Daily Readings for Monday 17th June 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 - Christ complaineth of the unsuccessfulness of his mission to the Jews: he is sent to the Gentiles with gracious promises. God's love to his church is perpetual. Its restoration and enlargement. The certainty of its deliverance out of captivity.
Isaiah 49
Preface - God is praised in heaven for judging the great whore, and avenging the blood of his saints. The triumph because of the marriage of the Lamb. The angel, who shewed John these things, refuseth to be worshipped. The vision of the Word of God sitting upon a white horse, and followed by his armies. The fowls called to feast on the flesh of those that took part with the beast. The beast and the false prophet cast into the lake of fire and brimstone; and the rest slain.
Revelation 19


Daily Light - Morning
In every thing by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests
be made known unto God.

I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplication. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. - The Spirit...helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Phil. 4.6; Ps. 116.1-2
Mt. 6.7; Ro. 8.26
1 Tim. 2.8; Eph. 6.18
Mt. 18.19


Daily Light - Evening
All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD:
and thy saints shall bless thee.

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. - I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually​ be in my mouth. - Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

​Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Ps. 145.10; Ps. 103.1-2; Ps. 34.1; Ps. 145.2
Ps. 63.3-5
Lu. 1.46-47
Rev. 4.11


A Puritans Catechism
Q 19 - Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?
A - God, having out of his good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Adoption
Chapter 12
PARAGRAPH 1

All those that are justified, God vouchsafed, in and for the sake of his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God, have his name put upon them, receive the spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry Abba, Father, are pitied, protected, provided for, and chastened by him as by a Father, yet never cast off, but sealed to the day of redemption, and inherit the promises as heirs of everlasting salvation. (

1. Ephesians 1:5 
2. Galatians 4:4,5 
3. John 1:12 
4. Romans 8:17 
5. 2 Corinthians 6:18 
6. Revelation 3:12 
7. Romans 8:15 
8. Galatians 4:6 
9. Ephesians 2:18 
10. Psalms 103:13 
11. Proverbs 14:26 
12. 1 Peter 5:7 
13. Hebrews 12:6 
14. Isaiah 54:8,9 
15. Lamentations 3:31 
16. Ephesians 4:30 
17. Hebrews 1:14 
18. Hebrews 6:12

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The work of the Spirit in the believer
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. - Zechariah 4 v 6
This is the great work of the Spirit in you, to make you holy. 'Thy Spirit is good, lead me to the land of uprightness' God promises in Ezekiel 36 v 27 'I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgements and do them;' Now, as long as you lean on the Spirit for holiness, you and He are great friends, but the moment you cease to lean on Him, you grieve Him.