Daily Readings for Wednesday 18th June 2025

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
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 - What persons may not enter into the congregation. An Ammonite or Moabite are excluded to the tenth generation; but an Edomite or Egyptian may be admitted in the third. Every wicked thing to be avoided in the host. An unclean person must remove out of the camp. Cleanliness to be attended to therein because of God's presence. Of the fugitive servant. Whoredom and sodomy not to be committed in Israel. Of abominable sacrifices. Of usury. Of vows. Of trespasses.
Deuteronomy 23
Psalms 112) Preface - The blessedness and security of the godly: the wicked shall repine thereat.
Psalms 113) Preface - An exhortation to praise God for his merciful condescension to his creatures.
Psalms 112-113



Daily Light - Morning
Thou shalt put the mercy seat above
upon the ark....and  there I will meet with thee.

The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

Having....brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh....let us draw near iwth a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. - Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. - Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Ex. 25.21,22; He. 9.8; Mt. 27.50-51
He. 10.19-20,22; He. 4.16
Ro. 3.24-25; Eph. 2.18




Daily Light - Evening
Faith as a grain of mustard seed.
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Barak said unto (Deborah), If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.... God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan. - And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said....let me prove, I pray thee.... And God did so.

Thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. - Who hath despised the day of small things?

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly. - Lord, Increase our faith. - I willbe as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Mt. 17.20; Judg. 4.8,23; Judg. 6.36,39,40
Rev. 3.8; Zech. 4.10
​2 Th. 1.3; Lu. 17.5; Hos. 14.5-6
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 56 - What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, or whatever tends to it.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 3
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Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one part of natural worship, is by God required of all men.  (8)  But that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son,  (9)  by the help of the Spirit,  (10)  according to his will;  (11)  with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance; and when with others, in a known tongue.  (12)
(8)-Ps. 95:1-7, 65.2  (9)-John 14.13-14  (10)-Rom. 8.26  (11)-1 John 5.14  (12)-1 Cor. 14.16-17
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A sweet mystery
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 6 v 10
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The groans and triumphal song of a believer are not far separated, as you may see in Paul (Romans 7 vs 24-25): 'O wretched man,' and 'I thank God,' all in one breath! David felt the same (see Psalm 73). At one verse he feels himself a fool and a beast in the sight of a holy God, and in the very next verses he is cleaving to Christ with a song of unspeakable joy (vs. 22-24). Ah! there is a sweet mystery here - bitter herbs along with our passover Lamb. It is sweet to see ourselves infinitely vile, that  we may look to Jehovah our Righteousness, as all our way to the Father.