Daily Readings for Wednesday 3rd April 2024

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thanks 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)
(Wednesday evening) scripture reading - Deuteronomy 34 v 1-12; Joshua 1 v 1-9 - sermon by Neil McGovern
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 - (No preface)
Proverbs 21
Preface - The duty of masters toward their servants. A general exhortaion to perseverance in prayer, discreet conduct, and well-ordered speech. The apostle commendeth Tychicus and Onesimus, by whom he sent this epistle: and concludeth with various salutations, and a blessing.
Colossians 4


Daily Light - Morning
Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.

My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth...so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, anf it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
2 Pe. 3.8-9; Isa. 55.8-11
Ro. 11.32-33


Daily Light - Evening
Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? - We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will ye deliver us. - The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. - Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.

Be instant in season, out of season. - Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Am. 4.11; Isa. 33.14; 2 Co. 1.9-10; Ro. 6.23
He. 10.31; 2 Co. 5.11
2 Tim. 4.2; Jude 23
Zech. 4.6; 1 Tim. 2.4


A Puritans Catechism
Q 29 - How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A - The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.


Of The Lord's Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 4
The denial of the cup to the people, worshipping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and reserving them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature of this ordinance, and to the institution of Christ.6

6 Matt. 26:26–28, 15:9, Exod. 20:4–5



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Not ashamed
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. - Romans 1 v 16
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. More is meant in these words than is expressed. He does not mean only that he was not ashamed of he gospel, but that he gloried in it. It is very similar to Galatians 6 v 14: 'But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.' Two things are implied in this.
Firstly, Paul was not ashamed of it before God. He had ventured his own soul on this way of Salvation. He could say, like David, 'This is all my salvation, this is all my desire.' The way of salvation by Jehovah our Righteousness was sweet to Paul. His soul rested there with great delight. He came thus to God in secret, thus in public, thus in dying. He hoped to stand before God through all eternity clothed in this divine righteousness. Secondly, he was not ashamed of it before men. Though all the world had been against him, Paul would have gloried in this way of salvation. He had a burning desire to make it known to other men. He felt it so sweet, he saw it to be so glorious, that he could have desired a voice so loud that all men might hear at one moment the way of salvation by Christ.