Daily Readings for Tuesday 12th December

Prayer - Tuesday
-Give thank to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness.
-Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation.
-Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes. 5.16.)

Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Abijah maketh war against Jeroboam: he declareth the right of his cause: trusting in God he overcometh Jeroboam. The wives and children of Abijah.
2 Chronicles 13
Preface - What John was commanded to write in commendation or reproof to the angels of the churches of Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.
Revelations 3

Daily Light - Morning
The king of Israel, even the LORD,
is in the midst of thee. - Emmanuel...God with us.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. - The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. - Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart.

I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neigher sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.
Zeph. 3.15; Mt. 1.23; Isa. 41.10; Isa. 35.3-4; Zeph. 3.17; Ps. 27.14
Rev. 21.3-4

Daily Light - Evening
Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God; and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight. - We made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; bu he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. - If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD.

Watch and Pray, that ye enter not into temptation. - Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. - Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees, Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not.
Ex. 14.15; 1 Chr. 19.13; Ne. 4.9
Mt. 7.21; Jn. 7.17; Hos. 6.3
Mt. 26.41; 1 Co. 16.13; Ro. 12.11
Isa. 35.3-4

A Puritans Catechism
Q1 - What is the chief end of man?
A - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8 
PARAGRAPH 2
​God, the brightness of the Father's glory, of one substance and equal with Him who made the world, who upholds and governs all things He has made, did, when the fullness of time was complete, take upon Him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities of it,9 yet without sin;10 being conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit coming down upon her: and the power of the Most High overshadowing her; and so was made of a woman of the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures;11 so that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man.12

9 John 1:14; Gal. 4;4
10 Rom. 8:3; Heb. 2:14,16–17, 4:15
11 Matt. 1:22–23
12 Luke 1:27,31,35; Rom. 9:5; 1 Tim. 2:5

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Your name is in the Bible
Unto you, O men, I Call; and my voice is to the sons of man. - Proverbs 8 v 4
Some of you may be saying, 'If I could see my name in the Bible, then I would believe that Christ wants me to be saved. When Christ called Zaccheus, He said, 'Zaccheus, come down.' He called him by name, and he came down immediately. Now, if Christ would call me by name, I would run to Him immediately.' Now, to you I say, Christ does call you by your name, for He says, 'To you, O men, I call.' Suppose that Christ had written down the names of all the men and women in the world, your name would have been there. Now, instead of writing down every name, He puts them all together in one word, which includes every mand and woman, and child - 'unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.' So your name is in the Bible. 'Go and preach the Gospel to every creature.'