Daily Readings for Wednesday 2nd October 2024

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
Preface - The judgment of mount Seir for their hatred of Israel, and insulting over their distress.
Ezekiel 35
Preface - The Psalmist, having acknowledged God's returning favour to his people, humbly prayeth for the completion of it: he promiseth to wait God's answer in confidence of his manifold blessings.
Psalms 85


Daily Light - Morning
The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities
unto a land not inhabited:
and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. - Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity?

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. - He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong: because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. - The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Lev. 16.22; Ps. 103.12; Jer. 50.20; Mi. 7.19; Mi. 7.18
Isa. 53.6; Isa. 53.11-12; Jn.. 1.29


Daily Light - Evening
Who maketh thee to differ from another?
and what has thou that thou didst not receive?

By the grace of God I am what I am. - Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth. - It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. - Christ Jesus...is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption... He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. - Ye are washed...ye are sanctified...ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Co. 4.7; 1 Co. 15.10; Jas. 1.18; Ro. 9.16; Ro. 3.27; 1 Co. 1.30,31
Eph. 2.1-3; 1 Co. 6.11


A Puritans Catechism
Q 43 - What is required in the first commandment?
A - The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 9​
The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself; and therefore when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which are not many, but one), it must be searched by other places that speak more clearly.20

20 2 Pet. 1:20–21; Acts 15:15–16



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Make haste my beloved
Make hast, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Song of Solomon 8 v 14

It is the presence of Christ that makes a sweet time of refreshing in a Church. When He comes leaping on the mountains, skipping upon the hills, the flowers immediately appear on the earth. The Lord's people are quickened in all their graces; they begin to sing songs of deliverance; anxious souls spring up like the grass, and the whole garden of the Lord sends out spices. Ah! if the Lord Jesus were to come in here with power, I would preach and you would hear in another way than we do. I could not be so hard-hearted, and you would be melted under His word. Oh! will you not pray, 'Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.' Is not such a time desirable?