Daily Readings for Tuesday 4th 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 - Moses' song. Miriam and the women join in it. The people want water. The waters at Marah are bitter; a tree sweeteneth them. They remove to Elim.
Exodus 15
Preface - The parable of the unjust judge and the importunate widow. The parable of the Pharisee and publican. Christ's tenderness to the little children that were brought unto him. He teacheth a ruler how to attain eternal life: he sheweth how hard it is for the rich to enter into the kingdom of God: promiseth rewards to those who have foregone ought for the gospel's sake: foretelleth his own death and resurrection: and giveth sight to a blind man.
Luke 18



​Daily Light - Morning
Set your affection on things above,
​not on things on the earth.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart b also.

We walk by faith, not by sight. - We faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. - An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.
Col. 3.2; 1 Jn. 2.15; Mt. 6.19-21
2 Co. 5.7; 2 Co. 4.16-18; 1 Pe. 1.4

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Daily Light - Evening
He....bowed his shoulder to bear.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. - Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. - Aaron held his peace. - It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

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.
Ge. 49.15; Jas. 5.10; 1 Co. 10.11
Job 2.10; Lev. 10.3; 1 Sa. 3.18
Ps. 55.22; Isa. 53.4
​Mt. 11.28-30



A Puritans Catechism
Q 32 - What is justification?
A - Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.


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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Baptism
Chapter 32
PARAGRAPH 2
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The of God's appointing this day, is for the manifestation of the glory of his mercy, in the eternal salvation of the elect; and of his justice, in the eternal damnation of the reprobate, who are wicked and disobedient;  (4)  for then shall the righteous go into everlasting life, and receive that fulness of joy and glory with everlasting rewards, in the presence of the Lord; but the wicked, who do not know God, and do not obey the gospel of Jesus Christ, shall be cast aside into everlasting torments,  (5)  and punished with everlasting destruction, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.  (6)

(4)  Rom. 9.22-23;  (5)  Matt. 25.21,34; 2. Tim. 4.8;  (6)  Matt. 25.46; Mark 9.48; 2 Thess. 1.7-10
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Parts of prayer
Let my prayer be set forth before thee ....
Psalm 141.42

I ought not to omit any of the parts of prayer - confession, adoration, thanksgiving, petition, and intercession. There is a fearful tendency to omit confession, proceeding from low views of God and His law - slight views of my heart and the sins of my past life. This must be resisted. There is a constant tendency to omit adoration, when I forget to whom I am speaking - when I rush heedlessly into the presence of Jehovah, without remembering His awful name and character - when I have little eyesight for His glory, and little admiration of His wonders. 'Where are the wise?' I have the native tendency of the heart to omit giving thanks. And yet it is specially commanded, (Phillipians 4 v 6). Often when the heart is selfish - dead to the salvation of others - I omit intercession. And yet it especially is the spirit of the Great Advocate, who has the name of Israel always on His heart.
Perhaps every prayer need not have all these; but surely a day should not pass without some space being devoted to each.