Daily Readings for Wednesday 27th November 2024

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thank to God for the Bible its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.)
- Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue.
- Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would        continue to help us to grasp God's truth.
- Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us.


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 - God's judgment against oppression. A lamentation for the removal of his people. A reproof for their injustice and delight in false prophets. A promise of restoration.
Micah 2
Preface - Christ teacheth to pray, assuring that God will give all good things to them that ask him: he casteth out a devil, and reproveth the blasphemy of the Pharisees, who ascribed the miracle to the power of Beelzebub: he sheweth who are the truly blessed; and the inexcusableness of not believing his gospel: he reprehendeth the outward shew of holiness in the Pharisees, and pronounceth woes against them and the scribes and lawyers.
​Luke 11


Daily Light - Morning
The glory which thou gavest me
I have given them.

I saw...the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims... And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. - These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. - Upon the likeness of the throne was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.

I beseech thee, shew me thy glory... And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. - God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Jn. 17.22; Isa. 6.1-2,3; Jn. 12.41; Ezek. 1.26,28
Ex. 33.18,20; Jn. 1.18; 2 Co. 4.6


Daily Light - Evening
My son, if sinners entice thee,
Consent thou not.

She took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. - Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.

Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.

None of us liveth to himself. - Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. - Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to them that are weak...when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Pro. 1.10; Ge. 3.6; Jos. 22.20
Ex. 23.2
Mt. 7.13
Ro. 14.7; Ga. 5.13; 1 Co. 8.9,12
Isa. 53.6


A Puritans Catechism
Q 17 - Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell?
A - The sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin, together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Sanctification
Chapter 13
PARAGRAPH 1
They who are united to Christ, effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, are also farther sanctified, really and personally,1 through the same virtue, by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them;2 the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed,3 and the several lusts of it are more and more weakened and mortified,4 and they more and more quickened and strengthened in all saving graces,5 to the practice of all true holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.6
1 Acts 20:32; Rom. 6:5–6
2 John 17:17; Eph. 3:16–19; 1 Thess. 5:21–23
3 Rom. 6:14
4 Gal. 5:24
5 Col. 1:11
6 2 Cor. 7:1; Heb. 12:14

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Delay in answered prayer
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait fo rit; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Habakkuk 2 v 3
When the merchant sends his shops to distant shores, he does not expect them to come back richly laden in a single day. He has long patience. 'It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.' Perhaps your prayers will come back like the ships of the merchant, all the more heavily laden with blessings, because of the delay.