Daily Readings for Tuesday 31st December 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 - God's judgment on the wicked, and his blessing on the good: he exhorteth to the study of the law; and telleth of Elijah's coming and office.
Malachi 4
Preface - Mary Magdalene, seeing the stone taken away from the sepulchre, runneth to tell Peter and John, who go thither, and find not the boyd. Mary seeth two angels sitting in the sepulchre; Jesus himself appeareth to her. He appeareth to his disciples: the incredulity of Thomas. Jesus appeareth again to the disciples, and satisfieth the doubts of Thomas; who confesseth him. The sufficiency of what is written for a ground of faith unto salvation.
John 20


Daily Light - Morning
The LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear
his son, in all the way that ye went,
until ye came into this place.

I bare you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto myself. - In his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him.

Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. - This God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on... For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
Deu. 1.31; Ex. 19.4; Isa. 63.9; Deu. 32.11-12
Isa. 46.4; Ps. 48.14
Ps. 55.22; Mt. 6.25,32
1 Sa. 7.12


Daily Light - Evening
There remaineth yet
very much land to be possessed.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Be ye therefore perfect. - Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment.

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.

There remaineth...a rest to the people of God. - Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Jos. 13.1; Phil. 3.12
Mt. 5.48; 2 Pe. 1.5-7
Phil. 1.9
1 Co. 2.9-10
He. 4.9; Isa. 33.17


A Puritans Catechism
Q 51 - How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
A - The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 2
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God alone is Lord of the conscience, (12) and has left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or not contained in it. (13) So that to believe such doctrines, or obey such commands out of conscience is to betray true liberty of conscience; (14) and the requiring of an implicit faith, an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience and reason also. (15)
(12) James 4:12; Rom. 14:4 (13) Acts 4:19.29; 1 Cor. 7:23; Matt. 15.9. (14) Col. 2:20.22-23 (15) 1 Cor. 3:5; 2 Cor. 1:24


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
My Master's time
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5 v 16

What right have I to steal and abuse my Master's time? Redeem it,' He is crying to me.

The time is short! the season near,
When death will us remove,
To have our friends, however dear,
And all we fondly love!

The time is short! sinners, beware,
Nor trifle time away;
The word of 'great salvation' hear,
'While it is called to-day.'

The time is short! ye rebels, now
To Christ the Lord submit;
To mercy's golden sceptre bow,
And fall at Jesus' feet.

The time is short! ye saints rejoice,
The Lord will quickly come:
Soon shall ye hear the Bridegroom's voice,
To call your spirits home.

The time is short! it swiftly flies,
The hour is just at hand,
When we shall mount above the skies,
And reach Emmanuel's land.