Daily Readings for Tuesday 19th March 2024

Daily 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.)


Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (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 - Against suretiship, idleness, and mischievousness. Seven things hateful to God. The blessings of obedience to parents. The michiefs of whoredom.
Proverbs 6
Preface - Paul exhorteth the Galatians to maintain their Christian liberty; and sheweth that by being circumcised they would forfeit their hopes in Christ. He disclaimeth the preaching of circumcision himself, and condemneth it in others. He adviseth them not to abuse their liberty, but to serve one another in love, which comprehendeth the whole law. The opposition between the flesh and the Spirit: the works of the flesh: the fruits of the Spirit. Advice to walk in the Spirit, and not in vainglorious emulation.
Galatians 5


Daily Light - Morning
God having raised up his Son Jesus,
sent him to bless you, in turning away
every one of you from his iniquities.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. - Saved by his life.

Our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. - As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. - In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him. - Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

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?
Ac. 3.26; 1 Pe. 1.3; Ro. 5.10
Titus 2.13-14; 1 Pe. 1.15
Eph. 1.3; Col. 2.9-10; Jn. 1.16
Ro. 8.32



Daily Light - Evening
Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. - O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. - Ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

Fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me. - Be strong...and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts. - Not by might, nor by power, buy by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Ps. 119.28; Ps. 119.49; Isa. 38.14
Lu. 21.33; Jos. 23.14
Dan. 10.19; Hag. 2.4; Zech. 4.6
Eph. 6.10


A Puritans Catechism
Q 15 - Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
A - The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.


The Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 12
As all believers are bound to join themselves to particular churches, when and where they have opportunity so to do; so all that are admitted unto the privileges of a church, are also under the censures and government thereof, according to the rule of Christ.25
25 1 Thess. 5:14; 2 Thess. 3:6,14–15



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Devoting yourself
for thou art my servant... - Isaiah 44 v 21
When a man consents that Christ shall be his Surety, he feels that he is not his own, but bouht with a price. So David felt: 'Truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.' So Paul felt, when he lay gasping on the ground: 'Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Before conversion, the unconverted thinks that he is his own: may I not do what I will with mine own? He was the willing slave of the devil. But when he sees the price laid down for him, he feels that the Lord has redeemed him out of the house of bondage. Now he says: 'I am the Lord's.' Now he is more the servant of the Lord than ever he was of the devil. Oh! dear Christians, would that I could see more of this among you, a devoting of yourselves unto the Lord: 'For thou art my servant.'