. 7.14-15,18
Ro. 5.12,19; Ro. 5.15
Ro. 8.2
​1 Co. 15.57



A Puritans Catechism
Q 25 - How does Christ execute the office of a king?
A - Christ executes the office of a king in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.


​
The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Baptism
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 5
​
The outward elements in this ordinance, duly set apart to the use ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, although in terms used figuratively, they are sometimes called by the names of the things they represent, in other words, the body and blood of Christ,  (7)  albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain truly and only bread and wine, as they were before.  (8)

(7)  1 Cor. 11.27  (8)  1 Cor. 11.26-28
​



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Riches untold
That in everything ye are enriched by him ...
1 Corinthians 1 v 5

Kings in olden time had immense possessions. Of one it is said, 'the sun never set on his dominions.' Solomon gathered all the peculiar treasures of kings. But a soul united to Jesus has more. He has got the pearl of great price, the clothing of wrought gold. He has God's loving-kindness, which is better than life. He can look on the hills and valleys and resplendent rivers, and say, 'My Father made them all.' 'All things are yours. Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or things present, or things to come; all are yours. Having nothing, yet possessing all things.'