Daily Readings for Friday 18th April 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.


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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 - The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things. Who of the priest's house may eat of them. Of satisfaction to be made by him who eateth of them unwittingly. The sacrifices must be without blemish. The age of the sacrifice. The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Leviticus 22
Psalms 28) Preface - David prayeth earnestly for God's help against the wicked: he blesseth God for his gracious succour: he prayeth for the people.
Psalms 29) Preface - David exhorteth princes to give glory to God, by reason of his power, and protection of his people.
Psalms 28-29


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Daily Light - Morning
I will raise them up a Prophet
from among their brethren, like unto thee.

[Moses] stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid. - There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. - Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.

Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Deu. 18.18; Deu. 5.5; 1 Tim. 2.5
Nu. 12.3; Mt. 11.29; Phil. 2.5-7
He. 3.5-6



Daily Light - Evening
Teach me thy way, O LORD.Everlasting consolation.

I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. - He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? - The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. - So shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

This is not your rest. - Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
2 Th. 2.16; Ezek. 16.60
He. 10.14; He. 7.25; 2 Tim. 1.12
Ro. 11.29; Ro. 8.35; Rev. 7.17; 1 Th. 4.17-18
​Mi. 2.10; He. 13.14

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 77 - Are the infants of such as are professing to be baptized?
A - The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptized because there is neither command nor example in the Holy Scriptures for their baptism.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 7
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Christ, in the work of mediation, acts according to both natures, by each nature doing that which is proper to itself; yet by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature is sometimes in Scripture, attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.  (37)
(37)-John 3.13; Acts 20.28



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Heavenly tenderness
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
John 16 v 7

When friends are about to part from one another,  they are far kinder than ever they have been before. It was so with Jesus. He was going to part from His disciples, and never till now did His heart flow out toward them in so many streams of heavenly tenderness. Sorrow had filled their heart, and therefore divinest compassion filled His heart. 'I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away.'
Surely it was expedient for Himself that He should go away. He had lived a life of weariness and painfulness, not having where to lay His head, and surely it was pleasant in His eyes that He was about to enter into His rest. He had lived in obscurity and poverty - He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. Now, surely, He might well look forward with joy to His return to that glory which He had with the Father before ever the world was, when all the angels of God worshipped Him. And yet He does not say: 'It is expedient for me that I go away.' Surely that would have been comfort enough to His disciples. But no: he says: 'It is expedient for you.' He forgets Himself altogether, and thinks only of His little flock with He was leaving behind Him: 'It is expedient for you that I gow away.' O most generous of Saviours! He looked not on His own things, but on the things of others also. He knew that it is far more blessed to give than it is to receive.