Daily Reading for Saturday 18th November 2023

Prayer
-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 11) - David by general consent is made king over Israel at Hebron. He winneth the castle of Zion from the Jebusites: Joab for his valour is made chief: David's prosperity through God's blessing. A catalogue of David's mighty men, with their principal achievements.
​Preface 12) - The companies that came to David at Ziklag. The armed troops that came to his at Hebron.
1 Chronicles 11-12
Preface - Exhortations to charity, hospitality, pity for the afflicted, chastity, contentment; to regard the preachers of God's word; to avoid strange doctrines; to confess Christ; to offer up our praises to God by him; to do good and to communicate; to obey spiritual rulers; and to pray for the apostle. The epistle endeth with a prayer and salutations.
Hebrews 13

Daily Light - Morning
He stayeth his rough wind
in the day of the east wind.

Let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great. - I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee...I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. - He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities... For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. - I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escepe, that ye may be able to bear it. - Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.

Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isa. 27.8; 2 Sa. 24.14; Jer. 30.11; Ps. 103.0-10,14; Mal. 3.17
1 Co. 10.12; Lu. 22.31-32
Isa. 25.4

Daily Light - Evening
I believed not the words,
until I cam, and mine eyes had seen it:
and, behold, the half was not told me.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

My speech and my preaching was...in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God... But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty. - We shall see him as he is. - In my flesh shall I see God. - I shall be satisfied.
1 Ki. 10.7; Mt. 12.42; Jn. 1.14
1 Co. 2.4-5,9-10
Isa. 33.17; 1 Jn. 3.2; Job 19.26; Ps. 17.15

A Puritans Catechism
Q59 - Which is the eighth commandment?
A - The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.

The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Holy Scriptures
Chapter 3 - Paragraph 5
Those of mankind that are predestinated to life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to His eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of His will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of His mere free grace and love, 11)  God without any other thing in the creature as a condition or cause moving Him thereunto.  12)
11)  Eph. 1:4, 9, 11; Rom. 8:30; 2 Tim. 1:9; 1 Thes. 5:9  12) Rom. 9:13,16; Eph. 2:5.12

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The heart of the Father
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of teh Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. - Revelation 13 v 8

O brethren, could I lift you away to the eternity that is past: - could I bring you into the council of the Eternal Three; and as it was once said 'Let us make man,' could I let you hear the word, 'Let us save man;' - could I show you how God from all eternity designed His Son to undertake for poor sinners; how it was the very plan and the bottommost desire of the heart of the Father that Jesus should come into the world and do and die in the stead of sinners; how the Holy Spirit breathed sweetest incense, and dropped like holiest oil upon the head of the descending Saviour; - could I show you the intense interest with which the eye of God followed Jesus through His whole course of sorrow, and suffering, and death; - could I show you the anxious haste with which God rolled away the stone from the sepulchre while it was yet dark, for He would not leave His soul in hell, neither suffer His Holy One to see corruption; - could I show you the ecstasies of love and joy that beat in the bosom of the infinite God when Jesus ascended to His Father and our Father; how He welcomed Him with a fullness of kindness and grace which God alone could give and God alone could receive, saying, 'Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee; Thou art indeed worthy to be called my Son; never till this day wast Thou so worthy to be called mine; Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; Sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.' - O sinner, will you ever doubt any more whether God the Father be seeking Thy salvation - whether the heart of Christ and of His Father be the same in this one grand controversy O believer, consider this Apostle of God - meditate on these things - look and look again, until your peace be like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea - till the breathing of your soul be, Abba, Father!