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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. 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 - Samson returning to visit his wife is denied admittance to her. He setteth fire to the corn of the Philistines with foxes and firebrands: his wife and her father are burned by the Philistines. Samson smiteth them, and retireth to the rock Etam. The Philistines come up against him: the men of Judah with his consent deliver him bound to the Philistines. He killeth a thousand of the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. God openeth a fountain in Lehi to relieve his thirst. Judges 15 Preface - The Holy Ghost is conferred by Paul on twelve of John's disciples. He preacheth at Ephesus, first in the synagogue, and afterward in a private school for two years; God confirming the word by special miracles. Certain Jewish exorcists, attempting to cast out a devil in the name of Jesus, are sent off naked and wounded: the gospel gaineth credit, and magical books are burned. Paul proposing to depart soon, Demetrius and the silversmiths raise an uproar against him, which is with some difficulty appeased. Acts 19 Daily Light - Morning The fruit of the Spirit is....faith. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. - Without faith it is impossible to please him. - He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. - Faith....worketh by love. - Faith without works is dead. We walk by faith, not by sight. - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Ga. 5.22; Eph. 2.8; He. 11.6; Jn. 3.18; Mk. 9.24 1 Jn. 2.5; Ga. 5.6; Jas. 2.20 2 Co. 5.7; Ga. 2.20; 1 Pe. 1.8-9 Daily Light - Evening The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. - The LORD is gracious and full of compassion....he will ever be mindful of his covenant. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. - The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. Jas. 5.11; Ps. 103.13; Ps. 111.45 Ps. 121.3-4; Deu. 32.11-12 Lam. 3.22-23 Mt. 14.14; He. 13.8 Mt. 10.29-31 A Puritans Catechism Q 10 - How did God create man? A - God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Holy Scriptures. Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 1 The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience, (1) although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will which is necessary unto salvation. (2) Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and to declare (that) His will unto His church; (3) and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now completed. (4) 1 2 Tim. 3:15–17; Is. 8:20; Luke 16:29,31; Eph. 2:20 2 Rom. 1:19-21, 2:14–15; Psalm 19:1-3 3 Heb. 1:1 4 Prov. 22:19-21; Rom. 15:4; 2 Pet. 1:19–20 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings They are not lost .... weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. Psalm 30 v 5 This world is the vale of tears. There are always some mourning. No sooner is the tear dried on one cheek that it trickles down another. No sooner does one widow lay aside her weeds, that another takes them up. Those that are in Christ should weep as though they wept not; 'for the time is short'. Do you weep over those that died in the Lord? It is right to weep: 'Jesus wept'. Yet weep as though you wept not; 'for the time is short.' They are not lost, but gone before. The sun, when it sets, is not lost; it is gone to shine in another hemisphere; and so have they gone to shine in a brighter world. It is self-love that makes you mourn for them; for they are happy. You would not mourn if they were with a distant friend on earth - why do you mourn that they are with the sinner's Friend? 'They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for 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' (Revelation 7 vs 16-17). 'The time is short'; and you will follow after. A few days, and you may be leaning together on the bosom of Jesus; you are nearer them today than you were yesterday. 'The time is short'; and you will meet with all the redeemed at the right hand of Christ. We shall mingle our voices in the new song, and wave together the eternal palm! 'Weep as though you wept not.
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