Daily Readings for Friday 13th December 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 - Haggai encourageth the people to the work by promise of greater glory to the second temple than was in the first. Under the type of things holy and unclean he showeth that their sins had kept back God's blessings, which he promiseth them from that time. God's promise to Zerabbabel.
Haggai 2
Preface - Christ in a conference with Nicodemus teacheth him the necessity of regeneration; the efficacy of faith in his death; God's great love to mankind in sending his Son for their salvation; and the condemnation for unbelief. Jesus baptizeth in Judea, as doth John in Aenon. John's doctrine concerning Christ.
John 3


Daily Light - Morning
Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power. - As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. - Trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. - Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. - Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Fight the good fight of faith. - In nothing terrified by your adversaries.
2 Tim. 2.1; Col. 1.11; Col. 2.6-7; Isa. 61.3; Eph. 2.20-22
Ac. 20.32; Phil. 1.11
1 Tim. 6.12; Phil. 1.28


Daily Light - Evening
Thou renderest to every man
according to his work.

Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ... If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. - We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. - After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. - LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
Ps. 62.12; 1 Co. 3.11,14-15; 2 Co. 5.10
Mt. 6.3-4; Mt. 25.19
2 Co. 3.5; Isa. 26.12


A Puritans Catechism​
Q 33 - What  is adoption?
A - Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 6

​Yet notwithstanding the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him;17 not as though they were in this life wholly unblamable and unreprovable in God’s sight, but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.18
17 Eph. 1:5; 1 Pet. 1:5
18 Matt. 25:21,23; Heb. 6:10


Robert Murray - M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Change your plan
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;
Hebrews 12 v 2

Some of you have really been brought by God to believe in Jesus. Yet you have no abiding peace, and very little growing in holiness. Why is this? It is because your eye is fixed anywhere but on Christ. You are so busy looking at books, or looking at men, or looking at the world, that you have no time, no heart, for looking at Christ.
No wonder you have little peace and joy in believing. No wonder you live so inconsistent and unholy life. Change your plan. Consider the greatness and glory of Christ, who has undertaken all in the stead of sinners, and you would find it quite impossible to walk in darkness, or to walk in sin. O what mean, despicable thoughts you have of the glorious Immanuel! Lift your eyes from your own bosom, downcast believer - look upon Jesus. It is good to consider your ways, but it is far better to consider Christ.