Daily Readings for Tuesday 2nd July 2024

Daily Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend alone). Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


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 church prayeth God to shew himself with power. She acknowledgeth God's mercy to them that seek him, and confesseth her own unworthiness. She pleadeth for compassion toward her desolate state.
Isaiah 64
Preface - Christ bringeth evidence of scripture in excuse of his disciples, whom the Pharisees charged with breaking the sabbath. He appealeth to reason, and healeth the withered hand on the sabbath day. The Pharisees seek to destroy him: a prophecy of Esaias fulfilled in him. He healeth one possessed of a devil, who was blind and dumb; and showeth that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is an unpardonable sin, and that every idle word must be accounted for: he rebuketh those that sought of him a sign, and showeth whom he regardeth as his nearest relations.
Matthew 12


Daily Light - Morning
This is the ordinance of the passover:
There shall no stranger eat thereof.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. - Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. - At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the covenants of promise... But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one...having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Ex. 12.43; He. 13.10; Jn. 3.3; Eph. 2.12,13
Eph. 2.14,15
Eph. 2.19
Rev. 3.20


Daily Light - Evening
[Jesus] prayed the third time,
saying the same words.

Who in the days of his flesh...offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. - Continuing instant in prayer. - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication. - By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. - This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

Delight thyself...in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Mt. 26.44; He. 5.7
Hos. 6.3; Ro. 12.12; Eph. 6.18; Phil. 4.6-7
Mt. 26.39; 1 Jn. 5.14
Ps. 37.4-5


A Puritans Catechism
Q 33 - What is adoption?
A - Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
​Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 4

They who in their obedience attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate, and to do more than God requires, as that they fall short of much which in duty they are bound to do.

1. Job 9:2 
2. 3 
3. Galatians 5:17 
4. Luke 17:10

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
We believe
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ,
the Son of the living God.
John 6 v 69

We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Ah! it is this that rivels the believing soul to Christ - the certain conviction that Christ is a divine Saviour. If Christ were only a man like ourselves, then how could He be a surety for us? He might suffer in the stead of one man, but how could He suffer in the stead of thousands? Ah! but I believe and am sure that He is the Son of the living God, and therefore I know He is a sufficient surety for me. To whom else can I go for pardon? If Christ were only a man like ourselves, then how could He dwell in us, or give the Spirit to abide with us for ever? But we believe and are sure that He is that Christ, the Son of the living God, and therefore we know He is able to dwell in us, and put the Spirit in us for ever. To whom, then, can I go for a new heart but unto Christ? O dear brethren! have you been thus taught? Then blessed are ye, 'for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven.' Hold fast by this sure faith for you cannot be too sure; and then you will never, never go away from Christ.