Daily Readings for Monday 3rd February 2025

Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend    alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


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
Genesis 35) Preface - God commandeth Jacob to go to Beth-el: he purgeth his house of idols; and buildeth an altar at Beth-el. Deborah Rebekkah's nurse dieth, and is buried under an oak. God again blesseth Jacob, and confirmeth to him the name of Israel, and the promise of the land of Canaan. Jacob setteth up a pillar at Beth-el. Rachel travailing of Benjamin dieth near Bethlehem, and is buried there. Rueben lieth with Bilhah. The twelve sons of Jacob. Jacob cometh to Isaac at Hebron. Isaac's age, death, and burial.
Genesis 36) Preface - Esau's family in Canaan. His removal to mount Seir. His generations in mount Seir. The dukes which descended of his sons. The sons and dukes of Seir. The kings of Edom. The dukes that came of Esau, according to their habitations.
Genesis 35-36
Preface - Christ is slighted by his own countrymen: he sendeth out the twelve with power over unclean spirits. The opinions of Herod and others concerning him. John the Baptist imprisoned and beheaded by Herod at the instigation of Herodias. The apostles return from their mission. The miracle of five thousand fed with five loaves and two fishes. Christ walketh on the sea to his disciples; he landeth at Gennesaret, and healeth the sick who touched only the hem of his garment.
Mark 6

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Daily Light - Morning
Be strong....and work:
for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. - Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. - The joy of the LORD is your strength.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets. - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. - The LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might.

If God be for us, who can be against us? - Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not.

Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - THanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hag. 2.4; Jn. 15.5; Phil. 4.13; Eph. 6.10; Ne. 8.10
Xech. 8.9; Isa. 35.3-4; Judg. 6.14
Ro. 8.31; 2 Co. 4.1
Ga. 6.9; 1 Co. 15.57



Daily Light - Evening
The darkness hideth not from thee.

His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. - Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?.... Do not I fill heaven adn earth? saith the LORD.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night....nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness.... Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. - He that keepeth thee will not slumber.... The LORD is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.
Ps. 139.12; Job 34.21-22; Jer. 23.24
Ps. 91.5,6,9-10; Ps. 121.3,5-7
Ps. 23.4


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 3 - What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A - The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 6
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The members of these churches are saints by calling, visibly manifesting and evidencing (in and by their profession and walking) their obedience unto that call of Christ; (12) and do willingly consent to walk together, according to the appointment of Christ; giving up themselves to the Lord, and one to another, by the will of God, in professed subjection to the ordinances of the Gospel. (13) 

(12) Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2   (13)  Acts 2:41-42, 5:13-14; 2 Cor. 9:13
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
O happy believer
... and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.
Proverbs 16 v 20

Become one with Christ, and even this moment you are lovely in the sight of God - comely, through His comeliness put upon you. You are as much accepted in the sight of God as is the Son of Man, the Beloved that sits on His right hand. The Spirit shall be given you, as surely as He is given to Christ. He is given to Christ as the oil of gladness, wherewith he is anointed above his fellows. You are as sure to sit upon Christ's throne, as that Christ is now sitting on His Father's throne. O weep for joy, happy believer! O sing for gladness of heart: 'For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'