Daily Readings for Wednesday 19th February 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.


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 - Moses is born, and laid in an ark among the flags: he is found, and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter: he slayeth an Egyptian: reproveth an Hebrew; and is obliged to flee into Midian. The priest of Midian entertaineth him, and giveth him his daughter Zipporah, of whom is born Gershom. God respecteth the cry of the Israelites.
Exodus 2
Preface - Christ teacheth the people out of Simon's ship. The miraculous draught of fishes: Simon and the two sons of Zebedee follow him. Christ cleanseth a leper; prayeth in the wilderness: answereth the reasonings of the scribes and Pharisees concerning his forgiving sin, and healeth the sick of the palsy: calleth Levi from the receipt of custom: justifieth his eating with publicans and sinners: excuseth his disciples from fasting for the present: and illustrateth the matter by a twofold parable.
Luke 5



Daily Light - Morning
The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth
cometh knowledge and understanding.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. - The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.... But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise....that no flesh should glory in his presence.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. - Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. - Never man spake like this man. - Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
Pro. 2.6; Pro. 3.5; Jas. 1.5; 1 Co. 1.25,27,29
Ps. 119.130; Ps. 119.11
Lu. 4.22; Jn. 7.46; 1 Co. 1.30



Daily Light - Evening
They year of my redeemed is come.

Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for the dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: Odeath, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.

Their Redeemer is strong: the LORD of hosts is his name.
Isa. 63.4; Lev. 25.10
Isa. 26.19
1 Th. 4.16-17
Hos. 13.14
​Jer. 50.34
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 19 - Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?
A - God, having out of his good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Baptism
Chapter 29
PARAGRAPH 3
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The outward element to be used in this ordinance is water, wherein the party is to be baptized, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy SPirit.  (5)
(5)  Matt. 28.19-20; Acts 8.38
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Persecution
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
2 Timothy 3 v 12
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The history of the Church in all ages has been a history of persecution. No sooner does a soul begin to show concern for religion, no sooner does that soul cleave to Jesus,  than the world talk, to the grief of those whom God hath wounded. What bitter words are hurled against that soul! In all ages this has been true: 'They wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy.' Those that eat the bread of God have often been driven from their quiet meal - those who are clothed with Christ have often had to part with worldly clothing, and have been exposed to famine, nakedness, peril and sword - the last extremity. Cain murdered Abel. They killed the Prince of Life; and so all his creatures ever since have been exposed to the same.