Daily Prayer Monday
Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone in 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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - The Egyptians having caused the Chaldeans to raise the siege of Jerusalem, Zedekiah sendet to desire Jeremiah's prayers. Jeremiah prophesieth the certain return and victory of the Chaldeans: he is taken up for a fugitive, beaten, and put in prison: he assureth Zedekiah of the captivity, and entreating for his liberty obtaineth some indulgence.
Jeremiah 38
11) Preface - David encourageth himself in God against his enemies. The providence and justice of God.
12) Preface - David complaining of the perfidiousness of mankind desireth the help of God: he comforteth himself in the assurance of God's judgments on the wicked, and in the faithfulness of his promises to protect the righteous.
Psalm 11-12



Daily Light - Morning
I pray not that thou shouldest take them
out of the world, but that thou shouldest
keep them from the evil.

Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. - Ye are the salt of the earth....the light of the world. - Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

I also withheld thee from sinning against me.

The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. - So did not I, because of the fear of God. - Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Jn. 17.15; Phil. 2.15; Mt. 5.13,14; Mt. 5.16
Ge. 20.6
2 Th. 3.3; Ne. 5.15; Ga. 1.4; Jude 24.25
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Daily Light - Evening
Whoso putteth his trust in the LORD
shall be safe. [marg. set on high]

The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high. - The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens... He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; that he may set him with princes.

God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love where with he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?... For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Pro. 29.25; Isa. 33.5; Ps. 113.4,7-8
Eph. 2.4-6
​Ro. 8.32,38-39


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A Puritans Catechism
Q  24 - How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
A - Christ executes the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 4

​Others not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, (12)  yet not being effectually drawn by the Father, they neither will nor can truly come to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: (13)  much less can men that do not receive the Christian religion be saved; be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature and the law of that religion they do profess. (14)

12 Matt. 22:14, 13:20–21; Heb. 6:4–5
13 John 6:44–45,65; 1 John 2:24–25
14 Acts 4:12; John 4:22, 17:3



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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The divine Saviour
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
John 1 v 10

He was the Creator of all worlds: 'Without him was not anything made.' He was the Preserver of all worlds: 'By him all things consist', and hang together. All worlds, therefore, were His domain - He was Lord of all. He could say: 'Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof' (Psalm 50 vs. 10-12). All lands sang aloud to Him: the sea roared His praise, the cedars bowed before Him in lowly adoration. Nay, He could say: 'All things that the Father hath are mine' (John 16 v 15); and He could speak to His Father of the glory which He had with Him before the world was. Whatever of power, glory, riches, blessedness, the Father had, dwelt with equal fullness in the Son; for He was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God. This was the riches of the LORD Jesus.
Oh, brethren! can you trust your salvation to such an one? You heard it was He that undertook to be the surety of sinners, and died for them. Can you trust your soul in the hands of such an one. Ah! surely if so rich and glorious a being undertake for us, He will not fail nor be discouraged. 'till he have set judgement in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law'.

Daily Prayer Sunday
Sunday
- Give thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever.
- Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another.
- Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.).
- Pray we would receive faithful ministry and spiritual food from God's Word (1 Pet. 2.2.)



Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - The Egyptians having caused the Chaldeans to raise the siege of Jerusalem, Zedekiah sendeth to desire Jeremiah's prayers. Jeremiah prophesieth the certain return and victory of the Chaldeans: he is taken up for a fugitive, beaten and put in prison: he assureth Zedekiah of the captivity, and entreating for his liberty obtaineth some indulgence.
Jeremiah 37
Preface - David complaineth to God of the outrages of the wicked: he prayeth for reparation: he professeth his confidence.
Psalm 10



Daily Light - Morning
Thou art all fair, my love;
there is no spot in thee.

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and purifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. - We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. - I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.

Ye re washed....ye are sanctified....ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. - The king's daughter is all glorious within. - Perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us.

These are they which....have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. - A glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but....holy and without blemish. - Ye are complete in him.
Song 4.7; Isa. 1.5-6; Isa. 64.6; Ro. 7.18
1 Co. 6.11; Ps. 45.13; Ezek. 16.14
Ps. 90.17
Rev. 7.14; Eph. 5.27; Col. 2.10
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Daily Light - Evening
Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Eve....bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven.... The LORD scattered them. - Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan. - It was well watered every where....even as the garden of the LORD.... But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards....I gathered me also silver and gold.... Then I looked on all that my hands had wrought....and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.

If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. - He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Jer. 2.13; Ge. 4.1
Ge. 11.4,8; Ge. 13.11; Ge. 13.10,13
Ec. 1.17-18; Ec. 2.4,8,11
​Jn. 7.37; Ps. 107.9


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A Puritans Catechism
Q  23 - How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A - Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 3

​Elect infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit; (10)  who works when, and where, and how He pleases; (11)  so also are all elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.

10 John 3:3,5–6
11 John 3:8


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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Prize the Word
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
John 15 v 3

I believe He would sanctify without the Word, as He created angels and Adam holy, and as He sanctifies infants whose ear was never opened; but I believe in grown men He never will, but through the Word. When Jesus makes holy, it is by writing the Word in the heart: 'Sanctify them through thy truth.' When a mother nurses her child, she not only bears it in her arms, but holds it to her breast, and feeds it with the milk of her own breast; so does the Lord, He not only holds the soul, but feeds it with the milk of the Word. The words of the Bible are just the breathings of God's heart. He fills the heart with these, to make us like God. When you go much with a companion, and hear his words, you are gradually changed by them into his likeness; so when you go with Christ, and hear his words, you are sanctified. Oh, there are some whom I could tell to be Christ's, by their breathing the same sweet breath! Those of you that do not read your Bible cannot turn like God - you cannot be saved. You are unsavable; you may turn like the devil, but you never will turn like God. Oh, believers, prize the Word!

Daily Prayer Saturday
Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell, that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. (John 3.16.)
- Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings, through church services, via BSL and enquiries online.
- Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and online contacts.



Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Jeremiah 36) Preface - Jeremiah causeth Baruch to write all his threatening prophecies in a roll of a book, and to read them publicly. The princes send for Baruch to bring the roll, who readeth it before them: they are afraid, and counsel Baruch and Jeremiah to hide themselves: they tell the king of the roll, who having heard part of it casteth it into the fire. Jeremiah is commanded to write the same in another roll, and denounceth a heavy judgment against the king. Baruch writeth a new copy with additions.
Jeremiah 37) Preface - The Egyptians having caused the Chaldeans to raise the siege of Jerusalem, Zedekiah sendeth to desire Jeremiah's prayers. Jeremiah prophesieth the certain return and victory of the Chaldeans: he is taken up for a fugitive, beaten and put in prison: he assureth Zedekiah of the captivity, and entreating for his liberty obtaineth some indulgence.
Jeremiah 36-37
Preface - David praiseth God for executing judgment on his enemies, and saving the godly: he inciteth other to praise him: and prayeth that he may have like cause to praise him for his aid in some present distress.
Psalm 9



Daily Light - Morning
The path of the just is as the shining light,
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD.

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. - We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. - When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.... For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Pro. 4.18; Phil. 3.12; Hos. 6.3
Mt. 13.43; 2 Co. 3.18; 1 Co. 13.10,12; 1 Jn. 3.2-3
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Daily Light - Evening
What think ye of Christ?

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. - He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Unto you....which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. - Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greekds, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. - Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love the..
Mt. 22.42; Ps. 24.9-10; Rev. 19.16
1 Pe. 2.7; 1 Co. 1.23-24
Phil. 3.8; Jn. 21.17


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A Puritans Catechism
Q  22 - What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
A - Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his state of humiliation and exaltation.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 2

​This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, nor from any power or agency in the creature, (7) being wholly passive therein, being dead in sins and trespasses, until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit; (8) he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it, and that by no less power than that which raised up Christ from the dead. (9)

7 2 Tim. 1:9; Eph. 2:8
8 1 Cor. 2:14; Eph. 2:5; John 5:25
9 Eph. 1:19–20


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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The pilgrim's staff
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Hebrews 13 v 5

There is no time when you may be more inclined to think God has forsaken you, than when sin and Satan are raging. There is a difference from sin raging and sin reigning, though the soul may not see it. In such a time remember these words - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' In a time of temptation, the believer should remember this promise. Jacob rested on it; Solomon rested on it: yea, it is a staff which has been leaned on by many believers, and you may lean on it too.

Daily Prayer Friday
Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
- Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering (Numbers 6.24-26.).
- Pray for the ministry among the children in the Sunday School and Friday Bible Club and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world.
- Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all: salvation by the grace of God through Christ.



Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - By the obedience of the Rechabites to their father's command the disobedience of the Jews to God's commands is condemned. God blesseth the Rechabites.
Jeremiah 35
Psalm 7 - Preface - David prayeth against the malice of his enemies, professing his innocence. By faith he seeth his defence, and the destruction of his enemies.
Psalm 8 - Preface - God's glory is magnified by his works, and by his love to man.
Psalm 7-8



Daily Light - Morning
The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name.

If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. - If ye....being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. - Ye have not, because ye ask not.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

They rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Jn. 14.26; Jn. 4.10; Lu. 11.13; Jn. 16.23,24; Jas. 4.2
Jn. 16.13-14
Isa. 63.10

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Daily Light - Evening
What think ye of Christ?

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. - He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Unto you....which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. - Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greekds, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. - Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love the..
Mt. 22.42; Ps. 24.9-10; Rev. 19.16
1 Pe. 2.7; 1 Co. 1.23-24
Phil. 3.8; Jn. 21.17


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A Puritans 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 pwoer of the Holy Ghost in the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 1

​Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, He is pleased in His appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call, (1) by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ; (2) enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God; (3) taking away their heart of stone, and giving to them a heart of flesh; (4) renewing their wills, and by His almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ; (5) yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace. (6)

1 Rom. 8:30, 11:7; Eph. 1:10–11; 2 Thess. 2:13–14
2 Eph. 2:1–6
3 Acts 26:18; Eph. 1:17–18
4 Ezek. 36:26
5 Deut. 30:6; Ezek. 36:27; Eph. 1:19
6 Ps. 110:3; Cant. 1:4

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Patient submission
Submit yourselves therefore to God, Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4 v 7

Resignation is a very sweet grace: it can only be cultivated here. The believer has two kinds of graces - he has purity and resignation; God has purity, but God can have no resignation, for He has all sovereignty, He is almighty. Yet resignation to God's will is a very sweet grace; it is a flower that grows on the earth - it will not bloom yonder. It is much easier to go about a whole lifetime preaching, to preach night and day, than to be patient under sickness. There are many saints who suffered much upon earth, now shining the brightest in glory; just because they glorified God more than others by their patient submission.

Daily Prayer Thursday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - Jeremiah prophesieth the destruction of Jerusalem, and the fate of Zedekiah. The princes and people having according to covenant let their bondservants go free, afterward reassume them: Jeremiah proclaimeth liberty to the sword, the pestilence, and the famine, and prophesieth the return of the Babylonians to execute vengeance upon them.
Jeremiah 34
Psalm 5 - Preface - David prayeth, and professeth to be constant in prayer. God favoureth not the wicked. David professing his faith prayeth unto God to guide him because of the malice of his enemies; to destroy them; and to preserve the godly.
Psalm 6 - Preface - David's complaint in his sickness. By faith he triumpheth over his enemies.
Psalm 5-6



Daily Light - Morning
Whom the LORD loveth he correcteth.

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. - I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. - My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. - As a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. - Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. - Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Pro. 3.12; Deu. 32.39; Jer. 29.11; Isa. 55.8
HOs. 2.14; Deu. 8.5; He. 12.11; 1 Pe. 5.6
Ps. 119.75
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Daily Light - Evening
The earth is the LORD's,
and the fulness thereof.

She did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold... Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax.

All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O LORD our God, all this store....cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. - Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

The living God....giveth us richly all things to enjoy. - Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Ps. 24.1; Hos. 2.8,9
1 Chr. 29.14-16; Ro. 11.36
1 Tim. 6.17; 1 Tim. 4.4-5
​Phil. 4.19


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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 Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 5

​This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of glory only.  (10)
10 Eph. 4:13

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Confidence in God
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8 v 37

The world often comes against us like armed men; but, if God be for us, who can be against us'. 'The people shall be like bread.' It is as easy to overcome all opposition when God is with us, as for a hungry man to eat bread. It was God that girded Cyrus, though he did not know him. So he does still: worldly men are a rod in God's hand. God puts it this way or that way, to fulfil all His pleasure; and when He has done with it, He will break it in pieces, and cast it into the fire. 'So fear not them that kill the body, and after that, have no more that they can do.' Oh! if you would live by faith, you might live a happy life!

Daily Prayer Wednesday
Wednesday
- Give thanks 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 Scripture in English, in our mother tongue. Pray for those without access to the bible because it is forbidden or not available.
- 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, that 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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - God reneweth his promise to the captive Jews of a gracious return, a joyful state, and settled peace. Christ, the Branch of righteousness, is promised, and a perpetuity of the kingdom and priesthood. The stability of God's covenant with David and with the Levites; and o fhis promise to bring back Israel and Judah.
Jeremiah 33
Psalm 3 - Preface - The security of God's protection.
Psalm 4 - Preface - David prayeth God to hear him: he reproveth his enemies, and exhorteth them. Man's happiness consisteth in the favour of God.
Psalm 3-4



Daily Light - Morning
Walk in newness of life.

As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. - I beseech you....brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. - In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy. - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind. - Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus....that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Ro. 6.4; Ro. 6.19; Ro. 12.1-2
2 Co. 5.17; Ga. 6.15-16; Eph. 4.17; Eph. 4.20-21,24
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Daily Light - Evening
Thy will be done.

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. - Not as I will, but as thou wilt. - Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Ye know not what ye ask. - He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. - These things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

I would have you without carefulness. - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Mt. 26.42; Jer. 10.23; Mt. 26.39; Ps. 131.2
Ro. 8.26-27
Mt. 20.22; Ps. 106.15; 1 Co. 10.6
1 Co. 7.32; Isa. 26.3


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A Puritans Catechism
Q  19 - Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?
A - God, having out of his good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer.



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




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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
God's delight
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Luke 15 v 10
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When a hell-deserving sinner is enlightened in the knowledge of Christ - when he believes the record that God hath given concerning his Son, and joyfully consents that the Lord Jesus should be his surety, then the blood of Christ is as it were, sprinkled over that soul. When Aaron and his Sons were set apart for the priesthood, the blood of the ram was put upon the tip of their right ear, and the thumb of their right hand, and the great toe of their right foot, to signify that they were dipped in blood from head to foot: so when God looks upon a soul in Christ, He sees it dipped in the blood of the Saviour. He looks upon that soul as having suffered all that Christ suffered; therefore He delights in it.
His sense of justice is pleased. God has an infinite sense of justice His eyes behold the things that are equal. Now when He sees the blood of His Son sprinkled upon any soul, He sees that justice has had its full satisfaction in that soul, that that man's sins have been more fully punished than if he had borne them himself eternally.
His sense of mercy is pleased. He delighteth in mercy. Even when justice was crying out, 'Thou shalt surely slay the wicked,' His mercy was yearning over sinners, and He provided a ransom. And now when the sinner has laid hold on the ransom, mercy is poured down in forgiveness. God delighteth in mercy; He delights to forgive. It is sweet to notice how Jesus loves to forgive sins. In the story of the woman that washed His feet, how He seems to dwell on it! 'Her sins, which are many are forgiven.' And again He said unto her: 'Thy sins are forgiven thee.' And again, a third time: 'Go in peace.' And so God loves to forgive: 'There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.'

Daily Prayer Tuesday
Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness.
- Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation.
- Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes 5.16.)
- Pray for the Wednesday prayer meeting, as we pray corporately together to God's glory.



Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - Jeremiah, imprisoned by Zedekiah for foretelling the taking of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, by God's direction buyeth Hanameel's field. Baruch is charged to keep the evidences safe, as tokens of the people's return. Jeremiah in prayer reasoneth earnestly with God. God confirmeth his threats against Judah for their sins, and his promise of a gracious return.
Jeremiah 32
Psalm 1 - Preface - The happiness of the godly. The unhappiness of the ungodly.
Psalm 2 - Preface - The kingdom of Christ. Kings are exhorted to accept it.
Psalm 1-2



Daily Light - Morning
It is finished:
and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. - I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. - We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand o fGod; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.

I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have poer to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Jn. 19.30; He. 12.2; Jn. 17.4; He. 10.10-14; Col. 2.14
Jn. 10.17-18; Jn. 15.13

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Daily Light - Evening
He sent from above, he took me,
he drew me out of many waters.

He brought me up....out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings. - You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world....among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh.

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. - Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me intot he deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. - We went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.
Ps. 18.16; Ps. 40.2; Eph. 2.1-2,3
Ps. 61.1-2; Jon. 2.2-3; Ps. 66.12
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  18 - What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell?
A - All mankind by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 3

​Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation;  (4)   so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin,  (5)   is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.  (6)
4 Rom. 5:6, 8:7
5 Eph. 2:1,5
6 Titus 3:3–5; John 6:4



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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Forewarned is fore-armed
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts 14 v 22
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We naturally shrink from pain. Many would like to go round; no, we must go through. Many would be willing to have a little; but no, we must through much tribulation enter the kingdom. There are three streams of trouble peculiar to believers.
Persecution - Let us go without the camp bearing His reproach - take up our cross daily. This is what Moses had to bear, and Lot, and all God's children, - trials of cruel mocking and scourging.
Temptations - there is a 'need be' for this also. Satan is a fearful enemy. Before conversion, we know little of him. Those who are determined to win glory, will feel his fiery darts. There is a design on Satan's part. He will not suffer us to go quietly into the kingdom. And on God's part, too, He want us to know what we are saved from.
Concern for unconverted souls. - This is one of the deep afflictions of a child of God. He is afflicted for unconverted kindred. It may be father, mother, sister, brother, friend; the wife of his bosom, or the children of his love; unconverted neighbours, and unbelieving world. This is a sorrow he must carry with him to the grave.
O dear friends, make up your minds to carry the cross daily. Fore-warned is to be fore-armed. All God's children go through these tribulations.

Daily Prayer Monday
Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone in 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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
30) Preface - God sheweth Jeremiah the return of the Jews, and their deliverance out of their trouble. He comforteth Jacob, and promiseth the Jews a gracious re-establishment in their ancient privileges. Wrath shall fall on the wicked.
31) Preface - The restoration of Israel. Rachel mourning is comforted. Ephraim repenting is received into favour. The miracle of Christ's birth promised as a means of blessing to Judah. God's care for his church. Every man shall answer for his own sin only. The new covenant with Israel. The stability of God's favour to them. The extent of the city when it shall be built.
Jeremiah 30-31
Preface - Christ's resurrection is declared by angels to the two Marys and Salome. Christ himself appeareth to Mary Magdalene; to two of his disciples going into the country; and to the eleven; whom he commissioneth to preach the gospel to all the world: his ascension into heaven; the gospel is preached every where, the Lord confirming the word with signs.
Mark 16



Daily Light - Morning
His mercy is on them that fear Him.

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou has laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD...and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. - To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. - The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Lu. 1.50; Ps. 31.19-20
1 Pe. 1.17; Ps. 145.18-19
2 Ki. 22.19; Isa. 66.2; Ps. 34.18

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Daily Light - Evening
Them that honour me
I will honour.

Whosoever....shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer....be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. - Praise and honour and glory a tthe appearing of Jesus Christ.
1 Sa. 2.30; Mt. 10.32 Mt. 10.37-39
Jas. 1.12
Rev. 2.10
2 Co. 4.17; 1 Pe. 1.7


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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 Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 2

​Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good and well-pleasing to God,  (2)   but yet was unstable, so that he might fall from it.  (3)
2 Eccles. 7:29
3 Gen. 3:6

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Cry for the wind
Awake, O north wind; and come thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
Song of Solomon 4 v 16
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These spices do not naturally grow in gardens. Even in the East there never was such a display as this. So the fragrant graces of the Spirit are not natural to the heart. They are brought from a far country. They must be carefully watched. They need the stream and the gentle zephyr. Oh, I fear most of you should hang your heads when Christ begins to speak of fragrant spices in your heart! Where are thy? Are there not talkative, forward Christians? Are there not self seeking Christians? Are there not proud praying Christians? Are there not idle, bad working Christians? Lord, where are the spices. Verily, Christ is a bundle of myrrh. Oh to be like Him! Oh that every flower and fruit would grow! They must come from above. Many there are of whom one is forced to say, 'Well, they may be Christians; but I would not like to be next to them in heaven!' Cry for the wind!

Daily Prayer Sunday
Sunday
- Give thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever.
- Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another.
- Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears. to hear and believe ti. (2 Thes. 3.1.).
- Pray we would receive faithful ministry and spiritual food from God's Word (1 Pet 2.2.)



Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - Jeremiah by letter adviseth the captives in Babylon to live quietly there, and not to believe the illusions of their false prophets: he assureth them of a gracious return after seventy years, and foretelleth the destruction of those that remained at Jerusalem. He sheweth the fearful end of two of their lying prophets. Shemaiah having written a letter from Babylon against Jeremiah, his doom is likewise foretold.
Jeremiah 29
Preface - Jesus is brought bound and accused before Pilate: his silence before the governor. Pilate, prevailed upon by the clamours of the people, releaseth Barabbas, and giveth up Jesus to be crucified. Christ is mocked of the soldiers, crowned with thorns, and led to the place of crucifixion: he is crucified between two thieves, reviled, and calling upon God expireth. The veil of the temple rent. The centurion's confession. Joseph of Armiathaea beggeth the body, and burieth it.
Mark 15



Daily Light - Morning
The Lamb slain from 
the foundation of the world.

Your lamb shall be without blemish....and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it....and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. - The blood  of sprinkling. - Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. - Being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. - According to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Rev. 13.8; Ex. 12.5,6-7,13; He. 12.24; 1 Co. 5.7; Ac. 2.23; 2 Tim. 1.9
Eph. 1.7
1 Pe. 4.1-2

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Daily Light - Evening
I have trodden the winepress alone.
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Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? - He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. - Wh ohis own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. - Being made a curse for us.

O sing unto the LORD a new son; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. - Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. - We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. - They overcame....by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.
Isa. 63.3; Ex. 15.11; Isa. 59.16; 1 Pe. 2.24; Ga. 3.13
Ps. 98.1; Col. 2.15; Isa. 53.11
Judg. 5.21; Ro. 8.37; Rev. 12.11


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A Puritans Catechism
Q  16 - Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
A - The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 1

​God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor by any necessity of nature determined to do good or evil.   (1)
1 Matt. 17:12; James 1:14; Deut. 30:19

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
They are not lost
... weeiping may endure for a night , but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalm 30 v 5
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This world is a vale of tears. There are always some mourning. No sooner is the tear dried on one cheek than it trickles down another. No sooner does one window lay aside her weeds, that another takes them up. Those that are in Christ should weep as though they wept no; 'for the time is short'. Do you weep over those that died in the Lord? It is right to weep: 'Jesus wept'. Yet weep as thou you wept not; 'for the time is short.' They are not lost, but gone before. The sun, when it sets, is not lost; it is gone to shine in another hemisphere; and so have they gone to shine in a brighter world. It is self-love that makes you mourn for them; for they are happy. You would not mourn if they were with a distant friend on earth - why do you mourn that they are with the sinner's Friend? 'They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes' (Revelation 7 vs. 16-17). 'The time is short'; and you will follow after. A few days, and you may be leaning together on the bosom of Jesus; you are nearer them today than you were yesterday. 'The time is short'; and you will meet with all the redeemed at the right hand of Christ. We shall mingle our voices in the new song, and wave together the eternal palm! 'Weep as though you wept not.'

Daily Prayer Saturday
Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell, that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. (John 3.16.)
- Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings, through church services, via BSL and enquiries online.
- Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and online contacts.

Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - Hananiah's false prophecy of the return of the vessels and captives from Babylon within two years. Jeremiah, wishing it to be true, appealeth to the event. Hananiah breaketh the yoke off Jeremiah's neck. Jeremiah under the type of an iron yoke confirmeth the prophecy of the subjection of the nations to the king of Babylon. He foretelleth Hananiah's death.
Jeremiah 28
Preface - The chief priests and scribes conspire against Christ. A woman poureth precious ointment on his head. Judas covenanteth to betray him. Christ eateth the passover, and sheweth that one of his disciples should betray him: he instituteth his last supper: foretelleth the desertion of all his disciples, and Peter's denial of him: his agony and prayer in the garden. He is betrayed by Judas, and seized: his disciples flee: he is carried before the council, falsely accused, examined, pronounced guilty, and treated with indignity. Peter's denial, and repentance.
Mark 14



Daily Light - Morning
The fruit of the Spirit is....faith.

By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. - Without faith it is impossible to please him. - He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. - Faith....worketh by love. - Faith without works is dead.

We walk by faith, not by sight. - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Whom havin gnot seen, yet love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Ga. 5.22; Eph. 2.8; He. 11.6; Jn. 3.18; Mk. 9.24
1 Jn. 2.5; Ga. 5.6; Jas. 2.20
2 Co. 5.7; Ga. 2.20; 1 Pe. 1.8-9


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Daily Light - Evening
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
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Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. - The LORD is gracious and full of compassion....he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. - The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows
Jas. 5.11; Ps. 103.13; Ps. 111.4,5
Ps. 121.3-4; Deu. 32.11-12
Lam. 3.22-23
Mt. 14.14; He. 13.8
Mt. 10.29-31



A Puritans Catechism
Q  15 - Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
A - The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 10

​This number and order of offices is necessary; for in respect of our ignorance, we stand in need of His prophetical office;44 and in respect of our alienation from God, and imperfection of the best of our services, we need His priestly office to reconcile us and present us acceptable unto God; 45 and in respect to our averseness and utter inability to return to God, and for our rescue and security from our spiritual adversaries, we need His kingly office to convince, subdue, draw, uphold, deliver, and preserve us to His heavenly kingdom. 46
44 John 1:18
45 Col. 1:21; Gal. 5:17
46 John 16:8; Ps. 110:3; Luke 1:74–75



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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The wonderful grace of Christ
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.
Titus 3 v 5
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When the Holy Spirit leads a man to the cross, his heart there breaks from seeking salvation by his own righteousness. All his burden of performance and contrivances drops. First, the work of Christ appears so perfect, - the wisdom of God and the power of God - divine righteousness. 'I wonder that I should ever think of any other way of salvation. If I could have been saved by my own duties, my whole soul would now have refused it. I wonder that all the world did not see and comply with this way of salvation by the righteousness of Christ.' (Brainerd) Second, the grace of Christ appears so wonderful. That all this righteousness should be free to such a sinner! That I son long neglected, despised, hated it, put mountains between, and yet that He has come over the mountains! 'That thou mayest remember and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done' (Ezekiel 16 v. 63). Have you this broken heart - broken within sight of the cross? It is not a look into your own heart, or the heart of hell, but into the heart of Christ, that breaks the heart. Oh, pray for this broken heart! Boasting is excluded. To Him be glory. Worthy is the Lamb! All the struggles of a self-righteous soul are to put the crown on your own head instead of at the feet of Jesus.