Daily Readings for Friday 1st March 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 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)
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 (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 - Job lamenteth the change of his honour into extreme contempt; and of his prosperity into the deepest distress.
Job 30 v 16-31
Preface - The Pharisees murmur at Christ for receiving sinners. The parable of the lost sheep, and piece of silver; and of prodigal son.
Luke 15


Daily Light - Morning
The fruit of the Spirit is love...

God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. - The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - Unto you...which believe he is precious. - We love him, because he first loved us. - The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. - Thi sis my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. - Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. - Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Ga. 5.22; 1 Jn. 4.16; Ro. 5.5; 1 Pe. 2.7; 1 Jn. 4.19; 2 Co. 5.14-15
1 Th. 4.9; Jn. 15.12; 1 Pe. 4.8; Eph. 5.2


Daily Light - Evening
Jehovah-nissi. (marg. The LORD my banner)

If God be for us, who can be against us? - The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee. - The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?... Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

Behold, God himself is with us for our captain. - The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?... He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. - Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Ex. 17.15; Ro. 8.31; Ps. 118.6
Ps. 60.4; Ps. 27.1,3
2 Chr. 13.12; Ps. 46.7
Rev. 17.14
Ps. 2.1,4; Isa. 8.10


A Puritans Catechism
Q80 - What is the Lord's Supper?
A - The Lord's Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporeal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.




Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Positive sin
But if any provide not for his own, and specailly for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse that an infidel. -
1 Timothy 5 v 8
If you do not worship God in your family, you are living in positive sin; you may be quite sure you do not care for the souls of your family. If you neglected to spread a meal for your children to eat, would it not be said that you did not care for their bodies? And if you do not lead your children and servants to the green pastures of God's Word, and to seek the living water, how plain is it that you do not care for their souls! Do it regularly, morning and evening. It is more needful than your daily food - more needful than your work. How vain and silly all your excuses will appear, when you look back from hell!Do it fully. Some clip off the psalm, and some the reading of the Word; and so the worship of God is reduced to a mockery. Do it in a spiritual, lively manner. Go to it as to a well of salvation. There is, perhaps, no means of grace more blessed. Let all your family be present without fail. - let none be absent.