Daily Readings for Tuesday 9th January 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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Ezra mourneth for the intermarriages of the people with strangers. He prayeth unto God with confession off sins.
Ezra 9
Preface - A man that was born blind receiveth sight: he relateth to his neighbours the means of his care: he is brought to the Pharisees, who examine strictly into the fact, and are offended with his acknowledgement of the divine mission of the author: they excommunicate him: he is received of Jesus, and confesseth him: Christ taxeth the Pharisees with spiritual blindness.
Acts 9

Daily Light - Morning
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee,
that it may be displayed because of the truth.

Jehovah-nissi (marg. The LORD my banner). - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. - The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. - We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. - Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - The captain of their salvation.

My brethren, be strong in the LORD, and in the power of his might. - Valiant for the truth. - Fight the LORD's battles. - Be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work...fear ye not. - Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. - Yes a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Ps. 60.4; Ex. 17.15; Isa. 59.19
Ps. 20.5; Jer. 51.10; Ro. 8.37; 1 Co. 15.57; He. 2.10
Eph. 6.10; Jer. 9.3; 1 Sa. 18.17; Hag. 2.4,5; Jn. 4.35, He. 10.37

Morning Light - Evening
One thing is needful.

There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. - O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.

I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. - Lord, evermore give us this bread. - Mary...sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. - One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Lu. 10.42; Ps. 4.6-7
Ps. 42.1-2; Ps. 63.1
Jn. 6.35; Jn. 6.34; Lu. 10.39; Ps. 27.4

A Puritans Catechism
Q29 - How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A - The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.

BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Our Saving Faith
Chapter 14 
PARAGRAPH 1
The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts,1 and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the Word;2 by which also, and by the administration of baptism and the Lord's supper, prayer, and other means appointed of God, it is increased and strengthened.3

1 2 Cor. 4:13; Eph. 2:8
2 Rom. 10:14,17
3 Luke 17:5; 1 Pet. 2:2; Acts 20:32

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional readings
The revealer of Christ
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. - John 16 v 14
Dear friends, has the Spirit glorified Christ to you? He is still the great revealer of Christ. He shines into our heart, to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ. Has he led you to the altar; to the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world? Has he clothed you in the high priest's garments? Has he brought you within the veil, to the mercy-seat? This is His delightful work. Oh! it is a sweet work to be in the minister on earth that leads souls work. Oh! it is a sweet work to be the minister on earth that leads souls to Christ - that points, like John, and says: 'Behold the Lamb of God!' But O how infinitely more loving is that Holy Spirit of God to lead trembling souls to Jesus! Oh praise him that has done this for you. Oh love the Spirit of God. 'Thy Spirit is good: lead me to the land of uprightness.'