Daily Readings for Tuesday 25th March 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 offerings are delivered to the workmen. The liberality of the people is restrained. The curtains with cherubims. The curtains of goats' hair. The covering of skins. The boards with their sockets. The bars. The vail. The hanging for the door.
Exodus 36
Preface - Under the parable of a vine Christ setteth forth God's government of his church, and exhorteth his disciples to abide in his faith and doctrine: he commandeth them to love one another, according to the great love he had shewed for them: forewarneth them of the hatred and persecution of the world: and telleth them of the testimony which the Holy Ghost, and they also, shall bear to him.
John 15



​Daily Light - Morning
I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. - Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world.... At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me. - When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. - I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore. - I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. - My peace I give unto you.
He. 13.5; He. 13.6
Ge. 28.15; Deu. 31.6
2 Tim. 4.10,16-17; Ps. 27.10
Mt. 28.20; Rev. 1.18; Jn. 14.18; Jn. 14.27

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Daily Light - Evening
Master, we have toiled all the night,
and have taken nothing: nevertheless
at thy word I will let down the net.

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea.

Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!.... I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - My word....shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. - So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Lu. 5.5; Mt. 28.18-20
Mt. 13.47
1 Co. 9.16,22
​Ga. 6.9; Isa. 55.11; 1 Co. 3.7

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 53 - What is required in the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Gods Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 7
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The doctrine of the high mystery of predestination is to be handled with special prudence and care, that men attending the will of God revealed in His Word, and yielding obedience thereunto, may, from the certainty of their effectual vocation, be assured of their eternal election;  (18)  so shall this doctrine afford matter of praise,  (19)  reverence, and admiration of God, and of humility,  (20)  diligence, and abundant consolation to all that sincerely obey the gospel.  (21)
(18)-1 Thess. 1.4-5; 2 Pet. 1.10  (19)-Eph. 1.6; Rom. 11.33  (20)-Rom. 11.5-6, 20  (21)-Luke 10.20
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Soul sickness
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
Song of Solomon 5 v 8

In the parable, the bride told the daughters of Jerusalem that she was sick of love. This was the message she bade them carry; and when they asked her about her beloved, she gave them a rich and glowing description of his perfect beauty ending by saying: 'He is altogether lovely.'
So it is with the believer in time of darkness: 'He is sick of love.' When Christ is present to the soul, there is no feeling of sickness. Christ is the health of the countenance. When I have him full in my faith as a complete surety, a calm tranquility is spread over the whole inner man, the pulse of the soul has a calm and easy flow, the heart rests in a present Saviour with a healthy, placid affection. The soul is contented with him, at rest in him: 'Return unto thy rest, O my soul.' There is no feeling of sickness. It is health to the bones; it is the very health of the soul to look upon Him, and to love Him.