Daily Readings for Thursday 29th 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 story is continued, setting forth that they were not to meddle with the Edomites, nor with the Moabites, nor with the Ammonites: but Sihon the Amorite was given up to be subdued by them.
Deuteronomy 2
Psalms 83) Preface - The Psalmist complaineth to God of a powerful confederacy among the enemies of Israel: he prayeth against them.
Psalms 84) Preface - The Psalmist longing for the temple worship, sheweth the blessedness of attending thereupon: he prayeth to be restored to it.
Psalms 83-84



Daily Light - Morning
The life of the flesh is in the blood:
and I have given it to you upon the altar to make
an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood
that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. - The blood of the Lamb. - The precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without sport. - Without shedding of blood is no remission. - The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.... Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.

Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Lev. 17.11; Jn. 1.29; Rev. 7.14; 1 Pe. 1.19; He. 9.22; 1 Jn. 1.7
He. 9.12; He. 1.19-20,22
1 Co. 6.20



Daily Light - Evening
Oh that I had wings like a dove!
for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

It came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, it is better for me to die than to live.

Job spake, and said... Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures?-Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. - In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Ps. 55.6; Jon. 4.8
Job 3.2,20-21; Ps. 34.19
​Jn. 12.27; He. 2.17-18

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 36 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
A - The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united in Christ, do rest in their graves, till the resurrection.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
Chapter 18
PARAGRAPH 3
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This infallible assurance does not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and struggle with many difficulties before he be partaker of it;  (9)  yet being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of means, attain thereunto:  (10)  and therefore it is the duty of every one to give all diligence to make his calling and election sure, that thereby his heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, the proper fruits of this assurance;  (11) - So far is it from inclining men to looseness.  (12)
(9)-Isa. 50.10; Ps. 88; Ps. 77.1-12  (10)-1 John 4.13; Heb. 6.11-12  (11)-Rom. 5.1-2,5,14:17; Ps. 119.32  (12)-Rom. 6.1-2; Titus 2.11-12,14

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Shut in or shut out
... And the door was shut
Matthew 25 v 10

The door of Christ stands wide open for a long time, but shuts at last. When Christ comes, the door will be shut. Now the door is open, and we are sent to invite you to come in. Soon it will be shut, and then you cannot. So it was at the flood. One hundred and twenty years the door of the ark stood wide open. Noah went forth, and preached everywhere, inviting men to come in. The Spirit strove with men. But they only mocked at the coming flood. At last the day came. Noah entered, and God shut him in. The door was shut. The flood came and carried them all away. So it will be with many here. The door is wide open now. Jesus says: 'I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.' Christ does not say, I was, or I will be, but,  I am the door. At present any man may enter in. 'Soon Christ will come - like a thief - like a snare - like travail on a woman with child - and you shall not escape. Enter in at the strait gate.