Daily Readings for Wednesday 2nd April 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 - The trespass offering of one that sinneth in concealing his knowledge, in touching an unclean thing, or in making an oath; from the flock, or of fowls, or of flour. The trespass offering in cases of sacrilege, and in sins of ignorance.
Leviticus 5
Psalms 3 - Preface - The security of God's protection.
Psalms 4 - Preface - David prayeth God to hear him: he reproveth his enemies, and exhorteth them. Man's happiness consisteth in the favour of God.
Psalms 3-4



Daily Light - Morning
If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts,
then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from
among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD,
and serve him only.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. - Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. - Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. - Serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

Behold, thou desireth truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. - Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. - Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
1 Sa. 7.3; 1 Jn. 5.21; 2 Co. 6.17,18; Mt. 6.24
Ex. 34.14; 1 Chr. 28.9
Ps. 51.6; 1 Sa. 16.7; 1 Jn. 3.21



Daily Light - Evening
When the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?

He came unto his own, and his own received him not. - The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. - Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching. - Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Lu. 18.8; Jn. 1.11; 1 Tim. 4.1
2 Tim. 4.2-4
​Mk. 13.32-33; Lu. 12.37; Titus 2.13


A Puritans Catechism
Q 61 - Which is the ninth commandment?
A - The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5
PARAGRAPH 5
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The most wise, righteous, and gracious God does often times leave for a season His own children to manifold temptations and the corruptions of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they may be humbled; and to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support upon Himself; and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for other just and holy ends.  (15)  So that whatsoever befalls any of His elect is by His appointment, for His glory, and their good.  (16)
(15)-2 Chrom. 32.25-26.31; 2 Cor. 12.7-9  (16)-Rom. 8.28
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Our continuing city
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews 11 v 10
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Christians, learn to long for the heavenly Jerusalem. Do not for get it. Here we are in a strange land; be not taken up with any thing that is there. But yonder is our continuing city, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its pearly gates, and streets of shining gold. Let the chief of your desires be to be with Christ, which is far better. When the world is at the brightest, when friends are at the kindest, when your sky is at the clearest, still lift up this sweet song; 'If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.'