Daily Readings for Thursday 14th November 2024

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
Preface - The necessity of God's judgment against Israel: the publication of it, with the causes thereof.
Amos 3
Psalms 146) Preface - The Psalmist voweth perpetual praises to God: he exhorteth not to trust in man. The benefit of trusting God by reason o fhis power, truth, justice, mercy and everlasting dominion.
Psalms 147) Preface - The prophet exhorteth to praise God for the restoration of his afflicted church; for his infinite power and wisdom; for his different treatment of the meek, and o fthe wicked: for his providence over his creatures; for his blessings upon his church; for his power over the elements; and for the ordinances given to Israel.
Psalms 146-147


Daily Light - Morning
Thou art my help and my deliverer;
Make no tarrying, O my God.

Thou art of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. THough he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. - In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. - Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the LORD thy maker?

I am with thee to deliver thee. - Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. - Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Ps. 40.17; Ps. 37.23-24; Pro. 14.26; Isa. 51.12-13
Jer. 1.8; Deu. 31.6
Ps. 59.16; Ps. 32.7


Daily Light - Evening
How wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

For Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest.

The priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. - When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.

Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Jer. 12.5; Jos. 3.15
Jos. 3.17
He. 2.9
Ps. 23.4; Isa. 43.2
Rev. 1.17-18


A Puritans Catechism
Q 4 - What is God?
A - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 4
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He frees him from his natural bondage under sin,7 and by His grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good;8 yet so as that by reason of his remaining corruptions, he does not perfectly, nor only will, that which is good, but does also will that which is evil.9
7 Col. 1:13; John 8:36
8 Phil. 2:13
9 Rom. 7:15,18–19,21,23

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The best argument of all.
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchang?
Song of Solomon 3 v 6
The holiness of the believer is like th emost precious perfume. When a holy believer goes through the world, filled with the Spirit, made more htan conqueror, the fragrance fills the room, 'tis as if an angel shook his wings.' If the world were full of believers it would be like a bed of spices; but, oh! how few believers carry much of the odour of heaven along with them? How many you might be the means of saving, if you lived a holy, consistent life - if you were evidently a sacrifice bound upon God's altar? Wives might thus, without the word, win their husbands, when they see your chaste conversation coupled with fear; parents might in this way save their children, when they saw you holy and happy; children have often thus saved their parents. Servants, adorn the doctrine of God your Saviour in all things; let your light shine before men. The poorest can do this as well as the richest, the youngest as well as the oldest. Oh, there is no argument like a holy life.