Daily Readings for Sunday 20th July 2025

Daily Prayer - Sunday
Sunday
Give thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever.
Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another.
Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.).
Pray we would receive faithful ministry and spiritual food from God’s Word (1 Pet 2.2.)
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Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - The nations which were left to prove Israel. By intercourse with them the Israelites are seduced into idolatry. They are sold into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim, but delivered by Othniel; and into the hand of Eglon king of Moab, but delivered by Ehud. Shamgar slayeth six hundred Philistines with an ox goad, and delivereth Israel.
Judges 3
Preface - Stephen, called upon to answer the charge against him, relateth how God called Abraham, and gave him and his seed the land of Canaan by promise; how Joseph was sold by his brethren, and Jacob with his family went down into Egypt; how, when they were oppressed by the Egyptians; Moses was born, and sent to deliver Israel out of Egypt; that this same Moses witnessed of Christ, received the law, and experienced the disobedience and idolatry of their forefathers; who had the tabernacle of witness, till Solomon built the temple; he reproacheth his hearers with imitating their fathers' rebellion against God, and persecution of his prophets, by having themselves murdered Christ, and transgressed the law they had received. Stung with the reproach, they stone him, looking up with faith unto God, and calling upon Jesus to receive his soul, and forgive his persecutors.
Acts 7



Daily Light - Morning
They are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. - In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation.

Jesus of Nazareth....went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. - Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.... Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Jn. 17.16; Isa. 53.3; Jn. 16.33
He. 7.26; Phil. 2.15
Ac. 10.38; Ga. 6.10
Jn. 1.9; Mt. 5.14,16



Daily Light - Evening
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

The joy of the LORD is your strength. - The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. - Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and humns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart ot the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

By him....let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet  I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. - Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing. - We glory in tribulations also.
Pro. 15.15; Ne. 8.10; Ro. 14.17; Eph. 5.18-20
He. 13.15
​Hab. 3.17-18; 2 Co. 6.10; Ro. 5.3
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 81 - What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?
A - It is required of them who would worthily partake of the Lord's Supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord's body, of their faith to feed upon him, of unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.

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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)-Rom. 13.1-4

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ's garden
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Solomon 6 v 2

When God made man at the first, He planted a garden east ward in Eden; and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food - the tree of life also, in the midst of the garden. And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress and to keep it. That garden was a sweet type of the delight of Adam's soul; and there, day by day, he heard the voice of God walking in the garden, in the cool of the day. When Adam fell, God drove him out of the garden into this bleak world, covered with thorns and thistles, to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. Man no more walked with God in a garden of delights.
But when a sinner is brought to Christ, he is brought into Christ's garden: 'We who believe, do enter into test.' He says: 'I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.' He becomes one that dwells in the gardens. True, he is one coming up from the wilderness. This world is a wilderness to the believer - full of pain, sickness, sighing, death - a world that crucified his Lord, and persecutes him - a cold, unbelieving, ungodly world. Still the soul dwells in the gardens; 'His soul shall dwell at ease.' True, a believer has his times of desertion, and clouds, and doubts, and deep waters. At such times, his cry is: 'O wretched man!' Still when his eye rests on Jesus, his soul dwells in a garden of delights.