Daily Readings for Friday 13th September 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 - Under the similitude of an helpless exposed infant is represented the original state of Jerusalem, whom God is described to have bred up, married, and treated with kind indulgence: her unnatural whoredoms: God threateneth her with severe judgment: her sin, equal to her mother's, the Hittite, and exceeding that of her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, shall not go unpunished. A promise of mercy in the end.
Ezekiel 16
Psalm 58) Preface - David reproving wicked judges, describeth the nature of the wicked, and devoteth them to God's judgments, whereat the righteous shall rejoice.
Psalm 59) Preface - David in great danger prayeth to be saved from his enemies: he complaineth of their cruelty: he trusteth in God: he prayeth for the destruction of his enemies: he promiseth to praise God continually.
Psalms 58-59


Daily Light - Morning
If any man thirst,
let him come unto me,
and drink.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. - O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. - The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. - Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. - My blood is drink indeed.

Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Jn. 7.37; Ps. 84.2; Ps. 63.1-2
Isa. 55.1; Rev. 22.17; Jn. 4.14; Jn. 6.55
Song 5.1


Daily Light - Evening
Ye are the salt of the earth.

That which is not corruptible. - Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. - He that believeth in me, thou he were dead, yet shall he live. - The children of God, being the children of the resurrection. - The uncorruptible God.

If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. - It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Mt. 5.13; 1 Pe. 3.4; 1 Pe. 1.23; Jn. 11.25; Lu. 20.36; Ro. 1.23
Ro. 8.9-11; 1 Co. 15.42
Mk. 9.50; Eph. 4.29


A Puritans Catechism
Q 24 - How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
A - Christ executes the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lord's Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 5
The outward elements in this ordinance, duly set apart to the use ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, although in terms used figuratively, they are sometimes called by the names of the things they represent, in other words, the body and blood of Christ,7 albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain truly and only bread and wine, as they were before.8

7 1 Cor. 11:27
8 1 Cor. 11:26–28

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Read the Bible
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalm 119 v 18
If ye be led by the Spirit, ye will love the Bible. You will say, Oh, 'How love I Thy law, it is my meditation all the day.' Be determined to learn something new out of the Bible every day. 'I have lost a world of time,' said one, when dying. 'If I had another year to live; I would spend it in reading David's Psalms and Paul's Epistles.' Oh, be wiser in your Bibles than in the newspaper. What good will all that ever you read in the newspaper do when you are dying? Alas, for my beloved land, when the newspaper drives the Bible from its place by the cottage fire.