Daily Readings for Wednesday 12th June 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 - God again comforteth his church with gracious promises. The folly of the makers of idols. God exhorteth Israel to trust in his mercy, and promiseth restoration by Cyrus.
Isaiah 44
Preface - The Lamb with his company standing on mount Sion, an angel preacheth the gospel; another proclaimeth the fall of Babylon; and a third the punishment of them that worship the beast. The blessedness of those that die in the Lord. The harvest of the world. The vintage and winepress of God's wrath.
Revelation 14


Daily Light - Morning
Every thing that may abide the fire,
ye shall make it go through the fire,
and it shall be clean.

The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. - He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and siler, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. - Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin. - I will melt them, and try them.

Thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried... We went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Nu. 31.23; Deu. 13.3; Mal. 3.3; 1 Co. 3.13
Isa. 1.25; Jer. 9.7
Ps. 66.10,12
Isa. 43.2


Daily Light - Evening
We, being dead to sins,
should live unto righteousness.

Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and...put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. - As Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life...knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin...Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof...but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
1 Pe. 2.24; Eph. 4.22-24
Col. 3.3; Ro. 6.4,6-7,11-13


A Puritans Catechism
Q 14 - What is sin?
A - Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 2

​Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet it is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.

1. Romans 3:28 
2. Galatians 5:6 
3. James 2:17,22,26

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Ordained
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. - John 15 v 16
This is a very humbling, and at the same time, a very blessed word to the true disciple. It was very humbling to the disciples to be told that they had not chosen Christ. Your wants were so many, your hearts were so hard, that ye have not chosen me. And yet it was exceedingly comforting to the disciples to be told that He had chosen them. 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.' This showed them that His love was first with them - that He had a love that would make them holy: 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain.'