Daily Readings for Wednesday 2nd July 2025

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 - First Year
Preface - Twelve men are appointed to take twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan. Twelve other stones are set up in the midst of Jordan. The people pass over. God magnifieth Joshua. The priests are commanded to bring the ark up out of Jordan, which floweth again as before. The date of the passage. The twelve stones are pitched in Gilgal.
Joshua 4
Psalms 129) Preface - God's goodness in sav ing Israel out of their great afflictions. A prayer against the enemies of the church.
Psalms 130) Preface - The Psalmist in distress prayeth to God, trusting in his mercy for pardon: his own patience in hope: he exhorteth Israel to hope in God.
Psalms 131) Preface - David professing his humility, exhorteth Israel to hope in God.
Psalms 129-131



Daily Light - Morning
This is the ordinance of the passover:
There shall no stranger eat thereof.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. - Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. - At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise.... But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one....having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Ex. 12.43; He. 13.10; Jn. 3.3; Eph. 2.12,13
Eph. 2.14,15
Eph. 2.19
rev. 3.20




Daily Light - Evening
[Jesus] prayed the third time,
saying the same words.
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Who in the days of his flesh....offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. - Continuing instant in prayer. - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication. - By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requesters be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. - This is he confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

Delight thyself....in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Mt. 26.44; He. 5.7
Hos. 6.3; Ro. 12.12; Eph. 6.18; Phil. 4.6-7
Mt. 26.39; 1 Jn. 5.14
​Ps. 37.4-5
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 70 - What is repentance unto life?
A - Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is set forth in the gospel.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 2
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The name of God only is that by which men ought to swear; and therein it is to be used, with all holy fear and reverence; therefore to swear vainly or rashly by that glorious and dreadful name, or to swear at all by any other thing, is sinful, and to be abhorred;  (3)  yet as in matter of weight and moment, for confirmation of truth, and ending all strife, an oath is warranted by the word of God;  (4)  so a lawful oath being imposed by lawful authority in such matters, ought to be taken.  (5)
(3)-Matt. 5.34,37; James 5.12  (4)-Heb.6.16; 2 C0r.1.23  (5)-Neh.13.25
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
We believe
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
John 6 v 69
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We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Ah! it is this that rivets the believing soul to Christ - the certain conviction that Christ is a divine Saviour. If Christ were only a man like ourselves, then how could He be a surety for us? He might suffer in the stead of one man, but how could He suffer in the stead of thousands? Ah! but I believe and am sure that He is the Son of the living God, and therefore I know He is a sufficient surety for me. To whom else can I go for pardon? If Christ were only a man like ourselves, then how could He dwell in us, or give the Spirit to abide with us for ever? But we believe and are sure that He is that Christ, the Son of the living God, and therefore we know He is able to dwell in us, and put the Spirit in us for ever. To whom, then, can I go for a new heart but unto Christ? O dear brethren! have you been thus taught? Then blessed are ye, 'for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven.' Hold fast by this sure faith for you cannot be too sure; and then you will never, never go away from Christ.