Daily Readings for Tuesday 11th March 2025

Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness.
- Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation.
- Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes. 5.16.)

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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 - Laws concerning theft; damage; trusts, and trespasses in cases of trust; borrowing; fornication; witchcraft; bestiality; idolatry; oppressing of strangers, the widow, or fatherless; usury and pledges; reverence to magistrates; firstfruits; eating torn fish.
Exodus 22
Preface - The divinity of Christ. The mission of John, and end of Christ's coming. The incarnation of the Word. Christ's superior dignity witnessed by John, and made evident by his gracious dispensation. John's record of himself to the messengers of the Jews: his public testimony to the person of Christ: two of his disciples hearing it follow Jesus: Simon is brought to Christ, and surnamed Cephas. Philip is called, who bringeth Nathanael to Jesus.
John 1



​Daily Light - Morning
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee.

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. - Thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.... The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. - I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept.

The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Nu. 6.24; Pro. 10.22; Ps. 5.12
Ps. 121.3-5,7-8; Isa. 27.3
Jn. 17.11,12
2 Tim. 4.18

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Daily Light - Evening
Jesus wept.

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. - We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. - It became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. - Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.

I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Behold how he loved him! - He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Jn. 11.35; Isa. 53.3; He. 4.15; He. 2.10; He. 5.8
Isa. 50.5-6
Jn. 11.36; He. 2.16-17



A Puritans Catechism
Q 39 - What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?
A - At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 6
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The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelation of the Spirit, or traditions of men.  (9)  Nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word,  (10)  and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed.  (11)

(9)  2 Tim. 3.15-17; Gal. 1.8,9  (10)  John 6.45; 1 Cor. 2.9-12  (11)  1 Cor. 11.13,14; 1 Cor. 14.26,40
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Below His feet
It is good for me that I have been afflicted;
that I might learn thy statutes.
​Psalm 119 v 71

There are many of the graces of God's people that can only grow in time of affliction. There is a plant in the garden which the gardener tramples below his feet to make it grow better. So it is with many of the graces of God's children - they grow better by being tried.