Daily Readings for Wednesday 10th July 2024

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thank 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)
(Wednesday evening) Scripture reading Romans 8 vs 32-34 - sermon by Dennis Arnold 
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 enemies sent against Judah are eager to fall upon her. God directeth the siege because of her sins. The prophet lamenteth the evils that would follow from the corrupt manners that prevailed; he proclaimeth God's judgments; he calleth the people to mourn for the impending calamities.
Jeremiah 6
Preface - The parable of the labourers who were hired at different hours to work in the vineyard. Jesus fortelleth his own passion and resurrection: answereth the request of the mother of Zebedee's children, and quencheth the indignation of the other disciples thereat. He giveth sight to two blind men.
Matthew 20


Daily Light - Morning
The disciple is not above his master.

Ye call me Master and Lord; and ye say well; for so I am.

It is enough for the disiple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord, - If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. - 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.

Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. - Forasmuch...as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind.
Mt. 10.24; Jn. 13.13
Mt. 10.25; Jn. 15.20; Jn. 17.14
He. 12.3,4
He. 12.1-2; 1 Pe. 4.1


Daily Light - Evening
My son, give me thine heart.

O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. - Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

They... first gave their own selves to the Lord. - And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord. - As the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Pro. 23.26; Deu. 5.29
Ac. 8.21; Ro. 8.7-8
2 Co. 8.5; 2 Chr. 31.20-21
Pro. 4.23
Col. 3.23; Eph. 6.6-7
Ps. 119.32


A Puritans Catechism​
Q 41 - What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A - The sum of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
Chapter 18
PARAGRAPH 2

​This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion grounded upon a fallible hope, but an infallible assurance of faith founded on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in the Gospel; and also upon the inward evidence of those graces of the Spirit unto which promises are made, and on the testimony of the Spirit of adoption, witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God; and, as a fruit thereof, keeping the heart both humble and holy.

1. Hebrews 6:11,19 
2. Hebrews 6:17,18 
3. 2 Peter 1:4,5,10,11 
4. Romans 8:15,16 
5. 1 John 3:1-

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Taught by the Spirit
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not 
unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3 v 5

Well may every soul that is untaught by the Spirit of God exclaim: 'This is a hard saying, who can hear it?' And, indeed, there is perhaps no truth that calls forth more of the indignant opposition of the world than this blessed one, that they who trust in the Lord with all their heart do not lean to their own understanding. The understanding, here, plainly includes all the observing, knowing, and judging faculties of the mind, by which men ordinarily guide themselves in the world; and, accordingly, it is with no slight appearance of reasonableness that the world should brand with the name of fanatics a peculiar set of men, who dare to say that they are not to lean upon these faculties, to guide them in their every-day walk and conversation.
But surely it might do something to moderate, at least, the opposition of the world (if they would but listen to us), to tell them that we never refuse to be guided by the understanding, although we altogether refuse to lean upon it. Every enlightened believer, however implicitly he depends upon the breathing of the Holy Ghost, without whose almighty breathing he knows that his understanding would be but a vain and useless machine, leading him into darkness, and into light, yet follows the guidance of the understanding as scrupulously and as religiously as any unconverted man is able to do. Therefore, it ought never to be said, by any man who has a regard for truth, that the believer in Jesus casts aside the use of his understanding, and looks for miraculous guidance from on high. The truth is this, that he trusts in a divine power enlightening the understanding, and he therefore follows the dictates of the understanding more religiously than any other man.