Daily Readings for Friday 20th September 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.  


Daily Reading
Preface - The whoredoms of Aholah and Aholibah. Aholibah shall be punished by her own lovers. Their adulteries reproved, and their judgments declared.
Ezekiel 23
Psalms 70) Preface - David prayeth for God's speedy help and deliverance, to the confusion of his enemies, and triumph of the godly.
Psalms 71) Preface - The Psalmist, declaring his trust in God founded on past experience, prayeth for the continuance of God's saving help, and the confusion of his enemies: he promiseth acts of praise: he prayeth not to be abandoned in the decline of life: he praiseth God, and promiseth to do it cheerfully.
Psalms 70-71


Daily Light - Morning
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man
that getteth understanding.

Whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might...but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD. - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.

What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. - In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. - Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

Christ Jesus...is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
Pro. 3.13; Pro.8.35
Jer. 9.23,24; Pro. 9.10
Phil. 3.7-8; Col. 2.3; Pro. 8.14
1 Co. 1.30
Pro. 11.30


Daily Light - Evening
Poor, yet making
many rich.

Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. - Of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. - My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. - God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? - Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2 Co. 6.10; 2 Co. 8.9; Jn. 1.16; Phil. 4.19; 2 Co. 9.8
Jas. 2.5; 1 Co. 1.26-27
2 Co. 4.7


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 31 - What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
A - They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Last Judgment
Chapter 32
PARAGRAPH 1
God has appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness, by Jesus Christ;1 to whom all power and judgment is given of the Father; in which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged,2 but likewise all persons that have lived upon the earth shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of their thoughts, words, and deeds, and to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or evil.3

1 Acts 17:31; John 5:22–27
2 1 Cor. 6:3; Jude 6
3 2 Cor. 5:10; Eccles. 12:14; Matt. 12:36; Rom. 14:10,12; Matt. 25:32–46


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Holiness
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7 v 1

When a soul comes to close with Christ he is not made perfectly holy all at once: 'The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.' Just as you have seen the day struggling with the darkness, then with clouds, till the sun bursts forth in meridian splendour; so it is with the holiness of a Christian. Just as in the richest lands, after the deepest ploughing, weeds will still grow up among the corn; so, many roots of bitterness remain in the believer's hearth.
Paul thanked God for the grace that was given to the Corinthians, that they came behind in no gift; and yet he says they had strife, and envy, and divisions, so that he could not call them spiritual, but carnal. So is it with every Christian heart. Weeds grow up in the best cultivated gardens. There is enough in Christ to supply all our need. It is our own fault that we are not holy as God is holy. It is not in Christ, but in ourselves, that we are straitened. The shower of grace is plentiful enough, and more than enough; we do not open our mouths wide.
But every soul in Christ hates sin and pants after holiness. Nothing makes him pant more after God than corruption striving within. Paul never prayed more earnestly than when he had the thorn in his flesh. The thorn in the flesh makes us pant after God.