Daily Readings Thursday 28th March 2024

Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to shae the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part     of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.



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 - (No preface)
Proverbs 15
Preface - Paul earnestly recommendeth to the Philippians mutual love and union, lowliness of mind, and that charitable condescension for the good of others, exemplified in the life and death of Christ, for which God had exalted him to be Lord of all. He exhorteth them to carefulness in working out their own salvation, to obey the will of God cheerfully and universally, that so they might distinguish themselves from the rest of the world by a bright example of virtue; and by their steadiness give him cause to rejoice in the success of his labours, who would gladly lay down his life to serve them. He hopeth to send Timothy to them shortly, whom he greatly commendeth; as he doth the affection and zeal of Epaphroditus, whom he sendeth with this epistle.
Philippians 2



Daily Light - Morning
Be strong and of a good courage.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?-He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. - My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

If God be for us, who can be against us? - The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? - Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. - We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
Jos. 1.18; Ps. 27.1; Isa. 40.29-31; Ps. 73.26
Ro. 8.31; Ps. 118.6; Ps. 44.5; Ro. 8.37
1 Chr. 22.16



Daily Light - Evening
Our friend...sleepeth.

I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished... But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

It came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying... Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones...and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.  - This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. - Witnesses chosen before of God...who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Jn. 11.11; 1 Th. 4.13-14
1 Co. 15.16-18,20
Jos. 4.1,3,7; Ac. 2.32; Ac. 10.41



A Puritans Catechism
Q 23 - How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A - Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.



Of Baptism
Chapter 29
PARAGRAPH 2
Those who do actually profess repentance towards God, faith in, and obedience to, our Lord Jesus Christ, are the only proper subjects of this ordinance.4

4 Mark 16:16; Acts 8:36–37, 2:41, 8:12, 18:8



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Holy rapture
The Lord hath appeard of old unto me, saying, Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. - Jeremiah 31 v 3
Does it give you no joy to feel that God thought upon you in love before the foundation of the world? That when He was alone from all eternity He gave you to the Son to be redeemed? 'Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee. 'Does it give you no joy to think that the Son of God thought on you with love before the world was : 'My delights were with the children of men.' That He came into the world bearing your name upon His heart, that he prayed for you on the night of His agony: 'Neither pray I for these alone, but for all those that shall believe on me through their word'. Does it give you no joy that he thought upon you in His bloody sweat, that He thought of you upon the cross, and intended these sufferings to be in your stead? Oh, little children, how it would lift your hearts in holy rapture above the world, above its vexing cares, its petty quarrels, it polluting pleasures, if you would keep this holy joy within, taking up the very word of your Lord: 'Father, thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world'!