Daily Readings for Friday 2nd August 2024

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


Daily Reading
Preface - 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 Arimathaea 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


Daily Light - Evening
I have trodden the winepress alone.

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. - Who his 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 song; 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


A Puritans Catechism
Q 64 - What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything, that is his.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 7

​As it is the law of nature, that in general a proportion of time, by God's appointment, be set apart for the worship of God, so by his Word, in a positive moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men, in all ages, he has particularly appointed one day in seven for a sabbath to be kept holy unto him,28 which from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week, and from the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of the week, which is called the Lord's Day:29 and is to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian Sabbath, the observation of the last day of the week being abolished.
28 Exod. 20:8
29 1 Cor. 16:1–2; Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
They are not lost
... weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalm 30 v 5

This world is the valley of tears. There are always some mourning. No sooner is the tear dried on one cheek that it trickles down another. No sooner does one widow lay aside her weeds, that another takes them up. Those that are in Christ should weep as though they wept not; '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 though 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.'