Daily Readings for Tuesday 27th May 2025

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.)

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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 - The inconvenience of the inheritance of daughters is set forth. It is remedied by their being restrained to marry in their own tribes. The daughters of Zelophehad are married to their father's brother's sons.
Numbers 36
Preface - The Psalmist in his prayer complaineth of the miseries of the church. God's former favours are turned into judgments: a prayer for deliverance.
Psalms 80

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​Daily Light - Morning
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;
and he knoweth them that trust in him.

Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. - I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! - As for God, his way is perfect; the work of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?

If any man love God, the same is known of him. - The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. - The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. - Thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
Na. 1.7; Jer. 33.11; Ps. 46.1; Ps. 91.2; Deu. 33.29; 2 Sa. 22.31-32
1 Co. 8.3; 2 Tim. 2.19; Ps. 1.6; Ex. 33.17
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Daily Light - Evening
I would have you without carefulness.

He careth for you. - The eyes of the LORD run to and from throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him... The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. - Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? - Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
1 Co. 7.32; 1 Pe. 5.7; 2 Chr. 16.9
Ps. 34.8,10; Mt. 6.25-26; Phil. 4.6-7

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 34 - What is sanctification?
A - Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
Chapter 18
PARAGRAPH 1
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Although temporary believers and other unregenerate men, may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favor of God and in a state of salvation, which hope of theirs shall perish;  (1)  yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him in sincerity, endeavouring to walk in all good conscience before him, may in this life be certainly assured that they are in the state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God,  (2)  which hope shall never make them ashamed.  (3)
(1)-Job 8.13-14; Matt. 7.22-23  (2)-1 John 2.3, 3.14,18-19,21-24, 5.13  (3)-Rom. 5.25



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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Put out the fire
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans 8 v 10

The only way to put out the fire, is to let in the water of the Spirit. Brethren, you think your planning will do it; but, no, there is nothing between you and deepest fall into sin, but the Spirit. Ah! many do not believe this; they say, my principles, my good name, my resolutions will keep me; but, Ah! brethren, remember there is no power but the Spirit dwelling in your soul, that will keep you from sin. There are many here may say, 'I will never go back to sin, I will never go back to the world' - and, I believe, you are honest in saying so; but stop a little, when your soul is far from Christ, when you do not have that sense of His presence that you now enjoy, and see what you will do. Ah! brethren, we are but worms, and they are the happiest worms who do least. Then, brethren, we must be sanctified entirely through the Spirit. If there be not an Almighty hand behind me, I cannot go to the Lord Jesus, I cannot keep myself from any sin.