Daily Readings for Wednesday 9th April 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 - 1, 9, 18, 24, 29, 38 The laws and tokens whereby the priest is to be guided in discerning the leprosy in man or woman; and in a garment.
Leviticus 13
Psalms 15 - Preface - The proper character of a citizen of Zion.
Psalms 16 - Preface - David fleeth to God for preservation, disclaiming all merit, and professing hatred of idolatry: he rejoiceth in having God for his portion: he confideth in God's present protection, and in a future resurrection, and life everlasting.
Psalms 15-16



Daily Light - Morning
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee.

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel. - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. - With the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause. - My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Isa. 43.1; Isa. 54.4-5; Isa. 44.22; 1 Pe. 1.19
Jer. 50.34; Jn. 10.29
Ga. 1.3-5



Daily Light - Evening
I will mention the lovingkindness of the LORD,
and the praises of the LORD, according to all that
the LORD hath bestowed on us.

He brought me up....out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings. - The Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? - God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. - which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Isa. 63.7; Ps. 40.2; Ga. 2.20; Ro. 8.32; Ro. 5.8
2 Co. 1.22; Eph. 1.14
​Eph. 2.4-6


A Puritans Catechism
Q 68 - How may we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
A - To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting alone to his blood and righteousness. This faith is attended by repentance for the past and leads to holiness in the future.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
Chapter 6
PARAGRAPH 5
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The corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated;  (13)  and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and the first motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.  (14)
(13)-Rom. 7.18,23; Eccles. 7.20; 1 John 1.8  (14)-Rom. 7.23-25; Gal. 5.17
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The deceitful heart
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fuit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17 v 9,10
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This is a faithful description of the natural heart of man. The heart of unfallen Adam was very different. 'God made man upright.' His mind was clear and heavenly. It was riveted upon divine things. He saw their glory without any cloud or dimness. His heart was right with God. His affections flowed sweetly and fully towards God. He loved as God loved, hated as God hated. There was no deceit about his heart then. It was transparent as crystal. He had nothing to conceal. There was no wickedness in his heart, no spring of hatred, or lust, or pride. He knew his own heart, He could see clearly into its deepest recesses; for it was just a reflection of the heart of God.
When Adam sinned, his heart was changed. When he lost the favour of God, he lost the image of God. Just as Nebuchadnezzar suddenly got a beast's heart, so Adam suddenly got a heaart in the image of the devil. And this is the description ever since: 'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.'