Daily Readings for Friday 12th July 2024

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.


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 calamities of the Jews, both of the dead and the living. The prophet upbraideth their stubborn and shameless impenitency: he sheweth God's severe judgments against them; and bewaileth the misery of his people.
Jeremiah 8
Preface - The parable of the marriage of the king's son: the unworthiness of those that were first bidden: others called in their place: the punishment of one that came without a wedding garment. The question calculated to entangle proposed concerning paying tribute to Caesar, and Christ's answer. He refuteth conclusively the Sadducees who questioned him concerning the resurrection. He showeth which are the chief commandments of the law. He proposeth to the Pharisees a knotty question concerning Christ.
Matthew 22


Daily Light - Morning
My presence shall go with thee,
and I will give thee rest.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee... The LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. - Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersover thou goest. - In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. - Our sufficiency is of God.

Lead us not into temptation. - O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. - My times are in thy hand.
Ex. 33.14; Deu. 31.6,8; Jos. 1.9; Pro. 3.6
He. 13.5-6; 2 Co. 3.5
Mt. 6.13; Jer. 10.23; Ps. 31.15


Daily Light - Evening
Let us consider one another
to provoke unto love and to good works.

How forcible are right words! - I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance.

They that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. - If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

The LORD God said, it is not good that the man should be alone. - Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

Let...no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also  e tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
He. 10.24; Job. 6.25; 2 Pe. 3.1
Mal. 3.16; Mt. 18.19
Ge. 2.18; Ec. 4.9-10
Ro. 14.13; Ga. 6.1-2


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 43 - What is required in the first commandment?
A - The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
Chapter 18
PARAGRAPH 4

​True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as by negligence in preserving of it, by falling into some special sin which woundeth the conscience and grieveth the Spirit; by some sudden or vehement temptation, by God's withdrawing the light of his countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness and to have no light, yet are they never destitute of the seed of God and life of faith, that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty out of which, by the operation of the Spirit, this assurance may in due time be revived, and by the which, in the meantime, they are preserved from utter despair.

1. Canticles 5:2,3,6 
2. Psalms 51:8,12,14 
3. Psalms 116:11 
4. Psalms 77:7,8 
5. Psalms 31:22 
6. Psalms 30:7 
7. 1 John 3:9 
8. Luke 22:32 
9. Psalms 42:5,11 
10. Lamentations 3:26-31

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Such is your declaration
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do
shew the Lord's death till he come.
1 Corinthians 1 v 26

The bride in the Song of Solomon says: 'As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.' So do you say in coming to the Lord's table: I have found rest in the shade of Christ, His fruit is sweet to me; His way of pardon, His Spirit, His commands all are sweet to my taste.
When the maniac had the devils cast out, he sat at the feet of Jesus clothed, and in his right mind. Once he bade Jesus depart: 'What have I to do with thee?' Now Christ is all. Such is your declaration at the Lord's Table.
When Paul was an unconverted man, he was a blasphemer - he breathed out threatenings. But when he got a taste of Jesus, he said, 'I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.' Such is your declaration in taking that bread and wine. 
Can you truly say that you have found the treasure, that you have sold all for it, that you have sat down under the shade of that apple tree, and that you delight in His holy fruit; that you were once far from Christ, but now sitting at His feet; that you now preach the faith which once you destroyed - that, like Paul, you glory only in the cross of Christ? Can you say, in the sight of God, that Christ is your manna, your sweet food, your peace, your all? Then you are welcome to the Lord's table. 'Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.'