Daily Readings for Friday 14th June 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.)


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 idols of Babylon could not save themselves from captivity. God saveth his people to the end. Idols are not to be compared with God, who declareth beforehand the purposes which he executeth. His salvation is near at hand.
Isaiah 46
Preface - The seven angels are commanded to pour out their vials on the earth. Great plagues follow thereupon. Christ cometh suddently as a thief: blessed are they that watch.
Revelation 16


Daily Light - Morning
As the sufferings of Christ abound in us,
so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

The fellowship of his sufferings. - Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. - For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. - If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. - Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
2 Co. 1.5; Phil. 3.10; 1 Pe. 4.13; 2 Tim. 2.11; Ro. 8.17
He. 6.17-18; 2 Th. 2.16-17


Daily Light - Evening
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and
troubled about many things.

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap...Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not... Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind... Your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

Having food and raiment let us be therewith content... They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

The cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Lu. 10.41; Lu. 12.24,27,29,30
1 Tim. 6.8,9-10
Mk. 4.19
He. 12.1


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 16 - Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
A - The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 4
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God did from all eternity decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did in the fullness of time die for their sins, and rise again for their justification; nevertheless, they are not justified personally, until the Holy Spirit doth in time due actually apply Christ unto them. (;

1. Galatians 3:8 
2. 1 Peter 1:2 
3. 1 Timothy 2:6 
4. Romans 4:25 
5. Colossians 1:21,22 
6. Titus 3:4-7

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ's gift
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10 v 28
You know that the shepherd leads the sheep to a living well or to some gushing stream that flows between two rocks. So is it with Christ. Observe, it is said, 'I give unto them eternal life.' If you are one of Christ's flock, you will never want. 'I give unto them eternal life. 'What does this imply. It implies daily pardon. You know when the Queen sends a pardon to any condemned criminal, she is said to give the man his life. If you are Christ's you need daily pardon. If there is any sin separating between you and a loving God, you need it pardoned. It implies spiritual life. The life that Christ gives flows through the heart. If the Holy Spirit were to leave the heart, you would lose spiritual life. Thus David says, 'Take not thy Holy Spirit away from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free Spirit. 'Brethren, are you daily drinking of this loving water? Does it spring up within you? Ah! remember it is Christ's gift; 'I give unto them eternal life.'