Daily Readings for Wednesday 5th June 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 - Hezekiah in deep affliction sendeth to desire Isaiah's prayers. Isaiah returneth an answer of comfort. Sennacherib, being called away to oppose the king of Ethiopia, sendeth a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah. Hezekiah's prayer upon the receipt of it. Isaiah's prophecy concerning the pride and overthrow of Sennacherib, and the prosperity of Zion. An angel destroyeth the Assyrian army: Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons.
Isaiah 37
Preface - John seeth four angels holding the four winds, and another angel coming to seal the servants of God in their foreheads. The number of them that were sealed out of each of the tribes of Israel. An innumerable multitude out of all other nations stand before the throne in white robes, with palms in their hands, praising God and the Lamb. The angels, elders, and beasts, worship and glorify God. One of the elders sheweth John who they are that are clad in white robes, and what is their blessedness for ever.
Revelation 7


Daily Light - Morning
When ye shall have done all those things
which are commanded you, say,
We are unprofitable servants.

Where is boasting then? It Is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. - What hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? - By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

By the grace  of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. - For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. - All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

Enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Lu. 17.10; Ro. 3.27; 1 Co. 4.7; Eph. 2.8-10
1 Co. 15.10; Ro. 11.36; 1 Chr. 29.14
Ps. 143.2


Daily Light - Evening
He knoweth our frame;
he remembereth that we are dust.

The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret... Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? - In him we live, and move, and have our being. - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Ps. 103.14; Ge. 2.7
Ps. 139.14-15,16
Mal. 2.10; Ac. 17.28; Ps. 103.13
Ps. 78.38-39


A Puritans Catechism
Q 7 - What are the decrees of God?
A - The decrees of God are his eternal  purpose according to the counsel of his own will, whereby for his own glory he has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 4

When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so as that by reason of his remaining corruptions, he doth not perfectly, nor only will, that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.

1. Colossians 1:13 
2. John 8:36 
3. Philippians 2:13 
4. Romans 7:15,18,19,21,23

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ goes before
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice - John 10 v 4
In the countries of the east, brethren, you know that the shepherd goes before the sheep, and they follow him. When he says, 'Let us go to the well,' they follow him. When he says, 'Let us go down into that dark valley,' they go after him. So it is with Christ. Christ never asked a sheep to go where He never went Himself. He has borne all that He calls His sheep to bear. Christ went in a lower level of sorrow than you will be called to bear. Do not be alarmed then when you are called to suffer, you will not be called to go where He has not gone. Do not be afraid to put down your tender feet where He put down His. And it is still true that He goes before you. 'When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.' Do not be afraid then when Christ is before you.