Daily Readings for Wednesday 10th April 2024

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thanks to God for the Bible, its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.)
- Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue.
- Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would        continue to help us to grasp God's truth.
- Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us.


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 - (no preface)
Proverbs 28
Preface - Paul warneth the Thessalonians against a groundless surmise that the day of Christ was near at hand; shewing that it would be preceded by a great apostasy, and that the man of sin would be first revealed, and by his wicked impostures draw many into perdition. He repeateth his good hopes concerning them, exhorting them to stand fast in his doctrine, and praying God to comfort and stablish them in all goodness.
2 Thessalonians 2


Daily Light - Morning
I am black, but comely.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. - Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

I am a sinful man, O Lord. - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair.

I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. - Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

When I would do good, evil is present with me. - Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,_ dwelleth no good thing. - Ye are complete in him. - Perfect in Christ Jesus.

Ye are washed...ye are sanctified...ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. - That ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Song 1.5; Ps. 51.5; Ezed. 16.14
Lu. 5.8; Song 4.1
Job 42.6; Song 4.7
Ro. 7.21; Mt. 9.2
Ro. 7.18; Col. 2.10; Col. 1.28
1 Co. 6.11; 1 Pe. 2.9


Daily Light - Evening
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus
Shall suffer persecution.

I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. - Whosoever...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. - 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. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you ot of the world, therefore the world hateth you... The servant is not greater than his lord. - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
2 Tim. 3.12; Mt. 10.35-36; Jas. 4.4; 1 Jn. 2.15-16
Jn. 15.18-20; Jn. 17.14


A Puritans Catechism
Q 34 - What is sanctification?
A - Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

Of The Last Judgement
Chapter 31
PARAGRAPH 3
As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin,7 and for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity,8 so will he have the day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour the Lord will come,9 and may ever be prepared to say, Come Lord Jesus; come quickly.10 Amen.

7 2 Cor. 5:10–11
8 2 Thess. 1:5–7
9 Mark 13:35–37; Luke 12:35–40
10 Rev. 22:20



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The deceitful heart
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17 v 9, 10
This is a faithful description of the natural heart of man. The heart of unfallen Adam was very different. 'God made man upright.' His mind was clear and heavenly. It was riveted upon divine things. He saw their glory without any cloud or dimness. His heart was right with God. His affections flowed sweetly and fully towards God. He loved as God loved, hated as God hated. There was no deceit about his heart then. It was transparent as crystal. He had nothing to conceal. There was no wickedness in his heart, no spring of hatred, or lust, or pride. He knew his own heart, He could see clearly into its deepest recesses; for it was just a reflection of the heart of God.
When Adam sinned, his heart was changed. When he lost the favour of God, he lost the image of God. Just as Nebuchadnezzar sudenly got a beast's heart, so Adam suddenly got a heart in the image of the devil. And this is the description ever since: 'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.'