Daily Readings for Friday 19th July 2024

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.  
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Daily Reading
Preface - The determined rejection and manifold judgments of the Jews. Jeremiah complaining that he is the object of universal hatred, God promiseth of the evils he underwent for God's sake. God promiseth to support and favour him in the due discharge of his office.
Jeremiah 15
Preface - The gospel beginneth with the preaching of John the Baptist. Jesus is baptized, witnessed to from heaven; and tempted of the devil: preacheth in Galilee; calleth Peter, Andrew, James, and John: healeth one possessed of an unclean spirit, Simon's mother in law; and various other diseased persons: prayeth alone, and goeth on to preach: cleanseth a leper.
Mark 1


Daily Light - Morning
He that is mighty
hath done to me great things;
and holy is his name.

Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? - Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. - Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy. - Hallowed be thy name.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people.

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyred garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. - I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us...be glory.
Lu. 1.49; Ex. 15.11; Ps. 86.8; Rev. 15.4; Mt. 6.9
Lu. 1.68
Isa. 63.1; Ps. 89.19
Eph. 3.20-21


Daily Light - Evening
The dew of Hermon.

Mount Sion, which is Hermon. - There the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. - As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. - And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. - It is like the precious ointment upon the head...even Aaron's...that went down to the skirts of his garments.
Ps. 133.3; Deu. 4.48; Hos. 14.5;
Deu. 32.2; Isa. 55.10-11
Jn. 3.34; Jn. 1.16; Ps.133.2


A Puritans Catechism
Q 50 - What is required in the fourth commandment?
A - The fourth commandment requires to keeping holy to God such set times as he has appointed in his Word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 7

Neither are the aforementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the Gospel, but do sweetly comply with it, the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely and cheerfully which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to be done.

1. Galatians 3:21 
2. Ezekiel 36:27

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Lost opportunity
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it into one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 25 v 40

Many Christians are content to be Christians for themselves - to hug the gospel to themselves, to sit in their own room, and feast upon it alone. This did not Christ. It is true He loved much to be alone. He once said to His disciples: 'Come into a desert place, and rest a while.' He often spent the whole night in prayer on the lone mountain-side; but it is as true that He went about continually. He went and saw, and then He had compassion. He did not hide Himself from His own flesh. You should be Christ-like.
Your word should be: 'Go and see.' You should go and see the poor; and then you will feel for them. Remember what Jesus said to all His people: 'I was sick, and in prison, and you visited me.' Be not deceived, my dear friends; it is easy to give a cold pittance of charity at the church door, and to think that that is the religion of Jesus. But, 'Pure religion and undefiled, before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep yourself unspotted from the world.'