Daily Readings for Monday 29th July 2024

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
Preface - Jeremiah, reproving the Jews for disregarding God's messages by his prophets, foreteleth the seventy years' captivity, and the succeeding destruction of Babylon. Under the figure of the cup of God's fury he foresheweth the overthrow of divers nations. The howling of the shepherds.
Jeremiah 25
Preface - Christ rideth into Jerusalem in triumph: curseth a barren fig tree: driveth the buyers and sellers out of the temple. The cursed fig tree is dried up: Christ exhorteth to faith in prayer, and to forgiveness of enemies: and silenceth the priests and others, who called in question his authority.
Mark 11


Daily Light - Morning
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,
that thou wouldest come down.

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains for spices. - We ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. - Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. - Unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. - It shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD: we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. - That blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. - Our conversation is in heaven.
Isa. 64.1; Song 8.14; Ro. 8.23; Ps. 144.5
Ac. 1.11; He. 9.28; Isa. 25.9
Rev. 22.20; Titus 2.13; Phil. 3.20


Daily Light - Evening
Thou hast given me the heritage
of those that fear thy name.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. - The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. - The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. - He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Ps. 61.5; Isa. 54.17; Ps. 34.7-10; Ps. 16.6
Mal. 4.2; Ro. 8.32


A Puritans Catechism
Q 60 - What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
A - The eighth commandment forbids whatever does, or may unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbour's wealth or outward estate.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 3

Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one part of natural worship, is by God required of all men.8 But that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son,9 by the help of the Spirit,10 according to his will;11 with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance; and when with others, in a known tongue.12

8 Ps. 95:1–7, 65:2
9 John 14:13–14
10 Rom. 8:26
11 1 John 5:14
12 1 Cor. 14:16–17


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
God is stronger than Satan
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 4 v 4

Satan is nothing in His hand. It is easier for God to crush Satan under our feet, than for you to crush a fly. God is infinitely stronger than Satan. Satan can no more hinder God from carrying us to glory than a little fly can, which you crush with your foot. 'He shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.' Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.