Daily Reading for Saturday 26th August 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
Bible study and prayer meeting
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 - Jonathan loveth David. David's wise conduct ingratiateth him with the people, and with Saul's servants. The women's song in honour of his victory exciteth Saul's envy; who in his fury seeketh to kill him. Saul feareth David for his wisdom and good success. He promiseth him his eldest daughter by way of a snare, but giveth her to another. He promiseth him Michal his younger daughter. Saul setteth his servants to persuade David to be the King's son in law upon condition of bringing a hundred foreskins of the Philistines; David bringeth two hundred, and hath Michal given him to wife. Saul's hatred increaseth, and David's glory.
1 Samuel 18
Preface - Paul commendeth Phebe to the Christians at Rome, and sendeth salutations to many by name. He warneth them to take heed of those who cause divisions and offences. After sundry salutation, he concludeth with praise to God.
Romans 16

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

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A lie of Satan
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. - 1 Corinthians 10 v 12
I am tempted to think that I am now an established Christian - that I have overcome this or that lust so long, that I have got into the habit of the opposite grace - so that there is no fear. I may venture very near the temptation - nearer than other men. This is the lie of Satan. I might as well speak of gunpowder getting by habit a power of resisting fire, so as not to catch the spark. As long as powder is wet it resists the spark; but when it becomes dry it is ready to explode at the first touch. As long as the Spirit dwells in my heart He deadens me to sin, so that, if lawfully called through temptation, I may reckon upon God carrying me through. But when the Spirit leaves me I am like dry gunpowder. O for a sense of this!