Daily Readings for Wednesday 12th March 2025

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.


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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 Plan - First Year
Preface - Laws concerning slander, false witness, and partial favouring of the poor; charitableness; justice in judgment; taking bribes; oppressing a stranger; the year of rest; the sabbath. A caution against idolatry. Laws concerning the three set feasts; the blood and fat of the sacrifice; and the firstfruits: An Angel is promised for a guide, with a blessing, if they obey him.
Exodus 23
Preface - Christ turneth water into wine in Cana of Galilee: he goeth to Capernaum; thence to Jerusalem, where he driveth the buyers and sellers out of the temple: he giveth his own death and resurrection for a sign: many believe in him because of his miracles, but he would not trust himself unto them.
John 2



Daily Light - Morning
The LORD make his face shine upon thee,
and be gracious unto thee: the LORD lift up his
countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. - The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. - The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies sake. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee. - LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. - Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
Nu. 6.25,26; Jn. 1.18; He. 1.3; 2 Co. 4.4
Ps. 31.16-17; Ps. 30.7; Ps. 89.15
Ps. 29.11
Mt. 14.27



Daily Light - Evening
Things that are pleasing in his sight.

Without faith it is impossible to please him. - So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. - The LORD taketh pleasure in his people.

This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.... If, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. - The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit....is in the sight of God of great price.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. - I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

I beseech you....brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Jn. 3.22; He. 11.6; Ro. 8.8; Ps. 149.4
1 Pe. 2.19,20; 1 Pe. 3.4
Ps. 50.23; Ps. 69.30-31
​Ro. 12.1
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 40 - What did God reveal to man for the rule of his disobedience?
A - The rule which God first revealed to man for his obedience is the moral law, which is summarized in the ten commandments.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 7
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All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all;  (12)  yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned in a due use of ordinary means, may attain to a sufficient understanding of them.  (13)

(12)  2 Pet. 3.16  (13)  Ps. 19.7; Psalm 119.130

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Light for eternity
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
sat down on the right hand of God;
Hebrews 10 v 12
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This is a great work of Christ as our High Priest. For this it were needful that He should become man and die. Had he remained God alone in the bosom of His Father, He might have pitied us, but He could not have died for us, nor took our sins away. We must have perished. Every priest in the Old Testament was a type of Jesus in this; every Lamb that was slain typified Jesus offering up His own body a sacrifice for our sins.
Let your eye rest there if you would be happy. Those few hours on Calvary, when the general High Priest was offering up the amazing sacrifice, give light for eternity to the believing soul. This only will cheer you in dying. Not your graces, not your love to Christ, not anything in you, but only this - Christ hath died. He loved me and gave Himself for me. Christ hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.