Daily Readings for Wednesday 28th 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 - Moses' speech at the end of the fortieth year, in which he rehearseth the story of God's sending Israel from Horeb to go and possess the promised land, of giving them officers, of passing through the wilderness to Kadesh, of sending the spies to search the land, and of God's anger for their incredulity and disobedience.
Deuteronomy 1
Psalms 81) Preface - An exhortation to a solemn praising of God. God challengeth that duty by reason of his benefits. God, exhorting his people to obedience, complaineth of their disobedience, which proveth their own hurt.
​Psalms 82) Preface - The Psalmist having exhorted the judges, and reproved their misconduct, prayeth God to judge.
Psalms 81-82



Daily Light - Morning
We look for the Saviour.

The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. - We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Phil. 3.20; Titus 2.11-14; 2 Pe. 3.13-14
He. 9.28; Isa. 25.9




Daily Light - Evening
So run, that ye may obtain.

The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, - Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

I press toward the mark. - I....so run, not as uncertainly... I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means....I myself should be a castaway.

The fashion of this world passeth away.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent. - Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Co. 9.24; Pro. 22.13; He. 12.1-2
2 Co. 7.1
Phil. 3.14; 1 Co. 9.26,27
1 Co. 7.31
2 Pe. 3.13-14; 1 Pe. 1.13
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 35 - What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
A - The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification are assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
Chapter 18
PARAGRAPH 2
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This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion grounded upon a fallible hope, but an infallible assurance of faith,  (4)  founded on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in the Gospel;  (5)  and also upon the inward evidence of those graces of the Spirit unto which promises are made,  (6)  and on the testimony of the Spirit of adoption, witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God;  (7)  and, as a fruit thereof, keeping the heart both humble and holy.  (8)
(4)-Heb. 6.11,19  (5)-Heb. 6.17-18  (6)-2 Pet. 1.4-5,10-11  (7)-Rom. 8.15-16  (8)-1 John 3.1-3
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The anxious Christ
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
John 6 v 67
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When the crowd went away He did not cry after them - His soul was grieved, but He spoke not a word; but when His own believing disciples were in danger of being led away, He speaks to them: 'Will ye also go away?' - ye whom I have chosen - ye whom I have washed - ye whom I have sanctified and filled with hopes of glory - 'Will ye also go away?' Oh! see, Christians, how anxiously Christ watches over you. He is walking in the midst of the seven holden candlesticks, and His word is: 'I know thy works'. He watches the first decaying of the first love. He speaks aloud: 'Will ye also go away?'