Daily Readings for Friday 17th January 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 - Abraham entertaineth three angels. The promise of Isaac is renewed, at which Sarah laugheth, and is reproved. The destruction of Sodom is revealed to Abraham, who strongly intercedeth for the inhabitants of it.
Genesis 18
Preface - The transfiguration of Christ: he instructeth his disciples concerning the coming of Elias: healeth the lunatic, foretelleth his own passion, and prayeth tribute.
Matthew 17


Daily Light - Morning
Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it
from the pit of corruption.

God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. - O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. - When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. - I waited patiently for the LORD...He brought me up...out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock.
Isa. 38.17; 1 Jn. 4.9-10
Mi. 7.18-19; Ps. 30.2-3; Jon. 2.7; Ps. 40.1,2


Daily Light - Evening
The things which are.

Now we see through a glass, darkly. - Now we see not yet all things put under him.

We have....a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. - Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. - The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.

Little children, it is the last time. - The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Rev. 1.19; 1 Co. 13.12; He. 2.8
2 Pe. 1.19; Ps. 119.105
Jude 17-18; 1 Tim. 4.1
1 Jn. 2.18; Ro. 13.12


A Puritans Catechism
Q 68 - How may we escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
A - To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting alone to his blood and righteousness. This faith is attended by repentance for the past and leads to holiness in the future.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Marriage
Chapter 25
PARAGRAPH 1
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Marriage is to be between one man and one woman; neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time. (1)
(2) Gen. 2:24; Mal. 2:15; Matt. 19:5-6


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
David's Prayer
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalm 119 v 18

Are there not some who read the Bible, but get little from it? You feel that it does not sink into your heart, it does not remain with you through the week, it is like the seed cast in the wayside, easily plucked away. Oh, it is just such an outpoured Spirit you require, to hide the Word in your heart. When you write with a dry pen, without any ink in it, no impression is made upon the paper. Now, ministers are the pens, and the Spirit of God is the ink. Pray that the pen may be filled with that living ink, that the Word may remain in your heart, known and read of all men, that you may be sanctified through the truth.