Daily Readings for Friday 17th May 2024

Daily Prayer - Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
- Pray the Lord would supply the needs o fthose 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 evangelistice 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 - The moabite is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David. He is threatened for his pride with lamentable judgments, and that within three years.
Isaiah 16
Preface - The apostle exhorteth to cease from sin, in regard of Christ's having suffered for it, and of a future judgment. From the approaching end of all things he urgeth to sobriety, watchfulness, and prayer; to charity, hospitality, and a right use of spritual gifts. Various motives of comfort under persecution.
1 Peter 4


Daily Light - Morning
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes,
and keep my judgments, and do them.

As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. - He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked...If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. - Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. - Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. - The God of peace...make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ.
Ezek. 20.19; 1 Pe. 1.14; 1 Jn. 2.6,29; 1 Co. 7.19; Jas. 2.10
2 Co. 3.5; Ps. 119.33
Phil. 2.12-13; He. 13.20,21


Daily Light - Evening
I have exalted one
chosen out of the people.

Verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham... In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. - Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. - The Son of man which is in heaven. - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

Who...made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted  him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. - Be watchful, and stregthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Ps. 89.19; He. 2.16,17; Ezek. 1.26; Jn. 3.13; Lu. 24.39
Phil. 2.6-10; Rev. 3.2


A Puritans Catechism
Q 70 - What is repentance unto life?
A - Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose to strive after new obedience.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof
Chapter 6
PARAGRAPH 5
The corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated;13 and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and the first motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.14

13 Rom. 7:18,23; Eccles. 7:20; 1 John 1:8
14 Rom. 7:23–25; Gal. 5:17



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Sweet and easy
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? - John 6 v 60
A great many persons are much taken with Christ; they have some anxiety about their souls; they follow anxiously after the preaching of the Word; but when we show them that Christ is the bread of heaven, that they must have a personal closing with Christ, as much as if they were to eat His flesh and drink His blood, these souls say, 'it is a hard saying, who can bear it?' By-and-by, they are offended, they believe not, they go back and walk no more with Jesus. Is any hearing me in this condition? Oh! think again, I beseech you, before you go back. Oh! seek the teaching of God, and He will show you that none of Christ's saying are hard sayings, but that they are all sweet and easy. When the heart of a poor Indian was brought under the teaching of God, he said: 'Some people complain that the Bible is a hard book; but I have not read so far as to find it a hard book. To me it is all sweet and easy.'