Daily Readings for Friday 1 May 2026

Daily Prayer - Friday
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                               (Numbers 6.24-26).
- Pray for the ministry among the children in the Sunday School and Friday Bible Club 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.

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



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - A further description of the church's graces. The church professeth her faith ad desire.
Song of Solomon 7
Preface - Christ, a priest after the order of Melchisedec, is proved to be of a more excellent order than that of Aaron, from the character of Melchisedec, and his confessed superiority to Abraham and Levi; from the imperfection of the Levitical priesthood, which induced the necessity of a change to one more perfect; from the confirmation of Christ's priesthood by an oath: from the unchangeableness, and spotless innocence, of the person.
Hebrews 7



Daily Light - Morning
Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. - Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. - My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. - Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any hid himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? - Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. - Ye are the temple of the living God.
Ge. 28.16; Mt. 18.20; Mt. 28.20; Ex. 33.14
Ps. 139.7-8; Jer. 23.23-24
1 Ki. 8.27; Isa. 57.15; W Co. 6.16


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Daily Light - Evening
Keep yourselves from idols.

My son, give me thine heart. - Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? - Mortify....your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. - They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare.... For the love of money is the rooot of all evil: which while some coveted after, they ahve erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things.

If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. - My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. - The LORD looketh on the heart.
1 Jn. 5.21; Pro. 23.26; Col. 3.2
Ezek. 14.3; Col. 3.5; 1 Tim. 6.9-11
Ps. 62.10; Pro. 8.19
​Mt. 6.21; 1 Sa. 16.7
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A Puritans Catechism
Q  57 - Which is the seventh commandment?
A - The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.


 
The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 8

​The old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old),  (14)  and the New Testament in Greek (which at the time of the writing of it was most generally known to the nations), being immediately inspired by God, and by His singular care and providence kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentic; so as in all controversies of religion, the church is finally to appeal t them.  (15)  But because these original languages are not known to all the people of God, who have a right unto, and interest in the Scriptures, and are commanded in the fear of God to read,  (16) and search them,  (17)  therefore they are to be translated into the common language of every nation unto which they come,  (18)  that the Word of God dwelling richly in all, they may worship Him in an acceptable manner, and through patience and comfort of the Scriptures may have hope.  (19)
14)  Rom. 3.2
15)  Isa. 8.20
16)  Acts 15.15
17)  John 5.39
18)  1 Cor. 14.6,9,11-12,24,28
19)  Col. 3.16



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
What a friend we have in Jesus
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
John 11 v 21
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Learn that afflicting time is trying time. Affliction is like the furnace, it dissolves the dross as well as the gold. Had all thing s gone on smoothly at Bethany, Martha and Mary had never known their sin and weakness; but now the furnace brought out the dross. Learn to guard against unbelief. Guard against presumption, making a Bible promise for yourself, and leaning upon a word God has never spoken. Guard against prescribing your way to Christ, and limiting him in his dealings. guard against unbelief, believing only part of God's testimony. 'O foolish, and slow of heart to believe all that God hath spoken.' Remember, whatever your darkness may be, to carry your complaint to Jesus himself.