Daily Readings for Wednesday 5th March 2025

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.


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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 Plan - First Year
Preface - The Israelites come to Sin, and murmur for want of bread. God promiseth them bread and flesh from heaven. Quails and manna are sent. The ordering of the manna. A double provision of it is made on the sixth day. None to be found on the sabbath. An omer of it is preserved.
Exodus 16
Preface - Christ visiteth Zacchaeus the publican. The parable of a nobleman who left money with his servants to trade with in his absence. Christ rideth in triumph into Jerusalem: he weepeth over the city: driveth the buyers and sellers out of the temple: teacheth daily therein: the rulers seek to destroy him.
Luke 19



Daily Light - Morning
O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God. - Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. - Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm.

Christ....suffered for us, leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, refiled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Isa. 38.14; Ps. 123.1-2; Ps. 61.1-4; Isa. 25.4
1 Pe. 2.21-23



Daily Light - Evening
Fight the good fight of faith.

We were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. - Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. - Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. - God is my strength and power.... He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. - Our sufficiency is of God.

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. - Behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

The time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms....out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
1 Tim. 6.12; 2 Co. 7.5; 2 Ki. 6.16; Eph. 6.10
1 Sa. 17.45; 2 Sa. 22.33,35; 2 Co. 3.5
Ps. 34.7; 2 Ki. 6.17
​He. 11.32,34
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 33 - What is adoption?
A - Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Last Judgement
Chapter 32
PARAGRAPH 3
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As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin,  (7)  and for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity,  (8)  so will he have the day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour the Lord will come,  (9)  and may ever be prepared to say, Come Lord Jesus; come quickly.  (10)  Amen.

(7)  2 Cor. 5.10-11  (8)  2 Thess. 1.5-7  (9)  Mark 13.35-37; Luke 12.35-40  (10)  Rev. 22.20
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A promise for the Saviour
I will hold thine hand, and will keep thee ....
Isaiah 42 v 6
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The figure here seems taken from a father and his little child. When a little child has to go over some very rough road, or travel in the darkness, or to wade through some deep waters, he says to his father, @I fear I shall be lost; I shall not be able to go through.' 'Nay, do not fear,' the father answers: 'I will hold thine hand; I will keep thee.' Such are the words of the Father to His dear Son. I would not have dared to have imagined them, if I had not found them in the Bible.
When God called His Son to the work, it could not but be a fearful work in His eyes. Christ knew well the infinite number of men's sins; for He is the searcher of hearts and trier of reins. He knew also the infinite weight of God's anger against these sins; He saw the dark clouds of infinite vengeance that were ready to burst over the head of sinners; He saw the infinite deluge of eternal wrath that was to drown for ever the guilty world. And, oh! how dreadful His Father's anger was in His eyes; for He had known nothing but His infinite love from all eternity. Oh! how could He bear to lie down under that wrath? How could He bear to exchange the smile of His Father's love for the dark frown of His Father's anger? How could He bear, for the sake of vile sinners, to exchange the caresses of that God who is love, for the piercings and bruisings of His almighty hand? Surely the very thought would be agony. God here comforts HIs Son under the view: Yon sea of wrath is deep, its waves are dreadful; but 'I will hold thine hand; I will keep thee.'