Daily Readings for Wednesday 17th July 2024

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
Preface - Under the type of a linen girdle hidden at Euphrates God prefigureth the destruction of his people. Under the parable of bottles filled with wine he foretelleth their excess of misery. He exhorteth them to prevent their impending judgments by repentance: and sheweth that their impending judgments by repentance: and sheweth that their abominations are the cause of these evils.
Jeremiah 13
Preface - Christ is delivered bound to Pilate. Judas hangeth himself. Christ's silence before Pilate. Pilate's custom at the feast, and proposal to the people: his wife's message: being urged by the multitude, he washeth his hands in his own justification, and releasing Barabbas delivereth Jesus to be c rucified. Christ is mocked of the soldiers, crowned with thorns, crucified between two thieves, reviled, and calling upon God expireth. The astonishing events which attended his death: the centurion's confession. Joseph of Arimathaea beggeth his body, and burieth it. His sepulchre is sealed, and a watch set over it.
Matthew 27


Daily Light - Morning
Thou art a gracious God, and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and repentest thee of the evil.

I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us... Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. - LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. - We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
Jon. 4.2; Nu. 14.17-18
Ps. 79.8,9; Jer. 14.7; Jer. 14.20
Ps. 130.3-4


Daily Light - Evening
Sanctification of the Spirit

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.

Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of  yourselves, yea, what indignation, - yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! - (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

The Comforter...is the Holy Ghost. - The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.

In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
2 Th. 2.13; Song. 4.16
2 Co. 7.11; Eph. 5.9,10
Jn. 14.26; Ro. 5.5
Ga. 5.22
2 Co. 8.2
1 Co. 12.11


A Puritans Catechism
Q 48 - What is required in the third commandment?
A - The third commandment requires the Holy and reverent use of God's names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 5
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1. The moral law doth for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof, and that not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it; neither doth Christ in the Gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.
   1. Romans 13:8-10 
   2. James 2:8,10-12 
   3. James 2:10,11 
   4. Matthew 5:17-19 
   5. Romans 3:31

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Lord our shepherd
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psalm 23 v 1

It is exceedingly interesting to know the many names by which Christ call Himself in the Bible. These are above one hundred, I think one hundred and seven. He calls Himself a rose, 'I am the rose of Sharon,' and a lily, 'I am the lily of the valley.' The reason why He has so many names is that one name would not describe Him; He has so many offices that one name would not explain them; nay all of them put together do not, for Paul said, 'Unto me who am less than  the least of all saints is this grace given, that I might preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.' Of all the names given, that of a shepherd is the sweetest.