Daily Readings for Wednesday 24th July 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 - Pashur smiting Jeremiah receiveth a new name and a fearful doom. Jeremiah complaineth of the persecutions he met with, and curseth the day of his birth.
Jeremiah 20
Preface - I Christ is slighted by his own countrymen: he sendeth out the twelve with power over unclean spirits. The opinion of Herod and others concerning him. John the Baptist imprisoned and beheaded by Herod at the instigation of Herodias. The apostles return from their mission. The miracle for five thousand fed with five loaves and two fishes. Christ walketh on the sea to his disciples; he landeth at Gennesaret, and healeth the sick who touched only the hem of his garment.
Mark 6


Daily Light - Morning
Patient in tribulation.

It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good. - Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. - The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. - What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

Jesus wept. - A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief... Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth... Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. - Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. - In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Ro. 12.12; 1 Sa. 3.18; Job 9.15; Job 1.21; Job 2.10
Jn. 11.35; Isa. 53.3,4
He. 12.6,11; Col. 1.11; Jn. 16.33


Daily Light - Evening
He staggered not
at the promise of God through unbelief.

Have faith in God...whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. - Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

He that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. - Being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? - With God all things are possible. - Lord, increase our faith.
Ro. 4.20; Mk. 11.22,23-14; He. 11.6
He. 17-19; Ro. 4.21
Ge. 18.14; Mt. 19.26; Lu. 17.5


​A Puritans Catechism
Q 55 - Which is the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 1
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The liberty which Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the severity and curse of the law,1 and in their being delivered from this present evil world,2 bondage to Satan,3 and dominion of sin,4 from the evil of afflictions,5 the fear and sting of death, the victory of the grave,6 and everlasting damnation:7 as also in their free access to God, and their yielding obedience unto Him, not out of slavish fear,8 but a child-like love and willing mind.9 All which were common also to believers under the law for the substance of them;10 but under the New Testament the liberty of Christians is further enlarged, in their freedom from the yoke of a ceremonial law, to which the Jewish church was subjected, and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, and in fuller communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of.11

1 Gal. 3:13
2 Gal. 1:4
3 Acts 26:18
4 Rom. 8:3
5 Rom. 8:28
6 1 Cor. 15:54–57
7 2 Thess. 1:10
8 Rom. 8:15
9 Luke 1:73–75; 1 John 4:18
10 Gal. 3;9,14
11 John 7:38–39; Heb. 10:19–21

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Heaven began on earth
Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. -  Revelation 1 vs 5-6

Some have thought this to be one of the songs of heaven. They have thought that, even before John's eye penetrated into the wonders of the upper world, its song of joy and ecstasy burst upon his ear - 'Unto Him that loved us.' This is evidently a mistake. It is the song of John - banished - poor - in trial and tribulation - an exiled man upon a lonely rock of the sea - a man who had his heaven begun on earth: 'Unto Him that loved us.' It has got the fragrance and melody of heaven about it. Believers, do not fear a suffering lot. Do not fear though you be taken to a lone sick-bed, or a lone rock dashed by the eternal waves of ocean. If you really know Jesus, and have tasted and seen the grace that is in Christ, you may begin the song now, 'Unto Him that loved us.'