Daily Readings for Friday 15th December 2023

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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 Readings
Preface - Jehoshaphat succeeding Asa reigneth well and prospereth. He sendeth Levites with his princes to reach the law in Judah. The neighbouring kingdoms awed by God dae not disturb him; the Philistines and Arabians bring him presents and tribute. His greatness; the number of his forces under their respective captains.
2 Chronicles 17
Preface - The opening of six of the seals in order, and what followed thereupon.
Revelation 6

Daily Light - Morning
Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfil the law of Christ. -
The reproaches of them that reproached thee 
are fallen upon me.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who...took upon him the form of a servant. - Even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. - He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

When Jesus...saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. - Jesus wept. - Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Ga. 6.2; Ps. 69.9; Phil. 2.4-6.7; Mk. 10.45; 2 Co. 5.15
Jn. 11.33; Jn. 11.35; Ro. 12.15
1 Pe. 3.8-9

Daily Light - Evening
Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

Thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Reckon ye...yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. - As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. - Sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Mt. 21.28; Ga. 4.7
Ro. 6.11-13; 1 Pe. 1.14-16; 2 Tim. 2.21
1 Co. 15.58

A Puritans Catechism
Q4 - What is God?
A - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

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BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8 
PARAGRAPH 5

​The Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience and sacrifice of Himself, which He through the eternal Spirit once offered up to God, has fully satisfied the justice of God,32 procured reconciliation, and purchased an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father has given unto Him.33

32 Heb. 9:14, 10:14; Rom. 3:25–26
32 John 17:2; Heb. 9:15


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Sinking saints
But, when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. - Matthew 14 v 30
Once Peter 'walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore dist thou doubt? Christ has an almighty arm for sinking disciples to cling to. Once two disciples were walking towards a village north of Jerusalem. They talked earnestly together to beguile the way, and they were sad. A stranger drew near, and went with them, And as he went he expounded to them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning Jesus; in breaking of bread He was revealed to them, and left them exclaiming, 'Did not our hearts burn within us!' So Jesus reveals Himself to His own to this day, and makes the sad bosom burn with holy joy.