Daily Readings for Wednesday 22nd 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 age and death of Sarah. The purchase of Machpelah, where Sarah was buried.
Genesis 23
Preface - The parable of the marriage of the king's son: the unworthiness of those that were first bidden: others called in their place: the punishment of one that came without a wedding garment. The question calculated to entangle proposed concerning paying tribute to Caesar, and Christ's answer. He refuteth conclusively the Sadducees who questioned him concerning the resurrection. He showeth which are the chief commandments of the law. He proposeth to the Pharisees a knotty question concerning Christ.
Matthew 22


Daily Light - Morning
This God is our God for ever and ever:
he will be our guide even unto death.

O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. - The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup.

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 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. - Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. - Our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. - The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Ps. 48.14; Isa. 25.1; Ps. 16.5
Ps. 23.3-4; Ps. 73.23-26; Ps. 33.21; Ps. 138.8


Daily Light - Evening
In the multitude of my thoughts within me
thy comforts delight my soul.

When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. - Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee.

I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God....and it shall be given him.

Who is sufficient for these things?-I know that in me (this is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee....Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness....when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Ps. 94.19; Ps. 61.2
Isa. 38.14; Ps. 55.22
1 Ki. 3.7; Jas. 1.5
2 Co. 2.16; Ro. 7.18; 2 Co. 12.9
Mt. 9.2,22
Ps. 63.5,6

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 73 - How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?
A - That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence, preparation, and prayer, receive it with faith and love, lay it up into our hearts, and practice it in our lives.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Civil Magistrate
Chapter 24
PARAGRAPH 1
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God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, has ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, fo rhis own glory and the public good; and to this end has armed them with the power of the sword, for defence and encouragement of them that do good, and for the punishment of evil doers. (1)
(1) 1 Rom. 13:1-4
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The true smitten rock
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying if any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
John 7 v 37

The feast of the tabernacles was intended to be a picture of the time when the fathers of the Jewish nation lived in tents in the wilderness. It was intended to remind them that they too were strangers and pilgrims in the wilderness, and that they were journeying to a better land. But there was one thing in the wilderness which they had no resemblance of in the feast of tabernacles - the smitten rock which gave out rivers of water. In order to make up for the deficiency, it is said that on the last day of the feast of the Jews used to draw water in a golden pitcher from the Fountain of Siloam, and pour it out upon the morning sacrifice, as it lay upon the altar. They did this great rejoicing, having palm branches in their hands, and singing the twelfth chapters of Isaiah. Now it was on this very day, perhaps at that very time, that Jesus stood up in the midst of them, and, as if he wished to show them that he was the true smitten rock, cried: 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.'