Daily Readings for Wednesday 20th November 2024

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
Preface - The certainty of Israel's desolation. The restoring of the tabernacle of David, and of the captivity of Israel.
Amos 9
Preface - Christ fasteth forty days, and is tempted of the devil. He beginneth to preach: the people of Nazareth wonder at his gracious words, but being offended go about to kill him: he escapeth by miracle. He casteth out a devil: healeth Simon's mother in law, and many other diseased persons: the devils acknowledging him are silenced: he preacheth through the cities of Galilee.
Luke 4


Daily Light - Morning
When I sit in darkness,
the LORD shall be a light unto me.

When thou passest through the water, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. - I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before hem, and crooked things straight .These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. - What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. - The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Mi. 7.8; Isa. 43.2-3; Isa. 42.16
Ps. 23.4; Ps. 56.3-4; Ps. 27.1


Daily Light - Evening
One God,
and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD. - A mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they rembered not the multitude of thy mercies... Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the beach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises... I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
1 Tim. 2.5; Deu. 6.4; Ga. 3.20
Ps. 106.6-7,23
He. 3.1-3
He. 8.6,12


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 10 - How did God create man?
A - God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 1
​Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies,1 not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous;2 not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone;3 not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing Christ's active obedience unto the whole law, and passive obedience in his death for their whole and sole righteousness by faith,4 which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God.5
1 Rom. 3:24, 8:30
2 Rom. 4:5–8, Eph. 1:7
3 1 Cor. 1:30–31, Rom. 5:17–19
4 Phil. 3:8–9; Eph. 2:8–10
5 John 1:12, Rom. 5:17

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Servants
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Matthew 23 v 11
Jesus expressly says, 'He that is greatest among you shall be your servant.' The angels that see the face of God, stoop to serve the meanest servants of God. Dear Christians, you often pray, 'Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' If you mean anything, you mean that you may serve God as the angels do. If you would be like them, become a ministering spirit.