Daily Readings for Friday 11th April 2025

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.


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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 Plan - First Year
Preface - The uncleanness of men in their issues, and their cleansing. The uncleanness of women in their issues, and their cleansing.
Leviticus 15
Preface - David's psalm of thanksgiving for God's mighty deliverances and manifold blessings.
Psalms 18


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Daily Light - Morning
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin:
but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. - He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. - By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. - Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Christ....suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. - Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

In their mouth was found no guile: for thy are without fault before the throne of God.
Pro. 10.19; Jas. 1.19; Pro. 16.32; Jas. 3.2; Mt. 12.37; Ps. 141.3
1 Pe. 2.21-23; He. 12.3
Rev. 14.5



Daily Light - Evening
Teach me thy way, O LORD.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. - Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Having....boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a ture heart in full assurance of faith.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. - All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Ps. 27.11; Ps. 32.8; Ps. 25.9-9
Jn. 10.9
Jn. 14.6; He. 10.19-22
​Hos. 6.3; Ps. 25.10


A Puritans Catechism
Q 70 - What is repentance unto life?
A - Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose to strive after new obedience.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Covenant
Chapter 7
PARAGRAPH 2
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Moreover, man having brought himself under the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace,  (2)  wherein He freely offers unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in Him, that they may be saved;  (3)  and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life, His Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.  (4)
(2)-Gen. 2.17; Gal. 3.10; Rom. 3.20-21  (3)-Rom. 8.3; Mark 16.15-16; John 3.16  (4)-Ezek. 36.26-27; John 6.44-45; Ps. 110.3



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Send up this cry
Wilt thou not revive us again: that hty people may rejoice in thee?
​Psalm 85 v 6

The soul of a believer needs grace every moment. "By the grace of God I am what I am." But there are times when he needs more grace than at other times. Just as the body continually needs food; but there are times when it needs more food than at others - times of great bodily exertion, when all the powers are to be put forth.
Sometimes the soul of a believer is exposed to hot persecution. Reproach breaks the heart; or it beats like a scorching sun upon the head. "For my love they are my adversaries." Sometimes they are God's children who reproach us, and this is still harder to bear. The soul is ready to fret or sink under it.
Sometimes it is flattery that tempts the soul. The world speaks well of us, and we are tempted to pride and vanity. This is still worse to bear.
Sometimes Satan strives within us, by stirring up fearful corruptions, till there is a tempest within. Oh, is there a tempted soul that reads these words? Jesus prays for thee. Pray for thyself. You need more peace. NOthing but the oil of the Spirit will feed the fire of grace when Satan is casting water on it. Send up this cry, "wilt thou not revive us again?"