Daily Readings for Wednesday 26th February 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 murrain of beasts. The plague of boils and blains. The plague of hail is threatened, and sent. Pharaoh entreateth Moses, but is still hardened.
Exodus 9
Preface - Christ teacheth his disciples to avoid hypocrisy, and not to be fearful in publishing his doctrine: he refuseth to be judge in a civil cause, and warneth the people to beware of covetousness by the parable of a rich man, who boasted himself in his multiplied stores: he exhorteth not to be over anxious about the provisions of this life; but to seek the kingdom of God: to lay up treasure in heaven by giving alms; and to be always ready for our Lord's coming. By the parable of a good and a wicked steward he sheweth the duty of his ministers in particular: he foretelleth the divisions on account of the gospel: reproveth the people for not discerning the times: and sheweth the danger of neglecting the means of reconciliation offered them.
Luke 12



Daily Light - Morning
Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to the LORD.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. - Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. - I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies, I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. - Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. - We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins. - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Pro. 2.6; Pro. 3.5; Jas. 1.5; 1 Co. 1.25,27,29
Ps. 119.130; Ps. 119.11
Lu. 4.22; Jn. 7.46; 1 Co. 1.30



Daily Light - Evening
There was a rainbow round about the throne,
in sight like unto an emerald.

This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud....and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. - An everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. - That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.

We declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Rev. 4.3; Ge. 9.12-13,16; 2 Sa. 23.5; He. 6.18
Ac. 13.32-33
​He. 13.8
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 26 - Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
A - Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lords Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 6
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That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood, commonly called transubstantiation, by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant not to Scripture alone,  (9)  but even to common sense and reason, overthrows the nature of the ordinance, and has been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross idolatries.  (10)
(9)  Acts 3.21; Luke 14.6,39  (10)  1 Cor. 11.24-25
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Cleansed
.... and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth un from all sin.
1 John 1 v 7
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There is nothing so defiling as our sins. Every one now redeemed was once all stained and defiled with sin - was once plunged in the miry clay. John Bunyan says, 'An unconverted man is the most doleful of all creatures' One walking by the sea, said, 'My heart would pollute all that ocean.' Sin is an infinite evil. It leaves a mark on the soul that nothing human can wipe away. Oh! pray for a discovery of the loathsomeness of sin.
One thing is greater, the blood of Jesus, His own blood, the blood of the Lamb. As the waters, were higher than the highest mountains, so the blood can cover the highest sins. Where sin abounded, grace did much more about. It is atoning blood.

'There is a fountain fill'd with blood,
Drawn from immanuel's veins;
And sinners plagued beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.'