Daly Readings for Thursday 19th June 2025

Daily Prayer - Thursday
Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part       of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.



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 divorce. A newly married man is exempt from war and civil offices for the space of a year. Of pledges. Of manstealers. Of leprosy. The hire of a servant must not be detained. Every man must be answerable for his own sin. Of doing justice to the friendless. Of charity.
Deuteronomy 24
Preface - The miracles of God's power, when he brought his people out of Egypt, are a just ground of fearing him.
Preface - God is called upon to assert his own honour against the reprouches of the heathen. The vanity of idols. An exhortation to trust in God, who will not fail to bless and preserve his church.
Psalms 114-115



Daily Light - Morning
Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. - There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth. - There is no spot in thee.

Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. - As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. - Put off concernign the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and....put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. - He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.
He. 12.13; Jn. 3.3; Rev. 21.27; Song 4.7
Lev. 19.2; 1 Pe. 1.14-17; Eph. 4.22-24; Eph. 1.4



Daily Light - Evening
Gold tried in the fire.

There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. - Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

THe God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. - In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Rev. 3.18; Mk. 10.29-30
1 Pe. 4.12; 1 Pe. 1.6-7
1 Pe. 5.10; Jn. 16.33



A Puritans Catechism
Q 57 - Which is the seventh commandment?
A - The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 4
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Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter;  (13)  but not for the dead,  (14)  nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death.  (15)
(13)-1 Tim. 2.1-2; 2 Sam. 7.29  (14)-2 Sam. 12.21-23  (15)-1 John 5.16
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A vale of tears
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Job 34 vs 31 & 32
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This world is a world of trouble: 'Man that is born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.' 'We dwell in cottages of clay, our foundation is in the dust, we are crushed before the moth,' (Job 4 v 19). This world has sometimes been called 'a vale of tears.' Trials come into all your dwellings; the children of God are not excepted; there is a need be that you be in many temptations. 'Count it not strange when you fall into divers temptations, as though some strange thing happened unto you.' If this be so, of how great importance is it, that you and I be prepared to meet it. The darkest thunder cloud only covers the heavens for a time. 'Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement. I will not offend any more: that which I see not, teach thou me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.'