Daily Readings for Wednesday 6th March 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 neaby and Christians who commute are able to join us.


Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (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)
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 - Elihu again reproveth Job of setting up his own righteousness against God's, between whom and man ther is no comparison. The good or evil actions of men extend not to God. If God heareth not the cry of the afflicted, it is because they address him not as they ought. The application of this doctrine to the case of Job.
Job 35
Preface - Paul declareth that in assured hope of a blessed immortality hereafter he was indifferent to life, and laboured only to approve himself to Christ: that knowing the general judgement that would follow, and the terrors of it, he was solicitious to persuade men: that this was said not by way of boasting, but purely to furnish the Corinthians with a reply in his justification against false pretenders: that moved by the love of Christ, he was become dead to all former regards; and all things being now made new by God in Christ reconciling the world to himself, he, as ambassador for Christ, besought men to embrace the offered reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5


Daily Light - Morning
He...preserveth the way of his saints.

The LORD your God...went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him. - The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. - Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. - For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. - We know that all things work together for good to them that love GOd, to them who are the called according ot his purpose. - With us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.

The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy.
Pro. 2.8; Deu. 1.32,33; Deu. 32.11,12; Ps. 37.23,24; Ps. 34.19; Ps. 1.6; Ro. 8.28; 2 Chr. 32.8
Zeph. 3.17


Daily Light - Evening
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him...kthe LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all... For the transgression of my people was he stricken... It pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.

Jesus our Lord...was delivered for our offences. - Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the rihteousness of God in him.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.
Mt. 27.46; Isa. 53.5,6,8,10
Ro. 4.24,25; 1 Pe. 3.18; 1 Pe. 2.24
2 Co. 5.21
Ga. 3.13


A Puritans Catechism
Q 3 - What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A - The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.

Of Marriage
Chapter 25
PARAGRAPH 3

It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent;5 yet it is the duty of Christians to marry in the Lord;6 and therefore such as profess the true religion, should not marry with infidels, or idolaters; neither should such as are godly, be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresy.7

5 Heb. 13:4; 1 Tim. 4:3
6 1 Cor. 7:39
7 Neh. 13:25–27



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Needless tears
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any moe pain: for the former things are passed way. - Revelation 21 v 4
This world is a vale of tears. There are always some mourning. No sooner is the tear dried up on one cheek that it trickles down another. Those that are in Christ should weep as though they wept not; 'for the time is short.' Do you weep over those that died in the Lord? It is right to weep: 'Jesus wept.' Yet weep as thou you wept not; 'for the time is short.' They are not lost, but gone before. The sun, when it sets, is not lost; it is gone to shine in another hemisphere; and so have they gone to shine in a brighter world. It is self-love that makes you mourn for them; for they are happy. You would not mourn if they were with a distant friend on earth - why do you mourn that they are with the sinner's Friend? 'THey shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light upon then, nor any heat; fo rthe Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto fountains of living waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.' 'The time is short,' and you will follow after. A few days, and you may be leaning together on the bosom of Jesus; you are nearer them to-day than you were yesterday.