Daily Readings for Wednesday 25th September 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 - God's judgment upon the prince of Tyrus for his impious pride. A lamentation of his great glory corrupted and fallen through sin. The judgment of Zidon. The restoration of Israel.
Ezekiel 28
Preface - The Psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffidence. The victory which he had gained by considering God's great and gracious works.
Psalms 77


Daily Light - Morning
Let patience have her perfect work,
that ye may be perfect and entire,
wanting nothing.

Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. - We glory in tribulations...knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope.

it is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. - Ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. - Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts.
Jas. 1.4; 1 Pe. 1.6-7; Ro. 5.3-4
Lam. 3.26; He. 10.34-36; 2 Th. 2.16-17


Daily Light - Evening
God shall judge the secrets of men
by Jesus Christ.

Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. - The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the SOn...because he is the Son of man. - The Son of God...hat his eyes like unto a flame of fire.

They say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. - There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. - Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Ro. 2.16; 1 Co. 4.5; Jn. 5.22,27; Rev. 2.18
Ps. 73.11; Ps. 50.21; Lu. 12.2
Ps. 38.9; Ps. 26.2


A Puritans Catechism
Q 36 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
A - The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united in Christ, do rest in their graves, till the resurrection.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 2​
Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are these:
--
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
The Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
--
Of the New TestamentMatthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
Revelation
All of which are given by the inspiration of God, to be the rule of faith and life.5
5 2 Tim. 3:16

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The voice of the shepherd
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
John 10 vs 4-5

You know, brethren, this is the characteristic of the sheep of the east, they know the shepherds voice. There was once a traveller in the east who denied that they knew the voice of the shepherd, and contended that it was the person they knew; and to prove it, they changed clothes. The person called the sheep, and they moved not; but when the shepherd called them, they instantly followed him. Now, this is just the way with Christ and His sheep. Christ may be disguised, but faith hears His voice. The first time they hear His voice is the time of conversion. You remember Zaccheus, he was up in the sycamore tree, and he might think, 'Christ's word will not reach me'; but Christ said to him. 'Come down, Zaccheus, for today I must abide at thy house.' The voice of the Shepherd reached him. This was the first day that Zaccheus heard the Shepherd's voice. You remember Lydia, she sat among the Grecian matrons by the riverside, and heard Paul preach. Someone opened her heart, and said, 'Come away'; it was the voice of the Shepherd. 'The Lord opened the heart of Lydia to attend unto the things that were spoken.' It was the outward voice of Paul, but it was the inward voice of Christ.