Daily Readings for Wednesday 21st May 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.


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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 - Vows are not to be broken. The exceptions of a maid's vow, of a wife's, of a widow's, or of her that is divorced.
Numbers 30
Preface - The Psalmist complaineth of the desolation of the sanctuary: he moveth God to help in consideration of his power, of the reproach of the enemies, and of his church and covenant.
Psalms 74



Daily Light - Morning
My brethren, be strong in the Lord,
and in the power of his might.

My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. - I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. - The gospel o fChrist....is the power of God unto salvation.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. - I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. - We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

The joy of the LORD is your strength. - Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.
Eph. 6.10; 2 Co. 12.9-10; Ps. 71.16; Ro. 1.16
Phil. 4.13; Col. 1.29; 2 Co. 4.7
Ne. 8.10; Col. 1.11



Daily Light - Evening
Jesus Christ our Lord.

JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. - He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.

Mesias....which is called Christ. - The LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives.

THe last Adam was made a quickening spirit.... The second man is the Lord from heaven. - My Lord and my God. - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord: and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
1 Co. 1.9; Mt. 1.21; Phil. 2.8-10
Jn. 4.25; Isa. 61.1
1 Co. 15.45,47; Jn. 20.28; Jn. 13.13-15
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 28 - How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
A - We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 5
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We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come, and the infinite distance that is between us and God, whom by them we can neither profit nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins;  (14)  but when we have done all we can, we have done but our duty, and are unprofitable servants; and because they are good they proceed from his Spirit,  (15)  and as they are wrought by us they are defiled and missed with so much weakness and imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of God's punishment.  (16)
(14)-Rom. 3.20; Eph. 2.8-9; Rom. 4.6  (15)-Gal. 5.22-23  (16)-Isa. 64.6; Ps. 43.2

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Divine sympathy
Jesus wept
John 11 v 35
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When He saw the cave, and the stone, and the weeping friends, 'Jesus wept'. He wept because His heart was deeply touched. It was not feigned weeping, it was real. He knew that He was to raise him from the dead, and yet He wept because others wept. He wept as our example, to teach us to weep with one another. He wept to show what was in Him: 'For we have not an high-priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.' (Hebrews 4 vs 15&16).