Daily Readings for Wednesday 4 March 2026

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 - Second Year
Preface - Elihu offereth himself instead of God to reason with Job in sincerity without terrifying him: he blameth him for insisting so much upon his innocence, and for his complaints against God, who is not accountable to man for his doings. God instructeth and calleth man to repentance by night visions, by afflictions, and by the agency of his ministers. Elihu demandeth Job's further attention.
Job 33
Preface - To do away with the imputation of vain glory, Paul sheweth that the gifts and graces of the Corinthians were a sufficient commendation of his ministry, the efficacy of which he ascribeth entirely to God. He proveth the superior excellency of the gospel ministry to that of the law; and thereupon justifieth his plain speaking, as under a dispensation of greater light and liberty than that of Moses.
2 Corinthians 3



Daily Light - Morning
Set your affection on things above,
not on things on the earth.
 
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

We walk by faith, not by sight. - We faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. - An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.
Col. 3.2; 1 Jn. 2.15; Mt. 6.19-21
2 Co. 5.7; 2 Co. 4.16-18; 1 Pe. 1.4



Daily Light - Evening
He...bowed his shoulder to bear.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. - Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. - Aaron held his peace. - It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Ge. 49.15; Jas. 5.10; 1 Co. 10.11
Job 2.10; Lev. 10.3; 1 Sa. 3.18
Ps. 55.22; Isa. 53.4
Mt. 11.28-30
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 25 - How does Christ execute the office of a king?
A - Christ executes the office of a king in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures 
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 3
​The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings.  (6)
​6) Luke 24:27,44; Rom. 3:2




Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Parts of prayer
Let my prayer be set forth before thee...
Psalm 141 v 2

I ought not to omit any of the parts of prayer - confession, adoration, thanksgiving, petition, and intercession. There is a fearful tendency to omit confession, proceeding from low view of God and His law - slight views of my heart and the sins of my past life. This must be resisted. There is a constant tendency to omit adoration, when I forget to whom I am speaking - when I rush heedlessly into the presence of Jehovah, without remembering His awful name and character - when I have little eyesight for His glory, and little admiration of His wonders. 'Where are the wise?' I have the native tendency of the heart to omit giving thanks. And yet it is specially commanded, (Phillipians 4 v. 6). Often when the heart is selfish - dead to the salvation of others - I omit intercession. And yet it especially is the spirit of the Great Advocate, who has the name of Israel always on His heart.
​Perhaps every prayer need not have all these; but surely a day should not pass without some space being devoted to each.