Daily Prayer - 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 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 Luchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us.


Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Job sheweth that his complaints are not causeless: he wisheth for death, wherein he is assured of comfort: he reproveth his friends of unkindness.
Job 6
Preface - Paul vindicateth his apostolical character, and right to a maintenance from the churches; though he relinguished that right for the furtherance of the gospel, not content with doing only his indsipensable duty; but voluntarily subjecting himself in many points, where he was otherwise free, in order thereby to win over more converts to Christ. Those who contend for a corruptible crown use much labour and abstinence; so doth the apostle strive for one that is incorruptible.
Romans 9


Daily Light - Morning
When thou hast eaten and art full...
thou shalt bless the LORD thy God
for the good land which he hath given thee.

Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God. - One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiing; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. - He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks. - The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul...who forgiveth all thine iniquities...who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies.
Deu. 8.10; Deu. 8.11; Lu. 17.15-18
1 Tim. 4.4-5; Ro. 14.6; Pro. 10.22
Ps. 103.1-2,3,4


Daily Light - Evening
Jesus...was moved with compassion toward them.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. - We have not an hight priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. - Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way. - He cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Thou, O LORD art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Mt. 14.14; He. 13.8; He. 4.15; He. 5.2; Mk. 14.37-38
Ps. 103.13-14
Ps. 86.15-16


A Puritans Catechism
Q57 - Which is the seventh commandment?
A - The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.


BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Gospel and the Extent of Grace Thereof
Chapter 20
PARAGRAPH 1
The covenant of works being broken by sin, and made unprofitable unto life, God was pleased to give forth the promise of Christ, the seed of the woman, as the means of calling the elect, and begetting in them faith and repentance;1 in this promise the gospel, as to the substance of it, was revealed, and [is] therein effectual for the conversion and salvation of sinners.

1 Gen. 3:15
2 Rev. 13:8


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Soul thirst
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. - Psalm 42 v 1

These are supposed to be the words of David when he fled from his son Absalom. He seems to have been wandering in some solitary wild on the side of Mount Hermon, the stream of Jordan flowing at his feet. David seems to have been full of pensive meditation: for his enemies reproached him daily, saying: 'Where is thy God?' nay, even God seemed to forget him, all his waves and billows were going over him; when suddenly a deer bounded past him. It had been sore wounded by the archers, or pursued by some wild beast on the mountains of the leopards. Faint and weary, he saw it rushing towards the flowing stream, and quenching its thirst in the water brook. His soul was quickened by the sight. Is not his just a picture of what I should be? Is not my God all to me that the flowing stream is to that wounded deer? 'As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.'

Daily Prayer - 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.)


Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 Readings
Preface - Eliphaz proceedeth to shew that the end of the wicked is certain misery: that man is born to trouble: that God should be sought to in time of affliction. The happy end of God's correction.
Job 5
Preface - Paul professeth an unfeigned sorrow for the Jewish nation: but proveth by instances from scripture that the promise of Abraham did not necessarily include all his descendants: asserting that there is no unrighteousness in God's bestowing his unmerited bounty on whom he pleaseth: and that he was unquestionably free to suspend his judgments, where deserved, either for the more signal display of his power in taking vengeance on some, or of his mercy in calling others to glory. The calling of the Gentiles, and rejection of the Jews, foretold. Accordingly the Gentiles have attained the righteousness of faith, which the Jews refused. The cause of such refusal.
Romans 9


Daily Light - Morning
The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant
with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might  be rich. - Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. - According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
1 Tim. 1.14; 2 Co. 8.9; Ro. 5.20
Eph. 2.7-9; Ga. 2.16; Titus 3.5-6


Daily Light - Evening
I am...the bright and morning star.

There shall come a Star out of Jacob.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. - Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

I am the light of the world. - I will give him the morning star.

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore...lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Rev. 22.16; Nu. 24.17
Ro. 13.12; Song. 2.17
Isa. 21.11-12
Jn. 8.12; Rev. 2.28
Mk. 13.33-35,36-37



A Puritans Catechism
Q56 - What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, or whatever tends to it.



​BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 7

Neither are the aforementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the Gospel, but do sweetly comply with it,16 the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely and cheerfully which the will of God, revealed in the law, requires to be done.17
16 Gal. 3:21
17 Ezek. 36:27


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Growing days
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord. - Isaiah 58 v 13-14
There was a time when Sabbath days were growing days. Hungry souls came to the Word, and went away filled with good things. They came like Martha, and went away like Mary. They came like Samson, when his locks were shorn, and went away like Samson when his locks were grown.

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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Eliphaz reproveth Job for want of religious trust: he remindeth him that God's judgments are not for the righteous, but for the wicked. His fearful vision, designed to humble the vain opinion of man's excellency in the sight of his Maker.
Job 4
Preface - Under the gospel we are free from condemnation, walking after the Spirit. The evil of being carnally minded, and the good of being spiritually minded. Christians have God's Spirit to guide and assist them; by which if they mortify the flesh, they shall live. For they that are led by the Spirit are sons of God, and heirs of glory; and even they who have the firstfruits of the Spirit do still long after it; the Spirit in the mean time aiding their infirmities in prayer. Nevertheless the final good of them that fear God is all along pursued, being foreordained of God, and brought about according to the course of his providence. The ground and assurance of the Christian's hope.
Romans 8


Daily Light - Morning
I am come that they might have life,
and that they might have it more abundantly.

In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. - She took of the fruit theeof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - If by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. - Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. - For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Jn. 10.10; Ge. 2.17; Ge. 3.6
Ro. 6.23; Ro. 5.17; 1 Co. 15.21-22; 2 Tim. 1.10
1 Jn. 5.11-12; Jn. 3.17


Daily Light - Evening
The judgment seat.

We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth. - When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

We are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
2 Co. 5.10; Ro. 2.2; Mt. 25.31-32
Mt. 13.43; Ro. 8.33-34; Ro. 8.1
1 Co. 11.32


A Puritans Catechism
Q55 - Which is the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.



BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 6
​Although true believers are not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned,13 yet it is of great use to them as well as to others, in that as a rule of life, informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly; discovering also the sinful pollutions of their natures, hearts, and lives, so as examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against, sin;14 together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ and the perfection of his obedience; it is likewise of use to the regenerate to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin; and the threatenings of it serve to show what even their sins deserve, and what afflictions in this life they may expect for them, although freed from the curse and unallayed rigour thereof. The promises of it likewise show them God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof, though not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works; so as man's doing good and refraining from evil, because the law encourages to the one and deters from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law and not under grace.15
13 Rom. 6:14; Gal. 2:16; Rom. 8:1, 10:4
14 Rom. 3:20, 7:7, etc.
15 Rom. 6:12–14; 1 Pet. 3:8–13


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A constant appetite
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. - Joshua 1 v 8

When a soul is first brought to Christ, he delights in the Word of God. He has an appetite for it 'as a new-born babe'. Just as an infant has a constant, steadily-recurring appetite for its mother's milk, so has the soul for the Word. He has spiritual understanding of the Word. It seems all sweet and easy. It all testifies of Jesus. The soul grasps the meaning or earnestly inquires from ministers and others the meaning of difficult passages. He has growth: 'That ye may grow thereby.' It is felt to be the daily nourishment of the soul, the sword to ward off temptation.
How different when the Christian is in decay! No relish for the Word. It may be read as a duty, or as a burdensome task but it is not delighted in. Other books are preferred to the Bible. There is no growing in the knowledge of the Word, no self-application, no receiving it with meekness, no frequent recurrence of the mind during the day to the chapter read in the morning, no answering Satan by 'Thus it is written' and 'Thus saith the Lord'. Ah! my friends, how is the gold become dim!
'...yea grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.' (Hosea 7 v. 9)

Dear Congregation,

I want to thank all of you who have prayed and supported the work of the Gospel through the church in 2023 and this first month of 2024. It is a great joy to minister at Westminster Baptist and I love the church here greatly. Through this past year, there have been heart-wrenching tragedies alongside blessings too. This is often the case in Christian life and yet we are called to keep trusting and believing. We often bear the battle scars of past experience and circumstance, as we live in this sinful world and anticipate heaven. We see Mordecai, mocked and scorned for years in Esther and on the brink of execution, yet he latterly knew blessing from God. The most important thing was he was faithful in serving the Lord.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful - 1 Corinthians 4:2. This verse especially applies to ministers, church workers, but to all Christians. We are stewards of the oracles of God and to us has the light of the gospel been revealed. We should therefore be striving to be faithful, not popular, faithful. May that be our aim by the grace of God.

In the beginning month in recent years we have spent a week praying together on each day for certain things. As a reminder that with continuing faith that prayer is essential. Key to our hope nd joy and endurance and love, and with new resolve to make time to pray regularly alone and with your family and with some group of fellow believers.

Alongside reading the Scriptures these should be our daily routine. There are various encouragements in the Scriptures to pray:
- Pray without ceasing (1 Th. 5:17).
- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; (Ep. 6:18).
- Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; (Col. 4:2).

These are a few verses of the many that encourage us to pray and undoubtedly set before us a biblical mandate that we should be concerned to pray. Maybe you have fallen out of the 'habit' or relegated prayer to a part time practice; or you only pray when trouble or danger comes. May these verses challenge us all at the start of this new year to be a people of prayer. To that end I would ask the church to pray, if led, the suggested topics below so we might pray for the same things (roughly speaking) on the same day to encourage us.

Let us be prayerful people and realise we too need prayer. To say we are praying for someone should be an expression of concern but an indication of our own action to bring the matter before God, before the throne of Grace through the believers mediator and High Priest, Jesus Christ. Paul even requests prayer for himself and those labouring for the Gospel with him twice in 1 and 2 Thessalonians saying 'brethren pray for us'. May we be a prayerful church and prayerful individuals, knowing that we have a prayer hearing and answering God.

Pastor Jonathan Arnold.

Prayer - Sunday
- God 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 be granted faithful ministry and good spiritual food from God's Word. (1 Peter 2.2.)



Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
(Sunday morning) Scripture reading - Psalm 20; Matthew 7 v 1-29
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
(Sunday evening) Scripture reading - Psalm 116; Exodus 12 v 1-33
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Job curseth the day of his birth, and wisheth he had never been roused out of the quiet sleep of the grave: he complaineth of life because of his anguish.
Job 3
Preface - No law having power over a person longer than he liveth, we therefore, being become dead to the law by the body of Christ, are left free to place ourselves under a happier dispensation. For the law through the prevalency of corrupt passions could only serve as an instrument of sin unto death; although it be in itself holy, and just, and good; as is manifest by our reason approving the precepts of it, whilst our depraved nature is unable to put them in practice. The wretchedness of man in such a situation, and God's mercy in his deliverance from it through Christ.
Romans 7

Daily Light - Morning
The LORD hath said unto you,
Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

Truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they cam out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. - Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. - The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. - No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. - Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Deu. 17.16; He. 11.15-16; He. 11.25-26; He. 10.38-39; Lu. 9.62
Ga. 6.14; 2 Co. 6.17
Phil. 1.6


Daily Light - Evening
They talk to the grief of
those whom thou hast wounded.

I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. - Comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Let us not...judge one another any more: but judge this rather; that no man put a stublingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. - We...that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Charity...rejoiceth not in iniquity. - Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Ps. 69.26; Zech. 1.15
Ga. 6.1
Jas. 5.20; 1 Th. 5.14
Ro. 14.13; Ro. 15.1
1 Co. 13.4,6; 1 Co. 10.12


A Puritans Catechism
Q54 -  What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
A - The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is , a promise of long life and prosperity - as far as it shall serve for God's glory and their own good - to all such as keep this commandment.


BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 5
​
The moral law does for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof,10 and that not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it;11 neither does Christ in the Gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.12
10 Rom. 13:8–10; James 2:8,10–12
11 James 2:10–11
12 Matt. 5:17–19; Rom. 3:31

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A peculiar people
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord... - 2 Corinthians 6 v 17
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people (Hosea 7 v 8). This was the peculiar character of the Jews: 'The people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.' But when they mixed themselves among the nations, then grey hairs began to appear. So it is with Christians, they are a peculiar people. Jesus said of them: 'They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.' We are as completely separated from the world as Christ was; we have got his blood upon us, and the Holy Spirit in us; we have peculiar joys and peculiar sorrows; we are a praying people, a praising people. But the moment we begin to mix with the ungodly, grey hairs begin to appear - our souls wither.

Prayer - 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 and at services.
- 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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Satan appeareth again before God, and is allowed to make further trial of Job. He smiteth him with sore boils from head to foot. Job rebukth his wife, who moved him to curse God. Three of his friends visit him, and condole with him in silence.
Job 2
Preface - Though justified by grace, we may not live in sin; since the very figure of baptism requireth us to die with Christ unto sin, that we may lead a new life of holiness unto God. The dispensation of grace feeth us from the dominion of sin; but we are still the servants of sin, if we obey it; therefore being freed from sin, we are ound unto holiness. The end and wages of sin is death; but the fruit of holiness through God's grace is eternal life.
Romans 6


Daily Light - Morning
Be strong...and work:
for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. - Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. - The joy of the LORD is your strength.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets. - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. - The LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might.

If God be for us, who can be against us? - Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not.

Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hag. 2.4; Jn. 15.5; Phil. 4.13; Eph. 6.10; Ne. 8.10
Zech. 8.9; Isa. 35.3-4; Judg. 6.14
Ro. 8.31; 2 Co. 4.1
Ga. 6.9; 1 Co. 15.57


Daily Light - Evening
The darkness hideth not from thee.

His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. - Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?... Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Thou shalt not be afraied for the terror by night...nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness... Because thou has made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall nay plague come nigh thy dwelling. - He that keepeth thee will not slumber... The LORD is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.
Ps. 139.12; Job 34.21-22; Jer. 23.24
Ps. 91.5,6,9-10; Ps. 121.3,5-7
Ps. 23.4


A Puritans Catechism
Q53 - What is required in the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.



BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 4

To them also he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people, not obliging any now by virtue of that institution; their general equity only being of moral use.9

9 1 Cor. 9:8–10


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
O happy believer
... and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. - Proverbs 16 v 20
Become one with Christ, and even this moment you are lovely in the sight of God - comely, through His comeliness put upon you. You are as much accepted in the sight of God as is the Son of Man, the Beloved that sits on His right hand. The Spirit shall be given you, as surely as He is given to Christ. He is given to Christ as the oil of gladness, wherewith he is anointed above his fellows. You are as sure to wear a crown of glory, as that Christ is now wearing His. You are as sure to sit upon Christ's throne, as that Christ is now sitting on His Father's throne. O weep for joy, happy believer! O sing for gladness of heart: '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.'

Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church mad 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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 Jews, assisted by the rulers through fear of Mordecai's power, slay their enemies, and the ten sons of Haman among the rest. Ahasuerus at the request of Esther granteth to the Jews at Shushan another day of slaughter, and causeth Haman's sons to be hanged. The two days of Purim are made anniversary festivals in commemoration of this deliverance.
Esther 9-10
Preface - Abraham himself was justified by faith: which was imputed to him for righteousness before circumcision, that he might be the common father of believers, whether circumcised or not. The promise was not given him through the law, else had it been void from the very nature of the law; but being of faith by grace is sure to all the destined seed, and not to those of the law only. The acceptableness of Abraham's faith; which stands recorded not for his sake only, but for the sake of all who shall profess a like faith in God through Christ.
Romans 4


Daily Light - Morning
Whom having not seen, ye love.

We walk by faith, not by sight. - We love him, because he first loved us. - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love: and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. - God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. - Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
1 Pe. 1.8; 2 Co. 5.7; 1 Jn. 4.19; 1 Jn. 4.16; Eph. 1.13; Col. 1.27
1 Jn. 4.20
Jn. 20.29; Ps. 2.12


Daily Light - Evening
The LORD OUR RIGHTROUSNESS.

We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.

I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him. - To her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord...that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that with is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.
Jer. 23.6; Isa. 64.6
Ps. 71.16; Isa. 61.10
Lu. 15.22; Rev. 19.8
Phil. 3.8-9


A Puritans Catechism
Q51 - How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
A - The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercise of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in works of necessity and mercy.

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BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 2

The same law that was first written in the heart of man continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness after the fall,4 and was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written in two tables, the four first containing our duty towards God, and the other six, our duty to man.5


4 Rom. 2:14–15
5 Deut. 10:4


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The love of Christ
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. - Ephesians 3 v 19
Paul says: 'The love of Christ passeth knowledge.' It is like the blue sky, into which you may see clearly, but the real vastness of which you cannot measure. It is like the deep, deep sea, into whose bosom you can look a little way, but its depths are unfathomable. It has a breadth without a bound, length without end, height without top, and depth without bottom. If holy Paul said this, who was so deeply taught in divine things, who had been in the third heaven and seen the glorified face of Jesus, how much more may we, poor and weak believers, look into that love and say: It passeth knowledge!

Prayer - 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. Especially           those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.)
- Pray for the ministry among the children 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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Job's uprightness, family, wealth, and religious concern for his children. Satan appeareth before God, falsely accuseth Job, and obtaineth leave to tempt him. Job, receiving successive accounts of the calamities that deprived him of all his substance and his children, in his mourning blesseth God.
Job 1
Preface - Being justified by faith, we have peace with God: we glory in our hope; and in present afflictions; from the past experience of God's love, looking with more assurance for final salvation: we glory in God also, to whom we are reconciled by Christ. As sin and death came upon all men by Adam, so the grace of God, which justifieth unto life, comet more abundantly unto all mankind through Christ. Under the law sin abounded unto death; but grace hath much more abounded unto life.
Romans 5


Daily Light - Morning
Oh...that thou wouldest keep me from evil.

Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. - The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. - I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee ut of the hand of the terrible. - He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try themthat dwell upon the earth. - The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations.
1 Chr. 4.10; Lu. 22.46; Mt. 26.41
Pro. 30.7-9
Ps. 121.7; Jer. 15.21; 1 Jn. 5.18
Rev. 3.10; 2 Pe. 2.9


Daily Light - Evening
One star differeth from another star in glory.

By the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, if any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all. - Be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who...made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men... Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.

They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
1 Co. 15.41; mk. 9.34-35; 1 Pe. 5.5-6
Phil. 2.5-6,7,9-10
Dan. 12.3


A Puritans Catechism
Q52 - Which is the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.

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BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 3

Besides this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits;6 and partly holding forth divers instructions of moral duties,7 all which ceremonial laws being appointed only to the time of reformation, are, by Jesus Christ the true Messiah and only law-giver, who was furnished with power from the Father for that end abrogated and taken away.8

6 Heb. 10:1; Col. 2:17
7 1 Cor. 5:7
8 Col. 2:14,16–17; Eph. 2:14,16


Robert Murray - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Face to face
And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. - Revelation 22 v 4
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace. God calls upon you to mark the death-bed of His children. Sometimes it is triumphant, like Stephen: 'Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' Almost always peeaceful - or, if it be that the sun goes down in a cloud, O how sweet the surprise, when the believer finds himself on the other side of Jordan, at the pearly; gate of the New Jerusalem, in the arms of the angels, in the smile of Jesus! 'There is a rest remaining for the people of God.'