Daily Readings for Wednesday 19th March 2024

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 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 helpus 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.


Daily Reading
Preface - Solomon recommendeth obedience to his precepts, and such a familiarity with wisdom as may prove a guard to chastity. In a recital of what had passed under his own eye he sheweth the cunning and impudence of a lewd woman, and the desperate folly of a youth suaduced by her: he                        disuadeth from such dangerous courses.
Proverbs 7
Preface - Paul adviseth them to reform the faulty with gentleness, and to bear one another's burdens. A caution against vanity. He exhortet to be liberal toward spiritual instructors: and not to be weary in doing good. He sheweth the carnal views of those who preached circumcision, and his own professed dependence on Christ only, regardless of the world. He concludeth with a prayer.
Galatians 6


Daily Light - Morning
The entrance of thy words giveth light.

This...is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. - God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. - The Word was God... In him was life; and the life was the light of men. - If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. - Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. - Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness in his marvellous light.
Ps. 119.130; 1 Jn. 1.5; 2 Co. 4.6; Jn. 1.14; 1 Jn. 1.7
Ps. 119.11; Jn. 15.3;
Eph. 5.8; 1 Pe. 2.9


Daily Light - Evening
Noah was a just man.

The just shall live by faith. - Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour. - The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference.

We...joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. - Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified.
Ge. 6.9; Ga. 3.11; Ge. 8.20-21; Rev. 13.8
Ro. 5.1
Ro. 3.20-22
Ro. 5.11
Ro. 8.33; Ro. 8.30


A Puritans Catechism
Q 16 - Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
A - The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.


The Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 13
No church members, upon any offence taken by them, having performed their duty required of them towards the person they are offended at, ought to disturb any church-order, or absent themselves from the assemblies of the church, or administration of any ordinances, upon the account of such offence at any of their fellow members, but to wait upon Christ, in the further proceeding of the church.26
26 Matt. 18:15–17; Eph. 4:2–3



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The touch that heals
And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand and touched him... - Mark 1 v 41
When the woman had spent her all upon physicians, and was nothing better, but rather worse, she heard of Jesus. Ah! said she, if I may but 'touch the hem of his garment I shall be made whole'. Jesus said to her: 'Dauther, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole.' Come, them, incurable, to Christ. Leprosy was always regarded as incurable. Accordingly, the leper came to Jesus, and worshipping, said, 'Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean.' Jesus said, 'I will, be thou clean.' And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Some of you feel that your heart is desperately wicked; well, kneel to the Lord Jesus, and say: 'Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clarn.' You are a leper - incurable; Jesus is able - He is also willing to make you clean.