Daily Readings for Friday 14th February 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.


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 - Joseph presenteth five of his brethren and his father before Pharaoh. He giveth them habitation and maintenance. He getteth all the money, cattle, and lands of the Egyptians, the land of the priests only excepted, for Pharaoh. He letteth them the land again for the fifth of the increase. Israel multiplieth in Goshen. Jacob's age: he sweareth Joseph to bury him with his fathers.
Genesis 47
Preface - Luke's preface. An angel appeareth to Zacharias, and promiseth him a son in his old age: Zacharias doubting is struck dumb for a sign: his wife Elisabeth conceiveth. The angel's visit to Mary. Elisabeth saluted by Mary prophesieth. Mary's song of thanksgiving. The birth and circumcision of John the Baptist: Zacharias' mouth is opened: his prophecy.
Luke 1:1-38


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Daily Light - Morning
Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us
to fulfil all righteousness.

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one little shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. - The LORD is well please for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. - Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. - Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Mt. 3.15; Ps. 40.8
Mt. 5.17-18; Isa. 42.21; Mt. 5.20
Ro. 8.3-4; Ro. 10.4



Daily Light - Evening
I am thy part and thine inheritance.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my hearth faileth: but God is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

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.... Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

My beloved is mine, and I am his.
Nu. 18.20; Ps. 73.25-26; Ps. 16.5-6
Lam. 3.24
Ps. 119.111
Ps. 63.1,7
​Song 2.16

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 14 - What is sin?
A - Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 27
PARAGRAPH 2
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Saints by profession are bound to maintain a holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification:  (4)  as also in relieving each other in outward things according to their several abilities, and necessities;  (5)  which communion, according to the rule of the gospel, though especially to be exercised by them, in th erelation wherein they stand, whether in families,  (6)  or churches,  (7)  yet, as God offers opportunity, is to be extend to all the household of faith, even all those who in every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus; nevertheless their communion one with another as saints, does not take away or infringe the title or propriety which each man has in his goods and possessions.  (8)
(4)  Heb. 10.24-25, 3.12-13  (5)  Acts 11.29-30  (6)  Eph. 6.4  (7)  1 Cor. 12.14-27  (8)  Acts 5.4; Eph. 4.28


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Grace sufficient
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12 v 9

When Paul was caught up into paradise he thought he would never again feel his body of sin; but when he was humbled and made to know himself better, and to know the grace that is in Christ, then his glory ever after was, that he had a weak body of sin and death, and that there was power enough in Christ to keep him from falling. From that day he gloried not that he had no sin in him, but that he had an almighty Saviour dwelling in him and upholding him. He took pleasure no in every thing that made him feel his weakness; for this drove him to Jesus for strength.
Lear, dear brethren, the true glory of a Christian in this world. The world knows nothing of it. A true Christian has a body of sin. He has every lust and corruption that is in the heart of man or devil. He wants no tendency to sin. If the Lord has given you light, you know and feel this. What is the difference, then, between you and the world? Infinite! You are in the hand of Christ. His Spirit is within you. He is able to keep you from falling; 'Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart.'