Daily Readings for Wednesday 6th November 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 - Ephraim and Judah are both reproved. In consideration of God's former favours to Jacob they are exhorted to repent. Ephraim's sins and ingratitude provoke God.
Hosea 12
Psalms 135) Preface - An exhortation to God's servants to praise him for his goodness, his power, and judgments against his people's enemies. The vanity of idols. An exhortation to bless God.
Psalms 136) Preface - An exhortation to praise God for his mercies particularly enumerated.
Psalms 135 - 136


Daily Light - Morning
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. - God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he hath hath not the Son of God hath not life.

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. - When he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. - It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.

If I go and prepare a place fo you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Col. 3.4; Jn. 11.25; 1 Jn. 5.11,12
1 Th. 4.16-18; 1 Jn. 3.2; 1 Co. 15.43-44
Jn. 14.3


Daily Light - Evening
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me.

When he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth. - Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. - Thy holy scriptures...are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. - The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full o flight. - If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. - The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Ps. 25.5; Jn. 16.13; 1 Jn. 2.20
Isa. 8.20; 2 Tim. 3.15-17
Ps. 32.8; Mt. 6.22; Jn. 7.17; Isa. 35.8


A Puritans Catechism
Q 78 - How is baptism rightly administered?
A - Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dippin gthe whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ's institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by sprinklin gor pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 6
Although the price of redemption was not actually paid by Christ until after His incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefit thereof were communicated to the elect in all ages, successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices wherein He was revealed, and signified to be the seed which should bruise the serpent's head;34 and the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,35 being the same yesterday, and today and for ever.36
34 1 Cor. 4:10; Heb. 4:2; 1 Pet. 1:10–11
35 Rev. 13:8
36 Heb. 13:8


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while.
Mark 6 v 31

I am persuaded that I have been brought into retirement to teach me the value and need of prayer. Alas! I have not estimated aright the value of near access unto God. It is not the mere daily routine of praying for certain things that will obtain the blessing. But there must be the need within - the real filial asking of God the things which we need, and which He delights to give. We must study prayer more.