Daily Readings for Wednesday 3rd July 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)
(Wednesday evening) Scripture reading Romans 8 vs 32-34 - sermon by Dennis Arnold 
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 calling of the Gentiles, and the rejection of the Jews for their unbelief, idolatry, and hypocrisy. A remnant shall be saved. Judgments shall be for the wicked, but blessings for the godly. The blessed state of the new Jerusalem.
Isaiah 65
Preface - The parable of the sower. Why Christ taught in parables. The exposition of the parable of the sower. The parable of the tares; of the gain of mustard seed; of the leaven. The parable of the tares expounded. The parable of the hidden treasure; of one pearl of great price; of a net cast into the sea. Christ's countrymen are offended in him.
Matthew 13


Daily Light - Morning
If children, then heirs; heirs of God,
and joint-heirs with Christ.

If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. - Thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. - Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me.

He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations. - To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Ro. 8.17; Ga. 3.29;
1 Jn. 3.1; Ga. 4.7; Eph. 1.5
Jn. 17.24
Rev. 2.26; Rev. 3.21


Daily Light - Evening
Things which are despised, hath God chosen.

Jesus...saw two brethren...casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me. - Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus

My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit. - He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God.
1 Co. 1.28; Ac. 2.7
Mt. 4.18-19; Ac. 4.13
1 Co. 2.4-5
Jn. 15.16; Jn. 15.5; 2 Co. 4.7


A Puritans Catechism
Q 34 - What is sanctification?
​A - Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
​Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 5

We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come, and the infinite distance that is between us and God, whom by them we can neither profit nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins; but when we have done all we can, we have done but our duty, and are unprofitable servants; and because as they are good they proceed from his Spirit, and as they are wrought by us they are defiled and mixed with so much weakness and imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of God's punishment.

1. Romans 3:20 
2. Ephesians 2:8,9 
3. Romans 4:6 
4. Galatians 5:22,23 
5. Isaiah 64:6 
6. Psalms 143:2

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Plan - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ's intercession
Who is he that condenmeth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, 
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who 
also maketh intercession for us.
Romans 8 v 34

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference: He is praying for me.