Daily Readings for Thursday 27th March 2025

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 share 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)
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 - The altar of burnt offering. The laver of brass. The court. The sum of that which the people offered.
Exodus 38
Preface - Christ prayeth to his Father to glorify him; and to preserve his apostles in unity of faith, and from all evil; and to sanctify them with the word of truth: and for the perfect union of all believers, and their admission to a share of his glory in heaven.
John 17


Daily Light - Morning
To him that soweth righteousness
shall be a sure reward.

After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

​Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Pwo. 11.18; Mt. 25.19-21
2 Co. 5.10
2 Tim. 4.7-8
Rev. 3.11



Daily Light - Evening
God is faithful.
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God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? - The Lord sware and will not repent.

God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. - Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day - Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. - All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
1 Co. 10.13; Nu. 23.19; He. 7.21
He. 6.17-18; 1 Pe. 4.19
​2 Tim. 1.12; 1 Th. 5.24; 2 Co. 1.20


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 55 - Which is the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Creation
Chapter 4
PARAGRAPH 2
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After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female,  (4)  with reasonable and immortal souls,  (5)  rendering them fit unto that life to God for which they were created; being made after the image of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness;  (6)  having the law of God written in their hearts,  (7)  and power to fulfill it, and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject to change.  (8)
(4)-Gen. 1.27  (5)-Gen.. 2.7  (6)-Eccles. 7.29; Gen. 1.26  (7)-Rom. 2.14-15  (8)-Gen. 3.6



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Not so the believer
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Song of Solomon 5 v 6

In the parable we find that, when the bride found her husband was gone, she did not return to her rest; Oh, no! Her soul failed for his word. She listens, she seeks, she calls. She receives no answer. She asks the watchmen, but they wound her, and take away her veil; still she is not broken off from seeking. She sets the daughters of Jerusalem to seek along with her.
So is it with the believer. When the slothful believer is really awakened to fell that Christ has withdrawn Himself, and is gone, he is slothful no longer. Believers remain at ease only so long as they flatter themselves that all is well; but if they are made sensible; by a fall into sin, or by a fresh discovery of the wickedness of thir heart, that Christ is away from them, they cannot rest. The world can rest quite well, even while they know that they are not in Christ. Satan lulls them into fatal repose. Not so the believer - he cannot rest.