Daily Readings for Monday 9th September 2024

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)


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 - Under the type of Ezekiel's removing of his household stuff is shewed the captivity of Zedekiah and his people. Under another type of his eating and drinking with trembling and anxiety is signified the consternation of the people and desolation of the land. The prophet reproveth the presumptuous proverb of the Jews: he repeateth the reproof.
Ezekiel 12
Preface - David prayeth for remission of his sins, whereof he maketh a deep confession: he prayeth God to sanctify him. God delighteth not in sacrifice, but in contrition of heart: David prayeth for the welfare of the church.
Psalms 51


Daily Light - Morning
He hath filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich he hath sent empty away.

Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich... As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. - when the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. - I am the LORD thy God...open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. - I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Lu. 1.53; Rev. 3.17-18,19
Mt. 5.6; Isa. 41.17; Ps. 81.10
Isa. 55.2; Jn. 6.35


Daily Light - Evening
My feet were almost gone;
my steps had well nigh slipped.

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.

A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. - Thou he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. - He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. - Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Ps. 73.2; Ps. 94.18
Lu. 22.31-32
Pro. 25.16; Ps. 37.24
Mi. 7.8; Job 5.19
1 Jn. 2.1; He. 7.25


A Puritans Catechism
Q 20 - Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?
A - The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God became man, and so was, and continues to be God and man, in two distinct natures and one person, forever.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lord's Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 2
In this ordinance Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sin of the quick or dead, but only a memorial of that one offering up of himself by himself upon the cross, once for all;3 and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the same.4 So that the popish sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominable, injurious to Christ's own sacrifice the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect.

3 Heb. 9:25–26,28
4 1 Cor. 11:24; Matt. 26:26–27

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A Gospel of holiness
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
2 Corinthians 5 v 14

The life of holiness is not what the world falsely represents it - a life of preciseness and painfulness, in which a man crosses every affection of his nature. There is no such thing, as self-denial, in the popish sense of that word, in the religion of the Bible. The system of restrictions and self-crossings is the very system which Satan hath set up as a counterfeit of God's way of sanctifying. It is thus that Satan frightens away thousands from gospel peace and gospel holiness; as if to be a sanctified man were to be a man who crossed every desire of his being, who did everything that was disagreeable and uncomfortable to him. My friends, our text distinctly shows you that it is not so.
We are constrained to holiness by the love of Christ. The love of Him who loved us, is the only cord by which we are bound to the service of God. The scourge of our affection is the only scourge that drives us to duty. Sweet bands, and gentle scourges! Who would not be under their power.