Daily Readings for Monday 3rd March 2025

Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend    alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)

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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 - God instructeth the Israelites in their journey. Pharaoh pursueth after them. The Israelites murmur. Moses comforteth them. God instructeth Moses. The cloud removeth behind the camp. The Israelites pass through the Red sea. The Egyptians go in after them, and are drowned.
Exodus 14
Preface - Christ teacheth to avoid giving occasions of offence: and to forgive one another. The power of faith, and defect of merit toward God in our best services. Christ healeth ten lepers: sheweth the spiritual nature of the kingdom of God; and instructeth his disciples concerning the coming of the Son of man.
Luke 17



​Daily Light - Morning
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not
unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. - Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye trun to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
Pro. 3.5-6; Ps. 62.8
Ps. 32.8-10; Isa. 30.21
Ex. 33.15-16

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Daily Light - Evening
The prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Thou shalt have treasure in heaven....come and follow me. - I am....thy exceeding great reward.

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. - They shall rein for ever and ever.

Ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. - The crown of life. - A crown of righteousness. - An incorruptible [crown].

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where Ii am; that they may behold my glory, which thou has given me. - So shall we ever be with the Lord.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present times are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Phil. 3.14; Mt. 19.21; Ge. 15.1
Mt. 25.21; Rev. 22.5
1 Pe. 5.4; Jas. 1.12; 2 Tim. 4.8; 1 Co. 9.25
Jn. 17.24; 1 Th. 4.17
​Ro. 8.18



A Puritans Catechism
Q 31 - What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
A - They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.


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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Last Judgement
Chapter 32
PARAGRAPH 1
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God has appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness, by Jesus Christ;  (1)  to whom all power and judgement is given of the Father; in which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged,  (2)  but likewise all persons that have lived upon the earth shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of their thoughts, words, and deeds, and to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or evil.  (3)

(1)  Acts 17.31; John 5.22-27;  (2)  1 Cor. 6.3; Jude 6;  (3)  2 Cor. 5.10; Eccles. 12.14; Matt. 12.36; Rom. 14.10,12; Matt. 25.32-46 
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Wonderful love
.... Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5 v 25

This is unparalleled love. Love is known by the sacrifice it will make. In a fit of love, Herod would have given away the half of his kingdom. If you will sacrifice nothing, you love not. Hereby we know that men love not Christ - they will sacrifice nothing for Him. They will not leave a lust - a game - a companion, for Christ. 'Greater love than this hath no man.' But Christ gave Himself. Consider what a self. If He had created ten thousand millions of worlds, and given them away, it had been great love - had He given a million of angels; but He gave the Lord of angels - the Creator of worlds. 'Lo I com.' He gave the pearl of heaven. O what a self! - Jesus! - all loveliness!