Daily Readings for Wednesday 11th December 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)
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 - A sharp reproof of Jerusalem for various sins. An exhortation to wait for restoration of Israel, and to rejoice for their salvation by God.
Zephaniah 3
Preface  - The divinity of Christ. The mission of John, and end of Christ's coming. The incarnation of the Word. Christ's superior dignity witnessed by John, and made evident by his gracious dispensation. John's record of himself to the messengers of the Jews: his public testimony to the person of Christ: two of his disciples hearing it follow Jesus: Simon is brought to Christ, and surnamed Cephas. Philip is called, who bringeth Nathanael to Jesus.
John 1


Daily Light - Morning
Let not...your good be evil spoken of.

Abstain from all appearance of evil. - Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. - For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. - Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. - Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. - Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Ro. 14.16; 1 Th. 5.22; 2 Co. 8.21; 1 Pe. 2.15
1 Pe. 4.15-16
Ga. 5.13; 1 Co. 8.9; Mt. 18.6; Mt. 25.40


Daily Light - Evening
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light.

it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. - Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate for faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. - Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning: and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord.
Eph. 5.14; Ro. 13.11; 1 Th. 5.6-8
Isa. 60.1-2
1 Pe. 1.13; Lu. 12.35-36


A Puritans Catechism​
Q 31 - What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
A - They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 4
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​​They who in their obedience attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate, and to do more than God requires, as that they fall short of much which in duty they are bound to do.13

13 Job 9:2–3; Gal. 5:17; Luke 17:10



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A true mark of grace
That I may know him.....
Philippians 3 v 10

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more. The High Priest had a beautiful breast plate over his breast, adomed with jewels - make me one of these. He had also a jewel on each shoulder - make me one of these. These were bound with chains of gold; but the believer with chains of love. This is a true mark of grace. If you be contended to remain where you are, without anymore nearness to God, or anymore holiness, this is a clear mark you have got none. Hide me deeper, bind me closer, and carry me more completely.