Daily Readings for Wednesday 29 April 2026

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - Christ setteth forth the graces of the church: He sheweth His love to her. The church prayeth to be made fit for His presence.
Song of Solomon 4
Preface - The rest of Christians to be attained by faith. The power of God's word. Having Jesus the Son of God for our high priest, we must hold fast our profession, and come boldly unto the throne of grace.
Hebrews 4



Daily Light - Morning
Consider how great things he hath done for you.
 
Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no... Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word... It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes... I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. - The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. - He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him... He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
1 Sa. 12.24; Deu. 8.2,5
Ps. 119.67,71,75; Ps. 118.18; Ps. 103.10-11.14



Daily Light - Evening
That blessed hope....the glorious appearing of the 
great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; without the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus. - Whom the heaven must receive unto the times of restitution of all things. - When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe.

The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also...groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. - When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Surely I come quickly. Amen, Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Titus 2.13; He. 6.19-20; Ac. 3.21; 2 Th. 1.10
Ro. 8.22-23; 1 Jn. 3.2; Col. 3.4
​Rev. 22.20

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

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures 
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 6
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​The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelation of the Spirit, or traditions of men.  (9)  Nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word,  (10)  and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed.  (11)
​9)  2 Tim. 3:15-17; Gal. 1:8,9
10)  John 6:45; 1 Cor. 2:9-12
​11)  1 Cor. 11:13,14; 1Cor. 14:26,40




Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Saviour's silence
He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:
Isaiah 53 v 7

Before the world was, He entered into covenant with His Father, that He would stand as a substitute for sinners; and therefore when He did come to suffer, His very righteousness sustained Him, and He set His face like a flint. When a feeble man undertakes some hard piece of service, very often he is loud and boastful before he begins; but when he comes up to the point, his courage dies, and he goes away back from his word. Not so the Son of God. He had sworn that he would bear the curse that was hanging over sinners. He had struck hands with the eternal Father He would be their Jonah, to lie down under their sea of wrath: 'Take me up,' He said, 'and cast me into that sea of wrath.' And so, when the waves and billows went over Him, he did not cry nor murmur. He set His face steadfastly. He had sworn once by His holiness, and He would not turn from it. He would not alter the thing that had gone out of His lips. 'He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.'