Daily Readings for Wednesday 13th March 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 tongu.
- 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 mroe 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)
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 - Job submitteth himself unto God. God preferreth Job's cause, adn maketh his three friends submit themselves to him. He accepteth Job, and doubleth his blessings upon him. Job's children. His age and death.
Job 42
Preface - Paul sheweth that, though he had been favoured with visions and revelations, yet for commendation of his apostleship he chose rather to glory in his infirmities: blaming the Corinthians, who had seen in him all the signs of an apostle, for forcing him to such vain boasting. He telleth them of his design of visiting them again with the same disinterestedness and fatherly affection as before. He justifieth himself from any crafty extortion by his messengers; and expresseth his fears, lest, both to his sorrow and theirs, he should find many notorious disorders still not repented of among them.
2 Corinthians 12


Daily Light - Morning
There is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Forasmuch...as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same.

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, adn there is none else.

We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. - In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For her is our peace. - By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us... And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under he first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. - He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
1 Tim. 2.5; He. 2.14
Isa. 45.22
1 Jn. 2.1; Eph. 2.13-14; He. 9.12,15; He. 7.25


Daily Light - Evening
O my God, my soul is cast down within me.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. - He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. - Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on... Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? - Be not faithless, but believing. - Lo, I am with you alway.
Ps. 42.6; Isa. 26.3,4
Ps. 55.22; Ps. 22.24; Jas. 5.13
Jn. 14.27; Mt. 6.25,26; Jn. 20.27; Mt. 28.20


A Puritans Catechism
Q 9 - What is the work of creation?
A - The work of creation is God's making all things of nothing, by word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.


The Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 6

The members of these churches are saints by calling, visibly manifesting and evidencing (in and by their profession and walking) their obedience unto that call of Christ;12 and do willingly consent to walk together, according to the appointment of Christ; giving up themselves to the Lord, and one to another, by the will of God, in professed subjection to the ordinances of the Gospel.13

12 Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2
13 Acts 2:41–42, 5:13–14; 2 Cor. 9:13


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Joy
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. - Habakkuk 3 v 18
The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, His people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus. They eat His flesh and drink His blood. They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord. They taste that the Lord is gracious. His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full, and free to their soul. They sit under His shadow with great delight. They rest in the clefts of the rock. Their defence is the munitions of rocks. They lean on the Beloved. They find infinite strength in Him for the use of their soul - grace for grace - all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end.
They go by Him to the Father. "We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ." We find a portion there - a shield, and exceeding great reward. This give joy unspeakable and full of glory.