Daily Readings for Saturday 24th August 2024

Daily 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
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 - The miserable estate of Jerusalem by reason of her sin: she bemoaneth her afflictions: she confesseth God's judgments to be just, and prayeth against her insulting enemies.
Lamentations 1
Preface - The blessedness of him whose sins are forgiven. Confession of sins giveth ease to the conscience. David exhorteth others to a well-regulated conduct by the blessings which attend it.
Psalms 32


Daily Light - Morning
I know their sorrows.

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. - Touched with the feeling of our infirmities.

Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. - Jesus...being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.

When Jesus...saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. - For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death. - He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. - When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.

He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them.
Ex. 3.7; Isa. 53.3; He. 4.15
Mt. 8.17; Jn. 4.6
Jn. 11.33-35; He. 2.18
Ps. 102.19-20; Job 23.20; Ps. 142.3
Zech. 2.8;
Isa. 63.9


Daily Light - Evening
I must work the works of him that sent me,
while it is day.

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. - He that watereth shall be watered.

My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an house-holder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season. - Occupy till I come.

I laboured more abundantly that they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Jn. 9.4; Pro. 13.4; Pro. 11.25
Jn. 4.34-36; Mt. 20.1,2
2 Tim. 4.2; Lu. 19.13
1 Co. 15.10


A Puritans Catechism
Q 4 - What is God?
A - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 9
​The way appointed by Christ for the calling of any person, fitted and gifted by the Holy Spirit, unto the office of bishop or elder in a church, is, that he be chosen thereunto by the common suffrage of the church itself;16 and solemnly set apart by fasting and prayer, with imposition of hands of the eldership of the church, if there be any before constituted therein;17 and of a deacon that he be chosen by the like suffrage, and set apart by prayer, and the like imposition of hands.18
16 Acts 14:23
17 1 Tim. 4:14
18 Acts 6:3,5–6


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The believer's prayer for divine teaching
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalm 119 v 18

The law of God here spoken of is the Bible. In the days of David, the Law, or the Five Books of Moses, formed the greater part of the Bible, and so the whole was often called the Law. So, in the first verse, 'His delight is in the law of the Lord.' At verse 97 he says, 'O how love I the law! it is my meditation all the day.' And here, 'Open thou mine eyes.'
The wondrous things seem to be the great things of an eternal world. David had looked on the wonders of this world - he had turned his enquiring eyes upon the wonders of nature, sun, moon, and stars, mountains, trees, and rivers. He had seen many of the wonder of art; but now, he wanted to see the spiritual wonders contained in the Bible. He wanted to know about God Himself in all His majesty, purity, and grace. He wanted to learn the way of salvation by a crucified Redeemer, and the glory that is to follow. These were the wondrous things David wanted to see.
'Open mine eyes.' - David was not blind - his eye was not dim. He could read the Bible from end to end, and yet he felt that he needed more light. He felt that he needed to see deeper, to have eyes of his understanding opened. He felt that if he had nothing but his own eyes and natural understanding, he would not discover the wonders which he panted to see. He wanted Divine teaching - the eye salve of the spirit; and therefore he would not open the Bible without this prayer, 'Open Thou mine eyes.