Daily Readings for Wednesday 7th May 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 law of the meat offering, and the drink offering, with the sacrifices. In which the stranger is included. The law of the first of the dough for an heave offering. The sacrifice of the congregation for sins of ignorance. The sacrifice of a private person for the same. The punishment of presumption. The sabbath breaker is stoned. The law of fringes.
Numbers 15
Preface - David prayeth for remission of his sins, whereof he maketh a deep confession: he prayeth God to sanctify him. God delighteth not in sacrifice, but in contrition of heart: David prayeth for the welfare of the church.
Psalms 51



Daily Light - Morning
Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
wee that ye be not troubled.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. - In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. - Your life is hid with Christ in God.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

The things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Mt. 24.6; Ps. 46.1-3; Isa. 26.20,21; Ps. 57.1; Col. 3.3
Ps. 112.7
Jn. 16.33



Daily Light - Evening
They persecute him whom thou hast smitten.

It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! - Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. - Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? - Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross. - Of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Ps. 69.26; Lu. 17.1; Ac. 2.23; Mt. 26.67-68; Mt. 27.41-42; Ac. 4.27-28
​Isa. 53.4

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 14 - What is sin?
A - Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Sanctification
Chapter 13
PARAGRAPH 3
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In which war, although the remaining corruption for a time may much prevail,  (10)  yet, through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part does overcome;  (11)  and so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, pressing after an heavenly life, in evangelical obedience to all the commands which Christ as Head and King, in his Word has prescribed to them.  (12)
(10)-Rom. 7.23  (11)-Rom. 6.14  (12)-Eph. 4.15-16; 2 Cor. 3.18, 7.1

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Hell's greatest wonder
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Colossians 2 v 15
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The death of Christ is the greatest wonder in hell. This was one thing which Satan did not know the meaning of - the death of Christ. Ah! Satan though when he got Judas to betray Him, and the Jews to crucify Him, that he had prevailed against Him - that he had gained the victory; but ah! Satan hath found it out now, that Christ has triumphed over him in His cross. Ah! then, brethren, Calvary is a wonder in hell. Tell me then brethren, who is it in all the universe that thinks little of Christ's laying down His life. Shall we find them in heaven? No. Shall we find them in Hell? No; they believe and tremble.' Where, the shall we find the man that thinks little of Christ? O Christless sinner! it is you. 'We preach Christ, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness.' 'For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness.' O Christless man! you little think of the death of Christ; even the devils do not think it foolishness. Sinner, do not you think there must be something wrong about the state of your mind, that sees no beauty in the death of Christ.