Daily Readings for Tuesday 26th November 2024

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
Preface - The time when Micah prophesied. Micah showeth the wrath of God against Israel and Judah for idolatry. A lamentation for them.
Micah 1
Preface - Christ sendeth out the seventy disciples to work miracles and to preach: he pronounceth a woe against Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum. The seventy return with joy; Christ sheweth them wherein to rejoice: he thanketh his Father for having revealed His gospel to the simple only: he sheweth the blessedness of those that were called into his church: he teacheth a lawyer how to attain eternal life; and by the parable of the good Samaritan sheweth whom we are to consider as our neighbour: he commendeth Mary's attention to his doctrine in preference to Martha's busy care to entertain him.
Luke 10


Daily Light - Morning
The LORD delighteth in thee.

Thus saith the LORD that created thee... Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she would not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands: thy walls are continually before me.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. - My delights were with the sons of men. - The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. - They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Isa. 62.4; Isa. 43.1; Isa. 49.15-16
Ps. 37.23; Pro. 8.31; Ps. 147.11; Mal. 3.17
​Col. 1.21-22


Daily Light - Evening
The sorrow of the world worketh death.

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followedd, he saddled his ass, and arose and gat him home and hanged himself, and died. - A wounded spirit who can bear?

Is there no balm in Gilead;  is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? - The LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted...to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. - Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Philip... preached unto him Jesus. - He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
2 Co. 7.10; 2 Sa. 17.23; Pro. 18.14
Jer. 8.22; Isa. 61.1,2-3; Mt. 11.28-30
Ac. 8.35; Ps. 147.3


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 16 - Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
A - The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Adoption
Chapter 12
PARAGRAPH 1
All those that are justified, God conferred, in and for the sake of his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption,1 by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God,2 have his name put on them,3 receive the spirit of adoption,4 have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry Abba, Father,5 are pitied,6 protected,7 provided for,8 and chastened by him as by a Father,9 yet never cast off,10 but sealed to the day of redemption,11 and inherit the promises as heirs of everlasting salvation.12
1 Eph. 1:5; Gal. 4:4–5
2 John 1:12; Rom. 8:17
3 2 Cor. 6:18; Rev. 3:12
4 Rom. 8:15
5 Gal. 4:6; Eph. 2:18
6 Ps. 103:13
7 Prov. 14:26; 1 Pet. 5:7
8 Heb. 12:6
9 Isa. 54:8–9
10 Lam. 3:31
11 Eph. 4:30
12 Heb. 1:14, 6:12


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
He is mine
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 2 v 16
In the arms of my faith He is mine. I was once of the world - cold and careless about my soul. God awakened me, and made me feel I was lost. I tried to make myself good - to mend my life; but I found it in vain. I sat down more lost than before. I was then told to believe on the Lord Jesus. So I tried to make myself believe. I read books on faith, and tried to bend my soul to believe, so that I might get to heaven; but still in vain. I found it written, 'Faith is the gift of God. 'No man can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.' So I sat down more lost than ever. Whilst I was thus helpless, Jesus drew near - His garments dipped in blood. He had waited long at my door, though I knew it not. 'His head was filled with dew, and His locks with the drops of the night.' He had five deep wounds; and He said, 'I died in the stead of sinners; and any sinner may have Me for a Saviour. You are a helpless sinner, will you have Me?' How can I resist Him? He is all I need! I held Him, and would not let Him go.' 'My beloved is mine.'
In the arms of my love He is mine. Once I did not know what people meant by loving Jesus. I always wished to ask how they could love one whom they had never seen, but was answered, 'whom not having seen, we love.' But now that I have hidden in Him - now that I am cleaving to Him - now I feel that I cannot but love Him; and I long to see Him that I may love Him more. Many a time I fall into sin, and that takes away my feeling of safety in Christ. Darkness comes, all is clouded, Christ is away. Still even then I am sick of love. Christ is not light and peace to me; but I follow hard after Him amid the darkness - He is precious to me; and even, though I be in darkness, He is my beloved still.' 'This is my beloved, and this is my friend.