Daily Readings for Tuesday 3rd 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 - The majesty of God in goodness to his people, and severity against his enemies.
Nahum 1
Preface - Christ teacheth to avoid giving occasions of offence: and to forgive one another. The power of faith, and defect of merit toward God in our best services. Christ healeth ten lepers: sheweth the spiritual nature of the kingdom of God; and instructeth his disciples concerning the coming of the Son of man.
Luke 17


Daily Light - Morning
I would seek unto God,
and unto God would I commit my cause.

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? - Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring if to pass, - Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD, And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD.

It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. - The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Job 5.8; Ge. 18.14; Ps. 37.5; Phil. 4.6; 1 Pe. 5.7
Isa. 37.14-15
Isa. 65.24; Jas. 5.16
Ps. 116.1-2


Daily Light - Evening
Our bodies washed with pure water.

Thou shalt...make a laver of brass...and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: when they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not...they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not. - Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you. - If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

In my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. - There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth. - Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity. - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
He. 10.22; Ex. 30.18-20,21; 1 Co. 6.19; 1 Co. 3.17
Job 19.26-27; Rev. 21.27; Hab. 1.13; Ro. 12.1


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 23 - How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A - Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 1

Such of the elect that are converted at riper years, having sometime lived in the state of nature, and therein served divers pleasures, God in their effectual calling gives them repentance to life.1
1 Titus 3:2–5

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Joy in religion
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
Philippians 3 v 1

Some people are afraid of anything like joy in religion. They have none themselves, and they do not love to see it in others. Their religion is something like the stars, very high, and very clear, but very cold. When they see fears of anxiety, or tears of joy, they cry out, Enthusiasm, enthusiasm!' Well, then, to the law, and to the testimony: 'I sat down under His shadow with great delight.' Is this enthusiasm? O Lord, evermore give us this enthusiasm! May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing! If it be really in sitting under the shadow of Christ, let there be no bounds to your joy. Oh, if God would but open your eyes, and give you simple, childlike faith, to look to Jesus, to sit under His shadow, then would songs of joy rise from all our dwellings! Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice!