Daily Readings for Friday 18th July 2025

Daily Prayer - Friday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - Judah and Simeon carry on the war against the Canaanites, and defeat Adoni-bezek, who is justly requited for his cruelty. Jerusalem taken. The sons of Anak in Hebron slain. Othniel taketh Debir, and in reward hath Achsah Caleb's daughter to wife. The Kenites dwell in the country of Judah. Hormah, Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron, are taken by Judah and Simeon. Hebron is given to Caleb. The Jebusites are not expelled out of Jerusalem. The house of Joseph take Bethel. Luz built. The Canaanites are not wholly driven out by Manasseh, by Ephraim, by Zebulun, by Asher, and by Naphtali. The Amorites force Dan into the mountain.
Judges 1
Preface - Ananias and Sapphira, profanely tempting the Holy Ghost with a lie, at Peter's rebuke fall down dead. The apostles work many miracles to the great increase of the faith. They are all imprisoned, but released by an angel, and sent to preach openly in the temple: being brought before the council, they support their witness with great freedom. The council are restrained from killing them by the advice of Gamaliel, but beat and dismiss them with a charge not to speak in the name of Jesus. They rejoice in their sufferings, and cease not to preach Christ both in public and private.
Acts 5



Daily Light - Morning
He calleth his own sheep by name,
and leadeth them out.
 
The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. - Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. - The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm.  - The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Jn. 10.3; 2 Tim. 2.19; Mt. 7.22-23; Ps. 1.6
Isa. 49.16; Song 8.6; Na. 1.7
Jn. 14.2-3




Daily Light - Evening
She hath done what she could

This poor widow hath cast in more than they all. - Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. - If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? - He which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
Mk. 14.8; Lu. 21.3; Mk. 9.41; 2 Co. 8.12
1 Jn. 3.18; Jas. 2.15-16; 2 Co. 9.6-7
​Lu. 17.10


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 79 - What is the duty of such as are rightly baptized?
A - It is the duty of such as are rightly baptized, to give themselves up to some particular and orderly Church of Jesus Christ, that they may walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 4
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An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation.  (7)
(7)-Ps. 24.4
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Hallelujah! What a Saviour
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Corinthians 5 v 21

You know brethren, that the pardon and justification of sinners is spoken of in different ways in the Bible. In Romans 3 v 24, it is said, 'Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.' Again, in Romans 5 v 19, 'For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.'
But observe that these words express it more fully. I think it means that those of you who have come to the Lord Jesus, His righteousenss shall cover you, that you will appear one mass of righteousness. And, brethren, observe what a provision is here for sinners - for the chief of sinners; for it matters not how great of how small a sinner you are; if you come to Christ, His righteousness will cover you so that none of your sin will be seen. O my friends, is not this a gospel worth preaching? May you now say as Luther used to do, 'Thou art made my sin, and I am made thy righteousness.