Daily Readings for Tuesday 7 April 2026

Prayer - Tuesday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer. 



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - From chapter 10 to the twenty-fifth are various observations of moral virtues and their contrary vices.
Proverbs 25
Preface - Paul exhorteth the Thessalonians to proceed in their endeavours to please God by a holy and just conversation. He commendeth their love to one another, entreating them to abound in it, and quietly to follow their respective callings. And that they might not sorrow for the dead, as men without hope, he briefly describeth the resurrection of the just, and Christ's second coming.
1 Thessalonians 4



​Daily Light - Morning
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor,
yet making many rich; as having nothing,
and yet possessing all things.

We...rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also. - I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. - Believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?-God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.
2 Co. 6.10; Ro. 5.2-3; 2 Co. 7.4; 1 Pe. 1.8
2 Co. 8.2; Eph. 3.8-9
Jas. 2.5; 2 Co. 9.8



Daily Light - Evening
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:
thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them. - He whom thou lovest is sick. - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

We faint not...though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

In him we live, and move, and have our being. - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength. - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Ps. 41.3; Isa. 63.9; Jn. 11.3; 2 Co. 12.9; Phil. 4.13
2 Co. 4.16
​Ac. 17.28; Isa. 40.29-31; Deu. 33.27



A Puritans Catechism
Q 40 - What did God reveal to man for the rule of his disobedience?
A - The rule which God first revealed to man for his obedience is the moral law, which is summarized in the ten commandments.


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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
​Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 2
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Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments,
which are these:
Of the Old Testament.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Of the New Testament.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, Joh, The Acts of the Apostles, Pauls Epistle to the Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of James, The first and second Epistles of Peter, The first, second and third Epistles of John, the Epistle of Jude, the Revelation.
​All of which are given by the inspiration of God, to be the rule of faith and life.  (5)
5 - 2 Tim. 3:16



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
God forsaken by God
... My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Matthew 27 v 46

These are the words of the great Surety of sinners, as He hung upon the accursed tree. The more I meditate upon them, the more impossible do I find it to unfold all that is contained in them. You must often have observed how a very small thing may be an index of something great going on within. The pennant at the mast-head is a small thing; yet it shows plainly which way the wind blows. A cloud no bigger than a man's hand is a small thing; yet it may show the approach of a mighty storm. The swallow is a little bird; and yet it shows that summer is come. So it is with man. A look, a sigh, a half-uttered word, a broken sentence may show more of what is passing within than a long speech. So it was with the dying Saviour. These few troubled words tell more than volumes of divinity.