Daily Readings for Wednesday 1st January 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 - The creation of heaven and earth, of the light, of the firmament. The earth separated from the waters, and made fruitful. The creation of the sun, moon, and stars, of fish and fowl, of beasts and cattle, of man in the image of God; and his blessing. The appointment of food.
Genesis 1
Preface - The genealogy of Christ from Abraham to Joseph. The miraculous conception of Mary: Joseph's doubts are satisfied by an angel, who declareth the name and office of Christ: Jesus is born.
Matthew 1


Daily Light - Morning
This one thing I do, forgetting those things
which are behind...I press toward the mark for the
prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Father, I will that they...whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me. - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. - He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. - Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus.
Phil. 3.13,14; Jn. 17.24; 2 Tim. 1.12; Phil. 1.6
1 Co. 9.24-25; He. 12.1-2


Daily Light - Evening
The LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be
with thee, he will not fail thee.

If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. - O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. - I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Deu. 31.8; Ex. 33.15; Jer. 10.23
Ps. 37.23-24
Ps. 73.23-24; Ro. 8.38-39


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 52 - Which is the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment is, Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 3
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They who upon pretense of Christian liberty do practice any sin, or cherish any sinful lust, as they do thereby pervert the main design of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction, (16) so they wholly destroy the end of Christian liberty, which is, that being delivered out of the hands of all our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our lives. (17) 
(16) Rom. 6:1-2.  (17) Gal. 5:13; 2 Pet. 2:18,21.
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Do not forget
.... the fashion of this world passeth away
1 Corinthians 7 v 31

A believer stands on a watch tower - things present are below his feet - things eternal are before his eyes. A little while, brethren, and the day of grace will be over, preaching, praying will be done. Soon we shall give over wrestling with an unbelieving world - soon the number of believers shall be come. His parting cry was: "Surely I come quickly." Then we shall see him "whom, having not seen, we loved." A little while, and we shall stand before the great white throne; a little while, and the wicked shall not be - we shall see them going away into everlasting punishment; a little while, and the work of eternity shall be begun. We shall be like him - we shall see him day and night in his temple - we shall sing the new song, without sin and without weariness, for ever and ever. In a little moment, brethren, all this shall be: "For a small moment have I hid my face from thee; but with everlasting mercies will I gather thee."