Daily Readings for Wednesday 20 May 2026

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
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 Scripture in English, in our mother tongue. Pray for those without access to the bible because it is forbidden or not available.
- 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, that 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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - The prophet seeth in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. He giveth warning to Edom. The set time of Arabia's calamity.
Isaiah 21
Preface - The apostle foretelleth the appearance of false teachers, the impiety of them and their followers, and the judgments that would overtake them. The godly shall be delivered, as Lot was out of Sodom. The wicked principles and manners of these seducers described. The mischief of relapsing into sin.
2 Peter 2



Daily Light - Morning
Take heed unto thyself.

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. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalitites, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against wpiritual wickedness in high places.

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. - Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
1 Tim. 4.16; 1 Co. 9.25-27; Eph. 6.11-12
Ga. 5.24-25; Ro. 8.14; 1 Tim. 4.15


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Daily Light - Evening
Jesus saith unto her, Mary.

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. - The sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name....and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 

Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands: thy walls are continually before me.

The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his. - We have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God.

Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel... And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.... And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment... And thou shalt set in it settings of stones... And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel... And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
Jn. 20.16; Isa. 43.1; Jn. 10.3,4
Isa. 49.16
2 Tim. 2.19; He. 4.14
​Ex. 28.9,12,15,17,21,29
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  64 - what is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 3

​By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated, or foreordained to eternal life through Jesus Christ,  (7)  to the praise of His glorious grace;  (8)  others being left to act in their sin to their just condemnation, to the praise of His glorious justice.  (9)
7)  1 Tim. 5.21; Matt. 25.34
8)  Eph. 1.5-6
9)  Rom. 9.22-23; Jude 4



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A Golden saying
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Revelation 14 v 13
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Blessed are the dead. Learn the value of this saying. It is a golden saying - there is gold in every syllable of it. It is sweeter than honey and the honeycomb, more precious than gold, yea, much fine gold. It is precious in the eyes of God. Write it deep in your hears; it will solemnise your life, and will keep you from being led away by its vain show. It will make the syren songs of this world inconvenient and out of tune; it will sweetly soothe you in the hour of adversity; it will rob death of its sting, and the grave of its victory. Write, write deep on your hears, 'Blessed are the dead which de in the Lord.'