Daily Readings for Wednesday 29th 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 - Rachel in grief for her barrenness giveth her maid Bilhah unto Jacob. Bilhah beareth Dan and Naphtali, Lea giveth Zilpah her maid, who beareth Gad and Asher. Reuben findeth mandrakes, for which Rachel yieldeth her husband to Leah. Leah beareth Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah. Rachel beareth Joseph. Jacob desireth to depart, but is retained by Laban on a new agreement. Jacob's policy, whereby he becometh rich.
Genesis 30
Preface - The gospel beginneth with the preaching of John the Baptist. Jesus is baptized, witnessed to from heaven: and tempted of the devil: preacheth in Galilee; calleth Peter, Andrew, James, and John: healeth one possessed of an unclean spirit. Simon's mother in law, and various other diseased persons: prayeth alone, and goeth on to preach: cleanseth a leper.
Mark 1


Daily Light - Morning
Thou God seest me.

O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.... Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. - The ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. - God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. - The eyes of the LORD run to and from throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

Jesus....knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in man. - Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.
Ge. 16.13; Ps. 139.1-4,6
Pro. 15.3; Pro. 5.21; Lu. 16.15; 2 Chr. 16.9
Jn. 2.24-25; Jn. 21.17


Daily Light - Evening
I will praise thee, O LORD my God, with all my heart:
and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. - It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: to shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night.

Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.

I beseech you....brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. - Jesus....that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.... By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. - Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
Ps. 86.12; Ps. 50.23; Ps. 92.1-2
Ps. 150.6
Ro. 12.1; He. 13.12,15; Eph. 5.20
​Rev. 5.12

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 80 - What is the Lord's Supper?
A - The Lord's Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shows forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporeal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 1
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The catholic or universal church, which (with respect to the internal work of the Spirit and truth of grace) may be called invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ, the head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fulness of him that fills all in all. (1)
(1) Heb. 12.23; Col. 1.18; Eph. 1:10,22-23, 5:23,27,32
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
To be like Jesus
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first born among many brethren.
Romans 8 v 29

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 3 v 18).
Our foolish hearts think it better to retain some part of Satan's image, but, ah! this is our happiness, to reflect every feature of Jesus, and that for ever: To have no inconsistency, to be like Him in every part; to love like Him, to weep like Him, to pray like Him, to be changed into His likeness: 'I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness.'