Daily Readings for Thursday 22nd May 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 Midianites are spoiled, and Balaam slain. Moses is wroth with the officers for saving the women alive, and ordereth the soldiers with their captives and spoil to be purified. Eleazar sheweth the law of purification. The proportion whereby the prey is to be divided. The voluntary oblation of the officers unto the treasury of the Lord.
Numbers 31
Psalms 75) Preface - The Psalmist praiseth God: he promiseth to judge uprightly: he rebuketh the proud by a display of God's superintending providence: he promiseth to praise God, and execute justice.
Psalms 76) Preface - God's majesty set forth in his notable defence of the church: an exhortation to serve him reverently.
Psalms 75-76



Daily Light - Morning
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

The world passeth away, and the lust thereof. - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. - What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things  is death.

Martha, Martha, thou are careful and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. - I would have you without carefulness.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. - The Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. - The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: the LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Jn. 14.27; 1 Jn. 2.17; Ps. 39.6; Ro. 6.21
Lu. 10.41-42; 1 Co. 7.32
Jn. 16.33; 2 Th. 3.16; Nu. 6.24-26



Daily Light - Evening
The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.

The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God? - It is God which worketh in you.

We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Ro. 8.26; Jn. 14.26; 1 Co. 6.19; Phil. 2.13
Ro. 8.26-27
Ps. 103.14; Isa. 42.3
Mt. 26.41
​Ps. 23.1-2

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 29 - How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A - The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 6
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Yet notwithstanding the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him;  (17)  not as though they were in this life wholly unblamable and unreprovable in God's sight, but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.  (18)
(17)-Eph. 1.5; 1 Pet. 1.5  (18)-Matt. 25.21,23; Heb. 6.10



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
What a friend we have in Jesus
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
John 11 v 21

Learn that afflicting time is trying time. Affliction is like the furnace, it discovers the dross as well as the gold. Had all things gone on smoothly at Bethany, Martha and Mary had never known their sin and weakness; but now the furnace brought out the dross. Learn to guard against unbelief. Guard against presumption, making a Bible-promise for yourself, and leaning upon a work God has never spoken. Guard against prescribing your way to Christ, and limiting Him in His dealings. Guard against unbelief, believing only part of God's testimony. 'O foolish, and slow of heart to believe all that God hath spoken.' Remember, whatever your harkness may be, to carry your complaint to Jesus Himself.