Daily Readings for Wednesday 15th January 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.


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 - Sarai being barren giveth Hagar to Abram. Hagar having conceived despiseth her mistress, and being hardly treated runneth away. An angel sendeth her back to submit herself, and informeth her of her son's fortunes. Ishmael is born.
Genesis 16
Preface - Christ reproveth the scribes and Pharisees for setting their own traditions above the commandments of God. He teacheth that not that which goeth into the mouth but that which cometh out of it, defileth a man. He healeth the daughter of a woman of Canaan; and great multitudes near the sea of Galilee. He feedeth more than four thousand with seven loaves and a few small fishes.
Matthew 15


Daily Light - Morning
My soul cleaveth unto the dust:
quicken thou me according to thy word.

If ye....be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For....your life is hid with Christ in God. - Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. - Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
Ps. 119.25; Col. 3.13; Phil. 3.20-21
Ga. 5.17; Ro. 8.12-13; 1 Pe. 2.11


Daily Light - Evening
The measure of faith.

Him that is weak in the faith. - Strong in faith, giving glory to God.

O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? - Great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.

Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Year, Lord... According to your faith be it unto you.

Increase our faith. - Building up yourselves on your most holy faith. - Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith. - He which stablisheth us with you in Christ...is God. - The God of all grace...after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

We...that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. - Let us not....judge one another any more but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Ro. 12.3; Ro. 14.1; Ro. 4.20
Mt. 14.31; Mt. 15.28
Mt. 9.28,29
Lu. 17.5; Jude 20; Col. 2.7; 2 Co. 1.21; 1 Pe. 5.10
Ro. 15.1; Ro. 14.13


A Puritans Catechism
Q 66 - Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
A - Some sins in themselves, and by reason of various aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Civil Magistrate
Chapter 24
PARAGRAPH 1
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God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, has ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, fo rhis own glory and the public good; and to this end has armed them with the power of the sword, for defence and encouragement of them that do good, and for the punishment of evil doers. (1)
(1) 1 Rom. 13:1-4
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Be fervent in praise
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Hebrews 13 v 15

And, oh! be fervent in praise. Lift up your voices in it. Lift up your hearts in it. In heaven they wax louder and louder. John heard the sound of a great multitude; and then it was like many waters, and then it was like mighty thunderings, crying: 'Hallelujah! Hallelujah!' I remember Edwards' remark, that it was in the singing of praises that his people felt themselves most enlarged, and that then God was worshipped somewhat in the beauty of holiness.
Let it be so among yourselves. Learn, dearly beloved, to praise God heartily, to sing with all your heart and soul in the family and in the congregation. But, oh! remember that even your praises must be sprinkled with blood, and can be acceptable to God only by Jesus Christ.