Daily Readings for Wednesday 14th May 2025

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thank to God for the Bible its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.)
- Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue.
- Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would        continue to help us to grasp God's truth.
- Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us.


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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 - Balak's sacrifice. Balaam's first parable. Balak sacrificeth again. Balaam's second parable. Balak is displeased with Balaam; but bringeth him to the top of Peor, and sacrificeth there.
Numbers 23
Psalms 64) Preface - David prayeth for deliverance, complaining of his enemies: he promiseth himself to see such an evident destruction of his enemies, that the righteous shall rejoice at it.
Psalms 65) Preface - 
Psalms 64-65



Daily Light - Morning
The fellowship of his sufferings.

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant is his lord.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. - In the world ye shall have tribulations. - Because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

I looked for some to take pity, but there was none. - At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. - Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the crosse, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Phil. 3.10; Mt. 10.25
Isa. 53.3; Jn. 16.33; Jn. 15.19
Ps. 69.20; 2 Tim. 4.16
Mt. 8.20; He. 13.14
He. 12.1-2



Daily Light - Evening
They overcame....
​by the blood of the Lamb.

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? it is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died. - It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. - I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the house where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.

There is....n ocondemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?.... These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Rev. 12.11; Ro. 8.33-34; Lev. 17.11; Ex. 12.12
Ro. 8.1
Rev. 7.13,14
​Rev. 1.5-6

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 21 - How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A - Christ, the SOn of God, became man by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 4
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As repentance is to be continued through the whole course of our lives, upon the account of the body of death, and the motions thereof, so it is every man's duty to repent of his particular known sins particularly.  (7)
(7)-Luke 19.8; 1 Tim. 1.13,15

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Pure joy
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
1 Timothy 6 v 17
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It is quite right for a believer to use the things of this world, and to rejoice in them. None has such a right as the believer has to rejoice and be happy. He has a right to use the bodily comforts of this world - to eat his meat 'with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God'. He has a right to all the joys of home, and kindred, and  a right to all the pure pleasures of mind, of intellect, and imagination; for God has given him all things richly to enjoy.
Still, he should 'rejoice as though he rejoiced not, and use this world as not abusing it; for the time is short'. In a little while, you will be at your Father's table above, drinking the new wine with Christ. You will meet with all your brothers and sisters in Christ - you will have pure joy in God through ceaseless ages.