Daily Readings for Tuesday 10th September 2024

Daily Prayer - Tuesday
- 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 - Fales prophets reproved, and their daubing with untempered morter ;the prophetess also reproved with their impostures under the title of pillows and kerchiefs.
Ezekiel 13
Psalms 52) Preface - David reproving the spiteful malice of Doeg, prophesieth his destruction. The righteous shall rejoice at it. David in confidence of God's mercy giveth him thanks.
Psalms 53) Preface - David describeth the general corruption of mankind. He wisheth to see the salvation of God.
Psalms 54) Preface - David complaining of the Ziphims prayeth for salvation: in confidence of God's help he promiseth sacrifice and praise. 
Psalms 52-54


Daily Light - Morning
I will give them one heart, and one way,
that they may fear me for ever,
for the good of them,
and of their children after them.

A new heart...will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. - Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

I...beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness...endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the ond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Jer. 32.39; Ezek. 36.26; Ps. 25.8-10
Jn. 17.21
Eph. 4.1-2,3-6


Daily Light - Evening
They that wait upon the LORD
shall renew their strength.

When I am weak, then am I strong. - God shall be my strength. - He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. - Let him take hold of my strength.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. - The arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. - Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Isa. 40.31; 2 Co. 12.10; Isa. 49.5; 2 Co. 12.9; Isa. 27.5
Ps. 55.22; Ge. 49.24
Ge. 32.26
1 Sa. 17.45; Ps. 35.1-2


A Puritan's Catechism
Q 21 - How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A - Christ, the Son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the virgin May, and born of her, yet without sin.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lord's Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 3
The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed his ministers to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to a holy use, and to take and break the bread; to take the cup, and, they communicating also themselves, to give both to the communicants.5

5 1 Cor. 11:23–26, etc. 

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Numbers 10 v 29

So it was with Moses. Hobab had been his friend for forty years, in the land of Midian, where Moses married his sister, and lived in his father Raguel's house. In that time, I doubt not, Moses had told him much of Israel's God, and Israel's coming flory. Many a time, while they fed their flocks in this very wilderness, Moses had reasoned with him of righteousness, temperance and judgement to come, till Hobab trembled.
Still it would seem Hobab was not quite convinced. He doubted, he lingered. He had been awed by the terrors of Sinai, but not won by the love of Calvary. He did not know whether to go or stay. But the hour of decision came, He must decide now. Now was the heart of Moses stirred in him: 'Come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.'
So it was with Paul, when he himself had tasted the joy and peace of believing; then says he: 'My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.'
So it was with Andrew: 'Andrew first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Christ.'
So it was with the poor maniac whom Jesus healed: 'Go home, tell thy friends how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and how he hath had compassion on thee.'
So it was with the poor slave in Antigua, who used to pray that there might be a full heaven and an empty hell.
Question: Is it so with you? have you asked your friends to come with you? Have you a father whom you love? A mother that carried you at her breast? Have you a brother or sister? Are they lingering like Hobab? Oh! Will you not put in a word for Christ, and say: 'Come thou with us, and we will do thee good'? Have you a friend whom you love much, who knows nothing of Christ and of God, who is willing to die in the wilderness? Oh! Will you not win him to go with you to Israel's God and Israel's glory?